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SOCIOLOGY FACULTY

David Jaffee, (djaffee@unf.edu) Professor of Sociology; Vice President of Undergraduate Education (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) International Development, Organizations, Distance Learning.

Aleksandra Sasha Milicevic, (a.milicevic@unf.edu) Assistant Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., UCLA) Political sociology, nationalism, gender, theory, and qualitative methods.

Krista E. Paulsen, (kpaulsen@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Sociology and MSAS Program Director (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) Community and Urban Sociology, Culture, Organizations, Environment, Gender, Qualitative methods.

Rick Phillips, (rphillip@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., Rutgers University). Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, Deviant behavior.

Adam Shapiro
, (ashapiro@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) Family, Aging and the Life Course, Medical sociology, Social Policy, Quantitative Methods.

Jenny Stuber, (j.stuber@unf.edu) Assistant Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., Indiana University) Social stratification, sociology of culture, sociology of education, and qualitative methods.

JeffriAnne Wilder, (j.wilder@unf.edu) Assistant Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., University of Florida).Racial & Ethnic Relations, Colorism, Sociology of Black Americans, Women of Color in the United States, Theories of Race and Racism, Traditions of Black Sociological Theory, Women of Color in Higher Education, Qualitative Methodology.

Jeffry A. Will, (jwill@unf.edu) Professor of Sociology and Director, Northeast Florida Center of Community Initiatives (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Distributive Justice, Research Methods, Poverty and Public Policy.

SOCIAL WELFARE FACULTY

Jennifer Spaulding-Givens, Instructor and Social Welfare Director (MSW; Ph.D. Candidate, Social Work, Florida State University) Mental health policy, program evaluation, and social work education.

ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY

Brad M. Biglow, (bbiglow@unf.edu) Part-time Professor of Anthropology. (Ph.D. University of Florida) Anthropology of Education, Native cultures of North and Latin America, human ecology and development, race/ethnicity and religion.

Rosa De Jorio, (rdejorio@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Illinois). Kinship and Gender; Political Culture, Nationalism, and Democratization; Memory, Identity and Material Culture; Globalization; West Africa.

Kathryn Grant, (kathryn.grant@unf.edu) Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Florida). Medical Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality, and Gerontology.

Melissa Hargrove, (m.hargrove@unf.edu) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Tennessee). Gullah Culture of the Southeastern U.S.; African Diaspora; Race, Racism and Social Inequality; Development, Tourism and Cultural Commodification; Collaborative
Anthropology. 


Ronald Kephart
, (rkephart@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Anthropology Program Director (Ph.D., University of Florida). Linguistics.

Ronald Lukens-Bull
, (rlukens@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Arizona State University). Sociocultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Islam, Modernity and Globalization, Education, Southeast Asia.

Gordon F. M. Rakita, (grakita@unf.edu) Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D. University of New Mexico). Bioarchaeology, Evolutionary Theory, Anthropological Approaches to Mortuary & Ritual Behavior, Emergent Social Complexity, Prehistory of North America, Archaeological Method & Theory, Statistical Analyses & Data Management.

Suzanne Simon, (
suzanne.simon@unf.edu) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., New School University). Cultural, legal and applied anthropology, critical social and economic theory, development, globalization, social movements, neoliberalism and democracy, dispute processing, US-Mexico border, Mexico, Ecuador, Latin America.

Robert L. Thunen, (rthunen@unf.edu) Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Northwestern University). Archaeology, Southeastern U.S. Prehistory, Anthropology of Religion.

ADJUNCT FACULTY


Harriet Howe, (h.howe@unf.edu) Part-time Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., American University). Theory, Social Psychology, Child Advocacy.


EMERITUS FACULTY

Henry J. Camp, (hcamp@unf.edu) Emeritus Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., University of Nebraska). Community, Aging, Sociology of Sports.