BUTTERFIELD, SHERRI-ANN P.

Immigration; Race and Ethnic Relations; Urban Sociology; Qualitative and Comparative Historical Methodologies.

Current Research:  Constructions of racial and ethnic identities among second generation immigrants.  Comparative analysis of racial and ethnic identification in the United States, Europe, and Canada. The effects of socioeconomic status on relations between and among people of color.

CANTWELL, ANNE-MARIE
Archaeology; North American Indigenous Peoples; Development of Complex Societies.

Current Research: The relationship between mortuary rituals and the development of complex societies in the American Midwest in the first millennium A.D. The relationship between Alonquian peoples and Europeans in the 17th Century. The repatriation of human remains and ritual paraphernalia from archaeological sites to indigenous peoples. The use of the archaeological past by various groups as part of the modern politics of identity.

Courses Taught: Introduction to Physical Anthropology & Archaeology (Anthropology 203); Indians of North America (Anthropology 207); Archaeology of the Old World (Anthropology 367); New World Archaeology (Anthropology 369).

COHEN, IRA J.
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory; History of Social Thought; Sociology of Modernity, Sociology of Solitude.

Current Research: A theory of solitude that makes contributions on the following levels: fundamental concepts of social action and praxis; the culturally specific nature of solitude in modernity; modern pathologies of solitude including alienation, anomie, egoism and loneliness.

Courses taught: American Society (formerly Introduction to Sociology 2),Classical Social Theory, Contemporary Social Theory, Honors College Seminars (Newark), Graduate Liberal Studies (Newark) The Modern Mind; Graduate Program in Sociology (New Brunswick) Graduate Contemporary Social Theory.

FERGUSON, R. BRIAN
Cultural Anthropology; The Anthropology of War; Ethnic Conflict; State-Tribe Interaction; Policing; Puerto Rico.

Current Research: The anthropology of war, including identity-based conflicts, collapsed states, the environmental dimensions of cultural conflicts, and biological approaches to war. The application of anthropological theories to contemporary understandings of violent conflict and public policy. Urbanization and the cultural history of the New York City Police.

Courses Taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology 204); Culture and Crime (Criminal Justice 307); Tribal Warfare (Anthropology 420).

HARTJEN, CLAYTON A.
Comparative/International Criminology; Juvenile Crime and Justice in India.

Current Research: Professor Hartjen is currently writing a book to be titled The Victimization of Children and Young People Across the Globe which synthesizes and summarizes information from countries around the world. (with S. Priyadarsini)

Courses Taught: Introduction to Criminal Justice (Criminal Justice 201); Corrections (Criminal Justice 204).

HINTON, ALEXANDER
Cultural Anthropology; Self and Emotion; Violence and Genocide; Globalization; Cambodia and Southeast Asia.

Current Research: The origins of political violence and genocide. Comparative analysis of genocide in Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda.

Courses Taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology 204); Anthropology of Power (Anthropology 306); Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia (Anthropology 353); Seminar in Anthropology (Anthropology 492).

KARAFIN, DIANA (FORTHCOMING)

LEW, JAMIE
Sociology of Education; Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Comparative and International Education.

Current Research: School achievement and identities of children of immigrants. Race relations and cultural contact in educational institutions of urban and suburban contexts. Social network analysis
of immigrant communities and ethnic enclaves. Comparative study of education policy on immigration and globalization.

Courses Taught: Sociology of Education (Sociology 345); Topics in Sociology: Asian American Studies (Sociology 201); Globalization, International Migration, & Contemporary Cities (Urban Systems, 617); Immigration Then and Now: Culture, Race, Politics of Identity (American Studies, 510); Research Methods: Doctoral Seminar (Urban Systems, 700)

PRIYADARSINI
Research Interests: Research Interests include the Indian Family, International and Comparative Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, and International Youth Victimization.

Current Projects: Professor Priyadarsini has completed a large scale survey of all publications on youth crime and juvenile justice published around the world over the past quarter century. She is continuing analyses of information obtained from this research and is currently writing a book to be titled The Victimization of Children and Young People Across the Globe which synthesizes and summarizes information from countries around the world. (with Clayton A. Hartjen).   She is also completing a study of Indian women at the turn of the Twentieth Century

SCHOCK, KURT
Comparative Political Sociology; Social Movements; Political and Ethnic Conflict; Globalization- from-Below.

Current Research: Nonviolent challenges to authoritarian regimes in Africa, Asia, & Latin America. Nonviolent action as a strategy and mechanism for social change. Changing repertoires of rebellion in the less-developed world. Social and political origins of ethno-political rebellion.

Courses Taught: Social Research, I (Sociology 301); Social Research, II (Sociology 302); Social Protest and Revolution (Sociology 307); Social Movements (Sociology 308); Political Sociology (Sociology 346).

SODIKOFF, GENESE
Research Interests: Political ecology; conservation and development; colonialism; labor regimes; biotic and cultural extinction; human-animal relations; green capitalism

Current Research: The imagery and politics of ex situ conservation, particularly the captive breeding of endangered fauna. The relationship between species extinction and cultural extinction (such as language death and obsolescent traditions).

Courses Taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthro 204); Environmental Anthropology (was Cultural Ecology, Anthro 350); Medical Anthropology (Anthro 309); Peoples and Cultures of Africa (Anthro 316); Seminar: Anthropology of Development (Anthro 492); Human-Animal Relations (Anthro Topics 425)