College of Charleston Department of Sociology & Anthropology
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Administrative Staff

Maureen Hays, Ph.D., Chair of the Department
  • Office: 19 St. Phillip, Rm. 201
  • Phone:  953-6597
  • e-mail: haysm@cofc.edu
Courtenay J. Rivers, Administrative Assistant II
  • Office: 19 St. Phillip, Rm. 202
  • Phone: (843) 953-5738
  • e-mail: RiversCJ@cofc.edu

    Faculty

Von Bakanic, Ph.D., (University of Illinois) Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 200 (office), 953-7105 (phone)
Teaching: Gender Stratification, Family, Research Methods, Sociology of Science, Race Relations
Research: Prejudices, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Assault, Social Psychology

e-mail: bakanicv@cofc.ed

Barbara E. Borg, Ph.D., (University of Missouri), Associate Professor of Anthropology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 101 (office), 953-5408 (phone)
Teaching: New World Archaeology, Complex Civilizations, Historical Archaeology, Summer Archaeological Field School; Latin America, North America, Anthropology of Gender
Research: Mesoamerican Ethnohistory and Archaeology

e-mail: borgb@cofc.edu

Tracy Burkett, Ph.D., (University of South Carolina), Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 302 (office), 953-7143 (phone)
Teaching: Quantitative Research Methods, Political Sociology
Research: Network Analysis, Sociology of Teaching and Learning

e-mail: burkettt@cofc.edu

Dana A. Cope, Ph.D., (University of Texas), Associate Professor of Anthropology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 204 (office), 953-1353 (phone)
Teaching: Biological Anthropology, Human Evolution, Primatology, Vertebrate Paleontology
Research: Paleoanthropology, Fossil Species Concepts/Recognition, Dental Variation, Paleocene Mammals

e-mail: coped@cofc.edu

William F. Danaher, Ph.D., (North Carolina State University), Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 205 (office), 953-4995 (phone)
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology, Institutions, Social Policy, Theory, Sociology of Music
Research: Migration, Work, Inequality and Social Policy, Sociology of Music, Social Movements

e-mail: danaherw@cofc.edu

George E. Dickinson, Ph.D., (Louisiana State University), Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 201 (office), 953-8186 (phone)
Teaching: Death and Dying, Medical Sociology, Aging and the Family, Classical Theory
Research: Palliative and End of Life Care in the US and UK

e-mail: dickinsong@cofc.edu

Maureen Hays, Ph.D., (University of Tennessee), Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair

Contact: 19 St. Philip Street, Rm. 201 (office), 953-6597 (phone)
Teaching: Archaeology, Paleolithic Archaeology, Prehistoric Ritual and Art, Rise of Complex Civilizations
Research: Old World Prehistory, Stone Tool Microwear Analysis (France, Portugal, and Southeastern US)

e-mail: haysm@cofc.edu

Heath Hoffmann, Ph.D.,(University of Georgia), Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Crime, Law and Society

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 104 (office), 953-8182 (phone)
Teaching: Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency, Sociology of Alcohol and Drugs
Research: Alcohol and Drug Use, Prison Programming, and Prisoner Reentry

E-mail: hoffmannh@cofc.edu

Christine A. Hope, Ph.D., (Yale University), Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 105 (office), 953-8185 (phone)
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology, Family, Child Welfare, Institutions, Social Theory, Capstone
Research: Undergraduate Education, History of Childhood

e-mail: hopec@cofc.edu

Brad R. Huber, Ph.D., (University of Pittsburgh), Professor of Anthropology

Contact: 19 St. Philip, Rm. 302 (office), 953-8189 (phone)
Teaching: Medical Anthropology, Latin America, Social Organization, Research Methods, Comparative Religion
Research: Human Behavior and Evolution, Medical Anthropology, Comparative Social Organization, Mesoamerica

e-mail: huberb AT cofc DOT edu

Dee Dee Joyce, Ph.D., (SUNY-Binghamton), Senior Instructor of Anthropology

Contact: 318 Bell Building (office), 953-4863 (phone)
Teaching: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Southeastern US, Introduction to Anthropology
Research: Archaeology of the 19th Century South, Race, Class, and Ethnic Relations in the Antebellum South

Email: joyced@cofc.edu

Deborah, McCarthy, Ph.D.,(Northeastern University), Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 202, (office), 953-6513 (phone)
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology, Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Qualitative Methods, Power and Privilege, Special Topics for Environmental Studies, Capstone
Research: Environmental and Health Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Alternative Transportation

e-mail: mccarthyd@cofc.edu

Jennifer McStotts, M.H.P., J.D. (University of Georgia), Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation and Urban Studies

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 103 (office), 953-5419 (phone),
Teaching: Historic Preservation, Planning, Law and Policy
Research: Preservation and Cultural Resource Law and Policy, Heritage Management and Theory, Interpretation of Difficult History

e-mail: mcstottsj@cofc.edu

E. Moore Quinn, Ph.D., (Brandeis University), Associate Professor of Anthropology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 203 (office), 953-7306 (phone)
Teaching: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Irish and Irish-American Folklore, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnomusicology, Women’s Studies

e-mail: quinne@cofc.edu

John H. Rashford, Ph.D.,(City University of New York), Professor of Anthropology

Contact: 19 St. Philip, Rm. 203 (office), 953-8188 (phone)
Teaching: Ethnobotany, Theory, Anthropology of Time, Agriculture, the Caribbean
Research: Ethnobotany, Religion, Ecology, Anthropology of Time, the Caribbean

e-mail: rashfordj@cofc.edu

Ernest G. Rigney, Jr., Ph.D., (University of Illinois), Associate Professor of Sociology

Contact: 19 St. Philip, Rm. 301 (office), 953-8190 (phone)
Teaching: Social Psychology, Collective Behavior,  Sociology of Law
Research: Social Influence, New Religious Movements, Religious and Political Cults, Admissibility of Social Science Data in Legal Proceedings

e-mail: rigneye@cofc.edu

Paul Roof, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina), Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

Contact: 19 St. Philip, Room 101 (office), 953-6742 (phone)
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology, Urban Sociology, Popular Culture, Demography
Research: Music and Popular Culture, Teaching Issues in Sociology, Urban Issues

Brenda S. Sanders, M.S.,(Baylor University), Senior Instructor of Sociology

Contact: 19 St. Philip, Rm. 103 (office), 953-7055 (phone)
Teaching: Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Social Gerontology, Family, Aging and the Family
Research: Aging, End of Life Issues, Urban Legends

e-mail: sandersb@cofc.edu

Ann Stein, M.A., (University of Virginia), Senior Instructor of Sociology

Contact: 19 St. Philip, Rm. 104 (office), 953-6547 (phone)
Teaching: Social Problems, Introduction to Sociology, Interns
Research: Applied Sociology with Community Organizations

e-mail: steina@cofc.edu

Idee Winfield , Ph.D., (Duke University), Professor of Sociology

Contact: 88 Wentworth, Rm. 301 (office), 953-4899 (phone)
Teaching: Power and Privilege, Gender, Research Methods, Organizations, Cyberspace
Research: Economic Sociology, Work and Labor Markets, Gender Inequality, Sociology of Teaching and Learning

e-mail: winfieldi@cofc.edu

 

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Anthony, Ronald W., M.A. (University of South Carolina), Charleston Museum, 722-2996, Ext. 226, ranthony@charlestonmuseum.org
  • Harris, Lynn B., Ph.D. (University of South Carolina), 19 St. Philip Street, Rm. 102, 953-5738, harrisl@cofc.edu
  • Parker, Reba., M.A.  (Southwestern Seminary), 19 St. Philip Street, Rm. 102, 953-5738 or North Area Campus, 818-6262, parkerr@cofc.edu
  • Pyszka, Kimberly S., M.A. (University of Tennessee), 19 St. Philip Street, Rm. 102, 953-5738, pyszkak@cofc.edu
  • Verrecchia, Paul V., M.P.A. (University of Rhode Island), 81-B St. Philip Street, 953-5616, verrecchiap@cofc.edu
  • Wehrman, Tammy, M. Psy. Coun. (University of South Dakota)  19 St. Philip Street, Rm. 102, 953-5738, wehrmant@cofc.edu
  • Weissman, Karen., Ph.D. (University of Virginia) 88 Wentworth Street, Rm. 102A, 953-6512, weissmank@cofc.edu

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