FACULTY
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University offers a supportive environment for undergraduate and Masters level students who wish to pursue training in sociology and anthropology. Our accomplished faculty place a strong emphasis on teaching and mentoring while also striving to maintain an active research agenda. The curriculum is designed to provide our students with a wide range of options in pursuit of their academic and professional goals and interests, while also providing solid training in core foundational aspects of the two disciplines. Students learn both qualitative and quantitative research methods and are exposed to a variety of subfields and theoretical perspectives.
Faculty
core strengths include: social movements and social change, inequality,
stratification, deviance, cultural diversity, social interaction and group
processes, migration, world systems/globalization, social institutions (religion, family,
work and occupations, health care, politics and the economy), criminology,
gerontology, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and advanced statistical analysis.
Anthropology Faculty
Nick Freidin, Professor
DPhil Archaeology University of Oxford (Keble College)
Director of Summer Archaeology Field School
Brian Hoey, Associate Professor
PhD University of Michigan
Migration, Identity Politics, Place and Personhood; Health; Ethnographic Methods
Board Member of Oral History of Appalachia Project
Anders Linde-Laursen, Professor
PhD Lund University, Sweden, and
PhD, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Department Chairperson
Sociology Faculty
Elena Ermolaeva, Associate Professor
PhD Johns Hopkins
Comparative ethnic relations; Stratification; Gender
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Richard Garnett, Associate Professor
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Social Movements; Holocaust; Genocide; Social Theory
Markus Hadler, Associate Professor
PhD University of Graz, Austria
Political sociology, inequality, research methods
Marty Laubach, Associate Professor
PhD Indiana University
Religion; Social Psychology; Science & Knowledge; Work & Organizations
Frederick Roth, Associate Professor
PhD University of Connecticut
Criminology; Deviance; Juvenile Delinquency
Donna Sullivan, Assistant Professor
PhD University of Massachusetts Boston
Social Gerontology; Family; Media; Social Problems
Director of Graduate Studies
