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.

Brad 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.

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)