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Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Faculty

Kristine Bovy
Kristine Bovy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Coastal Archaeology, Zooarchaeology

Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 513
Phone: (401) 874-4143
Email: kbovy@uri.edu
Leo Carroll
Leo Carroll, Ph.D.
Professor
Coordinator of Justice, Law, and Society Minor
Criminology, Law and Society, Race and Ethnic Relations

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4135
E-mail: lcarroll@uri.edu

Barbara J. Costello, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Criminology, Juvenile Delinqency, Social Psychology, Research Methods

Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 509A
Phone: (401) 874-2877
E-mail: costello@uri.edu
Donald Cunnigen
Donald Cunnigen, Ph.D.
Professor
Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Inequality, Social Movements, Social History

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4302
E-mail: dcunn@uriacc.uri.edu
Jill Doerner
Jill Doerner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Inequality

Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 505
Phone: (401) 874-4077
E-mail: jdoerner@uri.edu

 

Holly Dunsworth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biological Anthropology

Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 510
Phone: (401) 874-7297
E-mail: holly_dunsworth@mail.uri.edu

 

 

Carlos Garcia-Quijano


Carlos Garcia-Quijano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ecological Anthropology, Human Ecology

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401)
E-mail: cgarciaquijano@uri.edu

Helen Mederer
Helen Mederer, Ph.D.
Professor
Family, Aging, Work and Society, Gender Inequality

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4144
E-mail: hmederer@uri.edu
Calvin B. Peters
Calvin B. Peters, Ph.D.
Professor, Department Chair
Sociology Program Coordinator
Sociology of Knowledge, Cultural Sociology, Social Theory

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4296
E-mail: cbp@uri.edu


Rosaria Pisa, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Political Sociology, Development, Culture, Inequality

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2482
E-mail: rpisa@mail.uri.edu

John Poggie
John Poggie, Ph.D.
Professor
Methodology, Modernization, Maritime Anthropology, Latin America

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5666
E-mail: jpoggie@uri.edu

 

 

 

Llerena Searle
Instructor
Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, South Asia, Urbanization
Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2597
E-mail: llerena_searle@mail.uri.edu


Cynthia Taylor, M.A.
Instructor
Biocultural Anthropology, Human Variation, Primate Ecology

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-9057
E-mail: ctay3907@mail.uri.edu
Richard Travisano
Richard Travisano, Ph.D.
Professor
Social Psychology, Mental Disorder, Sociology of the Arts

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-2256
E-mail: travisano@uri.edu

Judy Van Wyk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Criminology, Family Violence, Research Methods

Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4146
E-mail: vanwyk@uri.edu



Affiliated Faculty

Matthew Bodah, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Labor Relations and Human Resources
Work and Organizations, Industrial Sociology
Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 807
Phone: (401) 874-2212
E-mail: mbodah@uri.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Bradley Anderson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Statistics and Methods, Alcohol and Addictions

Russell Chabot, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Deviance, Culture, Sociological Theory, Visual Sociology

John W. Loy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology of Sport

Jessica Sherwood, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Sex and Gender, Families, Class Inequality

Sara Peabody Turnbaugh, M.S.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Curator, Museum of Primitive Culture, Peace Dale, Rhode Island

Staff

Theresa Nobile
Administrative Assistant
Office: Chafee Hall Rm 507
Phone: (401) 874-2587
E-mail: nobile@uri.edu

News & Announcements

 

Anthropology Honor Society


URI Anthropology students have been chartered as the Alpha Rhode Island Chapter of Lamda Alpha, the national anthropology honor society. This is a tribute to the hard work of several students and to the academic excellence of our majors and our faculty. Right now, the recruitment of charter members is underway. If you're interested in being one of the first Lamda Alphas, shoot off an email to Ashley Waggoner for all the details.

The URI Anthropology Society is also up and running. Check out their page too.

Department contacts

Department Chair
C. B. Peters, cbp@uri.edu

Justice, Law & Society Minor Coordinator
Professor Leo Carroll, lcarroll@uri.edu

Administrative Assistant
Theresa Nobile, nobile@uri.edu