Research Interests

Katie Birger, M.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2013
Areas of Study: Health Behaviors, Public Health Pedagogy

Bambi Chapin, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2003
Areas of Study: Psychodynamics and Child Development in Socio-Cultural Context; Social and Emotional Relationships; Mental Health and Illness; Dissociation and Trauma; Trance and Spirit Possession; South Asia

Sarah Chard, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2001
Areas of Study: Medical Anthropology; Urban Anthropology; Treatment Seeking; Social Support

Jun Chu, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2022
Areas of Study: Immigrant health and health care access; Immigration and health policy and their impacts; Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD)’s patients and their caregivers

Mercedez Dunn, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2021
Areas of Study: Black women’s sexuality; Gendered relationship formation; Sexual Health; Social Inequity (race, class, and gender)

Aubrey Jackson Soller, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2013
Areas of Study: Neighborhoods, Crime, and Health; Law & Society; Gender Stratification; and Political Sociology

Andrea Kalfoglou, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Areas of Study: Bioethics; Feminist Bioethics; Public Health Ethics; Public Health Policy; Women’s Health; Reproductive Policy and Ethics; Genetics Policy and Ethics; Research Ethics; Research Methods

Arielle Kuperberg, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Areas of Study: Family Demography; Sexual and Romantic Relationships; Gender; LGBTQ+ Studies; Higher Education; Work, Gender, and Family Intersections; Inequality and Social Mobility; Student Debt

Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2015
Areas of Study: Dance Anthropology; Feminist Ethnography; Martinique, Caribbean; African Diaspora; Spirituality and Religion 

Christine Armstrong Mair, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2011
Areas of Study: Life Course; Social Ties; Family; Aging; Health; Social Inequality (Race, Class, Gender); Globalization

Sameera S. Nayak, Ph.D., Northeastern University, 2022
Areas of Study: Immigrant Health, Legal Status, Social and Political Determinants of Health, Violence and Trauma, Mental Health

Chulwoo “Charles” Park, DrPH, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health 2020
Areas of Study: Immigrant and minority health; Racial and ethnic disparities; Health equity and diversity; Social and behavioral health; Mental health; Psychosocial epidemiology; Infectious disease epidemiology; Big data health science; Mixed-methods analysis

Aneeka Ratnayake-Sargent, Ph.D., Tulane University, 2023
Areas of Study: Infectious Disease, Sexual Health, Underserved Populations, Older Adults

John Schumacher, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2000
Areas of Study: Medical Sociology; Social Gerontology; Physician-Patient Relationships

Dena Smith, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2011
Areas of Study: Sociology of Health and Illness (Medical Sociology); Sociology of Mental Health; Sociology of Psychiatry; Gender and Health; Cognitive Sociology

Brian Soller, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2013
Areas of Study: Criminology; Social Determinants of Health; Social Networks; Adolescence

Brandy Wallace, Ph.D., Florida State University, 2006
Areas of Study: Social Inequality (Race, Class, Gender); Paraprofessional Healthcare Workforce in Senior Housing; Physician-Patient Interaction; Health Disparities

Nick Welcome, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2013
Areas of Study: Urban Anthropology; Science and Technology Studies; Medical Anthropology; Energy and Development; Environmental Justice; Latin America

Takashi Yamashita, Ph.D., Miami University, 2011
Areas of Study: Social Determinants of Health and Well-Being over the Life Course; Benefits of Lifelong Learning; Socio-Geographic Access to Health Resources; Health Literacy in Older Populations