DEPARTMENT

Department Chair
Ann Tickamyer

Department Administrator
Ann Bennett

Administrative Assistant
Kerry Kottyan

Web Coordinator
Bruce Hoffman

SOCIOLOGY

Undergraduate Coordinator
Stephen J. Scanlan

Graduate Chair
Cynthia Anderson

Criminology Director
Michelle Brown

Honors Tutorial Director
Debra Henderson

Honor Societies Coordinator
Joseph De Angelis

Pre-Law Coordinator
Ursula Castellano

Regional Campus Coordinator
Ursula Castellano

ANTHROPOLOGY

Program Coordinator
Diane Ciekawy

Undergraduate Coordinator
AnnCorinne Freter-Abrams

Graduate Chair (MSES)
AnnCorinne Freter-Abrams

Honors Tutorial Director
Nancy Tatarek

Lambda Alpha
Hogan M. Sherrow

Internship Coordinator
Haley Duschinski

Senior Thesis Coordinator
Hogan M. Sherrow

Regional Campus Coordinator
Diane Ciekawy

Website Design by Kate Anderson

Departmental News and Awards

Professional Achievements

The Department of Sociology & Anthropology was singled out as the outstanding department for assisting students in their pursuit of competitive awards by Ohio University's Office of Nationally Competitive Awards (ONCA).

Elliot Abrams serves as President of the Ohio Archaeological Council.

Gene Ammarell serves as Director of Ohio University's Southeast Asian Studies Program.

Cynthia Anderson was voted Vice President of the Sociologists for Women in Society.

Michelle Brown has been honored with a 2008 Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award.

Ursula Castellano received an Ohio University Research Committee Grant to study the role of clinicians in mental health courts.

Haley Duschinski received the Distinguished Service Award from Ohio University's Office of Nationally Competitive Awards (ONCA). Her research in Kashmir was profiled during International Week 2008.

Debra Henderson has been named Presidential Teacher, 2008-11: Ohio University's highest teaching distinction.

Bruce Hoffman has been honored with a 2008 Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award.

Jieli Li was elected President of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS), and serves as Director of Ohio University's International Development Studies Program.

Edward Morris has left the department to join the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky--but not before receiving the 2008 Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association. Congratulations, Ed! You'll be missed!

Lena Wright Myers retired from the department in June but continues an active research agenda. In recent years, she has been honored with the Marguerite Rogers Howie Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists and the James Blackwell Founder’s Award from the Association of Black Sociologists.

Marty Schwartz was elected Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and Distinguished Scholar of the Year by the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, and elected Chair of the section on critical criminology of the ACJS.

Robert Shelly was elected President of the North Central Sociological Association.

Nancy Taterek has been named a 2008-09 University Professor and received an Ohio University Research Committee Grant to further her study of prison anthropometry. We are also very happy to congratulate her on her recent promotion and tenure!

Ann Tickamyer received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a national survey of informal work, and received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist award from the Rural Sociological Society.

Tom Vander Ven was honored with the Outstanding University College Advocate award from Ohio University's University College.

Ted Welser received a research grant from Microsoft Research to support his online networking research.

Recent Teaching Awards

Michelle Brown, Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award, 2008; Honors Tutorial College Distinguished Mentor Award, 2007; Honors Tutorial College N. Victor Goodman Award, 2006; University Professor, 2005.

Haley Duschinski , University Professor, 2007-08.

Debra Henderson, Presidential Teacher, 2008-11; Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award, 2006.

Bruce Hoffman, Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award, 2008.

Nancy Tatarek, University Professor, 2008-09; Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award, 2004-05.

Debb Thorne, University Professor, 2004-05.

Tom Vander Ven, Outstanding University College Advocate Award, 2007.

Student News

Anthropology and sociology students shared their original research at the Ohio University Student Research Expo. Special congratulations to students Molly Bucky, Muhammad Chozin, Anna Colaner, and Rebekah Daro for their award-winning presentations!

Alumni News

Edward (Ned) Becker (M.A. Sociology 1973) was selected as one of three College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni for 2005 and honored at the awards dinner and ceremony.

Robert Bozick (B.A. 1999), now at Johns Hopkins University, has an article in the September 2005 issue of Social Forces.

Thomas Stucky (1991 HTC, Sociology) now at Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis has the lead article in the June 2005 issue of Justice Quarterly.

Department Newsletter

Read our 2006-07 department newsletter.