Affiliate Faculty

  • Henry C. Alphin Jr.

    Henry C. Alphin Jr.

    Affiliate Faculty

    higher education, economic development, community development, nonprofit leadership

  • Sophia Balakian

    Sophia Balakian

    Assistant Professor

    Migration and borders, humanitarianism, securitization, kinship and family, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North America

  • Amy L Best

    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

  • Lisa C Breglia

    Lisa C Breglia

    University Affiliate

    Associate Professor

    Globalization; Mexico, Latin America; Ethnography; Immigration in Washington, DC; Political economy of resources; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Museums, Heritage, Cultural Policy

  • Bryan D Caplan

    Bryan D Caplan

    Professor

    Public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, economics of the family

  • Ted Hsuan Yun Chen

    Ted Hsuan Yun Chen

    Assistant Professor

  • Anand Panamthottam Cherian

    Anand Panamthottam Cherian

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Migration Spaces, South Asia

  • Carol Cleaveland

    Carol Cleaveland

    Associate Professor

    Immigration, advocacy

  • Michael A Clemens

    Michael A Clemens

    Professor

    Migration and development, economic growth, aid effectiveness, economic history.

  • Sarah Cobb

    Sarah Cobb

    Professor

    Professor, conflict analysis and resolution

  • Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

    Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

    University Affiliate

    Professor

    Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements, and human trafficking

  • Oguzhan Dursun

    Oguzhan Dursun

    Affiliate Faculty

    history of emotions, immigration, Turkish and Greek diaspora communities, conflict, societal change

  • Fanni Farago

    Fanni Farago

    Graduate Research Assistant

    sociology of education, immigration, life course transitions, emotions, health, applied sociology, and mixed-methods research

  • Benjamin Gatling

    Benjamin Gatling

    Associate Professor

    narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East

  • Justin Gest

    Justin Gest

    Professor

    Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics

  • Lisa Gring-Pemble

    Lisa Gring-Pemble

    University Affiliate

    Associate Professor

    Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship; Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion; Political communication and public policy

  • Daniel Griswold

    Daniel Griswold

    Affiliate Faculty

    Immigration, Trade

  • Ayman Habib

    Ayman Habib

    Undergraduate Assistant

    Immigration, Refugee Advocacy, Migration, Higher Education Access, South Asian Diaspora

  • Steve A. Harris-Scott

    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

  • Angela Jean Hattery

    Angela Jean Hattery

    Affiliate Faculty

    Gender, race,inequality, intersections of inequalities, intimate partner violence, incarceration, families

  • Dae Young Kim

    Dae Young Kim

    Associate Professor

    Immigration, ethnicity, race, second-generation immigrants, immigrant entrepreneurship, Asian American studies, K-pop reception, and globalization

  • Maurice Kugler

    Maurice Kugler

    Professor

    Professor, Public Policy

  • Martha Lagace

    Martha Lagace

    Affiliate Faculty

    Anthropology, Africa, African migration; African immigrants in New York City; immigration in Massachusetts. Mobility, youth, diaspora.

  • Zikun Li

    Zikun Li

    Graduate Research Assistant

    sport for development and peace (SDP), globalization of sport, sport and immigration & refugees

  • Jielu Lin

    Jielu Lin

    Affiliate Faculty

    minority aging, disability, quantitative methods

  • Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Associate Professor

    Leadership theory, ethics and leadership, social change, and leadership and organizational problem-solving.

  • Eric McGlinchey

    Eric McGlinchey

    University Affiliate

    Associate Professor

    Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society

  • Marintha Miles

    Marintha Miles

    Adjunct Faculty

    Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, digital activism, social movements, media, language politics, family, gender, healthcare, religion, ethnography, Central Asia, Tajikistan

  • Gijsbert Oonk

    Gijsbert Oonk

    Affiliate Faculty

    Sport, Migration, Citizenship and Representation; Inclusion and Exclusion; Race.

  • Kelly K. Richter

    Kelly K. Richter

    Assistant Professor

    U.S. Politics and Legal Studies; Social Policy; Immigration Policy

  • Nishit Sahay

    Nishit Sahay

    Affiliate Faculty

    Immigrant’s issues, Immigration Reforms and American Values, Contributions of diasporas in US Society and Economy, Social Science and Globalization, Public-Private sector’s engagements to mitigate institutional issues hampering economic growth, Policy towards Industry 4.0

  • Jonathan F Schulz

    Jonathan F Schulz

    Associate Professor

    Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Cultural Evolution, Economic History

  • Blake Silver

    Blake Silver

    Associate Professor

    Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; educational pathways

  • Ilya Somin

    Ilya Somin

    University Affiliate

    Professor

    Constitutional Law, Democratic Theory, Eminent Domain, Federalism, Immigration, Political Participation/Political Knowledge, Property Rights

  • Roberta Spalter-Roth

    Roberta Spalter-Roth

    Senior Research Fellow

    structure and process in higher education, work/family issues in higher education, cross-race networks, and the science and technology workforce

  • Sandip Sureka

    Sandip Sureka

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Immigration, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics

  • Eric Waithaka

    Eric Waithaka

    Assistant Professor

    African immigrant health, young adults

  • Wenjing Wang

    Wenjing Wang

    Affiliate Faculty

    Anthropology: Social Complexity and Inequality, Social Interaction, Regional Demographic Analysis, Population Centralization and Decentralization, Quantitative and Spatial Analysis

  • Michele Waslin

    Michele Waslin

    Affiliate Faculty

    immigration policy, gender-based asylum, federalism, executive authority

  • James Witte

    James Witte

    Emeritus Faculty

    Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan

  • Andrea K. K Zach

    Andrea K. K Zach

    Associate Professor

    Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.