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Faculty
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Dr. Ginna
Babcock, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. Sociology, Washington State University, 1995
Visit Dr. Babcock's web site for information about her classes and interests.
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Dr. Rodney Frey,
Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Colorado, 1979
Dr. Frey's focus is on the Indian Peoples of North America, (with an
emphasis on their oral traditions and mythology, religion, ritual, and
world view). He is also interested in Anthropological Theory, Research
Methodology, and Religion and World View. Visit Dr. Frey's web site for
more information about his interests and classes.
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Dr. Patrick F. Gillham, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder,
2003
Before coming to the University of Idaho, Dr. Gillham
taught at the University of Alaska. His research focuses on social
movements, globalization, and the policing of protest in western
democracies. He has studied cross-national participation in the European
environmental movement and his dissertation explains varying levels of
protest groups’ involvement in the global justice movement. In addition,
Gillham has analyzed the policing of global justice protests in the U.S.,
Canada, U.K. and other European nations.
Professor Gillham enjoys teaching courses in political
sociology, social conflict, social movements, globalization, and social
control. He integrates an international perspective into these topics,
reflecting the complexity and inequality evident in our interconnected and
globally stratified world.
Visit Dr. Gillham's
web site for more
information on his research and classes.
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Dr. Leontina Hormel,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Oregon, 2004
My topics of instruction include Globalization,
Theories of International Development, Political Economy, Social Theory, and
Research Methods (especially qualitative and quantitative analyses in
introductory demography and international research). The content of my
courses is closely connected to my research interests. I focus on gender
and class relations in post-Soviet societies, especially in relation to the
rise of informal economies and World Bank urban development programs in
Ukraine.
Thus far, my research reveals
development programs in post-Soviet societies created a social environment
in which informal economies (such as petty trade, subsistence gardening, and
unregistered, micro-enterprises in light industry) became a common way for
unemployed and underemployed workers to support themselves and family (Southworth
and Hormel. 2004. “Why work “off the books”? community, household, and
individual determinants of informal economic activity in post-Soviet
Russia.” In Leo McCann (edit). Russian Transformations: Challenging the
global narrative. London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon). In my fieldwork
(2002-2003), I found temporary work migration from Komsomolsk, Ukraine, was
fairly common. Survey data reveal migration patterns in which men and
older-age laborers tend to migrate to Russia for work, while women are more
likely to pursue temporary work arrangements in Central and Western Europe.
These trends suggest political and social histories as well as one’s ability
to negotiate work abroad partly shape where temporary migrant workers decide
to seek opportunities. This demonstrates a more complex scenario than
economic factors (such as seeking higher pay) alone can explain (Hormel and
Southworth. 2006. “Eastward Bound: A case study of post-soviet labour
migration from a rural Ukrainian town.” Europe-Asia Studies. 58 (4):
603-23).
In the
future, I wish to develop undergraduate- and graduate-level research
programs at UI that involve fieldwork and internships in Ukraine, Russia,
and other post-Soviet societies.
For more information, go to www.uidaho.edu/~lhormel
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Dr. John Mihelich,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, Washington State University, 1999
Dr. Mihelich's focus is on American culture with an emphasis on the
working class, community, religion, and gender. At the University of Idaho,
he teaches in sociology, anthropology, and American studies along with
teaching an interdisciplinary Core Discovery course entitled "Time Warps:
Science, Technology, and Cultures of Time." Dr. Mihelich firmly believes in
the need for interdisciplinary or post-disciplinary approaches, something
that has become increasingly common over that past forty years particularly
between sociology and anthropology, and he applies an interdisciplinary and
global perspective to his research, studies, and teaching. One of his
primary research interests has centered on the predominantly Catholic mining
community of Butte, Montana, describing Butte's cultural practice and
situating it in the context of broader, sustained social processes and
structural forms that shaped the reality of working families in the United
States and elsewhere. Along with ongoing research on Butte, Dr. Mihelich's
other research areas include gender and religion, sport and popular culture,
and labor relations. For more information, visit Dr. Mihelich's web site,
www.class.uidaho.edu/mihelich.
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Dr. Melanie-Angela Neuilly,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Criminal Justice December 2006,
Rutgers University;
Ph.D. in Psychology 2007, University of Rennes,
France.
Professor Neuilly’s research focuses on violent crime and methodological issues of crime and public health data collection in an
international context. Her primary interest is in homicide and violent death research, and she is currently working on two sets of data: homicide
data from the Newark, NJ Police Department, and mortality records from the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office in Newark, NJ and the Institute of
Forensic Medicine in Rennes, France. Previous publications have looked at the social construction of the crime of pedophilia in France and in the
United States as well as issues of theoretical foundations of crime scene analysis and criminal profiling. At the University of Idaho, she teaches
Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Justice Policy Issues, and Violent Crime.
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Dr. Laura Putsche, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, Washington State University, 1993
Dr. Putsche's work emphasizes indigenous peoples of South America, particulary of the Amazon region; indigenous people and the state; and cultural ecology. She has conducted field work in the Amazon regions of Ecuador and Peru
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Dr. Deirdre Rogers,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Sociology,
Bowling Green State University, 2004
Areas of research include victimization, hate crime, social inequalities
and corporate abuses, drug and alcohol desistance and minority groups.
Stemming from her dissertation research, Dr. Sommerlad-Rogers is working of
published articles about the help seeking behaviors and routine activities
of hate crime victims in Canada. In addition, she is working on research
looking at desistence from drug and alcohol use, the crime rates and
economic impacts associated with retail, and experiences and views able
various religions. Click
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Dr. Lee
Sappington, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, Washington State University, 1994
Dr. Sappington's focus is on the prehistory of the Columbia Plateau. He has directed archaeological projects at Plateau and Great Basin sites in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon during the past 20 years. He is also interested in lithic technology and western North American history.
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Dr. Donald E.
Tyler, Department Chair and Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, Washington State University, 1987
Dr. Tyler's principal area of research is the evolution of the hominoids in South China, Southeast Asia (especially Java), and Australia. His interests range from the Miocene "Apes" through the development of modern Homo sapiens. Recent research has focused on the physical and cultural development of H. erectus in Java, the origin of the orang-utan, and the gibbon. He has also published articles concerning the origins of human populations in Australia, and has studied the geographic and climatic development from South China to Australia. Additionally, he has described new and known specimens of H. erectus and populations of modern H. sapiens using both metric and non-metric analysis.
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Dr. Mark Warner,
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Virginia, 1998
Dr. Warner received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1998 and M.A.A. (Masters of Applied Anthropology) from the University of Maryland in 1990. His major research focus lies in exploring questions of minority group identity. His dissertation work was based on excavations of an historic African American household in Annapolis, Maryland. More recently, he hs initiated a collaborative project with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, exploring their history following their forced relocation from Ohio to Oklahoma via Kansas. Mark Warner also does faunal analysis. Recent publications include the co-edited volume Annapolis Pasts: Historical Archaeology in Annapolis, Maryland, published by the University of Tennessee Press.
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Dr. Brian Wolf, Assistant
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Dr. Priscilla Wegars,
Affiliate Assistant Professor and Volunteer
Curator, Ph.D
Asian American Comparative
Collection, Laboratory of
Anthropology
Dr. Wegars' interests include historical archaeology of Asian Americans in the West, specifically Chinese American and Japanese American sites, artifacts, and history; Chinese women, specifically Polly Bemis; 19th and 20th century American material culture. She is editor of Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese. Dr. Wegars also serves as a Research Associate and Volunteer Curator of the Asian American Comparative Collection.
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