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Faculty and Staff

Armando Anzellini

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Tennessee, 2022
Bioarchaeology, Decolonizing Bioarchaeology, Embodiment of Inequality, Mortuary Practices, Archaeological Sciences, Archaeological Theory, Forensic Anthropology/Archaeology, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Stable Isotope Analysis, Quantitative Methods

Kelly Austin

Kelly Austin
Professor of Sociology,​ Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D. in Sociology, North Carolina State University, 2012
Political Economy, Global Health, the Environment, Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods

Jose Bejarano

Visiting Assistant Professor

David G. Casagrande

David Casagrande Lehigh University
Professor of Anthropology, Joint Appointment with the Environmental Initiative
PhD in Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2002
Cognition, information ecology, disaster risk reduction

Hugo Ceron-Anaya

Hugo Ceron-Anaya
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Essex, 2009.
Privilege / Inequalities; Class, Race, and Gender; Latin America; Latin@s; Social Theory.

LaToya Council

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies
PhD, University of Southern California, 2022
Race, gender, class; work and family; health and wellness; intersectionality; qualitative methods

Samantha Fox

Samantha Fox, Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2018
Urban anthropology, visual and media anthropology, post-socialism, late industrialism, infrastructure, energy politics

Heather Beth Johnson

Heather Beth Johnson
Associate Professor of Sociology​, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Director, Eckardt Scholars
Ph.D., Northeastern University, 2001
Class and race in the contemporary United States; ideology, children and childhood, sociology of education; intergenerational transmission of wealth inequality.

Amy Johnson

Amy Johnon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2023

Danielle Lindemann

Professor of Sociology
PhD in Sociology, Columbia University, 2010
Gender, sexuality, culture, deviance, and work

Allison Mickel

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Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director of Global Studies
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Stanford University, 2016
Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Labor, Middle East, Politics of Representation, Narrative, Public Archaeology, Tourism, Science and Technology Studies, Social Network Analysis

Ziad Munson

Lehigh University Sociology and Anthropology - Munson
Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002
Social movements; sociology of religion; civil society; sociology of the Middle East; political violence.

Mark Noble

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Environmental Sociology, Global Health, Political Sociology, Quantitative Research Methods

Jessica Peng

Assistant Professor

Jerilynne Stewart

Department coordinator

Dustin Stoltz

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cognitive Science
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2020
Economic Sociology; Stratification; Culture and Cognition; Networks and Organizations; Mixed-Methods; Computational Social Science; Natural Language Processing

Bruce Whitehouse

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Brown University, 2007
Cultural anthropology; sub-Saharan Africa; globalization; the state; migration; transnationalism; marriage; medical anthropology; Islam.

Yuping Zhang

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Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Educational stratification; market reform and gender inequality in China; cultural studies and media; gender and development; ritual theory.

Emeritus

John B. Gatewood

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Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978
Socially distributed cognition; Consensus analysis; Cultural ecology (especially of fisheries); Tourism; Applied anthropology; Research methods

Roy Herrenkohl

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Judith N. Lasker

Professor Emerita of Sociology and Health, Medicine, & Society
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University, 1976

Robert E. Rosenwein

Professor Emeritus

David B. Small

Lehigh University Sociology and Anthropology - David B. Small
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1983
State formation; complex societies; theoretical approaches in archaeology; economic archaeology; historical ecology; Mesoamerican archaeology.

Nicola Tannenbaum

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Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1982
Cultural anthropology; economic anthropology; religion; ethnography; Southeast Asia with an emphasis on Thailand.