Departmental Adminstration
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Chairperson
and Sociology Program Coordinator
Professor
Helen Mederer
508 Chafee
(401)874-4144
Anthropology
Program Coordinator
Professor
Marquisa LaVelle
505 Chafee
(401) 874-4077
Coordinator
of Justice, Law, and Society Minor
Professor
Leo Carroll
504 Chafee
(401) 874-4135
Department
Secretary
Ms.
Theresa Nobile
507 Chafee
(401) 874-2587
Anthropologists

Kristine
Bovy
- Ph.D., University of Washington.
Coastal archaeology, zooarchaeology.
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Marquisa
LaVelle
- Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Physical anthropology, human variation, growth, development and
aging.
- 401-874-4147.
James
Loy
- Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Physical anthropology, primatology, development of evolutionary
thought.
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John
Poggie
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
Methodology, modernization, maritime anthropology, Latin America.
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- Richard Pollnac
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- Ph.D., University of Missouri.
Cognitive anthropology, maritime anthropology, language and culture,
Africa, Central America.
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- William Turnbaugh (Emeritus)
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- Ph.D., Harvard University.
New World prehistory, Northeastern archeaology, cultural ecology.
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Sociologists
Leo
Carroll
- Ph.D., Brown University.
Criminology, law and society, race and ethnic relations.
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Barbara
Costello
- Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Criminology, juvenile delinqency, social psychology, research
methods
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Donald
Cunnigen
- Ph.D., Harvard University.
Race and ethnic relations, social inequality, social movements,
social history.
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Helen
Mederer
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
Family, aging, work and society, gender inequality.
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Calvin
B. Peters
- Ph.D., University of Kentucky.
Sociology of knowledge, cultural sociology, social theory.
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Rosaria
Pisa
- Ph.D., Northeastern University.
Political sociology, development, culture, inequality.
- 401-874-2482.
Richard
Travisano
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
Social psychology, mental disorder,sociology of the arts.
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Judy
Van Wyk
- Ph.D., University of Tennessee.
Criminology, family violence, research methods.
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Affiliated Faculty
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Matthew
Bodah
- Associate Professor of
Labor Relations and Human Resources
Ph.D., Michigan State University. Work and organizations, industrial
sociology
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Adjunct Faculty
Bradley Anderson
- Adjunct Associate Professor
of Sociology
Ph.D. Iowa State University. Statistics and methods, alcohol
and addictions
Russell Chabot
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Sociology
Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo. Deviance, culture, sociological theory, visual
sociology
John W. Loy
- Adjunct Associate Professor
of Sociology
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Sociology of sport
Jessica Sherwood
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Sociology
Ph.D. North Carolina State University. Sex and gender, families,
class inequality
Sara Peabody Turnbaugh
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Anthropology
M.S. University of Rhode Island. Curator, Museum of Primitive
Culture, Peace Dale, Rhode Island
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