Faculty, Graduate Students, & Staff
Dr. Ginna Babcock,
gbabcock@uidaho.edu
Ginna Babcock graduated from the University of Idaho in 1987 summa cum laude in Sociology with the dream of someday returning to teach at UI. The dream came true in 1994 when she was hired as an assistant professor in sociology. Over the next eleven years, Ginna was active in pedagogical research with first year students. She developed the first freshman-only sections of Gen Ed courses to facilitate the success of the first year student. Ginna also was active in Service-Learning, an early advocate of peer advising, and was involved in the establishment of the Advising Center. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2003-2004, where she worked with Albanian professors in the development of international service-learning programs. Ginna moved to Austria in 2005, where she continues to support UI students through distance education courses in Introductory Sociology, Social Problems, Collective Behavior/Social Movements/Terrorism, Family, Aging, Race & Ethnic Relations, and various directed studies and internships.
Professor Camp is interested in the intersection of race, citizenship,
and ethnicity in the early 20th century Western United States immigrant
communities. Prior to being hired at the University of Idaho, Dr. Camp directed
and assisted in directing a number of archaeological and laboratory projects
concerning historic California, including the Market Street Chinatown Project (http://marketstreet.stanford.edu/),
the Tennessee Hollow Watershed Archaeological Project (
http://www.stanford.edu/group/presidio/),
and Monterey’s Chinese Fishing Village at Point Alones. In addition, her
dissertation research examined the archaeological and archival history of a
Mexican immigrant railway workers community employed by Los Angeles’ historic
Mount Lowe Resort and Railway. Having spent several years conducting
archaeological and ethnographic research on the presentation of Ireland’s
heritage at government-sponsored tourist sites and museums, Dr. Camp is also
interested in questions of archaeological ethics, the representation of
archaeological data, as well as in the relationship between archaeology,
nationalism, community engagement, sustainable tourism, and political economy.
Leah Evans-Janke, leahe@uidaho.edu
Evans-Janke received her Ph.D. (2007) and M.A. (1998) from the
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.
Web: www.class.uidaho.edu/gillham
Dr. Hormel grew up in eastern Washington, an experience that developed in her an appreciation for rural experiences and a strong desire to learn multicultural experiences. Her research focuses on contemporary political economic conditions in the former Soviet Union, especially how the collapse of the U.S.S.R. has affected peoples’ day-to-day strategies for getting by. Dr. Hormel is fluent in Russian language (learning Ukrainian language) and has studied and researched in Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Armenia and Karabagh. Most of her research and writing is based upon her work in Ukraine, where she regularly visits to keep her research up-to-date. Dr. Hormel studies the important role of informal economies (migrant work, petty trade, garment work, and subsistence gardening) in post-Soviet societies and how women and men’s participation in this sphere of work is reshaping social opportunities in a new political economic system. Dr. Hormel teaches elective courses on Political Economy, Post-colonialism, and Social Change and Globalization. She has also taught core courses for sociology and justice studies majors: Methods of Social Research, Development of Social Theory, and Introduction to Sociology. In each of these courses, Dr. Hormel tries to connect students to diverse perspectives to help them identify different ways for understanding social processes. The ability to make such connections is valuable in a progressively global society. Jean McIntire Email: jeanmc@uidaho.edu
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. Web: www.class.uidaho.edu/mihelich
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. Dr. Laura Putsche,
putsche@uidaho.edu Dr. Putsche's work emphasizes indigenous peoples of South America, particularly 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
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.
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.
Dr. Wolf’s research centers on the intersection between organizations, crime and
social control. Much of his research contains a broad international and
comparative perspective. For example, in the summer of 2008 Wolf was a part of
a Fulbright-Hays study group examining the sources of injustice in the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His work on issues of global and economic justice
has also taken him to Guatemala, Indonesia and Cambodia. He continues to conduct
an ongoing research project into how citizens of various countries deal with
past and current political violence and injustices. His previous studies have
examined issues of corporate crime, environmental justice and financial crimes.
Currently, Dr. Wolf is engaged in several research projects including one on
deviant heroes, another on the proliferation of energy weapons among police
departments in the US and another on the epistemological development of criminal
justice programs. Related to these research interests, Dr. Wolf teaches courses
on deviance, white-collar crime, policing, social theory and inequalities in the
justice system.
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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