Sociology Department
Faculty
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Sharon Paterson Ph.D
Professor, Chair of Sociology
Sharon Paterson: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology, Specializations: Inequality, Work/Occupations, and Higher Education
Sharon Paterson: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology, Specializations: Inequality, Work/Occupations, and Higher Education
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Arthur Scarritt Ph.D
Professor, and IMSRL Director
Office Hours: On sabbatical Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
Research interests: The organization of society perpetuates racial inequalities, and strategies for overcoming these unequal relations.
Office Hours: On sabbatical Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
Research interests: The organization of society perpetuates racial inequalities, and strategies for overcoming these unequal relations.
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Rebecca L. Som Castellano Ph.D
Associate Professor
Rebecca L. Som Castellano: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: A rural sociologist and agrifood scholar Dr. Som Castellano environmental and agri-food system change, including how stratification and inequality influence experiences with the environment. Current research focuses on 1) well-being among Latina farm workers in Southwestern Idaho, particularly experiences with pesticides and ecological knowledge; 2) land use change and farmland preservation in the Treasure Valley; 3) dynamics of gender and labor among wildland firefighters.
River Front Hall 213-ERebecca L. Som Castellano: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: A rural sociologist and agrifood scholar Dr. Som Castellano environmental and agri-food system change, including how stratification and inequality influence experiences with the environment. Current research focuses on 1) well-being among Latina farm workers in Southwestern Idaho, particularly experiences with pesticides and ecological knowledge; 2) land use change and farmland preservation in the Treasure Valley; 3) dynamics of gender and labor among wildland firefighters.
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Ginna Husting Ph.D
Professor
Virginia Husting:; Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: My work studies how people build and change their senses of self, how political emotions are sedimented in and expressed through institutionalized in social/physical spaces, and how systems of inequalities shape emotions and subjectivities shaped through systems of domination. I am currently interested in two projects; first, thinking through settler coloniality and emotion using the work of Mini Aodla Freeman; second, using Hannah Arendt’s work to model the problems of digital capitalism. My work is informed by feminist, poststructuralist, and decolonial research and perspectives.
Virginia Husting:; Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: My work studies how people build and change their senses of self, how political emotions are sedimented in and expressed through institutionalized in social/physical spaces, and how systems of inequalities shape emotions and subjectivities shaped through systems of domination. I am currently interested in two projects; first, thinking through settler coloniality and emotion using the work of Mini Aodla Freeman; second, using Hannah Arendt’s work to model the problems of digital capitalism. My work is informed by feminist, poststructuralist, and decolonial research and perspectives.
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Martin Orr Ph.D
Professor
Marty Orr: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Social theory, inequality, social movements, the environment, and the mass media.
Marty Orr: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Social theory, inequality, social movements, the environment, and the mass media.
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Dora Ramirez Ph.D
Professor, and Director of Ethnic Studies
Dora Ramirez: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch Interests: Nation-building while examining the internalization of socio-political global effects and the influence of colonization among Latinx and Indigenous populations in the United States and the U.S./Mexico border.
Dora Ramirez: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch Interests: Nation-building while examining the internalization of socio-political global effects and the influence of colonization among Latinx and Indigenous populations in the United States and the U.S./Mexico border.
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Raul S. Casarez Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Office Hours by Appointment
Research Interest: Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Inequality, Boundary Making, Intergroup Relationships, Identity Formation
Office Hours by Appointment
Research Interest: Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Inequality, Boundary Making, Intergroup Relationships, Identity Formation
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Soulit Chacko Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Office Hours by Appointment
Research Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Transnationalism; Work; Gender & Sexuality; Body and Embodiment; Ethnography; Asian & South Asian Diaspora
Office Hours by Appointment
Research Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Transnationalism; Work; Gender & Sexuality; Body and Embodiment; Ethnography; Asian & South Asian Diaspora
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Sarah Mawhirter M.A & M.st
Lecture
Sarah Mawhirter: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology, Gender Studies, Focuses on: Critical Higher Education, Embodied Research Methods, Carceral and Mass Incarceration Activists’ Studies, Higher Education in Prison, and Transformative Criminal Justice Law and Public Policy.
Sarah Mawhirter: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology, Gender Studies, Focuses on: Critical Higher Education, Embodied Research Methods, Carceral and Mass Incarceration Activists’ Studies, Higher Education in Prison, and Transformative Criminal Justice Law and Public Policy.
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Desiree Brunette M.A.
Lecturer, and Concurrent Enrollment Liaison
Desiree Brunette: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology of the family, Sociology of the Sex, Sociology of Religion, and Medical Sociology,
Desiree Brunette: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology of the family, Sociology of the Sex, Sociology of Religion, and Medical Sociology,
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Dr. Michael Kreiter
Lecture
Michael Kreiter: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Inequality; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies: Popular Culture; Neoliberalism; Gender; Intersectionality; Mixed Methods
Michael Kreiter: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Inequality; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies: Popular Culture; Neoliberalism; Gender; Intersectionality; Mixed Methods
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Carissa Wolf M.A
Lecture
Carissa Wolf: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Media Studies, Journalism, Mass media and society, Media Literacy, Sociology of health and medicine, Disability studies, Fringe and extremist groups, Public sociology, Sociology of Food
Carissa Wolf: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Media Studies, Journalism, Mass media and society, Media Literacy, Sociology of health and medicine, Disability studies, Fringe and extremist groups, Public sociology, Sociology of Food
Adjunct Faculty
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Carolina Valderrama Echavarria M.A.
Adjunct Faculty
Carolina Valderrama-Echavarria: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Applied Sociological Research, and Action Sociology with a particular focus on the areas of relationship development, community building and engagement, and social program analysis.
River Front Hall 214Carolina Valderrama-Echavarria: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Applied Sociological Research, and Action Sociology with a particular focus on the areas of relationship development, community building and engagement, and social program analysis.
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Carter Ashleigh Merklinghaus Ph.D
Adjunct Faculty
Carter Ashleigh Merklinghaus: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Military Service, Life Course, Social Psychology, Gender, Substance Use, Masculinity, Social Problems
River Front Hall 214Carter Ashleigh Merklinghaus: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Military Service, Life Course, Social Psychology, Gender, Substance Use, Masculinity, Social Problems
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Chandra Reyna M.A
Adjunct Faculty
Chandra Reyna Vita
Office Hours by AppointmentResearch Interest: social inequality and stratification, racial and gender socialization, racialization, racial identities, Latinx and multiracial families
Chandra Reyna Vita
Office Hours by AppointmentResearch Interest: social inequality and stratification, racial and gender socialization, racialization, racial identities, Latinx and multiracial families
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Charles Dickinson, M.A.
Adjunct Faculty
Charles Dickinson: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:Teaching and Learning; Racial and Ethinic Minorities, and Technology and Culture.
Charles Dickinson: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:Teaching and Learning; Racial and Ethinic Minorities, and Technology and Culture.
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Coline McConnel Ph.D
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Coline McConnel Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch Interest: Civil rights law, cultural shifts in environmental sustainability, and global health policy
Dr. Coline McConnel Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch Interest: Civil rights law, cultural shifts in environmental sustainability, and global health policy
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Jeff Cates M.A
Adjunct Faculty
Jeff Cates: Vita
Office Hours By AppointmentResearch Interests: Sociology of work, environmental sociology, and socioeconomic inequality, primarily related to race, ethnicity, and the (mis)use of technology. My Master’s thesis focuses on “rent-to-own” businesses and their relationship to low-income communities, with a heavy reliance on qualitative methods. For more information, check out the recently published article Poverty Delivered in the public sociology journal Contexts
Jeff Cates: Vita
Office Hours By AppointmentResearch Interests: Sociology of work, environmental sociology, and socioeconomic inequality, primarily related to race, ethnicity, and the (mis)use of technology. My Master’s thesis focuses on “rent-to-own” businesses and their relationship to low-income communities, with a heavy reliance on qualitative methods. For more information, check out the recently published article Poverty Delivered in the public sociology journal Contexts
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Jeremy Maxand M.A.
Adjunct Faculty
Jeremy Maxand: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology of disability and contemporary political social movements.
Jeremy Maxand: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Sociology of disability and contemporary political social movements.
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John Verburg Ph.D
Adjunct Faculty
John Verburg: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:
John Verburg: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:
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Julia Broderick M.A, M.ed
Adjunct Instructor
Julia Broderick: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: : inclusion, education, public education, and sociological concepts
Julia Broderick: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: : inclusion, education, public education, and sociological concepts
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Kimberly Scheffer Ph.D
Adjunct Faculty
Kimberly Scheffer: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:
Kimberly Scheffer: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:
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Kristina Jensen M.A
Adjunct Faculty
Kristina Jensen: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:
Kristina Jensen: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests:
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Kyle Fields M.A
Adjunct Faculty
Office Hours: by Appointment
Research Interests: Immigration (emphasis on undocumented immigration); Latin Experiences, Medical Sociology.
Office Hours: by Appointment
Research Interests: Immigration (emphasis on undocumented immigration); Latin Experiences, Medical Sociology.
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Robert Reed Ph.D
Adjunct Faculty
Robert Reed: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: -Education and cultural reproduction -Generational differences on the efficacy of mobile devices and learning in the classroom- Teaching sociology-Media socialization
Robert Reed: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: -Education and cultural reproduction -Generational differences on the efficacy of mobile devices and learning in the classroom- Teaching sociology-Media socialization
Emeritus Faculty
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Dr. Robert McCarl
Emeritus Faculty
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Martin Scheffer, Ph.D.
Emeritus Faculty
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Dr. Michael Blain
Professor
Michael Blain: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Imperialism, Terrorism, Politics, Victimage Ritual, and Biopolitics
Michael Blain: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Imperialism, Terrorism, Politics, Victimage Ritual, and Biopolitics
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Angeline Kearns Blain M.A.
Adjunct Faculty
Angeline Kearns Blain: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Gender Studies, Peace Studies, Immigration, Irish-American Sociology, Sociology of Ireland
Angeline Kearns Blain: Vita
Office Hours: By AppointmentResearch interests: Gender Studies, Peace Studies, Immigration, Irish-American Sociology, Sociology of Ireland