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Anthropology and
Sociology Faculty
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Dr. 'Dimeji Togunde
Chair and the John S.
Ludington Professor of the
Social Sciences
Professor Togunde received
his Ph.D. in Development
Sociology from Cornell
University and his B.Sc.
(honors) and M.Sc. degrees
in Demography and Social
Statistics from the Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ife,
Nigeria. His teaching and
scholarly interests examine
how population and
development issues are
determined by
socio-economic, cultural,
environmental, and political
factors. He has published
extensively on the causes,
patterns, and consequences
of child labor. His current
scholarly work seeks to
assess the extent to which
globalization and
modernization impact
intimate relationships in
Nigeria. He aims to unravel
the changing attitudes of
college students toward
dating, cohabitation,
marriage, and reproduction.
He is also currently
co-editing a book “Across
the Atlantic: African
Immigrants in the United
States” (with Emmanuel Yewah),
University of Illinois
Press. Professor Togunde
teaches Social Change &
Development in Africa;
Comparative Families;
Population & Environment;
Issues in U.S. Immigration;
and Research Methodology. He
can be reached on phone at
517/629-0272 or by email:
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Dr.
Len Berkey
ProfessorDr. Berkey received a B.A. from Colgate
University in 1969 and a Ph.D in sociology from Michigan
State University in 1982.In the interim, he spent two
years at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. His long-term interests have been in racial and ethnic
relations, inequality and assimilation, and the ways in
which personal identities are formed in multicultural
societies. This fall (2005) Professor Berkey is directing a
research/service project that pairs Albion College students as researcher/tutor-mentors
with children at a local elementary school. The
College students spend 5-6 hours per week tutoring children
in reading and math or mentoring them in social skills,
while at the same time they conduct research on the social
construction of childhood in the City of Albion. This project,
originally entitled
Building
Assets in Middle School Girls, has
been renamed
Jessie's Gift in honor of Jessie Driscoll
Longhurst who dedicated much of her short life to serving
Albion's youth. For more on Professor Berkey's work
and interests check out his homepage.
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Dr.
Molly Mullin
Associate Professor
Molly
Mullin
received
her B.A. in history
from Wellesley College and
her Ph.D. in
Cultural Anthropology from
Duke University. She
spent her junior year of
college at the London School
of Economics. Her research and teaching
interests include culture, class, gender, and
national identity in the
contemporary US; consumer
society and social change;
visual and narrative culture
in the study of Native North
America, and human-animal
relationships. For the spring of 2004, she co-organized an
international symposium,
"Where the Wild Things Are
Now: Domestication
Reconsidered" with
Rebecca Cassidy of
Goldsmith's College, London. Mullin and Cassidy are
editing a volume, to be
published by Berg Press,
based on the symposium.
Professor Mullin has published articles in
the Annual Review of
Anthropology, Society
& Animals, Feminist
Studies, and Cultural
Anthropology. Her book,
Culture in the Marketplace:
Gender, Art, and Value in
the American Southwest, was
published by Duke University
Press in 2001.
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Dr. Scott Melzer
Assistant Professor
Scott Melzer received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of California-Riverside in 2004. He also
completed an M.A. at UCR after receiving a B.A. in Sociology
from the University of Florida. His teaching and research
interests are primarily in the areas of gender and social
psychology, with particular interest in intimate violence,
men & masculinities, and social movements. He has published
an article in the Journal of Marriage and Family on men’s
compensatory violence (for men working in female-dominated
occupations) and occupational violence spillover (for men
working in physically violent occupations) against female
partners. He is currently working on a book manuscript from
his dissertation, which examines the National Rifle
Association’s dramatic transformation from a recreational
firearms interest group into a conservative social movement
organization. You can reach Scott by phone at 517/629-0421
or by e-mail at
smelzer@albion.edu .
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Brad Chase
Visiting Assistant ProfessorBrad Chase received his
B.A. in anthropology from
Northwestern University and
his Ph.D. in anthropology
from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 2007.
He is an anthropological
archaeologist who has
participated in
archaeological fieldwork in
the American Midwest and
Southwest, Turkey, Pakistan,
and currently India. His
teaching and research
interests include the
emergence and developmental
trajectories of early urban
societies in comparative
perspective, the interface
between agro-pastoral and
political economies in
complex societies, and the
social significance of
technology and material
culture in the past as well
as the present. He recently
completed an investigation
of these issues in the
context of the Indus
Civilization, South Asia’s
first urban society, based
on his study of faunal
remains excavated from Gola
Dhoro, a small walled
settlement situated on the
coast of the Indian state of
Gujarat that produced highly
valued goods from local raw
materials for export to the
distant Indus cities. He can
be reached by phone at
517/629-0561 or by email at
bchase@albion.edu. |
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Belinda Hale
Department Secretary
You can reach Belinda by
phone at 517/629-0414 or by
e-mail at
bhale@albion.edu.
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For more information please contact Dr. 'Dimeji
Togunde, Chair of Anthropology and Sociology Department.
(dtogunde@albion.edu)
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