Sociology/Anthropology Faculty
Jamie Faricellia Dangler
Associate Professor of Sociology
jamie.dangler@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Binghamton University
Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology, American Society, Sociology of the Family, Environmental Sociology, Research Methods, Social Welfare Institutions. Author of Hidden in the Home: The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy, SUNY Press, 1994. Research in progress: labor union and legislative efforts to advance paid family leave as a worker entitlement.
Herbert H. Haines
Professor of Sociology
herbert.haines@cortland.edu
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Courses taught:Capital Punishment, Deviant Behavior, Drug Control Policy, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Movements, Sociology of Violence. Research interests: social movements, the politics of social control, social problems theory, violence. Recent publications: “Dangerous Issues and Public Identities: The Negotiation of Controversy in Two Movement Organizations,” Sociological Inquiry 76 (2): 143-294, May 2006; “Domain Structure, Opportunity, and the Contentious Politics of Crime,” Research in Political Sociology 12:81-110, 2003. Research in progress: a) bridge units in multi-organizational social movements; b) drug policy reform activism in the United States.
Stephen Halebsky
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D.,
Richard Kendrick
Professor of Sociology
richard.kendrick@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology (with service-learning), Collective Behavior, Sociology of International Conflict, Civil Society, Methods of Social Research I and II. Research interests: service-learning as a teaching technique, social movements, and political involvement of young people. Most recent publication: Social Statistics: An Introduction Using SPSS for Windows (2nd edition, Allyn and Bacon, 2005). Prof. Kendrick is also director of the Institute for Civic Engagement.
Kassim Kone
Associate Professor of Anthropology
kassim.kone@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Indiana University
Courses taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Peoples of Africa, Language and Culture, Introduction to Language Study, Applied Anthropology, Development Anthropology. Research specializations: languages and cultures of Africa, ethnomusicology, African art, agriculture in the developing world. Recent publications: Monolingual Bamana Dictionary; More than 1000 Mande Proverbs (Bilingual), Mother-Tongue Editions, 1996.
Craig Little
Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of Sociology
craig.little@cortland.edu
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
Courses taught: Deviant Behavior, Social Control, Corrections, White Collar Crime and Sociology of Medicine. Research interests: deviance, social control, criminology, applied sociology, and medicine. Recent publications: Deviance and Control: Theory, Research and Social Policy (3rd edition) Peacock, 1995; Theories of Deviance (5th edition with Stuart H. Traub), Peacock, 2000. Research in progress: 19th century American criminal justice and contemporary trends in social control. Active as a human services assessment consultant. Grants: Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) Project Director, 1999-2005. Innovative developments: International On-Line Distance Education.
Ellis McDowell-Loudan
Professor of Anthropology
ellie.mcdowell-loudan@cortland.edu
Ph.D., American University
Courses taught: Human Evolution and Survival, World Prehistory, Eastern U.S. Archaeology, Native American Archaeology, Native American Ethnology, Field Work in Archaeology (Archaeological Field School). Research interests: archaeology, ethnology of the Americas, Eastern U.S.A and Canada emphases, forensic anthropology, prehistoric peoples and culture, material culture, experimental archeology. Recent publications: “Homer, NY Emergency Archaeology c. 1800"; “Archaeological Ethics”; “Local History: If It’s All Written Down, Why Dig?”; “Ongoing Saga of Kennewick Man"; “What’s in a Name?”; “News of Kennewick”; Archeology: Introductory Guide for Classroom and Field, (Pearson, 2002); Research in Progress: Cortland County, NY prehistoric archeology survey with SUNY Cortland Field School; Archeological Consultant for cultural resource management projects. Native American Studies Minor Program Chair; President, Iroquois Studies Association; Co-Chair, Action Committee and Member of Executive Board, New York Archeological Council.
William Skipper
Department Chair
Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology
william.skipper@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Cornell University
Courses taught: American Society, Sociology of Work, Social Problems, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Introduction to International Studies. Research Interests: work and its meanings, industrialism and post-industrialism, globalization.
John R. Sosa
Associate Professor of Anthropology
john.sosa@cortland.edu
Ph.D., SUNY Albany
Courses taught: Anthropological Theory, Peoples of Latin America, U.S. Ethnic Identity and Conflict, Prejudice and Discrimination, Anthropological Methods, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Research specializations: Maya of Yucatán, México; Cultural/Symbolic Anthropology; Indigenous People and Rights; U.S. Ethnic Groups; Prejudice and Discrimination.
Sharon Steadman
Associate Professor of Anthropology
sharon.steadman@cortland.edu
Ph.D., University of California/Berkeley
Courses taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Gender, Contact and Culture Change, World Cultures, Introduction to International Studies. Research interests: archaeology/ethnology in the Middle East (specialization in Turkey), economic anthropology, gender studies, complex society. Research in progress: Director of the Prehistoric Project at Cadir Hoyuk (a combined ethnographic and archaeological study in central Turkey). Recent publications: “Isolation or Interaction: Prehistoric Cilicia and the Fourth Millennium Uruk Expansion”, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 9.2 (1996); “Recent Research in the Archaeology of Architecture: Beyond the Foundations,” Journal of Archaeological Research 4 (1996).
Stuart Traub
Professor of Sociology
stuart.traub@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
Coordinator, Human Service Studies. Director, Sociology/Anthropology Department Internship Program. Courses taught: Criminology, Deviant Behavior, The Police, Men and Masculinity. Research interests: corporate crime prevention programs and strategies; drug use; the history of criminal justice, policing and private security. Recent publications: Theories of Deviance (5th edition with Craig B. Little), Peacock, 1999.
Anne Vittoria
Associate Professor of Sociology
anne.vittoria@cortland.edu
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Director, Center for Aging. Courses taught: Introduction to Sociology, Self and Society, Sociology of Consumption, Gender and the Life Course, Sociology of Aging. Areas of research and interests: symbolic interaction; qualitative methods; inequality, aging and the life course; care work theory; medicine and political economy; global consumption patterns; sociology and psychoanalysis. Recent publications: "Naming and the Social Construction of Alzheimer's Disease." Symbolic Interaction, vol. 22 (4), pp. 361-384. Book in progress: The Politics and Meaning of Care Work. New course under development: Foundations of Qualitative Research and Theory.
Mark P. Worrell
Assistant Professor of Sociology
mark.worrell@cortland.edu
Ph.D. University of Kansas
Editor, New York Journal of Sociology
Associate Editor, Critical Sociology
Courses Taught: Sociological Theory, Modern Western Thought, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion and other cultural sociology courses, American Society, and Introduction to Sociology Research interests: antisemitism and other forms of authoritarianism and right-wing political movements; labor history; the history of the American communist movement; contemporary, critical, and classical theory; intellectual history; political economy. Recent and Forthcoming Publications: Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School (Brill) and articles in the journals Telos, Fast Capitalism, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Critical Sociology, and Rethinking Marxism. For the latest visit: http://web.cortland.edu/worrellm/
Tiantian Zheng
Associate Professor of Anthropology
tiantian.zheng@cortland.edu
web site: http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/zhengt/
Ph.D. Yale University
Courses taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of AIDS, Peoples of East Asia. Research Interests: gender, body, and sexuality; migration and prostitution; social inequality; urban anthropology; Chinese anthropology, language and ideology; STI and HIV/AIDS.
Office Staff
Amanda Halliwell
Secretary I
amanda.halliwell@cortland.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Harjinder S. Jassal
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
harjinder.jassal@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Cornell University
Courses taught: Methods of Social Research, Peoples of South and Southeast Asia. New courses under development: Asian Immigrant Experience in the U.S. Research interests: development sociology, Asian immigrant experience in the U.S. Recent publication: “Structural Dimensions of Community Leadership in India,” in Cohesion and Conflict in Modern India,” Carolina Academic Press. Research in progress: Sikh immigrants in Canada, England, and the U.S.
William Lane
Associate Professor of Sociology
william.lane@cortland.edu
Ph.D., Kansas State University
Courses taught: Introduction to Social Gerontology, The Community, Topics in Social Gerontology (Aging Policy and Services and Issues in Community). Research interests: retirement, Alzheimer’s special care units, gerontological education issues. Past President of both the New York State Society on Aging (formerly SAGE) and Sigma Phi Omega, the national honor society in gerontology, and past treasurer of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. Recent publications: “Distance Education in Gerontology: A Faculty Perspective,” Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 20 (4), 2000.