Annette Nierobisz (department chair) graduated from the Ph.D. program in Sociology at the University of Toronto in 2001. Annette's research interests are in the areas of the sociology of law, work and occupations, human rights, and gender. Her most recent research project examines the development of sexual orientation rights in Canada. She has also conducted research on how Canadian judges responded to workplace wrongful dismissals that occurred with the transition to a globally interconnected economy, and she has examined female law professors experiences with authority challenges from students. Annette teaches introductory sociology, research methods, the sociology of law, the sociology of work and occupations and criminology.

Liz Coville studied at Cornell University as an undergraduate and received her masters and PhD from the University of Chicago.  Her main interests are in linguistic anthropology, the study of ritual, ethnographic writing, and Indonesia.  Her research is on the Toraja, a minority group in the highlands of Sulawesi (Indonesia), where she studies the relationship between language, ritual, and social and cultural change.

Van Dusenbery, Visiting Professor of Anthropology (University of Chicago, PhD), has conducted research among Sikhs in the USA, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and India.  His recent work has focused on Sikh diaspora philanthropy.  He teaches courses on anthropological theory, anthropology and globalization, global diasporas, and the anthropology of religion and politics.

Adrienne Falcón, a Visiting Lecturer (University of Chicago, ABD), focuses on urban sociology, sociology of youth and community organizations, environmental sociology and ethnography of Latin America. She has conducted research on a diverse immigrant community in Chicago and on youth and education in Cuba and Ecuador. Her current work focuses on questions of power and social change through community organizing. She teaches courses in introductory sociology, urban sociology and ethnography of Latin America.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She has been working on reproductive health care issues in Cameroon since 1980, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as an anthropological researcher. Her research focuses on connections between reproduction and belonging, especially when these go awry through infertility, miscarriage, unsafe abortion, or ethnic stereotyping of fertility. After projects investigating the historical, religious, and political roots of fear of infertility and rumors surrounding medical interventions, her subsequent work addressed rural-to-urban women migrants’ social networks and decisions about fertility, miscarriage care, and abortion within Cameroon. Pamela’s current project investigates ways West African migrants to Europe incorporate childbearing into their negotiation of national, ethnic, and gender identities in a globalizing context. In addition to introductory anthropology, she teaches courses on gender, Africa, health and illness, and the relationship between human and social reproduction.

Jerome Levi  (M.Phil. Cambridge, Ph.D. Harvard) has broad interests in the anthropology of the Greater Southwest and Mesoamerica. In Mexico, he has conducted research among the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) of Chihuahua, and the Tzotzil-Maya of Chiapas. In the U.S., he has worked with indigenous peoples of southern California and on the Hopi-Navaho land dispute. His current research focuses on the global indigenous movement and the politics and symbolism of ethnicity. Jay teaches courses on the comparative history of native peoples and the state in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., and anthropological approaches to the study of religion, economics, and indigenous rights.

Nader Saiedi has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1983 and has taught at Wisconsin, UCLA, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt. Born in Iran, Nader brings a global perspective and a Middle East background to the department. He is strongly interested in social theory and social philosophy. Nader is also engaged in Baha'i study and advises the department of Integrative Study of Religion in Landegg Academy, Switzerland. In addition to introductory sociology, he teaches courses in classical and contemporary social theory, social stratification, sociology of religion, and the Middle East.

Meera Sehgal (B.A., Ferguson College, India; M.A., Pune University, India; M.A. & Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004) has a joint appointment in the Sociology & Anthropology department and in the Women’s & Gender studies program. She serves as the director of the South Asian studies program and is a member of the Sexual Misconduct Committee in Carleton’s Community, Equity and Diversity Initiative. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, race, class & sexuality; social movements; globalization; militarism; transnational feminisms and India. Based on ethnographic methods, her research examines the mobilization of women in the right-wing Hindu nationalist movement in India. Her more recent fieldwork centers on a South Asian transnational feminist network and its consciousness-raising work in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Meera emphasizes interdisciplinary feminist perspectives in her teaching and travels regularly to India for research and familial purposes. She teaches courses on social movements, women's health in the U.S., qualitative methods, transnational feminist theory, and feminist approaches to knowledge production, globalization and militarization.

Nancy Wilkie, A.B. Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Nancy is the co-coordinator of the Archaeology Concentration and began teaching at Carleton in 1974. She is especially interested in cultural property issues and has served on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State since 2003.

Daniel Williams, Visiting Assistant Professor, recently completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Maryland-College Park, in 2011. His research interests are in race and ethnicity, citizenship and immigration, and discourse and culture, all in global-comparative perspective.  His dissertation examined recent transformations in citizenship laws in Germany and their relationship to immigrants’ understandings of national belonging and becoming citizens.  He earned previous degrees at Northwestern University (B.A.) and the University of Minnesota (M.A., Public Policy), where he pursued similar interests.

Jim Fisher received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. His real interest is South Asia, and he has done fieldwork in Nepal off and on over the last 30 years - on economics and ecology among Magars (in a village two weeks walk from the nearest road), on education and tourism among Sherpas near Mount Everest, and more recently on a person-centered ethnography of a Brahmin human rights activist. As a visiting Fulbright Professor, he spent two years helping start a new Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. In addition to introductory courses, Jim taught on South Asia, anthropological theory, and biography and ethnography.

Jim retired in 2009 after 38 years at Carleton, and is now Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at a new college he is helping to start in Bhutan

Beverly Nagel received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. Her research interests concern rural development, grassroots action, and social change in Latin America. For the past twelve years, she has been engaged in research on agricultural development, ethnic relations, and social movements on Paraguay's eastern frontier. She has also conducted research on rural development and migration patterns in Mexico, and has served as a consultant on both urban and rural development projects for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Fundación Intermon. In addition to introductory sociology, she teaches courses on social research methods, Third World development, population, social movements, and the ethnography of Latin America.