Department of Sociology and Anthropology : Sociology and Anthropology Faculty

Barbara Chesney

Ph.D., University of Michigan 
Associate Professor of Sociology; Department Chair

Areas of Interest: Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Health, Deviance

Additional Information
E-Mail: Barbara.Chesney@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4075

Patricia Case

Ph.D., Wayne State University
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Deviance

Additional Information
E-Mail: Patricia.Case@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4665

Barbara Coventry

Ph.D., University of Illinois
Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Work; Race, Class and Gender; Social Statistics; Sociology of Sport

Additional Information
E-Mail: Barbara.Coventry@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4299

Dwight Haase

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Globalization, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methods

E-Mail: dwight.haase@utoledo.edu
Additional Information: CV (doc)
Phone: 419.530.5574

Marietta Morrissey

Ph.D., Michigan State University
Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Social Sciences

Areas of Interest: Latin America, Comparative Economic Development, Gender

Additional Information
E-Mail: Marietta.Morrissey@utoledo.edu

 

Elias Nigem

Ph.D., Utah State University
Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of Middle East Studies Institute, Sociology Graduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: Demography, Human Ecology, Quantitative Methods, Middle East Population

E-mail: enigem@utnet.utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4662
Fax: 419.530.8406

Rubin Patterson

Ph.D., Howard University
Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Science and Technology in the Global South, Technology and Social Change, Information Society

Additional Information
E mail : RPatter@UTNet.UToledo.Edu
Office : UH 2680G
Phone : 419.530.4953
Fax :  419.530.8406

Mark Sherry

Ph.D., University of Queensland
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Identity, Power, Theory, Race, Class, Sexuality, Gender

Additional Information
E-mail: mark.sherry@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2600E
Phone: 419.530.4076

Jerry Van Hoy

Ph.D., Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Director, Program in Law & Social Thought; Interim Director, Disability Studies Program

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Law, Crime, Deviance, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods

E-mail:  jerry.vanhoy@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2640F
Phone: 419.530.2807

UT Law & Social Thought

Julian Brash

Ph.D., City University of New York
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Urban Development and Politics, Economic Development Policy, Politics of Space and Place, Urban Identity, Political Economy, Study of North American Society and Culture

Additional Information 
E-Mail: julian.brash@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4975

William Leons

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Latin America, Peasant Society, Immigrant Studies, Southeast Asia

E-mail: wleons@pop3.utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4364

Willie L. McKether

Ph.D., Wayne State University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Urbanization, Business and Organizational Culture, Qualitative Methodology, African-American Migration, Globally Dispersed Work Teams, Labor-Management Relations

Additional Information
E-mail: Willie.McKether@Utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4394

Seamus Metress

Ph.D., Indiana University
Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Medical Anthropology, Conflict in Northern Ireland

Phone: 419.530.4652

Angela Siner

M.A., History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toledo
Instructor of Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: African American Culture, Women's Studies

E-mail:  angela.siner@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4660

David Stothers

Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
Professor of Anthropology, Director, U.T. Archaeological Research Program and The Western Lake Erie Archaeological Research Program, Research Associate, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Areas of Interest: Northeast, Great Lakes, and Arctic/Subarctic Archeology, Prehistoric Ceramics and Northeastern Agriculture, Prehistoric Northeast Social and Political Organization. 

E-mail: David.Stothers@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4650