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Department Chair and Staff
Dr. Nicholas Recker
Chair, Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Community Development, Organizational Structure, Social Capital, the Creative Class, Health, Crime
[email protected] 303-615-1043
Jill Scott, M.A.
Laboratory Coordinator & Anthropology Adjunct Faculty
Specialty Areas: Biological Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Human Biological Variation, Neandertals, Early Modern Humans, Homo naledi, Craniomandibular Anatomy
[email protected] 303-605-5806Anthropology Faculty
Dr. Joseph Feldman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Specialty Areas: Political Anthropology, Museums, Transitional Justice, Applied Anthropology, Peru, Latin America
[email protected] 303-615-0914
Dr. Rebecca Forgash
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Ethnography Laboratory; Specialty Areas: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Transnational Intimacy and Marriage, US Military and Militarization, Globalization, Language and Identity, East Asia, Japan, Okinawa, Guatemala
[email protected] 303-615-0425
Dr. Michael Kolb
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Archaeology Laboratory; Specialty Areas: Archaeology, Complex Societies, Monumental Architecture, Archaeology of Power and Ritual, Europe, Oceania
[email protected] 303-615-0708
Dr. Jade Luiz
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Specialty Areas: Historical Archaeology, Museum Studies, Brothel Archaeology, 19th-Century Urbanism, Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Identity
[email protected] 303-615-0925
Dr. Sanaa Riaz
Professor of Anthropology
Specialty Areas: Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Educational Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Historical Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Middle East and Islamic World, South Asia, Pakistan
[email protected] 303-615-1694
Dr. Rich Sandoval
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Specialty Areas: Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology, Interaction and Multimodality, Language Documentation/Revitalization, Indigenous American Signed Languages, Classic Mayan Writing/Art, Ch’orti’ (Mayan) Language, Arapaho Language, Spanish-English Contact in the Southwest
[email protected] 303-615-1697
Dr. Michala Stock, D-ABFA
Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director, Human Identification Laboratory; Diplomate - American Board of Forensic Anthropology; Specialty Areas: Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Skeletal Growth and Development, Intraspecific Variation, Sexual Dimorphism, Quantitative Methods
[email protected] 303-605-7433
Dr. Todd Yokley
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Biological Anthropology Laboratory; Specialty Areas: Biological Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Human Biological Variation, Neandertals, Nasofacial Anatomy
[email protected] 303-615-1339Sociology Faculty
Dr. Karam Adibifar
Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Family Studies, Drugs and Society, Social Theory and Social Psychology, Middle Eastern Culture
[email protected] 303-615-1693
Dr. Desiré Anastasia
Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Body Modification, Yoga and Symbolic Interactionism, Intimate Partner Violence, Feminist Theory, Criminology, Deviance and Social Control
[email protected] 303-615-0120
Dr. Ting Jiang
Associate Dean for Curriculum, Accreditation, and Program Review & Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Globalization, Welfare States, Social Inequality, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Chinese Society, China's One Belt, One Road Initiative, Quantitative Methods, Spatial Analysis, Survey Research
[email protected] 303-615-0638
Dr. Melissa Monson
Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Gender, Ethnicity, Mass Media, Video Games
[email protected] 303-615-0882
Dr. Gesemia Nelson
Professor of Sociology
Director, Sociology Computer Laboratory; Specialty Areas: Inequality, Globalization, Methods, Survey
[email protected] 303-615-0924
Dr. Brian O'Hara
Associate Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Sports, Recreation, Leisure, Tourism, Qualitative Methods, Community and Urban Studies, Culture
[email protected] 303-605-7233
Dr. David Piacenti
Associate Professor of Sociology
Specialty Areas: Globalization, Immigration and Migration, Sociological Theory, Anthropological Theory, Theory of Science and Knowledge, Qualitative Methods, Racial and Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination, Environmental Sociology
[email protected] 303-615-0997Adjunct Faculty
Anthropology Adjunct Faculty
The best way to contact adjunct faculty is via e-mail.
Dr. Katie Bailey
Mr. Josef Garrett
Dr. Su Il Kim
Dr. Kathryn Reusch
Mr. Gary Scott
Sociology Adjunct Faculty
The best way to contact adjunct faculty is via e-mail.
Emeritus Faculty
Tadini Bacigalupi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Kenneth M. Keller, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Anthropology
Jonathan Kent, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Anthropology
Aileen F. Lucero, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Linda Marangia, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Bernard Rosen, Associate Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Rae Shevalier, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Martha L. Shwayder, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Sheldon Steinhauser, B.S., Associate Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Roger C. Wade, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus–Sociology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Campus Location:
Central Classroom (CN) 106
Mailing Address:
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Campus Box 28, P.O. Box 173362
Denver, Colorado 80217-3362