New Academic Faculty and Staff, 2005-06
The College of Social Science welcomed many new academic faculty and staff to the MSU community this fall.
- Nwando Achebe (Achebe@msu.edu), Associate Professor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: African history, West African history, women and gender history, oral history - DeBrenna Agbenyiga (debrenna.agbenyiga@ssc.msu.edu), Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Scholarly focus: International development, community organization and administration, organizational culture - Peter Alegi (alegi@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: Africa, Southern Africa - Ravi Bhavnani (bhavnani@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Scholarly focus: Asia/ international violence
Adrian J. Blow (blowa@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: Marriage and family therapy - Pierre Sean Brotherton (sean.brotherton@ssc.msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College of Human Medicine
Scholarly focus: Medical anthropology; biopolitics of health; Caribbean (Cuba & Jamaica) - Steven Chermak (chermak@msu.edu), Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Scholarly focus: the media and crime; terrorism including right wing extremism, recruitment, media presentations, and cross-cultural patterns; community policing, particularly as it relates to responses to violent crime. - Michael E. Conlin (conlinmi@msu.edu), Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Scholarly focus: Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization and Public Economics - Lisa Cook (lisacook@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and James Madison
Scholarly focus: Growth and development; economics of technology and innovation; financial institutions and markets; economic history; economics of transition - Denise Demetriou (demetri1@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: Ancient history - Stacy Dickert-Conlin (dickertc@msu.edu), Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Scholarly focus: Health, economic demography and aging and public economics - Jualynne Elizabeth Dodson (dodsonj2@msu.edu), Professor, Department of Sociology
Scholarly focus: Africa-based religious traditions - Emine Evered (evered@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: Middle East, Islamic world, late-Ottoman empire - Kyle Evered (ktevered@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Scholarly focus: political geography, Middle East - Walter Hawthorne (hawthorn@ohio.edu), Associate Professor, Department of History
- Peter B. Knupfer (knupfer@msu.edu), Associate Professor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: Nineteenth century American politics and political culture; humanities technology - Adrienne Lebas (aml75@imap.columbia.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Scholarly focus: Africa - Mara Leichtman (mara.leichtman@ssc.msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Scholarly focus area: Religious and ethnic transformations through migration; conversion to Islam; anthropology and population studies; West Africa; the Middle East and North Africa; United States (Muslim institutions in Detroit, Michigan). - Sabrina McCormick (mccor124@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy Program
Scholarly focus: Health, environment, development, social movements, and their interrelationships - Kathleen M. Mendoza (mendoz27@msu.edu), Specialist-Head Teacher, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: Child development - Alesia Montgomery (montg143@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and MAES
Scholarly focus: Comparative ethnography of the meanings and impact of black flight (in the form of daily excursions and residential shifts) from Detroit and South L.A. within the context of global flows of people, capital, jobs and images. - John Mooradian (mooradi1@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Scholarly focus: Family therapy, work with youth, racial inequity in service delivery. - Carlos Pereira (pereir12@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Scholarly focus: Latin America
Nadia L. Perez (pereznad@msu.edu), Specialist-Head Teacher, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: Child development, Reggio Emilia teaching methods - Jesenia Pizarro (pizarros@msu.edu), Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Scholarly focus: the social ecology of homicide and corrections policy, violent crime, homicide victimization and perpetration, corrections policy, international and transnational crime, and how varying countries successfully deal with their crime problems. - Laura Reese (reesela@msu.edu), Professor, Department of Political Science
Scholarly focus: Urban politics/economic development
Christopher M. Robinson (robin621@msu.edu), Specialist-Head Teacher, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: Child development - Zakia Salime (salime@msu.edu), Instructor, Department of Sociology
Scholarly focus: Global socioeconomic, cultural and policy issues - Lorrie A. Schartow (scharto3@msu.edu), Specialist-Head Teacher, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: Child development, family studies - Benjamin Smith (bts20@cam.ac.uk), Instructor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: Politics and religion in 19th and 20th century Mexico - Christie P. Surato (surato@msu.edu), Specialist-Head Teacher, Department of Family and Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: Child development, cognitive impairment, autism - Carl Taylor (taylor36@msu.edu), Professor, Department of Sociology, MSU Extension, and Senior Fellow with University Outreach and Engagement
Scholarly focus: Urban communities, youth culture, and gangs - William Terrill (terrillw@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Scholarly focus: the police use of force and the continuum of force - Tina Timm (timmt@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Department of Family & Child Ecology
Scholarly focus: family therapy, sex therapy - Ruth Waddell (waddel10@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Scholarly focus: developing new analytical methods for profiling illicit synthetic drugs based on the impurities present, developing & applying statistical and chemometric procedures to classify samples, and the utilization of hyphenated analytical techniques for forensic applications. - Erica M. Windler (windler@msu.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of History
Scholarly focus: History of Brazil, Latin America, childhood, the family, and gender
