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Sociology and Anthropology Faculty & Staff
James
Bryant is Assistant Professor of Sociology. Before
coming to Holy Cross in the fall of 2002, Professor
Bryant earned a BA in sociology and history from Tulane
University (1995), and an A.M. (1997) and Ph.D. in
sociology from Brown University (2002). His dissertation,
entitled “Journeys Along Damascus Road: Black
Ministers, the Call, and the Modernization of Tradition,”
explored how contemporary African-American ministers
construct meanings about their vocations by integrating
their understandings of the cultural traditions of
the Black Church with their professional training
in the ministry. Professor Bryant teaches courses
in The Sociological Perspective, Race and Ethnic Relations,
African-American-American Social and Religious Thought,
and Contemporary African-American Cultural Productions,
each of which draw connections among his evolving
interests in social theory, religious thought, and
cultural theory.
James Bryant Information Page
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James
Bryant Ph. D.
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Susan
Cunningham Ph. D.
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Susan
Cunningham is Associate Director for Concentrations
at the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies
and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
She received her doctorate from the University of
Maryland at College Park (1986). Her courses include
Children and Violence, Structures of Social Inequality,
and The Sociological Perspective. Her syllabus on
Children and Violence was selected as a finalist in
the Guggenheim Foundation's initiative to promote
nationwide college-level courses on violence-related
topics. Her scholarly work includes quantitative research
on the correlations and consequences of child maltreatment
as well as issues related to women and drinking. Her
most recent work is an article entitled, "Child
Physical Abuse and Self-Perceived Social Isolation
Among Adolescents," published in the Journal
of Interpersonal Violence (2005).
Susan
Cunningham Information Page
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Anne
M. Galvin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
who received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social
Research in 2006. She conducted over a year and a
half of field research on privatized community development
initiatives sponsored by the popular dancehall music
industry in Kingston, Jamaica. The dissertation research
focused on conflicting practices of national citizenship
and local belonging that developed among residents
in relation to the implementation of community based
education initiatives. Included among her academic
interests are local experiences of globalization and
neo-liberal policy reform, economic development in
post-colonial contexts, popular culture production
and consumption, and critical race theory. Professor
Galvin will be teaching The Anthropological Perspective,
Caribbean Culture and Identity, as well as a course
on popular culture within the African Diaspora.
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Anne
Galvin Ph.D.
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Carolyn
Howe Ph. D.
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Carolyn
Howe is Associate Professor of Sociology with a Ph.D.
from the University of Wisconsin (1987). She is the
author of Political Ideology and Class Formation (Praeger,
1992) and numerous articles on social movements and
social change, with a focus on race, class, and gender
dynamics of social movements. She teaches courses on
The Sociological Perspective, Women and Society, Social
Movements, Latinos in the U.S., Social Change in Latin
America, and a seminar on Sociology of Education.
Professor Howe is currently President of the Worcester
Women's History Project, a Worcester-area, non-profit,
community organization whose mission it is to do research
and raise awareness of the important role the city of
Worcester and women and men in Worcester played in the
history of the women's rights movement and the struggles
for racial, class, and gender equality. She maintains
an involvement in the Worcester community, especially
in areas related to improving the quality of public
education.
Carolyn Howe Information
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David
Hummon received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University
of California, Berkeley. He has long-term interests
in the meaning of place in American culture, with publications
on housing, community, region, and tourism. He has also
studied popular conceptions of children and issues of
undergraduate culture, including work on student identities
and student involvement with computer technology. Professor
Hummon enjoys introducing students to sociology through
The Sociological Perspective and through interdisciplinary
teaching in FYP and the Honors Program (courses on the
College Experience, Childhood Studies, and Human Nature).
At more advanced levels, he likes teaching about children
(Childhood), and he is very interested exploring different
ways to involve students in the craft of doing sociology
(The Survey Workshop).
www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/dhummon/dhhome.html
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David
Hummon Ph. D.
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Leslie
Killgore is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Professor Killgore earned a B.S. in human resource development
and organizational behavior from Trinity College of
Vermont. After working for several years at the National
Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., she returned
to New England and earned an A.M. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004)
in sociology from Brown University. Her dissertation,
entitled “Beyond the Merit of Test Scores: Gatekeeping
in Elite College Admissions,” explored the meanings
academic and non-academic activities of high school
students hold for college admissions officers as they
choose from among candidates. Professor Killgore continues
to pursue her long-term interest in the meaning freedom
holds for individuals and the impact those meanings
have for action. She teaches courses in The Sociological
Perspective, Sociology of College Life, and The Good
Society: Political Sociology and Utopias.
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Oneka La Bennett Ph.D.
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Oneka
La Bennett is Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from
Harvard University in 2002. A native of Guyana, Professor
LaBennett’s dissertation research focused on
adolescent immigrant girls from the Anglophone Caribbean
who had settled in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn,
New York. Her dissertation, “Consuming Identities:
Consumption, Gender and Ethnicity Among West Indian
Adolescents in Brooklyn” explores the uses girls
make of popular cultural products such as music, fashion,
television and film. Her academic interests include
youth culture, consumption, race, gender, migration
and transnationalism. At Holy Cross Professor LaBennett
teaches courses such as Youth Culture and Consumption,
Constructing Race and Television and the Family.
Oneka LaBennett Information page
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Tom
Landy is Associate Director of the Center for Religion,
Ethics and Culture, and a Lectuer in the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology. He received his PhD
from Boston University in 2000 and has interests in
American Catholicism and Religious Institutions, Civil
Society, and Urban Sociology. He recently edited As
Leaven for The World: Catholic Reflections on Faith,
Vocation, and the Intellectual Life (Franklin,
WI Sheed and Ward, 2001) and contributed a chapter,
"The Colleges in Context," to Catholic Women's
Colleges in America, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2002)
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/crec/website/landy/
index.htm
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Thomas
Landy Ph. D.
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Jerry Lembcke earned his Ph.D. in Sociology
in 1978 from the University of Oregon. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology and has taught Development of Social Theory, Sociology of Power, and, recently, Reading the Times. Professor Lembcke's research interest centers on media (re)constructions and myth-making. His recent book is on CNN's Tailwind Tail: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth.
Jerry Lembcke
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Professor
Leshkowich comes to Holy Cross from Harvard, where
she completed her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology.
She first traveled to Vietnam in 1988, when she
was an undergraduate majoring in history. Since
then, she has spent nearly two years conducting
fieldwork for her dissertation, "Tightly Woven Threads:
Gender, Kinship, and 'Secret Agency' among Cloth
and Clothing Traders in Ho Chi Minh City's Ben Thanh
Market." Her academic interests include gender,
economic development, women's life history narratives,
material culture, the development and circulation
of fashion trends, and kin relations within the
Vietnamese diaspora.
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/
aleshkow/homepage.html
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Marie Leshkowich Ph.D. |
Jennie Germann Molz Ph.D. |
Jennie
Germann Molz is Assistant Professor of Sociology.
She received her BA from The University of Texas
at Austin and her MA from Bowling Green State University
in Ohio. In 2004 she completed her PhD in Sociology
at Lancaster University in England where she subsequently
held a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Centre
for Mobilities Research. Her dissertation, 'Destination
World: Technology, Mobility and Global Belonging
in Round-the-World Travel Websites' examined the
convergence between travel practices and the Internet.
Her current research focuses on the intersection
between tourism and mobile technologies in the context
of globalization, with special focus on questions
of embodiment, identity and belonging. At Holy Cross,
she teaches courses such as Global Culture &
Society, Technology, Mobility & Social Life,
and The Sociological Perspective.
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Susan
Rodgers received her Ph.D. in anthropology from
the University of Chicago in 1978, after conducting
two and a half years of fieldwork in Sumatra on
issues of ethnic identity construction, ritual oratory,
indigenous print literatures, and minority/state
relations. She taught at Ohio University from 1978
to 1989, when she came to Holy Cross to help found
an anthropology program. She has returned to Indonesia
numerous times, to explore issues of state power
and indigenous arts. Translating modern print literature
from the two languages she uses in fieldwork (Indonesian
and Angkola Batak) is a special interest. Her articles
on art and power issues have appeared in such journals
as American Ethnologist, Indonesia, and Journal
of Asian Studies and her recent book is Sitti Djaoerah:
A Novel of Colonial Indonesia (a translation, 1997,
U. of Wisconsin SE Asia Series). At Holy Cross,
her courses include ones on Southeast Asia, the
anthropology of religion, anthropology of art, gender
in cross-cultural perspective, and psychological
anthropology.
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/srodgers/
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Susan Rodgers Ph.D.
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Royce
Singleton Ph. D.
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Royce
Singleton's research and publications span social
psychology, methodology, race relations, and
undergraduate education. Recent publications
include the fourth edition of his co-authored
(with Bruce Straits) textbook Approaches to
Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2005),
a chapter, "Survey Interviewing,"
in the Handbook of Interview Research (Sage,
2002), and a forthcoming article in Teaching
Sociology on the Holy Cross Student Survey.
Professor Singleton regularly teaches courses
in social psychology, methods of social research,
sport and society, and small group processes.
www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/rsinglet/
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Susan
Crawford Sullivan is Assistant Professor of
Sociology and an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow.
She received her Master in Public Affairs
from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs
in 1996 and her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard
University in 2005. Her dissertation, "Faith
and Poverty: Personal Religiosity and Organized
Religion in the Lives of Low-Income Urban
Mothers," looked at the role of religion
in the lives of mothers on welfare. Professor
Sullivan has academic interests in religion,
poverty and public policy, family, and community-based
learning. At Holy Cross, she teaches courses
such as Sociology of Religion, Catholic Social
Thought and Community Action, and The Sociological
Perspective.
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Susan Crawford Sullivan Ph.D.
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Victoria
Swigert Ph. D.
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Victoria
L. Swigert received her Ph.D. from the University
at Albany in 1975. She has been a member of
the sociology faculty since 1975 and holds the
rank of professor. The author of seven books
and numerous articles, Professor Swigert's research
and teaching interests are in deviance theory
and criminology. In 1990, Professor Swigert
was appointed Assistant Dean of the College
and is the Class Dean for the Class of 2008.
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Edward
Thompson is a Professor of Sociology and Director
of the Gerontology Studies Program. He received
his BA in sociology on the left coast at California
State University, Sacramento, and his PhD in
sociology in 1980 from Case Western Reserve
University (Cleveland). He has long been interested
in issues of gender and family life, teaches
courses on the family, sociology of men, aging
& society, sociology of mental health, and medical
sociology. Professor Thompson is studying the
social worlds of older men, and he has published
on caregiving, men experiences as older men,
and masculinities and family life. He edited
the first collection of original articles examining
elderly men (Older Men's Lives, 1994) and his
new edited book is Men as Caregivers (2001).
He encourages researchers to study men's lives,
serves as the organizer of the men’s issues
interest group for the Gerontological Society
of America, and enjoys working closely with
his students.
www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/ethompso/EHTHome.htm
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Edward
Thompson Ph. D., Chair |
Caroline
Yezer Ph. D. |
Caroline
Yezer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Before coming to Holy Cross in the fall of 2007,
she earned her B.S. in speech from Northwestern
University (1991), an M.A. in anthropology from
George Washington University (1996), and her
Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University
(2007). Professor Yezer's conducted her fieldwork
in the Andean region of Ayacucho, Peru - an
area hard-hit by the violence between the Maoist
group known as “Shining Path” and
the state (1980-2000). Her dissertation, entitled
“Anxious Citizenship: Insecurity, Apocalypse
and War Memories in Peru's Andes” works
against traumatic explanations of war survivor’s
lives. Instead she examines how indigenous highland
villagers use militarization, born-again Christianity
and the current drug war in South America to
promote their own war history and to assert
their rights within the nation and in the broader
network of human rights and international activism.
Professor Yezer will be actively involved in
Latin American and Latino Studies and offering
courses on Latin American ‘dirty wars’,
violence and human rights, U.S.-Latin American
connections, indigenous activism, illicit economies
and drug wars, and field methods.
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Margaret
Post
Administrative Assistant, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
email - mpost@holycross.edu
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