Faculty

Sharon Paterson: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Sociology, Specializations: Inequality, Work/Occupations, and Higher Education

Arthur Scarritt:  Vita

Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: The organization of society perpetuates racial inequalities, and strategies for overcoming these unequal relations.

Rebecca L. Som Castellano: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: A rural sociologist and agrifood scholar, Dr. Som Castellano studies environmental and agri-food system change, including how stratification and inequality influence experiences with the environment. Current research focuses on 1) well-being among Latina farm workers in Southwestern Idaho, particularly experiences with pesticides and ecological knowledge; 2) land use change and farmland preservation in the Treasure Valley; 3) dynamics of gender and labor among wildland firefighters.

Marty Orr: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Social theory, inequality, social movements, the environment, and the mass media.

Dora Ramirez: Vita
Office Hours:   By Appointment

Research Interests: Nation-building while examining the internalization of socio-political global effects and the influence of colonization among Latinx and Indigenous populations in the United States and the U.S./Mexico border.

Raul S. Casarez Vita 

Office Hours by Appointment

Research Interest: Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Inequality, Boundary Making, Intergroup Relationships, Identity Formation

Soulit Chacko Vita

Office Hours by Appointment

Research Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration; Transnationalism; Work; Gender & Sexuality; Body and Embodiment; Ethnography; Asian & South Asian Diaspora

Sarah Mawhirter: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Sociology, Gender Studies, Focuses on: Critical Higher Education, Embodied Research Methods, Carceral and Mass Incarceration Activists’ Studies, Higher Education in Prison, and Transformative Criminal Justice Law and Public Policy.

Desiree Brunette: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Sociology of the family, Sociology of the Sex, Sociology of Religion, and Medical Sociology,

Michael Kreiter: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Inequality; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies: Popular Culture; Neoliberalism; Gender; Intersectionality; Mixed Methods

Carissa Wolf: Vita
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research interests: Media Studies, Journalism, Mass media and society, Media Literacy, Sociology of health and medicine, Disability studies, Fringe and extremist groups, Public sociology, Sociology of Food

Julia Broderick: Vita
Office Hours:  By Appointment

Research interests: : inclusion, education, public education, and sociological concepts