Faculty & Staff
Department Secretary
Ida Almeida
Phone: 508.999.8401
Fax: 508.999.8808
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392I
ialmeida@umassd.edu
Department Chair
Andrea C. Klimt
Phone: 508.999.8831
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 393B
aklimt@umassd.edu
Interests: Socio-cultural anthropology; ethnicity and nationalism; Europe, contemporary US, & Portuguese diaspora; medical anthropology; transnational migration; history and memory
Full-Time Faculty
Sadhana Bery
Phone: 508.999.8406
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399K
sbery@umassd.edu
Interests: Critical race studies and whiteness; race, class, and gender; Postcolonial Africa; political sociology
Suzanne Joseph
Phone: 508.999.8138
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392C
sjoseph@umassd.edu
Interests: Research methods; political economy of population and health; anthropological demography; ecological anthropology; medical anthropology; biocultural anthropology; social class inequality, marriage and the family; Middle East
Lisa Maya Knauer
Phone: 508.999.8405
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392G
lknauer@umassd.edu
Interests: Racial, economic, and cultural dynamics; immigration and diaspora; ethnography
Susan Krumholz (Director, Crime and Justice Studies)
Phone: 508.999.8370
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392H
skrumholz@umassd.edu
Interests: Crime and justice, theories of crime, law and society, domestic violence, women's studies
Yale R. Magrass
Phone: 508.999.8402
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392A
ymagrass@umassd.edu
Interests: Social theory, historical and political sociology, methodology, social impact of science and technology
Larry M. Miller
Phone: 508.999.8404
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392E
lmiller@umassd.edu
Interests: Historical sociology, Meso-America, social theory, sociology of art and literature
Thomas K. Ranuga
Emeritus
Office: Liberal Arts
tranuga@umassd.edu
Interests: Third world studies, social movements, comparative ethnic relations
R. Penn Reeve
Phone: 508.999.8400
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392F
preeve@umassd.edu
Interests: Cultural anthropology, social inequality, race and ethnicity, gay and lesbian studies
Robin A. Robinson
Phone: 508.999.8788
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392B
rrobinson@umassd.edu
Interests: Female deviance, delinquency, and criminality, social policy, restorative justice, psychology of crime and justice, female religiosity
Isabel Fêo Rodrigues
Phone: 508.999.8408
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 393A
irodrigues@umassd.edu
Interests: Cultural anthropology, ethnicity, race, gender, creolization, nationalism, colonialism; SubSaharan Africa, Afro-Atlantic, Luso-African Atlantic, and Brazil
Maria da Glória de Sá
Phone: 508.910.6888
Office: Library, Room M09
mdesa@umassd.edu
Interests: Portuguese-speaking diaspora in the U.S., immigration and ethnicity, ethnic and race relations, the family and stratification
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Phone: 508.910.6453
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392D
vhanna@umassd.edu
Interests: Black music, socio-political liberation movements and resistance; penology, criminological theories and the history of punishment; socio-structural analyses of institutional racism, classism and (hetero)sexism
Jack Stauder
Phone: 508.999.8400
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392F
jstauder@umassd.edu
Interests: Anthropology, marriage and family, social change, morality and human nature, environmental issues, ranching and the American West
Part-Time Faculty
Colleen Avedikian
Phone: 508.999.8698
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 396J
cavedikian@umassd.edu
Joshua Awosan
Phone: 508.999.8737
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399H
JasAs4@aol.com
Mel Bell
Lydia Breckon
Donald Brisson
don@donbrisson.com
Kathryn Caldera
Heather Donovan
Diane Quigley
Elise Rego
Aviva Rich-Shea
Phone: 508.999.8788
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392B
ashea@umassd.edu
Dennis Roderick
Phone: 508.999.8624
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 391A
droderick@umassd.edu
Corinn Williams
Virgilio Zanin
Please leave messages with the Department Secretary, or put messages into his mail slot.
For office locations of part-time faculty, contact the Department secretary, Ida Almeida at 999-8401 or Ialmeida@umassd.edu