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
  • 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