Faculty
Tenure-Track Faculty
Littisha Bates
Associate Professor (PhD, Arizona State University), Sociology
147 ARTSCI
Littisha Bates CV
Danielle Bessett
Professor (PhD, New York University), Sociology
206C ARTSCI
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
Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown
Asst Professor, Sociology
260C ARTSCI
Steve L Carlton-Ford
Professor (PhD, University of Minnesota), Sociology
260D ARTSCI
Steve Carlton-Ford CV
Erynn Masi de Casanova
Professor of Sociology & Head of the Sociology Department, (PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center) , Sociology
260B ARTSCI
Erynn Masi de Casanova CV
Annulla Linders
Professor, Sociology
206D ARTSCI
Annulla Linders CV
Oneya Fennell Okuwobi
Asst Professor, Sociology
260E ARTSCI
Jeffrey M. Timberlake
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies (PhD, University of Chicago), Sociology
261C ARTSCI
Jeff Timberlake CV
Educator Faculty
Katherine Castiello Jones
Undergraduate Program Director (PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Sociology , Sociology
260A ARTSCI
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.
Visiting Faculty
Lindsey Louise Aldrich
Asst Professor - Visiting, A&S Sociology
206A ARTSCI
Adjunct Faculty
Amy Cassedy
Research Associate, Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Assistant Professor-Adjunct, Sociology, Sociology
1023 Crosley Tower
Harold F Dawson
Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology
Crosley Tower
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.
C. James Park
Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology
Crosley Tower
Marcus Christopher Vines
Instructor - Adjunct, Sociology
Crosley Tower
Affiliate Faculty
Anima Adjepong
Associate Professor & Department Head, Sociology
3302 French Hall
Michael L. Benson
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate, Sociology
Francis T. Cullen
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus , Sociology
660-O Teachers College
Ashley M Currier
Professor, Sociology
5118 CLIFTCT
Ashley Currier is a sociologist who studies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizing in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, and South Africa.
Ben H. Feldmeyer
Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology
660-R Teachers College
Jan Marie Fritz
Professor, Sociology
6213 DAA Addition
Amy C Lind
School of Public and International Affairs, Sociology
CLIFTCT
Dr. Lind has lived, worked, and conducted research in Latin America for over 40 years, including in Ecuador and Bolivia, where she has held Fulbright awards, and in Peru, 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. Her current research focuses on international solidarity in socialist Chile (1970-1973), military authoritarianism (1973-1990), and political memory in postdictatorship Chile.
She has held distinguished visiting professor positions in Ecuador, Bolivia and Switzerland and has delivered invited lectures at universities, governmental and non-governmental institutions around the world. Over the years, she has served in elected and appointed leadership positions in the International Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association, and National Women's Studies Association. Currently she is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics (2022-2025) and a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (2019-2025).
Prior to joining SPIA in August 2024, Dr. Lind was Mary Ellen Heintz Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). She has held administrative positions at UC, including as Taft Research Center Director (2019-2024), WGSS Department Head (2015-2018), and Provost Fellow (2017-2018). She also holds faculty affiliations in Sociology; Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures; the Latin American, Latinx, Indigenous and Caribbean Studies Program; and the School of Planning/DAAP.
Hexuan Liu
Assoc Professor, Sociology
650E Teachers College
Holly Y McGee
Associate Professor, Sociology
ARTSCI
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.
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
Leila Rodriguez
Senior Research Associate, Sociology
450 Braunstein Hall
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.
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Associate Professor in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Sociology
3314 French Hall
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.
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
Emeriti Faculty
Jan L. Bending
Professor Emerita, Sociology
Paula J Dubeck
Professor Emeritus, Sociology
T. David Evans
Professor Emeritus, Sociology
David J Maume
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Sociology
Dave Maume CV
Daisy Quarm
Professor Emerita, Sociology, Sociology
Gerald S Reid
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Sociology
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.
Staff
Amanda Rose Hogeland
Business Manager A&S Staffing Unit 5, Sociology
3420 French Hall
Nicole Kaffenberger
Program Director, Sociology
3428D French Hall