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: Dtogunde@albion.edu.

Dr. 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.

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.

Dr. Fogelin received a B.A. in Anthropology from Ithaca College, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii, and completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Michigan (2003). His research focuses on the archaeological investigation of religion, particularly the origin and development of Buddhism in South Asia. Since 2001 he has conducted archaeological research on the East coast of India, centered on a 2,000 year old Buddhist monastery. This research has led to several publications, including Archaeology of Early Buddhism (Altamira Press: 2005). In addition to his research in India, he has also worked in Peru, Cambodia, Sardinia, Israel, and the Caribbean. In the 2005-6 academic year he served as the annual Visiting Scholar in the Center for Archaeological Investigation at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His publications include "Presentation and Ritual in Early Buddhist Religious Architecture" (Asian Perspectives 42:1) and several contributions to forthcoming edited volumes. With Dr. Carla Sinopoli, he edited a CD-ROM on turn-of-the-century photographs from the Philippines ( Imperial Imaginings: Dean C. Worcester and the Philippines). He first started teaching at Albion College in the spring of 2004.

Hadley Renkin received his B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College. He has also earned two M.A.s, one in Gender Studies from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and another in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. He completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 2007. His research focuses on gender, sexuality, and cultural citizenship in post socialist Hungary. In addition to his research in Hungary, he has conducted work on the connections between sexual politics and belonging in Latvia, where he has taught at the University of Latvia, Riga. He has contributed an article to the book Nation in Formation: Inclusion and Exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe (forthcoming) and another to a forthcoming volume on the everyday life of GLBT people in Central and Eastern Europe. He can be reached on phone at 517-629-0442 or by email at hrenkin@albion.edu.

Belinda Hale

Department Secretary

You can reach Belinda by phone at 517-629-0414 or by e-mail at bhale@albion.edu.

For more information please contact Dr. 'Dimeji Togunde, Chair of Anthropology and Sociology Department.

(dtogunde@albion.edu)