David R. Novack

Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 2
540-458-8792
novackd@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: college students’ attitudes toward gender issues, sexual behaviors, gender responsibility, and sexual assault and rape.

Alison Kay Bell

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Newcomb 20
540-458-8638
bella@wlu.edu
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Research Interests: using diverse sources – including archaeological remains, vernacular architecture, oral histories, and historic documents – to ask anthropological questions about 18th-and 19th-century communities in Virginia; particularly interested in questions of consumption, identity, individual agency and structural power.

Leslie G. Cintron

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 22
540-458-8791
cintronl@wlu.edu
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Research Interests: cultural sociology, organizations, national culture and national identity, heritage studies, the study of work-life balance, generational analysis, cities and regions.

Jonathan Eastwood

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 34A
540-458-8777
eastwoodj@wlu.edu

Research Interests: nationalism and national identity (with a particular focus on Latin American cases); sociology of religion; sociology of literature; Venezuelan politics and society

Laura J. Galke

Staff Archaeologist and Instructor
Liberty Hall Farmhouse
540-458-8574
galkel@wlu.edu
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Research Interests: the potential of historical archaeology to support descendant communities, computer-aided spatial analysis, and the potential of material culture to reflect and shape ideology.

Sascha L. Goluboff

Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Newcomb Hall 36E
540-458-8807
goluboffs@wlu.edu
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Research Interests: intersections of gender, religion, ritual, and ethnicity/race; ethnographic research on Jewish religious revival in Moscow, Russia; Mountain Jewish death rituals and lamentation in Northeastern Azerbaijan; and Black church culture in Southwestern Virginina.

Krzysztof Jasiewicz

Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 5
540-458-8790
jasiewiczk@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: election and voting behavior in Poland; political sociology

John McDaniel

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology


mcdanielj@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: publications in archaeology, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology; primarily research primarily oriented to historic site archaeology.

Bernard K. Means

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Newcomb Hall 31A
540-458-8304
meansb@wlu.edu
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Research Interests: archaeology of Northeastern North America; social, behavioral and ideological factors underlying the human use of space; cross-cultural studies of village spatial and social organizations; research potential of museum collections; New Deal (Depression-era) archaeology; Monongahela tradition; directional statistics and analysis of mortuary and other archaeological data; analysis of the built environment using archaeological data; settlement and community pattern studies

O. Kendall White, Jr.

Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 35
549-458-8793
whitek@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: sociology of religion, social movements, social organization, social psychology, political sociology, race and ethnic relations

Harvey Markowitz

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
Newcomb Hall 36A
540-458-8214
markowitzh@wlu.edu

Research Interests: inter-relationships among American Indian religions, landscapes, cultures, histories, and identities.

Karen Lyle

Administrative Assistant
Newcomb Hall 6
540-458-8798
lylek@wlu.edu