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Sociology and Criminology Graduate Program

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Name
Email
Areas of Interest
Laura Adarve ladarve@udel.edu
Dana Alvare dalvare@udel.edu Race and Gender Stratification; Family and Child Abuse; U.S. legal history with respect to Black Citizenship; Intersection of race with the death penalty.
Jenifer Bianchi jenifer@udel.edu Marginalized groups; Disabilities
Emily Bonistall ejb@udel.edu Race, Class and Gender on Violence Against Women.
John Brent jbrent@udel.edu Classical and Contemporary Theory; Mix-methods Research; The Cultural Dynamics of Crime.
Deeanna Button dmbutton@udel.edu Victimization - adult violence against children; partner violence; cycle of abuse
Darryl Chambers dchamber@udel.edu
Melody Cotterill cotteril@udel.edu Hazards; Risk assessment; Collective behavior
Nena Craven ncraven@udel.edu Gender
Kevin Daly kevdaly@udel.edu Deviance and drugs; gangs/hate groups; CDAS, especially heroine
Katie Farina kfarina@udel.edu Victimization; Intimate Partner Violence; Perceptions and Stereotypes of Race, Ethnicity, Gender; Sexual Orientation in Law Enforcement; Situational Crime Prevention.
Ashley Farmer akfarmer@udel.edu
Kimberly Gill kgill@udel.edu Disasters; Race, Class, and Gender
Megan Gosse mgosse@udel.edu
Jennifer Griffin jgriffin@udel.edu Deviance; Law and Society
M. Kristen Hefner mkhefner@udel.edu Gender; Prison; Criminal Justice System
Dan Howard dhoward@udel.edu Mental Health and Criminality; Geography and Crime
Rachel Kallmyer trixie@udel.edu Gender and the Criminal Justice System
Kathleen Kelley kdkelley@udel.edu Gender and the Criminal Justice system
Erin Kerrison kerrison@udel.edu Institutional inequality; Crime and the Criminal Justice System; Prisoner re-entry
Ashley Kilmer akilmer@udel.edu
Jennifer Koester jkoester@udel.edu Delaware Educational Research and Development Center Areas of Interest: Race, Class and Gender; Sociology of Religion; Political Sociology; Sociological Theory; Research Methods
David Lane dlane@udel.edu Illicit Economies; Deviance; Corporate Crime
Lynn Letukas lletukas@udel.edu Environmental Sociology; Disasters
Terry Lilley tgl@udel.edu Inequality; Race, Class and Gender
Margaret Mahoney margaret@udel.edu Substance abuse; Delinquency; Social Policy
Matthew Manierre manierre@udel.edu Deviance; Methodology; Culture; Drug policy; Gender
Laura Monico lmonico@udel.edu Disasters
Shelley Morris shelleym@udel.edu Race, Gender and Community Activism
Thomas Mowen tjmowen@udel.edu
Mary Nelan mnelan@udel.edu
Brian Newby bnewby@udel.edu Theory; Religion; Art; Politics
Laurin Parker laurinp@udel.edu Race and the Criminal Justice System; Juries
Samantha Penta spenta@udel.edu
Brian Pitt bpitt@udel.edu Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Methods of the Social Sciences; The History of the Rule of Law; History of Social Theory
Austrian Economics; Intellectual Legacy of Max Weber; Economic Sociology
Margarita Poteyeva ritap@udel.edu Law; Crime
Kevin Ralston kralston@udel.edu Urban Sociology and Stratification, especially class and race
Laura Rapp lrapp@udel.edu Gender and Victimization
Jenniffer Santos-Hernandez jsantos@udel.edu
Website
Disasters; Political Sociology; Race, Class and Gender; Latino sociology; Development; Social change; Sociological theory; Demography; Environmental ustice; GIS
Brittany Scott bscott@udel.edu Drug & Alcohol Studies; Deviance; Disaster Studies; Culture
Sherry Skaggs slskaggs@udel.edu Juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system, drug and alcohol studies, methodology/statistics, and criminology
Lionel R. Smith lrsmith@udel.edu Drug trade; Demographic Trends in Crime; Crime in Cities, Mixed Methods
Nicole Smolter nsmolter@udel.edu
Website
Feminist theory and research methods applied to crime and deviance; Offender reentry and rehabilitation programs; Domestic Violence
Richard Stansfield rstans@udel.edu Immigration, Homicide, Other Index Crimes
Brian Chad Starks bcstarks@udel.edu CDAS; HIV/AIDS,
Holly Swan hswan@udel.edu Deviance and Social Control
Tanya Whittle twhittle@udel.edu
T. Chris West tcwest@udel.edu Sociological Methods; Race, Class, Gender; Sociology of Education
Lee Zelewicz zellee@udel.edu
Samantha Zulkowski sammiz@udel.edu Sex Offender Research; Gender Studies