Full-time Faculty
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Sophia Balakian
Assistant Professor
Migration and borders, humanitarianism, securitization, kinship and family, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North America
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Amy L Best
Professor
Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation
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Bryan D Caplan
Professor
Public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, economics of the family
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Michael A Clemens
Professor
Migration and development, economic growth, aid effectiveness, economic history.
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Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
University Affiliate
Professor
Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements, and human trafficking
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Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen
Assistant Director
Instructor
U.S. immigration law and policy; legality, citizenship, membership, and belonging; immigrant incorporation; refugee resettlement; global migration management; Middle East migration
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Benjamin Gatling
Associate Professor
narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
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Justin Gest
Professor
Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics
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Lisa Gilman
Professor
Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.
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Lisa Gring-Pemble
University Affiliate
Associate Professor
Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion; Political communication and public policy
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Steve A. Harris-Scott
Instructor
Research: Colonial Virginia, Early Modern Atlantic World, bound/unfree labor (slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship), environmental history and history of diseases/pandemics
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Dae Young Kim
Associate Professor
Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
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Brian Louis Levy
Assistant Professor
Inequality, Poverty, Mobility; Neighborhoods; Community and Urban Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Education; Social Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Causal Inference
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Eric McGlinchey
University Affiliate
Associate Professor
Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society
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Kelly K. Richter
Assistant Professor
U.S. Politics and Legal Studies; Social Policy; Immigration Policy
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Jonathan F Schulz
Assistant Professor
Cultural Evolution, Economic History, Experimental and Behavioral Economics
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Blake Silver
Associate Professor
Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; race, class, and gender; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; second-generation immigrant students
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Ilya Somin
University Affiliate
Professor
Constitutional Law, Democratic Theory, Eminent Domain, Federalism, Immigration, Political Participation/Political Knowledge, Property Rights
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Susan R Trencher
Associate Professor
American culture, the anthropology of anthropology, sociology of knowledge, anthropological theory and practice, and the history of anthropology
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James Witte
Director
Professor
Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan
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Andrea K Zach
Assistant Professor
Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.