All Faculty

Sophia Balakian

Assistant Professor

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

Ezgi Benli-Garcia

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ethnomusicology; Turkey; Central Eurasia, Middle East; Anthropology of Religion; Sacred Music; Sound Studies; Ethno-religious identity; Ethnography and Fieldwork Methods; Autoethnography; Digital archiving; Sound Technologies, Music Production

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

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

Professor

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

Ted Hsuan Yun Chen

Assistant Professor

Carol Cleaveland

Associate Professor

Immigration, advocacy

Michael A Clemens

Professor

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

Sarah Cobb

Professor

Professor, conflict analysis and resolution

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

University Affiliate

Professor

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

Tyler Cowen

Professor

Monetary theory, financial economics, and welfare economics

Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen

Assistant Professor

Sociology: citizenship, membership, and belonging; legality and immigrant incorporation; U.S. immigration law and policy; refugee resettlement; global migration management; Middle East migration

Benjamin Gatling

Associate Professor

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

Justin Gest

Professor

Immigration policy, minority political behavior, comparative immigration politics

Lisa Gilman

Director

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.

Lisa Gring-Pemble

University Affiliate

Associate Professor

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

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

Dae Young Kim

Associate Professor

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

Marissa Kiss

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Immigration, Inequality, Race, and Sports

Maurice Kugler

Professor

Professor, Public Policy

Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

Associate Professor

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

Adjunct Faculty

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

Kelly K. Richter

Assistant Professor

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

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

Associate Professor

Cultural Evolution, Economic History, Experimental and Behavioral Economics

Blake Silver

Associate Professor

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

Earl Smith

Adjunct Faculty

Social Stratification. Crime. Sociology of Sport

Ilya Somin

University Affiliate

Professor

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

Roberta Spalter-Roth

Senior Research Fellow

Sandip Sureka

Postdoctoral Fellow

Immigration, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics

Eric Waithaka

Assistant Professor

African immigrant health, young adults

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

Associate Professor

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