Faculty and Staff
Full-Time Faculty
Kristine Bovy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Coastal Archaeology, Zooarchaeology
Office: Chafee Hall, Rm 513
Phone: (401) 874-4143
Email: kbovy@uri.edu
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, 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, 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, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ecological Anthropology, Human Ecology
Office: Chafee Hall
Phone: (401)
E-mail: cgarciaquijano@uri.edu
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, 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, 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, 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
