Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Sadhana Bery
Phone: 508.999.8406
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392C
Email: sbery@umassd.edu
Interests: Critical race studies; whiteness; global white diaspora; colonialism, postcolonialism, imperialism; memory and amnesia (forgetting); intersectionality; social theory; critical race theory; black feminist theory; postcolonial Africa

Lisa Maya Knauer
Phone: 508.999.8405
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392G
Email: 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
Email: skrumholz@umassd.edu
Interests: Theories of justice, law and society, domestic violence, women's studies, alternative models of conflict resolution

Rachel Kulick
Phone: 508.999.8138
Office:  Liberal Arts, Room 399B
Email: rkulick@umassd.edu
Interests: Visual culture; media democracy; social movements; gender and race, participatory action research methods

Yale R. Magrass
Phone: 508.999.8402
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392A
Email: 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
Email: lmiller@umassd.edu
Interests: Historical sociology, Meso-America, social theory, sociology of art and literature

Robin A. Robinson
Phone: 508.999.8788
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 393A
Email: 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 396J
Email: irodrigues@umassd.edu
Interests: Cultural anthropology, ethnicity, race, gender, creolization, nationalism, colonialism; SubSaharan Africa, Afro-Atlantic, Luso-African Atlantic, and Brazil
On leave Fall 2010

Maria da Glória de Sá
Phone: 508.910.6888
Office: Library, Room M09
Email: 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
Email: 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
Email: jstauder@umassd.edu
Interests: Anthropology, marriage and family, social change, morality and human nature, environmental issues, ranching and the American West

Tryon Woods
Phone: 508.999.8765
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392B
Email: twoods@umassd.edu
Interests: African american and african diaspora stds; law and society; political and symbolic economies of violence and globalization

Full-time Lecturers

Colleen Avedikian
Phone: 508.999.8698
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399H
Email: cavedikian@umassd.edu 

Heather Donovan
Phone: 508.999.8624
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399G
Email: hdonovan@umassd.edu 

Dennis Roderick
Phone: 508.999.8624
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399G
Email: droderick@umassd.edu 

Professor Emeritus

Roberta H. Aaronson

John E. Bush

Geraldine Gamburd 

Janet Hilowitz

Donna L. Huse

Thomas K. Ranuga

R. Penn Reeve

Part-time Lecturers

Kathryn Caldera
Phone: 508.999.8400
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392F

Diane Quigley
Phone: 508.999.8404
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 392E

Jean Robertson
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 399G

Mia Rowland
Phone: 508.910.6889
Office: Liberal Arts, Room 396G

Corinn Williams

Virgilio Zanin

For office locations of part-time faculty, contact the Department secretary, Ida Almeida at 999-8401 or Email