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.

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: Comparative analysis of juvenile crime and justice. Comparative analysis of delinquency laws and correctional/judicial systems. Cross-national patterns of delinquent behavior.

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

HERMAN, MAX
Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnic Relations; Social Movements.

Current Research: Spatial aspects of racial and ethnic inequality and violence. Neighborhood mobilization in response to proposed urban renewal plans.

Courses Taught: Introduction to Sociology, I (Sociology 201); Race and Ethnicity in Multicultural Societies (Sociology 316); Suburbs, Cities, and Inner Cities (Sociology 321).

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).

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).

SISKIND, JANET
Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Indigenous People of Latin America.

Current Research: Social class in New England. Upper-Class consciousness in the transformation from mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism.

Courses Taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology 204); Anthropology Through Film (Anthropology 319); Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (Anthropology 352).