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Michael Bader

Michael Bader

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Assistant Professor

Michael Bader researches cities and ways in which people interact within the built environment. His scholarship centers on racial and economic segregation, neighborhood inequality, and health and nutrition disparities. He’s also interested in social ... [More]

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202-885-2433
CAS - Sociology


Monica Biradavolu

Monica Biradavolu

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Research Assistant Professor

Monica Biradavolu joined AU in 2010 after postdoctoral positions at Yale University and Duke University. She researches the structural determinants of health, an interdisciplinary focus that embeds health within economic, social, political and gender... [More]

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202-895-4971
CAS - Sociology


Kim Blankenship

Kim Blankenship

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Department Chair, Sociology

Kim M. Blankenship, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center on Health, Risk and Society at American University. She previously served on the faculty of Sociology at Duke University and at the Duke Global ... [More]

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202-885-6211
CAS - Sociology


Andrea Malkin Brenner

Andrea Malkin Brenner

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Brenner received her BA in Sociology from Brandeis University, her MA in Education from Boston College, and her PhD in Sociology from American University. She joined the faculty at American University and has been teaching Sociology to Undergradu... [More]

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202-885-2478
CAS - Sociology


Alan Dahl

Alan Dahl

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Professorial Lecturer

Dahl specializes in comparative-historical sociologist with a focus on social change, particularly the distinct paths taken by national societies that determine their place in the global political economy. His current work, The North of the South: Pl... [More]

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202-885-6487
CAS - Sociology


Bette Dickerson

Bette Dickerson

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Associate Professor

Bette J. Dickerson has served as Chair of American University’s Department of Sociology, Director of AU Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Chair of its University Diversity Committee. She is past President of the Association of Black Sociologists... [More]

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202-885-2479
CAS - Sociology


Brenda Kirkwood

Brenda Kirkwood

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Instructor

Brenda Kirkwood’s interests focus on strengthening the public health workforce through expansion of public health educational and training opportunities. She has been actively involved in national initiatives aimed at bringing the study of public hea... [More]

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202-885-2205
CAS - Sociology


Susan McDonic

Susan McDonic

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Assistant Professor

Susan McDonic's research interests include contemporary religious movements, international development, Africa, Asia and globalization. Specifically she has studied one of the world’s largest development organizations: World Vision, a faith based org... [More]

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202-885-2490
CAS - Sociology


Michelle Newton-Francis

Michelle Newton-Francis

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Newton-Francis teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of popular culture, body and embodiment, and gender. Currently, she applies these interests to the study of erotic labor industries and cultural representations of female sexu... [More]

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202-885-2485
CAS - Sociology


Celine-Marie Pascale

Celine-Marie Pascale

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Associate Professor

As a sociologist who studies language, Dr. Pascale's research concerns culture, knowledge and power. Her first book, Making Sense of Race, Gender and Class: Commonsense, Power and Privilege in the United States (Routledge, 2007) explores inequalities... [More]

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202-885-2524
CAS - Sociology


Natalia Ruiz-Junco

Natalia Ruiz-Junco

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Natalia Ruiz-Junco does research on interpretation, social interaction, culture and social change. She has the following research and teaching interests: classical and contemporary social theories; interactionist and interpretive theories; qualit... [More]

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202-885-2541
CAS - Sociology


Randa Serhan

Randa Serhan

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Director of the Arab Studies Program and Assistant Professor

Randa Serhan is a political sociologist who is interested in immigrant communities, nationalism, and citizenship. She began graduate school in Canada where she was interested in gender and law. Since then she has worked on PTSD in post-conflict Leban... [More]

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202-885-3383
CAS - Sociology


Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

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Associate Professor

Dr. Vidal-Ortiz's scholarship cuts across racialization, sexuality, gender, and religion, and is interdisciplinary. Aside from completion of his book manuscript about sexual minorities in Santería (an Afro-Cuban religion), he has published awa... [More]

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202-885-2443
CAS - Sociology


Chenyang Xiao

Chenyang Xiao

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Xiao earned his MA at University of Toledo, OH, and PhD at Washington State University. His main research interests include environmental beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and public opinions over environmental issues. He is also interested in applie... [More]

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202-885-2426
CAS - Sociology


Gloria Young

Gloria Young

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Director, Women's and Gender Studies

Gloria A. (Gay) Young has a longstanding focus on gender and development which has led her to study a range of issues, including the nature and consequences of women’s labor force participation in post-colonial societies – in Mexico, in particular – ... [More]

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202-885-2254
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Adjunct Faculty

Asoka Bandarage

Asoka Bandarage

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Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Asoka Bandarage currently teaches in the Sociology Department specializing in International Development. She taught at Yale University, Brandeis University, Macalester College, Georgetown University, European Peace University and Mount Holyoke Colleg... [More]

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(202) 885-2475


Yvonne Fulbright

Yvonne Fulbright

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Adjunct Professorial Lecturer



Amanda Nothaft

Amanda Nothaft

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Research Scholar in Residence



Leah Perry

Leah Perry

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Adjunct Professorial Lecturer



Scholars in Residence

Jill Brantley

Jill Brantley

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Scholar in Residence

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202-885-2484
CAS - Sociology


Katherine Frank

Katherine Frank

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Scholar in Residence

Katherine Frank is a cultural anthropologist currently studying the meaning and negotiation of sexual exclusivity in contemporary relationships. In addition to her work on monogamy, she has also written on the sex industry, pornography, feminism, eat... [More]



Fred Lazin

Fred Lazin

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Abensohn Professor

Dr. Lazin comes to AU from Ben Gurion University, where he was named Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government in 1991. He has authored over sixty scholarly articles and chapters in books. He has written and edited ten books dealing w... [More]

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202-885-2935
CAS - Sociology


Staff

Sandra Linden

Sandra Linden

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Senior Administrative Assistant

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202-885-2475
CAS - Sociology


Emeritus

Esther Chow

Gert H. Mueller: Analytical Sociological Theory

Karen K. Petersen

John C. Scott

Jurg K. Siegenthaler

Russell Stone

Austin Van der Slice

 

Affiliate Faculty

Rachel Robinson

Rachel Robinson

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Assistant Professor

Dr. Robinson’s research focuses on the politics of population, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, and she also studies the determinants of birth timing in the United States. Her most recent work on Africa explored the process of... [More]

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202-885-1636
SIS - School of International Service



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