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rreed@trinity.edu
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DR. RICHARD REED, Professor & Chair
(Ph.D. Harvard University)
Dr. Reed teaches fieldwork in research methods in anthropology as well as Economic Anthropology and South American Indigenous Peoples. Professor Reed studies the effects of deforestation on indigenous groups in the forests of Paraguay. Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Reed has been working with Guarani villages on the frontier of expanding colonization and agriculture. His two books, Prophets of Agroforestry and Forest Residents and Forest Managers propose indigenous models of land use as alternative strategies for development in forested regions. Dr. Reed is also studying fathers and childbirth in the United States. Dr. Reed is advisor to ENACT, a student organization concerned with environmental issues. He also serves on the committee for the Environmental Studies Minor.
Areas of Interest:
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY:
Guarani Peoples of Paraguay: Problems of Deforestation; Economic Development
Fatherhood: Rituals of Masculinity; Father's Role in Birthing
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DR. JOHN M. DONAHUE, Professor
(Ph.D. Columbia University)
Dr. Donahue is teaching in the spring 2010 Introduction to Anthropology, Research Methods: Fieldwork, and Water, Culture and Power. He will retire from teaching in May 2010, but continue to do research in the area of applied anthropology and water management. Dr. Donahue's book Water, Culture and Power: Local Struggles in a Global Context co-edited with Barbara Rose Johnston, was published in 1997 by Island Press (reviewed in Science, May 22, 1998). His more recent publications include:
2009 John M. Donahue and Irene J. Klaver. “Sharing Water Internationally, Past, Present and
Future – Mexico and the United States.” Southern Rural Sociology, 24(1), pp. 7-20.
2005 Klaver, Irene, and John M. Donahue. “Whose Water is it Anyway? Boundary Negotiations
on the Edwards Aquifer in Texas.” In Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in
Times of Scarcity. Linda and Scott Whiteford, editors. Santa Fe: The School of American Research.
2001 “Will Thinking of the Edwards Aquifer of south-central Texas as a commons help
resolve water conflicts in the region?” Water and the Environment since 1945: Global Perspectives.
Edited by Char Miller, Mark Cioc, and Kate Showers. Detroit: St. James press.
2001 Donahue, John M. and Jon Q. Sanders
“Sitting Down at the Table: Mediation Efforts in Resolving Water Conflicts,” Invited chapter in a volume entitled San Antonio: An Environmental History, University of Pittsburgh Press, Char Miller, editor.
Areas of Interest:
APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY:
Culture and International Relations
Primary Health Care in Developing Regions of the World
Culture and Conflict Resolution in Water Management
Applied Anthropology and Social Welfare Programs
Evaluation Research for Non-Profit Agencies |
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DR. CHRISTINE DRENNON, Associate Professor & Director of Urban Studies
(Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Drennon's current research focuses on urban geography, paticularly urban fragmentation and the consequent social reproduction of race, class, ethnicity and gender relationships. She teaches courses in urban studies and geography, including Urban Studies and GIS. Dr.Drennon also serves as the director of the department of Urban Studies. Dr. Drennon likes dogs.
Areas of Interest:
Urban Studies, Community Development,Uneven Development:
Public Education in San Antonio
Urban Fragmentation
Class & Ethnic Spatial Segregation
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) |
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DR. CYNTHIA GENTRY, Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Tulane University)
Dr. Gentry teaches courses in the area of crime and deviance including sociology of law. Her primary focus is the examination of structural predictors of crime and she is currently examining rural crime rates. She has a chapter on Crime Control Through Drug Control in Criminology: A Contemporary Handbook. Dr. Gentry is a popular speaker in community and university programs dealing with crime and gun control.
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mkearl@trinity.edu
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DR. MICHAEL C. KEARL, Professor
(Ph.D. Stanford University)
Dr. Kearl publishes and teaches courses in the areas of social psychology, death and dying, family, social gerontology, the sociology of time, and the sociology of knowledge. His books, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying and Social Psychology: Shaping Identity, Thought and Conduct (latter with Chad Gordon), have been recognized for their scope and integration of various disciplines. His courses are known for their direct involvement of students in quantitative analyses of social and cultural phenomena. His most recent work includes “The Proliferation of Postselves in American Civic and Popular Cultures” (Mortality), “Cremation: Desecration, Purification, or Convenience?” (Generations), and sixteen entries for the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, the Encyclopedia of Death and Human Experience, and for the Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (Macmillan Reference), for which he served as an associate editor. He currently is completing The Times of Our Lives, which includes such essays as “Communicating with the future: Reflections on FutureMe.org, Time Capsules, & Voyager” and “The Futures of Times Past and the Present of the Future: Retro-futurism & the Retreat of the Golden Age from the Future to the Past.” Dr. Kearl continues to explore the pedagogical potential of the Internet with his Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace website. In 2009, he was the recipient of Trinity’s prestigious Z.T. Scott Faculty Fellowship for outstanding teaching and advising.
Areas of Interest:
Thanatology: Taphology; Cultural Immortalism & War on Death
Sociology of Time: Generational & Life-Cycle Analyses; Collective Remembering & Forgetting
Social Gerontology: Social & Cultural Impacts of the Aging Revolution
Sociology of Knowlege: Knowledge Obsolescence Rates
Popular Culture: The Sociology of Stamps; Cyber Culture |
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DR. JENNIFER MATHEWS, Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of California, Riverside)
Dr. Mathews teaches courses on prehistoric archaeology, Mesoamerican art, the ancient Maya, human evolution, primatology and forensics. She is Co-Director of the Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico and takes students to conduct fieldwork in the summers. She is the co-editor on two volumes with the University of Arizona Press, including Quintana Roo Archaeology (with Justine Shaw) and Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatán Peninsula (with Bethany Morrison). She also has several recent journal articles and is working on a new solo-authored book on the history of chicle (chewing gum) from prehistory to present.
Areas of Interest:
MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY:
Historic Railways in Yucatan
Ancient Roads
Archaeologists Working with Indigeneous Peoples
Site Layout and Settlement Patterns |
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DR. MEREDITH MCGUIRE, Professor
(Ph.D. The New School for Social Research)
Dr. McGuire's new book, Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life, was published recently by Oxford University Press. Her earlier books include: Religion: The Social Context; Health, Illness and the Social Body (with Peter Freund); Ritual Healing in Suburban America; and Pentecostal Catholics. She is past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Dr. McGuire teaches regularly in both the anthropology and sociology programs. She was the 2009 recipient of Trinity University’s Distinguished Scholar Award.
Areas of Interest:
Sociology and Anthropology of Religion
Sociology and Anthropology of the Body
Sociology and Anthropology of Health and Illness
Human Rights Issues
Peace and Peace Studies
Globalization, Rural Poverty, and the Environment |
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DR. TAHIR NAQVI
(Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley)
Dr. Naqvi is our newest faculty member. He is a cultural anthropologist whose current research is based on fieldwork in Pakistan, where he has also worked in the field of international development. Dr. Naqvi’s recent publications include “The Politics of Commensuration: The Violence of Partition and the Making of the Pakistani State” (in Journal of Historical Sociology), “On Hope and Coke: Notes on Media and Marketing in Pakistan” (Economic and Political Weekly), and forthcoming chapters in edited volumes on Pakistan and media studies. He is currently working on his first manuscript entitled, Mass Migrants: Nation, Emergency and Popular Politics in Pakistan.
Areas of Interest: Nationalism
Colonialism and postcoloniality
Urban studies
Media
Anthropology of the state
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dspener@trinity.edu
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DR. DAVID SPENER, Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Spener's areas of expertise include comparative international development, economic sociology, social inequality, U.S.-Mexico border and migration studies. His book (co-edited with Kathleen Staudt) The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities was published in 1998 by Lynne Rienner.
Areas of Interest:
International Migration
Border Studies
Racial & Ethnic Relations
Globalization & Development |
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DR. AMY STONE
(Ph.D. University of Michigan)
Dr. Stone's current research focuses on gender, sexuality and politics, specifically anti-gay referendums and initiatives. She has published several recent journal articles, and is currently working on a book on LGBT campaign strategies to fight anti-gay ballot initiatives over time. She teaches courses in research methods, statistics, social movements, and sexuality. She also serves on the Women and Gender Studies Advisory Committee.
Areas of Interest:
Research methods
Statistics
Social Movements
Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
Japanese Studies
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
Direct Democracy and Minority Rights |
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DR. SHERYL R. TYNES, Professor
(Ph.D. University of Arizona)
Her book Turning Points in Social Security: From "Cruel Hoax" to "Sacred Entitlement" was published by Stanford University Press in the spring of 1996. Her current research is on children's welfare, from children's perspectives. She is interested in children's welfare, the welfare state, and political sociology. She teaches Research Methods: Social Statistics, Sociology of Childhood and Youth, and Sociology of Sex Roles. Dr. Tynes is the advisor for Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honors Society, and serves on the Women's Studies Advisory Committee.
Areas of Interest:
Sociology of Childhood and Youth: Children's Right; Children's Welfare; Poverty, Race and Locale.
Sociology of Sex Roles: Historical & Cross-Cultural Education & Family
The Welfare State: Social Security; U.S. Social Policy
Organinzations: Formal Organizations, Social Movements
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