Faculty & Staff

Our faculty teach and conduct research in a variety of areas, including Family and the Life Course, Law/Crime/Deviance, Population Studies, Social Organization/Social Inequality, and Social Psychology. Our staff provide strong administrative support and a comprehensive advising program for students. For background information on each of our faculty and administrative staff, click on their names.

Faculty Name and Title	Research Interests	Contact
Kristin Anderson, Chair and Professor	Gender, domestic violence, families	Kristin.Anderson@wwu.edu (360) 650-7219
Ruby Ben, Assistant Professor	Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations, Race and Ethnicity, Health and Illness, Qualitative Methods, Science, Knowledge, and Technology	benr2@wwu.edu 360-650-4767
Mick Cunningham, Professor	Family, social demography, gender, time use, intimate partner violence	Mick.Cunningham@wwu.edu (360) 650-4881
Seth Feinberg, Professor	Research methodology, post-colonial African states, deviance, and NFL/NCAA labor markets	feinbes@wwu.edu (360) 650-3864
Sabrina Freeman, Instructor	Organizations, small group processes, research	Sabrina.Freeman@wwu.edu (360) 650-3618
Pat Gillham, Associate Professor	Social movements, democracy, policing, law, civil disorder, inequalities, social control and violence	gillhap@wwu.edu (360) 650-3006
Ronald Helms, Professor	criminal justice (police, courts, corrections), criminology, local jails and mental health resourcing, energy consumption patterns, research methods	Helmsr@wwu.edu (360) 650-7927
Jen Lois, Professor of Sociology	Sociology of Emotions, Gender, Identity/Self, Qualitative Methods	Jen.Lois@wwu.edu (360) 650-3007
Liz Mogford, Professor	Social/structural determinants of health, travel ethics, critical health literacy pedagogy, gender equity with focus on violence against women	mogfore@wwu.edu (360) 650-3002
Melissa Osborne, PhD, Assistant Professor	Social mobility, inequality and stratification, education, organizations, social theory, culture, qualitative methods	osbornm7@wwu.edu (360) 650-3001
Laura Overstreet, Senior Instructor	Divorce in late adulthood, student learning	Laura.Overstreet@wwu.edu (360) 650-7522
Phil Pendergast, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Tedrow Lab for Demographic and Social Research	Quantitative Methods, Social Inequality, Health and Well-Being, Crime and Punishment, Demography, Quasi-Experiments and Program Evaluation	penderp@wwu.edu (360) 650-3229
Toby Ten Eyck, Instructor	Community and urban culture	Toby.TenEyck@wwu.edu (360) 650-7521
Glenn Tsunokai, PhD, Professor	Race and ethnic relations, methods, stratification	tsunokg@wwu.edu 360-650-2540
Cameron T. Whitley, PhD, Associate Professor	Environmental Sociology, Sociological Animal Studies, Science and Technology, Queer/Trans Studies, Social Psychology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning	whitlec@wwu.edu (360) 650-3618
Batool Zaidi, Associate Professor	Gender, Demography, International Development, Global Sociology, Migration, Reproductive Health	zaidir@wwu.edu (360) 650-4926

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