Adjunct Faculty

Carolina Valderrama-Echavarria: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Applied Sociological Research, and Action Sociology with a particular focus on the areas of relationship development, community building and engagement, and social program analysis.

Carter Ashleigh Merklinghaus: Vita 
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Military Service, Life Course, Social Psychology, Gender, Substance Use, Masculinity, Social Problems

Chandra Reyna Vita
Office Hours by Appointment

Research Interest: social inequality and stratification, racial and gender socialization, racialization, racial identities, Latinx and multiracial families

Charles Dickinson: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests:Teaching and Learning; Racial and Ethinic Minorities, and Technology and Culture.

Dr. Coline McConnel Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research Interest:  Civil rights law, cultural shifts in environmental sustainability, and global health policy

Jeff Cates: Vita
Office Hours By Appointment

Research Interests: Sociology of work, environmental sociology, and socioeconomic inequality, primarily related to race, ethnicity, and the (mis)use of technology. My Master’s thesis focuses on “rent-to-own” businesses and their relationship to low-income communities, with a heavy reliance on qualitative methods. For more information, check out the recently published article Poverty Delivered in the public sociology journal Contexts 

Jeremy Maxand: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Sociology of disability and contemporary political social movements.

John Verburg: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Kimberly Scheffer: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Kristina Jensen: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Office Hours: by Appointment

Research Interests: Immigration (emphasis on undocumented immigration); Latin Experiences, Medical Sociology.

Robert Reed: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: -Education and cultural reproduction -Generational differences on the efficacy of mobile devices and learning in the classroom- Teaching sociology-Media socialization