Faculty & Staff Directory
Faculty and Staff
Dr. David Arditi
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director of the Center for Theory
PhD George Mason University
Email: darditi@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Cultural studies; cultural sociology; science technology & society; digital studies; popular culture; and social theory.
Dr. Krystal Beamon
Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD Oklahoma State University
Email: kbeamon@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Race and ethnicity; sociology of sport; qualitative methods; and inequality.
Dr. Kelly Bergstrand
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Arizona
Email: kelly.bergstrand@uta.edu
Office: 425 University Hall (UH)
Research Specialization: Social movements; environmental sociology; and social psychology
Dr. Naomi Cleghorn
Associate Chair, Anthropology Program Director
Associate Professor, Anthropology
PhD Stony Brook University, MA University of Texas at Austin
Email: cleghorn@uta.edu
Research Specialization: Bioarchaeology; zooarchaeology; human osteology; Old World prehistory and human origins; the archaeology of Neanderthals and early modern humans; biological anthropology.
Shelby Coen
Senior Office Assistant
Dr. Christian Crowder
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Forensic Anthropologist, Dallas County Medical Examiner Office
PhD University of Toronto
Email: Christian.Crowder@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Forensic Anthropology
Lauren Dent
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD University of North Texas
Email: lauren.dent@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Environmental hazards and disasters; climate change adaptation and emergency management in indigenous communities; sociology of media and culture; qualitative and quantitative sociological methods; sociological theory
Dr. Raymond Eve
Professor Emeritus, Sociology
PhD University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Email: eve@uta.edu
Research Specialization: Science v. religion; crime and deviance; and science and technology
Mark Graves
Administrative Assistant
Email: graves@uta.edu
M. Faye Hanson-Evans
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
Office Assistant
M.A. University of Texas at Arlington
Email: mfaye@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Stratification beliefs about the causes of poverty among and between racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.; sociology of poverty; and political sociology
Dr. Heather Jacobson
Interim Dept. Chair & Sociology Program Director
Professor, Sociology
PhD Brandeis University
Email: jacobson@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Sociology of families; sociology of reproduction; and qualitative research methods
Dr. Dorothy Kalanzi
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD Texas Woman's University
Email: kalanzi@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Medical sociology; public health; gerontology; HIV/AIDS; Africa
Dr. Ritu Khanduri
Associate Professor, Anthropology
PhD University of Texas at Austin
Email: khanduri@uta.edu
Reaserch Specialization: Media; globalization; subaltern studies; gender; history; diaspora;
Dr. Robert Kunovich
Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Teaching Professor
PhD The Ohio State University
Email: kunovich@uta.edu
Research Specialization: Science, technology, and risk; race, ethnicity, and nation; social stratification and inequality; political sociology; and quantitative research methods and statistics. 
Dr. Ashley Lemke
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Anthropology Club Faculty Advisor
PhD University of Michigan
Email: ashley.lemke@uta.edu
Research Specialization: Anthropological archaeology; prehistory; hunter-gatherers; and underwater archaeology
LaDorna McGee
Academic Advisor II
Adjunct Assistant Professor
M.A. University of Texas at Arlington
Email: ladorna@uta.edu
Office: 434 University Hall (UH)
Advising and Teaching Specialities: Student Development and Success; Career Advising. Deviance; Collective Behavior; Intercultural Communication; Statistics; Computer Applications; Urbanism.
Katrina Nuncio
Adjunct Assistant Professor
MA Anthropology University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Carrie Perkins
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology
PhD Southern Methodist University
Email: carrie.perkins@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Forced migration and refugee studies; applied anthropology within international development and humanitarian assistance; urban agriculture and environmental protection in refugee assistance.
Dr. Karl Petruso
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
PhD Indiana University
Email: petruso@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Aegean prehistory; classical archaeology; economic prehistory.
Dr. Luis F. B. Plascencia
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Center for Mexican American Studies
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Email: luis.plascencia@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Anthropology of law, human rights, political anthropology, economic anthropology, Latinos in the US, Mexico-US borderlands, transnational migration, nationalism & citizenship.
Dr. Linda Rouse
Associate Professor Emeritus, Sociology
PhD Florida State University
Research Specializations: social psychology; sociology of family; education; and evaluation research
Dr. Joci Caldwell Ryan
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology
PhD Southern Methodist University
MPH the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Email: jcryan@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Food and culture; gender and sexuality; medical anthropology; and African studies
Dr. Beth Anne Shelton
Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Texas at Austin
Email: shelton@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Gender, work, family and civic engagement.
Dr. Jason Shelton
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director of the Center for African American Studies
PhD University of Miami
Email: jeshelton@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Sociology of religion, black middle class culture and ideology, racial and ethnic attitudes, and debate over race versus class
Dr. Sara Skiles-duToit
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Notre Dame
Email: sdutoit@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Cultural capital; aesthetic taste; symbolic boundaries; religious identification; and school sector differences
Dr. Shelley L. Smith
Professor, Anthropology
PhD University of Michigan
Email: slsmith@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Skeletal variation; human growth and development; and human evolution
Dr. Amy Speier
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Lambda Alpha Faculty Advisor
PhD University of Pittsburgh
Email: speier@uta.edu
Research Specialization: Medical anthropology; gender; the anthropology of tourism; various types of health and medical tourism; and Central European Studies.
Dr. Robert Young
Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Michigan
Email: bob.young@uta.edu
Research Specilizations: Social psychology and deviance
Dr. Christian Zlolniski
Professor, Anthropology
Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies
PhD University of California-Santa Barbara
Email: chrisz@uta.edu
Research Specializations: Latinos in the U.S.; globalization; transnational migration; economic anthropology; and Mexico.
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