Faculty and Staff

Debra Schleef Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

Tracy Citeroni Associate Professor of Sociology
Timothy Crippen Professor of Sociology
John Cross Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Eric Gable Associate Professor of Anthropology
Margaret Huber Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
Jason James Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Kristin Marsh Associate Professor of Sociology
Leslie Martin Assistant Professor of Sociology
Joan Toms Olson Associate Professor of Sociology

Dora Minor Department Secretary

Tracy B. Citeroni, Associate Professor of Sociology
received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of specialization are the sociology of ageing, the sociology of health and illness, and qualitative research methods. Her other teaching and research interests include gender and Latin America, particularly Mexico. She teaches social problems, social gerontology, medical sociology, and the sociology of gender, qualitative research methods, the sociology of the body, and the sociology of food.

*Office Monroe 302A, telephone (540) 654-1502, email tciteron@umw.edu . Top

Timothy A. Crippen, Professor of Sociology
received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. His principal interests are in evolutionary behavioral science and social theory. In addition to teaching courses in these areas, Dr. Crippen has published the results of his research and scholarship in various American and European professional journals. He is also the co-author of Crisis in Sociology: The Need for Darwin (1999, Transaction Publishers; 2001, paperback release).

*Office Monroe 308B, telephone (540) 654-1503, email tcrippen@umw.edu . Top

John Cross, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
received his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA. He is visiting UMW after teaching in Cairo, Egypt, Mexico City, New York, Texas, California, and Ohio. He has researched street markets in Egypt and Mexico, drugs dealers in Harlem, New York, and pirates (of videos & music, not the other kind unfortunately) in Tepito, Mexico. His publications include Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City, published by Stanford University Press (1998), and Street Entrepreneurs: People, Politics and Place in Local and Global Context, co-edited with Alfonso Morales, and published by Routledge Press (2007).

*Office Monroe 306A, telephone (540) 654-1637, email jcross@umw.edu. Top

Eric Gable, Associate Professor of Anthropology
received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Virginia. His teaching and research interests include political anthropology, West Africa, and Indonesia. His book, The New History in an Old Museum, written in collaboration with Richard Handler, was published by Duke University Press in 1997.

*Office Monroe 308C, telephone (540) 654-1504, email egable@umw.edu . Top

Margaret Williamson Huber, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
received her D.Phil. in social anthropology from Oxford University. Her research and teaching interests include gender, symbolic systems, native North America (especially the Southeast), and Oceania (especially Melanesia). She teaches courses in cultural anthropology, religion, Precolumbian Mesoamerica, symbolism, gender, and economic anthropology. Her book, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death , was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2003.

*Office Monroe 306C, telephone (540) 654-1499, email mhuber@umw.edu . Top

Jason James, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include nationalism, ethnicity, collective memory, socialism and post-socialism, and Germany. He teaches courses in collective memory, the anthropology of Europe, urban anthropology, and the anthropology of preservation.

*Office Monroe 304F, telephone (540) 654-1169, email jjames@umw.edu. Top

Kristin Marsh, Associate Professor of Sociology
received her Ph.D. in sociology at Emory University. Her areas of specialization include political economy and political sociology, with her research focussing on comparative processes of conflict and compromise in revolutionary social movements. She teaches principles of sociology, social stratification, political sociology, social movements, and global inequality.

*Office Monroe 306B, telephone (540) 654-1501, email kmarsh@umw.edu . Top

Leslie Martin, Assistant Professor of Sociology
received her Ph.D. from Emory University, and an MA in Urban Studies from Temple University. Her areas of specialization include urban sociology, race/ethnic relations, and sociology of education. Her research focusses on issues of neighborhood and community change. She teaches social problems, urban sociology, sociology of education, and cross-culatural education, which she teaches in the College of Graduate and Professional Studies.

*Office Monroe 304K, telephone (540) 654-1498, email lmartin@umw.edu . Top

Joan Toms Olson, Associate Professor of Sociology
received her Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. Her research interests and most recent publication focus on the social psychology of global distributive justice. She teaches courses in family sociology, social problems, criminology, juvenile delinquency, and American society.

*Office Monroe 308E, telephone (540) 654-1506, email jolson@umw.edu . Top

Debra J. Schleef, Associate Professor of Sociology (Department Chair)
received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her research interests involve class, race, and gender perspectives on occupational socialization and professional education. Her teaching areas include quantitative research methods, inequality, the sociology of law, racial and ethnic minorities, popular culture, and work and occupations. Her book Managing Elites: Professional Socialization in Law and Business Schools, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2006.
On leave Spring 2008.

*Office Monroe 308A, telephone (540) 654- 1505, email dschleef@umw.edu . Top

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Dora Minor, secretary of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology , has been at Mary Washington College since 1978. She grew up in Spotsylvania County. Before coming to the College, she worked for Thomas Jefferson Institute for the Study of Religious Freedom. She was one of the first five academic secretaries hired at Mary Washington College. The College voted her Employee of the Year in 1995.

* Office Monroe 307, telephone (540) 654-1037, email dminor@umw.edu. Top