Faculty, Staff & Students

Jump to:

Tenure-Track Faculty

Headshot of Littisha Bates

Littisha Bates

Associate Professor (PhD, Arizona State University), Sociology

147 ARTSCI

513-578-5572

Sociology of Education; Early Childhood Education; Racial and Ethnic Stratification; Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Immigration

Littisha Bates CV
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Danielle Bessett

Danielle Bessett

Professor (PhD, New York University), Sociology

206C ARTSCI

513-556-4717

Danielle Bessett is Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty affiliate at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, where she teaches courses on medicine, family, and reproduction. She contributes to the Medical Scientist Training Program in UC's College of Medicine and is Director of the Kunz Center for Social Research. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she received her Master’ degree and Ph.D. from New York University and held the prestigious Charlotte Ellertson Social Science Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2008-2010.

Bessett's current research projects examine patient experiences of abortion care and disparities in contraceptive access, prenatal care, and infant mortality. Bessett co-leads OPEN, the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, which conducts rigorous, interdisciplinary research to assess the reproductive health and well-being of Ohioans in the context of federal and state laws, regulations, and policies. Her research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation, among other funders, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Women's Health Issues. Bessett's monograph on women's pregnancy experiences, Pregnant with Possibilities: Constructing Normality in Stratified Reproduction, is under contract with New York University Press, and her co-edited volume, Ohio Under Covid, is forthcoming with University of Michigan Press. 

Bessett is a past board member of the academic Society of Family Planning, where she led the Junior Fellows Committee, and recently concluded her term as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Sociological Association's Medical Sociology section. She received the 2004 Dr. Mary P. Dole Medical Fellowship from the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association; the 2007 Rose Laub Coser Best Dissertation Proposal in Family or Gender Studies from the Eastern Sociological Society; the Cincinnati Women’s Political Caucus’s 2017 Outstanding Achievement Award; the 2021 Society of Family Planning's Mentor Award; and UC's 2021 Faculty Excellence Award from Office of the Provost and Office of Research. She is most proud of her student-initiated honors, including the 2012 “Professor Funnybone” award for funniest Sociology professor and the 2017 UC Women's Center Woman of the Year award for mentoring.

When Bessett is not working, you may find her hiking, knitting, traveling, reading, and/or spending time with friends. An ice cream aficionado, Bessett enthusiastically dances to 80's music and tries to prevent her three mischievous cats from burning through all of their nine lives.

Danielle Bessett CV
View Full Profile
Headshot of Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

Asst Professor, Sociology

260C ARTSCI

513-556-4700

Black Feminism; Sociology of Sport; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Food Studies; Critical Race Feminism; Qualitative Methods 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Steve L Carlton-Ford

Steve L Carlton-Ford

Professor (PhD, University of Minnesota), Sociology

260D ARTSCI

513-556-4709

My recent work, Legacies of Injustice, examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on today's human rights.in general, I am concerned with Peace, War, and Social Conflict; Militarization, Armed Conflict, Quantitative Analysis; Research Methodology

Steve Carlton-Ford CV
View Full Profile
Headshot of Erynn Masi de Casanova

Erynn Masi de Casanova

Professor of Sociology & Head of the Sociology Department, (PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center) , Sociology

260B ARTSCI

513-556-4716

Gender; Work; the Body; Popular Culture; Globalization/Development; Latin American societies; U.S. Latinos/as; Ethnography and qualitative research methods.

Erynn Masi de Casanova CV

 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Annulla Linders

Annulla Linders

Professor, Sociology

206D ARTSCI

513-556-4710

Qualitative Methods; Historical and Comparative; Social Movements; Culture; Capital Punishment; Abortion

Annulla Linders CV
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Oneya Fennell Okuwobi

Oneya Fennell Okuwobi

Asst Professor, Sociology

260E ARTSCI

513-556-4702

I am a critical diversity scholar with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods. I theoretically examine how organizational processes reproduce inequality with a substantive focus on people of color involved in diverse groups, organizations, and institutions.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Jeffrey M. Timberlake

Jeffrey M. Timberlake

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies (PhD, University of Chicago), Sociology

261C ARTSCI

513-328-9614

Jeffrey M. Timberlake is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests are in the sociology of population, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, and quantitative research methods. Recent projects include analyses of racial and ethnic residential segregation, housing discrimination in American cities, exposure of children to neighborhood poverty and violence, and urban demographic change from 1970 to 2020.

Jeff Timberlake CV
View Full Profile

Educator Faculty

Headshot of Katherine Castiello Jones

Katherine Castiello Jones

Undergraduate Program Director (PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Sociology , Sociology

260A ARTSCI

513-556-4750

Dr. Castiello Jones' research focuses on gender, sexuality, and culture. Her current research projects examine abstinence promotion in the US, and movements (re)claiming sexuality after experiences with purity culture. They also write extensively on topics related to games and game design including sexuality in games, inclusive design, and integrating feminist theories of play into game design scholarship. 
In addition to their research, they been writing table-top and live-action role-playing games (larps) for over a decade. Dr. Castiello Jones' games have been featured at festivals such as Indiecade and BlackBox Copenhagen, and she was an invited guest at The Smoke festival in London in 2020. 
View Full Profile

Visiting Faculty

Headshot of Lindsey Louise Aldrich

Lindsey Louise Aldrich

Asst Professor - Visiting, A&S Sociology

206A ARTSCI

513-556-4707

View Full Profile

Adjunct Faculty

Headshot of Amy Cassedy

Amy Cassedy

Research Associate, Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Assistant Professor-Adjunct, Sociology, Sociology

1023 Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

View Full Profile
Headshot of Harold F Dawson

Harold F Dawson

Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology

Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

Harold earned his Bachelor’s Degrees in Psychology and Sociology from Marshall University. He graduated again from Marshall with a Master’s degree in Sociology, focusing his thesis research on the way in which critical social theories could be applied to Hollywood disaster films. Harold has earned his doctoral candidacy from the University of Cincinnati with a specialization in cultural sociology.  He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation that will explore the complexities of  televised news' visual reproduction of disaster.

Harold has presented his work at gatherings of the North Central Sociological Association. His current research interests include media, popular culture, social movements, sociological theory, and social stratification.

 
View Full Profile
Headshot of C. James Park

C. James Park

Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology

Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

James received is BA from Albright College in Criminology and Political Science. He received his MA in Sociology from University of Cincinnati. His research interests are in political sociology, deviance and social control, criminology, culture and immigration.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Marcus Christopher Vines

Marcus Christopher Vines

Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology

Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

Marcus Vines received his BA in sociology from the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include gender, specifically masculinity, popular culture, sociology of the body, race, and class.
View Full Profile

Affiliate Faculty

Headshot of Anima Adjepong

Anima Adjepong

Associate Professor & Department Head, Sociology

3302 French Hall

513-556-0358

View Full Profile
Headshot of Michael L. Benson

Michael L. Benson

Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate, Sociology

Michael L. Benson received his PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois in 1982. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and a former President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium of the National White-Collar Crime Research Center.  In 2017, he received the Gilbert Geis Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on White-Collar and Corporate Crime of the American Society of Criminology.  He has published extensively on white-collar and corporate crime in leading journals, including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Problems.  His book, Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work was awarded the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency.  In 2016, he co-edited The Oxford Handbook on White-Collar Crime with Shanna R. Van Slyke and Francis T. Cullen.  The 3rd edition of his book, White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective, co-authored with Sally S. Simpson will be published in 2018. He has also authored two editions of Life-Course Criminology: An Introduction. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, the Centers for Disease Control, and private research foundations. 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Francis T. Cullen

Francis T. Cullen

Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus , Sociology

660-O Teachers College

513-556-5834

Professor Cullen received his Ph.D. in sociology and education from Columbia University in 1979.  He is a past President and Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.  He was the recipient of the 2010 ASC Edwin H. Sutherland Award. From 2010 to 2014, he served on the Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Department of Justice.  He has published more than 300 works in the areas of criminological theory, correctional policy, white-collar crime, public opinion about crime and justice, victimology, and the organization of knowledge.  His most notable books include Reaffirming Rehabilitation, Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory, Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond, and Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women.  He has authored widely used texts, such as Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, Criminological Theory: Past to Present—Essential Readings, and Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences.  His most recent works include Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge and Environmental Corrections: A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community.  In the graduate program, he continues to teach Structural Theories of Crime and Criminal Justice Research Practicum.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Ashley M Currier

Ashley M Currier

Professor, Sociology

5118 CLIFTCT

513-500-7245

Ashley Currier is a sociologist who studies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizing in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, and South Africa. 

View Full Profile
Headshot of Ben H. Feldmeyer

Ben H. Feldmeyer

Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology

660-R Teachers College

513-556-5814

Professor Feldmeyer received his B.S. in Psychology and Sociology from The Ohio State University in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Penn State University in 2007.  His research focuses on criminal behavior and criminal sentencing across demographic groups, social class, and social context.  His work pays particular attention to the effects of structural conditions on violent offending across race/ethnicity and addresses such questions as:  (1) What effect (if any) does immigration have on community levels of crime, and do these relationships vary across different social contexts and demographic groups?  (2) How do factors like racial/ethnic segregation and concentrated disadvantage shape community levels of crime, and are these effects similar for Black, White, and Latino populations?  (3) Have race/ethnic, gender, and age gaps in crime changed over time, and to what degree are these trends due to changes in enforcement versus changes in large-scale social forces?  (4) How are racial/ethnic disparities in sentencing outcomes influenced by community context?  His recent work has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, The Sociological Quarterly, Population Research and Policy Review, and Homicide Studies. 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Jan Marie Fritz

Jan Marie Fritz

Professor, Sociology

6213 DAA Addition

513-556-0208

Dr. Jan Marie Fritz is a Professor in the School of Planning (and affiliated with the Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Sociology) at the University of Cincinnati as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and International Studies at the Danish Institute of Human Rights in Copenhagen, Denmark and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She has received many awards including the DAAP College Award (University of Cincinnati) for Outstanding Research and Creative Work, the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, the Ohio Mediation Association’s Better World Award for a distinguished career in mediation and awards from the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology and the practice division of the American Sociological Association.  She is a past Vice-President of the International Sociological Association (ISA), the lead representative of the ISA to the United Nations and a member of the ISA Executive Committee.  She was  the founder and convener of the Cincinnati for CEDAW Community Coalition (CCCC) that led to a Gender Study of Cincinnati's city administration and the establishment of the Mayor of Cincinnati's Gender Equality Task Force.  She was appointed by the Mayor to be a member of the Task Force.  She also was appointed by the director of the US Environmental Protection Agency to be member of two US EPA advisory councils.  She currently is a member of NEJAC - the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.  She has written or edited more than 130 publications including the award-winning International Clinical Sociology, “Special Education Mediation in the United States,”  “Women, Peace, Security and the National Action Plans, “Addressing Environmental Racism,”  “Including Sociological Practice” inThe Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century, “Practicing Sociology: Clinical Sociology and Human Rights,” Moving Toward a Just Peace: The Mediation Continuum, (with Jacques Rhéaume) the award-winning Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives and (with Tina Uys) Clinical Sociology for Southern Africa.  She edits Springer's Clinical Sociology book series.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Amy C Lind

Amy C Lind

School of Public and International Affairs, Sociology

CLIFTCT

513-556-0675

Amy Lind is a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and Faculty Affiliate of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). Prior to joining SPIA in August 2024, she was Mary Ellen Heintz Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), where she held a faculty position for eighteen years (2006-2024). She has previously served as Taft Research Center Director (2019-2024), WGSS Department Head (2015-2018), and WGSS Graduate Director (2011-2015). In 2017-2018, she also served as Provost Fellow, in which capacity she oversaw assessment and reaccreditation in the College of Arts & Sciences. She also holds faculty affiliations in Sociology, Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures, the Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies Program, and the School of Planning/DAAP.

Dr. Lind's areas of scholarship and teaching include international political economy, feminist international relations, comparative politics (Latin America/Global South), development and postcolonial studies, social movements, human rights. and feminist, decolonial, and queer studies. She has lived, worked, and conducted research in Latin America for over 40 years, including in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador (Penn State University Press, 2005), and editor of four volumes, including Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010) and Feminist (Im)mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate Publishing, 2013, co-edited with Anne Sisson Runyan, Patricia McDermott and Marianne Marchand). Her forthcoming book, Constituting the Nation: Resignifying Nation, Economy and Family in Postneoliberal Ecuador (with Christine Keating), addresses the cultural, economic, and affective politics of Ecuador's postneoliberal Citizen Revolution. She has held distinguished visiting professor positions in Ecuador, Bolivia and Switzerland and has delivered invited lectures at institutions around the world. Currently she is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics (2022-2025). She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (2019-2025).
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Hexuan Liu

Hexuan Liu

Assoc Professor, Sociology

650E Teachers College

513-556-5827

Professor Liu received his Ph.D in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on (1) the integration of social science with biology and genomics to understand the complex mechanisms underlying criminal behavior, and social and health outcomes, and (2) quantitative methodology, particularly statistical and computational methods analyzing big data. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Demography, the Journal of Marriage and Family, the American Journal of Public Health, and PLoS One.  He teaches in the area of statistics.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Holly Y McGee

Holly Y McGee

Associate Professor, Sociology

ARTSCI

513-556-2405

Hailing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Holly Y. McGee specializes in U.S. History and African American History, with an emphasis on black women’s activist and intellectual history, comparative political activism in the United States and South Africa, and popular culture in the twentieth century.  Secondary specialties include local histories of the American South, South African women’s history, and oral histories.  Currently, Dr. McGee teaches undergraduate courses in black history and film, culture and counterculture, and African American history in early and colonial America.

Presently, Dr. McGee is conducting research for her book, a biographical oral history of South African activist Elizabeth Mafeking.  Mafeking was one of four women featured in Dr. McGee's dissertation, “When the Window Closed: Gender, Race, and (Inter)Nationalism, the United States and South Africa, 1920s-1960s,” which put into conversation existent and new scholarship regarding black radical women of the Left in the United States and South Africa during the twentieth century and was primarily concerned with the evolution of women’s protest from localized issues of race-based discrimination to international, anti-colonial protests of the era. 

Dr. McGee’s most recent publication credit, “‘It was the wrong time and they just weren’t ready’: Direct-action protest at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (AM&N),” appeared as a reprint in Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, an edited collection on SNCC’s pivotal role in transforming the status of racial discrimination in Arkansas in the 1960s.  Additionally, she has forthcoming articles in the fields of local Arkansas history, and South African women's history.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Shailaja D Paik

Shailaja D Paik

Taft Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Asian Studies, Sociology

340 B ARTSCI

513-556-5679

I am Charles Phelphs Taft Distinguished Research Professor of History and Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Asian Studies. My research, writing, and teaching interests lie at the intersection of a number of fields: modern South Asia; Dalit studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; social and political movements; oral history; human rights and humanitarianism. As a historian, I specialize in the social, intellectual, and cultural history of modern India. My first book Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination (Routledge, 2014 ) examines the nexus between caste, class, gender, and state pedagogical practices among Dalit ("Untouchable") women in urban India. My second book, The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford University Press, 2022 https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34163) analyzes the politics of caste, class, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in modern Maharashtra. The book won the American Historical Association's John F. Richards Prize for "the most distinguished work of scholarship on South Asia" (https://www.historians.org/award-grant/john-f-richards-prize/) and the Association of Asian Studies Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize (https://www.asianstudies.org/aas-2024-prizes/). I am working on several new book projects: Caste Domination and Normative Sexuality in Modern India, Caste, Race, and Indigeneity in and beyond South Asia, and the Cambridge Companion to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. My research is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford Humanities Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies, Yale University, Emory University, the Ford Foundation, and the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, among others. I have published several articles on a variety of themes, including the politics of naming, Dalit and African American women, Dalit women’s education, new Dalit womanhood, and kissing and nationalism in prestigious international journals. My scholarship and research interests focus on anti-colonial struggles, transnational women’s history, women-of-color feminisms, and particularly on gendering caste and subaltern history. I co-organized the "Fifth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. Ambedkar" at the New School of Social Research and I direct the "Ambedkar-King Justice Initiative" at the University of Cincinnati.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Leila Rodriguez

Leila Rodriguez

Senior Research Associate, Sociology

450 Braunstein Hall

513-556-5783

Senior Associate Researcher

I am former Professor of Anthropology who maintains an affiliate Senior Associate Researcher position. Broadly, my research questions how societies manage cultural diversity. One line of research studies the local-level integration of migrants and the sociocultural construction of (il)legality. The second line of research investigates how judicial systems in the U.S. and Latin America use culture as evidence in legal conflicts involving migrants and asylum-seekers. 

 

View Full Profile
Headshot of Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama

Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama

Associate Professor in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Sociology

3314 French Hall

513-556-6654

Born and raised in Colombia, South America, Dr. Sanmiguel-Valderrama practiced law in Colombia for five years before migrating to Canada in her late 20s.  Dr. Sanmiguel-Valderrama earned her LLM in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa, where she also worked at the Human Rights Research and Education Center co-directing a women's project with CEMUJER in El Salvador (Central America) funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).  In 2004, she graduated with her Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, where she was also affiliated to CERLAC, The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University.

On the basis of extensive fieldwork in Colombia, her research and publications examine the contradictions between neoliberal international trade and military aid on the one hand, and respect for individual and collective human rights –in particular labor, environmental, and equality rights for women and racial minorities—on the other hand. These relationships and contradictions are examined through case studies where both trade and human rights laws and practices are in operation: first, the Colombian export-led flower industry. Her upcoming book (2012) is provisionally titled “No Roses Without Thorns: Trade, Militarization, and Human Rights in the Production and Export of Colombian Flowers” (click here to see book prospectus). Second, though the case of NAFTA and undocumented migration of Mexican and Central American into the USA.

Dr. Sanmiguel -Valderrama have published various articles in prestigious international academic journals presenting her research findings on the interrelationship between globalization, international trade, militarism, social reproduction, and human rights from multidisciplinary and transnational anti-racist feminist approaches. Her research have been supported by competitive grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, and the University of Cincinnati Research Council. Professor's Sanmiguel-Valderrama current areas of research and teaching are family-work conflict under globalization, the relationships between military aid, trade, and human rights in Colombia, feminist mothering, women, gender and law, international women's rights, and women's labor rights.

View Full Profile
Headshot of Rina Williams

Rina Williams

Associate Dean for Social Sciences; Professor of Political Science; Affiliate Faculty, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Asian Studies, Sociology

155A ARTSCI

513-556-5858

Rina Verma Williams received her A.M and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, and B.A. (Political Science) and B.S. (Chemistry) from the University of California at Irvine. She is currently serving as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences. Her home department is the School of Public and International Affairs, with affiliate appointments in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sociology; and Asian Studies. Her areas of specialization include South Asian politics; women and gender; ethnicity and nationalism; religion and politics; and politics of the developing nations. She has published extensively in these areas, inlcuding numerous articles and two books with Oxford University Press. Before coming to UC, she taught at the University of Virginia and University of Houston.
View Full Profile

Emeriti Faculty

Headshot of Jan L. Bending

Jan L. Bending

Professor Emerita, Sociology

Jan Bending is a Field Service Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Cincinnati. Her specialization is in the area of applied and clinical sociology, sociology of rehablitation, and substance abuse.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Paula J Dubeck

Paula J Dubeck

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Having received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, Paula teaches courses about complex organizations, barriers to equality, and professional women. Her areas of research include women in professions; women in organizations and politics; and women and work. A reviewer for several professional journals and granting agencies, Professor Dubeck is coeditor of Women and Work: A Handbook, (Garland Publishing, 1996) which was also published in paperback by Rutgers University Press (1997). Her past publications include "Women and Access to Political Office" and "Recruitment of Industrial Management Personnel: Indicators of Sexism." Former president of the Association for Women Faculty, she has served on numerous committees in the Center for Women's Studies.
View Full Profile
Headshot of T. David Evans

T. David Evans

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

I am a member of the faculty in the Department of Sociology, University of Cincinnati where I teach introduction to sociology, deviance and social control, criminology, and sociology of law classes.  My previous teaching areas include introduction to criminal justice; white collar and corporate crime; media and crime: and criminal courts.  Research areas include white collar crime, socilogy of law, and criminological theory
View Full Profile
Headshot of William E Feinberg

William E Feinberg

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Norris R Johnson

Norris R Johnson

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of David Cramer Lundgren

David Cramer Lundgren

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

 

View Full Profile
Headshot of David J Maume

David J Maume

Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Sociology

David J. Maume is Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Graduate School, University of Cincinnati.  His teaching and research interests are in gender-work-family, and inequality.  

Dave Maume CV
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Daisy Quarm

Daisy Quarm

Professor Emerita, Sociology, Sociology

Race; Class; Gender

Daisy Quarm CV
View Full Profile
Headshot of Gerald S Reid

Gerald S Reid

Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Sociology

Gerald joined the UC faculty in 1968 and has had the privilege of teaching and working in four different UC colleges.  He has held numerous administrative positions including Department Coordinator, Assistant Dean, Academic Director, and Director of Undergraduate Studies.  During his time at UC he has seen many changes – to the physical campus, to administrative practices, to the role of administrators and faculty, to the way courses are taught, and to the expectations and needs of students in the classroom.  He has received numerous teaching and service awards during his tenure at UC, but he says that he is most honored when a student from an earlier time makes the effort to say, “Thank you!”
View Full Profile
Headshot of Phillip Neal Ritchey

Phillip Neal Ritchey

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

I am a Sociologist with an extensive background in basic research and policy analysis.  I have extensive research and consulting experience and have taught methodology and statistics for over 3 decades.  I am very knowledge about programming and data management. I am knowledgeable about methodology (e.g., research designs, sampling, weighting of data with complex designs, and questionnaire construction); structural equation modeling (e.g., confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, and combined structural equation measurement models); measurement (e.g., modeling based on classical measurement theory and item response theory); and specialized analytical procedures, including simulations, negative binomial and Poisson regression for skewed and truncated distributions, hazard or event history models, random effects modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, individual growth modeling, and path analysis combining OLS and regression coefficients based on non-OLS regression equations.  Additionally, I have an extensive background in research reporting and writing.

View Full Profile
Headshot of Dana Vannoy

Dana Vannoy

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

View Full Profile

Staff

Headshot of Amanda Rose Hogeland

Amanda Rose Hogeland

Business Manager A&S Staffing Unit 5, Sociology

3420 French Hall

513-556-4720

View Full Profile
Headshot of Nicole Kaffenberger

Nicole Kaffenberger

Program Manager, Sociology

3428D French Hall

513-556-4109

View Full Profile

Graduate Students

Headshot of Nola Ann Almageni

Nola Ann Almageni

Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Makenzi Rai Banks

Makenzi Rai Banks

Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Cynthia Lynn Beavin

Cynthia Lynn Beavin

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Cynthia is a PhD student in the Sociology department at the University of Cincinnati. She earned a BARSC degree from the University of South Carolina in 2017, focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights. Following graduation, they worked for the Guttmacher Institute as a research assistant, contributing to work on estimating global abortion and unintended pregnancy rates and qualitative analysis of barriers to SRH care for family planning patients in Iowa and Arizona. She currently serves as a research assistant within OPEN on the Abortion Clinic Closures and Care Churn project.

Their current research interests include medical sociology, sociology of reproduction, and sociology of science, knowledge, and technology, with focuses in abortion and unintended pregnancy. Cynthia has published in the Lancet Global Health, BMJ Global Health, BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, Contraception: X, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Undeserved, and Qualitative Resarch in Health. 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Miracle-Eunice Bolorunduro

Miracle-Eunice Bolorunduro

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Sarah Elizabeth Bostic

Sarah Elizabeth Bostic

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Hi! My name is Sarah (They/Them) and I am a 5th year PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. I am a research assistant with the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network (OPEN) where I am currently working on a project that seeks to better understand Black women's experiences with reproductive health care.

I do qualitative research primarily in the realm of medical sociology and the body. Specifically, I seek to better understand the experiences of people with chronic illness, their interactions with medical providers, and how they navigate accessing the care they need. I am interested in their diagnostic journeys, development of cultural health capital, and how stigmas related to mental illness and body-size might shape these experiences.

Sarah Bostic's CV
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Nature Christine Brooks

Nature Christine Brooks

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Molly Rose Broscoe

Molly Rose Broscoe

Asst Professor - Visiting, Sociology

BA MUNTZ

513-558-9466

Molly Broscoe is a PhD Student in the sociology department with research interests in social movements, mass violence, gender, and race. She earned her MA from UC Sociology in 2021, her thesis was titled: 'Who’s the Alpha Male Now, Bitches’: Masculinity Narratives in Mass Murder Manifestos. She is currently developing her dissertation on how the anti-abortion movement uses public space. She has been published with colleagues in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, the American Journal of Public Health, and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. She is currently a teaching fellow at University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash. 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Mab Davoodifar

Mab Davoodifar

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Mab Davoodifar is a second year Ph.D. student in the department of sociology at University of Cincinnati. Her main research interests include medical sociology, immigrant women's reproductive decision-making, access to abortion and changes of fertility pattern. 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Harold F Dawson

Harold F Dawson

Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology

Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

Harold earned his Bachelor’s Degrees in Psychology and Sociology from Marshall University. He graduated again from Marshall with a Master’s degree in Sociology, focusing his thesis research on the way in which critical social theories could be applied to Hollywood disaster films. Harold has earned his doctoral candidacy from the University of Cincinnati with a specialization in cultural sociology.  He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation that will explore the complexities of  televised news' visual reproduction of disaster.

Harold has presented his work at gatherings of the North Central Sociological Association. His current research interests include media, popular culture, social movements, sociological theory, and social stratification.

 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Maralyn Doering

Maralyn Doering

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Kate Mary Durso

Kate Mary Durso

Asst Professor - Educator, Sociology

130.1 University Pavilion

513-558-0100

View Full Profile
Headshot of Kiki B. Higgins

Kiki B. Higgins

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Kiki (he/they) is a PhD student in the Sociology department at the University of Cincinnati. They earned their Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a focus / minor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY at the end of 2022. 

His current research interests deal with race, gender, sexuality in connection with dating and nonconventional relationships. 

Kiki Higgins CV
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Anthonia Omotola Ishabiyi

Anthonia Omotola Ishabiyi

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Anthonia Ishabiyi is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She is passionate about students' well-being and understanding the factors shaping their experiences. I am currently exploring the impact of religious participation on African International students in the US. To understand the role of religious organizations in facilitating social and academic development. I have worked and volunteered mostly in the education sector, specifically with minority groups in facilitating engagement and promoting cultural diversity. I also engage in cultural activities such as learning African drumming and dance for my overall wellbeing.  
View Full Profile
Headshot of Spencer Dean Jarrett

Spencer Dean Jarrett

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Spencer is a first year PhD student in the Department of Sociology. 
His main areas of interest lie at the intersection of health, employment, and the environment, focusing on how these impact the lives of rural people and communities. Currently, his research is focused geographically in Eastern Appalachian Ohio, where he grew up, and centers around natural resource industries and the influences they have had on the lives of residents in the area.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Izzy Jeavons

Izzy Jeavons

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Brianna Jenay Jones-Williams

Brianna Jenay Jones-Williams

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Shobha Pai Kansal

Shobha Pai Kansal

Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Michaela C Kenney

Michaela C Kenney

Student Worker, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Cooper Lawler

Cooper Lawler

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Elizabeth Margaretta Long

Elizabeth Margaretta Long

Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Annie Katherine McGhee

Annie Katherine McGhee

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Annie McGhee, MA is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati.  A native of Cincinnati, OH, Annie received her B.S. in Mathematics from Xavier University in 2019.   She has also received graduate certificates in Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies and Film & Media Studies at U.C.. 

Her broad research interests include gender and sexualities, race, and cultural/media studies.  Her current projects focus on how audiences negotiate racialized and gendered representations of flapperhood in early Hollywood cinema and archival research on racial exclusion in predominantly White organizations.  

Her Master's Thesis examined how those who identify as LGBTQ negotiated their identities in sex education classes in private religiously-affiliated schools.

In her spare time, Annie enjoys reading, writing fiction and poetry, and running.

Annie McGhee CV
View Full Profile
Headshot of Zoe Muzyczka

Zoe Muzyczka

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Zoe Muzyczka (they/them) is a 3rd year PhD graduate student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Their research interests and future dissertation work focus particularly around medicalization of fatness and anti-fat attitudes in medical settings, the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class with anti-fat attitudes in society and within fat liberation movements, as well as fat embodiment in public spaces and media. During their first two years in the program, they were a graduate research assistant for the research consortium Ohio Policy Evaluation Network (OPEN) where they worked with ongoing survey research projects regarding abortion patients experiences with care in Ohio. Now focusing on building their teaching pedagogy, they are a teaching assistant for Introduction of Sociology, and working on developing future courses related to their interest area of Fat Studies. In order to deepen their understanding of the inherent hetero-patriarchal, colonialisms underpinning the anti-Black attitudes that make up the core of anti-fat prejudice today, they are working on a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on Transnational Feminism of Color, Black Feminisms, and Queer scholarship. Not forgetting their public health training, they (along with 3 colleagues and the local organization Transgender Advocacy Council) were recently awarded the 2021 CCTST Academic-Community Partnership Student Award for their work with the co-developed community survey research project aimed at assessing the needs of the Transgender community in Cincinnati. Follow them on twitter @ZMuzyczka.
View Full Profile
Headshot of C. James Park

C. James Park

Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology

Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

James received is BA from Albright College in Criminology and Political Science. He received his MA in Sociology from University of Cincinnati. His research interests are in political sociology, deviance and social control, criminology, culture and immigration.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Martha Karinna Ramirez

Martha Karinna Ramirez

Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of John William Roth

John William Roth

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

John William Roth is a PhD student in the department of sociology at the University of Cincinnati. As a sociologist, John's current research focuses on patient advocacy organizations and their role in developing better, more effective treatment for those living with chronic diseases. Mr. Roth is primarily a scholar of social movements, public engagement with the sciences, and public health/educational interventions. 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Arti Sandhu

Arti Sandhu

Associate Professor, Sociology

Aronoff Center

513-556-4298

Arti Sandhu is currently an Associate Professor in the Fashion Program, in the School of Design at DAAP. Prior to this she taught at Columbia College Chicago and Massey University, New Zealand. Originally from India, she studied Fashion Design at N.I.F.T. (New Delhi) and received her Masters in Fashion and Textiles from Nottingham Trent University (U.K.).
 
Her research is centered on contemporary Indian fashion and related design culture. She is the author of Indian Fashion: Tradition, Innovation, Style (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). She has also published articles on dress and the Indian Diaspora in New Zealand, Indian Streetstyle, the contemporary Indian catwalk, and Indian drag queens. Arti is currently working on research projects relating to the growing discourse around decolonizing fashion studies, the role craft can play in fashioning sustainable design practices and overall well being, and a digital ethnography on social media saree groups.

In addition to her academic research, Arti's artworks, which explore identity and migration, have been exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, the Netherlands, and India. In 2011 she curated the exhibition ZER0-Waste: Fashion Re-Patterned for the Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery in Chicago featuring the groundbreaking work of designers and creatives working with sustainable fashion design strategies. Arti has also been the fashion contributor for Arts Illustrated magazine (Chennai) and occasionally writes for an online column for the digital fashion publication the Voice of Fashion.

 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Tya M Smith

Tya M Smith

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

View Full Profile
Headshot of Kierra Nicole Toney

Kierra Nicole Toney

Graduate Assistant, Sociology

Kierra N. Toney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She is originally from Chattanooga, TN the eldest of her living siblings and a first-generation college student. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2017 and her Master of Arts from University of Cincinnati in 2022, both in Sociology. Her master’s thesis is a qualitative exploration of Black student’s sense-making of high school American History Curricula. Her research interests include: Race and Racism, Urban Communities, Education, and Black Epistemologies. She previously served as a research assistant for the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network and an assistant editor for the academic journal Social Problems. She is currently a Taft Dissertation fellow. Kierra identifies as a scholar-activist and hopes to use her research as tool to aid in equity and liberation for marginalized groups. 

You can learn more about Kierra by visiting her website, KierraNToney.com . 
 
View Full Profile
Headshot of Marcus Christopher Vines

Marcus Christopher Vines

Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology

Crosley Tower

513-556-4700

Marcus Vines received his BA in sociology from the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include gender, specifically masculinity, popular culture, sociology of the body, race, and class.
View Full Profile
Headshot of Keylan West

Keylan West

Jr Research Associate, Sociology

Teachers College

513-556-3818

Keylan West is a Jr. Research Associate at the Evaluation Services Center (ESC) in the college of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology (CECH). She joined the center in 2023, where she works to ensure that an accurate representation of voices and perspectives are reflected in the results of all community-based evaluation projects. She also focuses on attending local events and maintaining relationships with several organizations that surround the center’s community.  Additionally, she co-leads and/or supports simultaneous evaluation projects for local and national stakeholders. Keylan has experience analyzing research data on an institutional level and assessing the needs of diverse populations within a majority group. Keylan is also engaging in several forms of professional development, such as working to complete her master’s degree in Sociology with UC and participating in the American Evaluation Association.
View Full Profile