Graduate Faculty

Jacqueline Urla, Professor and Chair of Department, B.A., Michigan, 1978; M.A., California at Berkley, 1980; Ph.D, 1987.

Jason Kamilar, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Ph.D., Stony Brook, 2006

Lynnette Arnold, Assistant Professor, B.A. Mills College, 2009; M.A. California at Santa Barbara, 2011; Ph.D, California at Santa Barbara, 2016.

Sonya Atalay, Associate Professor, B.A., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1991; M.A. California at Berkeley, 1998; Ph.D., Berkeley 2003.

Felicity Aulino, Assistant Professor, B.A. Harvard, 2000, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004, Ph.D., Harvard, 2012.

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Professor, B.A., Virginia State, 1994; M.A., William and Mary, 2001; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2004.

Nicholas Caverly, Assistant Professor, A.B. Michigan, 2011, M.A., The New School for Social Research, 2011; Ph.D, Michigan, 2020.

Todd Disotell, Professor, B.A., Cornell, 1985; M.A., Harvard, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Achsah Dorsey, Assistant Professor, B.A. PennState, 2011; M.A., Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 2014; Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill, 2020.

Krista M. Harper, Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1992; M.A., California at Santa Cruz, 1994; Ph.D., 1999.

Julie Hemment, Professor, B.A., Cambridge, England, 1990; M.A., Cornell, 1997; Ph.D., 2000.

Brigitte M. Holt, Professor, B.A. Southern Illinois at Carbondale, 1984; M.A., 1987; Ph.D., Missouri at Columbia, 1999.

Eric Johnson, Lecturer, Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1993..

Elizabeth L. Krause, Professor, B.J., Missouri at Columbia, 1984; M.A., Oregon State, 1992; Ph.D., Arizona, 1999.

Thomas L. Leatherman, Professor, B.A., Tulane, 1975; M.A., Arkansas, 1978; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1987.

Ventura R. Pérez, Associate Professor, B.A., Iowa, 1997; M.A., Massachusetts, 2000; Ph.D., 2005.

Jennifer Sandler, Senior Lecturer and Director of the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation, B.A. Grinnell College, 1998; M.A., Wisconsin, 2008.

Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Professor, B.S.N., Bloomsburg, 1983; M.A., New York at Albany, 1987; Ph.D., 1991.

Haeden Stewart, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of Toronto, 2009; M.A., Univ. Chicago, 2011; Ph.D., 2019.

Amanda Walker Johnson, Associate Professor, B.A., Grinnell, 1998; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2000; Ph.D., 2004.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Emiliana Cruz, Adjunct Assistant Professor, B.A. Evergree State, 2001; M.A., Univ. Texas Austin, 2004; Ph.D, 2011

Stephen King, Adjunct Lecturer, B.A. George Washington Univ, 1969; M.A., UMass Amherst 1995; Ph.D, 2003

Neil Silberman, Adjunct Lecturer of Anthropology, B.A./B.S., Wesleyan, 1972. Center for Heritage and Society, Amherst, Mass.

Faculty Emeriti

John W. Cole, Professor Emeritus (2000)

Ralph Faulkingham, Professor Emeritus (2009)

Laurie R. Godfrey, Professor Emerita( 2012)

Alfred Hudson, Associate Professor Emeritus (1998)

Arthur Keene, Professor Emeritus (2013)

Mitchell T. Mulholland, Research Professor Emeritus

Robert W. Paynter, Professor Emeritus (2015)

Oriol Pi-Sunyer, Professor Emeritus (2009)

Donald A. Proulx, Professor Emeritus (2002)

Zdenek Salzmann, Professor Emeritus (1989)

Alan Swedlund, Professor Emeritus (2006)

R. Brooke Thomas, Professor Emeritus (2003)

H. Martin Wobst, Professor Emeritus (2010)