Departmental Adminstration

Chairperson and Sociology Program Coordinator
Professor James Loy
508 Chafee
(401)874-4131

Anthropology Program Coordinator
Professor Kris Bovy
513 Chafee
(401) 874-4143

Sociology Program Coordinator
Professor Barbara Costello
505 Chafee
(401) 874-2877

Coordinator of Justice, Law, and Society Minor
Professor Leo Carroll
504 Chafee
(401) 874-4135

Administrative Assistant
Ms. Theresa Nobile
507 Chafee
(401) 874-2587

Anthropologists

Kristine Bovy

Ph.D., University of Washington. Coastal archaeology, zooarchaeology.

401-874-4143.

James Loy

Ph.D., Northwestern University. Physical anthropology, primatology, development of evolutionary thought.

401-874-4131.

John Poggie

Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Methodology, modernization, maritime anthropology, Latin America.

401-874-4135.

 

 

 

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Sociologists

Leo Carroll

Ph.D., Brown University. Criminology, law and society, race and ethnic relations.

401-874-4135.

 

Barbara Costello

Ph.D., University of Arizona. Criminology, juvenile delinqency, social psychology, research methods

401-874-2877.

 

Donald Cunnigen

Ph.D., Harvard University. Race and ethnic relations, social inequality, social movements, social history.

401-874-4302.  

Jill Doerner

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University. Criminology, Criminal Justice, Inequality

401-874-4077.

Helen Mederer

Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Family, aging, work and society, gender inequality.

401-874-4144.

Calvin B. Peters

Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Sociology of knowledge, cultural sociology, social theory.

401-874-4296.

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.

401-874-2587.

 

Judy Van Wyk

Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Criminology, family violence, research methods.

401-874-4146.

 

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Affiliated Faculty

Matthew Bodah

Associate Professor of Labor Relations and Human Resources
Ph.D., Michigan State University. Work and organizations, industrial sociology

 

 

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