Faculty and Staff

Research Interests: Africa, Ethiopia, Zambia, Food Systems, Biocultural Approaches to Food and Nutrition, Growth and Development, Dental Health and Hygiene Practices

Research and professional interests: Household economics, gender, kinship; diaspora and immigration; intergenerational obligations; women's entrepreneurship; women in higher education; Africa.

Research and professional interests: Indian code talkers; Plains Indian military societies; Plains Indian ethnohistory; Kiowa orthography; Indiana archaeology; Christmas in Japan.

Research and professional interests: Migrant populations and public health; Latin America with a focus on contemporary Mayan groups; the Marshallese and Human ecology.

Research and professional interests: Archaeology and ethnohistory of North America with a focus on the Pacific Northwest and Ozarks regions; native peoples of North America; historical archaeology of Native Americans and African Americans.

Research and professional interests: Primate behavior and ecology; medical anthropology; health issues of Latino immigrants; forensic anthropology

Research and professional interests: Homelessness; Expressive culture; Modernity; Behavioral health; Migration and immigration; Refugee health; Brazil and the urban Amazon.

Research and professional interests: Environmental archaeology; geoarchaeology; archaeological method and theory; cultural resource management; public archaeology; Islamic Iberia; U.S. Southwest; Jamaica.

Research and professional interests: Interactive museum design; Ethnographic exhibits; Ozarks history and culture; Cultures of the Caribbean; Historical archaeology; Online instructional design; Multimodal learning; Digital accessibility; Online instructor presence.

Gerontology; GER 180 Successful Aging; GER/PSY 309 Aging and Identity in Literature and Film; GER/PSY 370 Mental Health & Aging; GER/PSY 375 Social Forces and Aging; GER/SWK 470 Community Resources for Older Adults; GER 598 Practicum; GER 599 Seminar

Gerontology; GER/PSY 309 Aging and Identity in Literature and Film; GER 351/PSY 350 Psychology of Adulthood and Aging; GER/PSY 354 Gender and Sexuality in Later Life; GER/PSY 366 and SWK/CFD 365 Families in Later Life; GER 397 Diversity and Aging

Research and professional interests: Social processes and patterms of social organizations that lead to health inequities; Civic responses to community contamination; The illness experience; Coping and social support.

Research Interests: Leadership, Nonprofit Sector, Religious organizations and leadership, Survey and Quantitative Analysis.

Research and professional interests: Violence; Social Deviance; Youth and Adolescence; Legal Socialization; Legitimacy; Authority; Sociology of the Global South.

Research and professional interests: Social determinants of health; group disparities in health and aging; population aging; U.S. health and aging policy; time use; quantitative methodology; analysis of change.

Research and professional interests: Race, class, and gender; Community-based research methods; Diverse economies; Creative economy; Work and occupations; Gender and work-life balance; Public Sociology.

Research and Professional Interests: Intimate and sexual relationships and sexual behavior, gender, sexualities/sexual identity.

Research and professional interests: demographic and social analysis; social inequality; at-risk youth; poverty; and woman and children victims of violence.

Research and professional interests: Children, youth, and adolescence; At-risk youth; Foster youth; Women; Race; Class; Gender; Poverty; and Social inequality.