The University of Toledo

Barbara Chesney

Ph.D., University of Michigan 
Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Health, Deviance

Additional Information
E-Mail: Barbara.Chesney@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4075

Patricia Case

Ph.D., Wayne State University
Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Deviance

Additional Information
E-Mail: Patricia.Case@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4665

Barbara Coventry

Ph.D., University of Illinois
Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Work; Race, Class and Gender; Social Statistics; Sociology of Sport

Additional Information
E-Mail: Barbara.Coventry@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4299

Dwight Haase

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Globalization, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methods

Additional Information:
E-Mail: dwight.haase@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.5574

Elias Nigem

Ph.D., Utah State University
Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of Middle East Studies Institute, Sociology Graduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: Demography, Human Ecology, Quantitative Methods, Middle East Population

E-mail: enigem@utnet.utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4662
Fax: 419.530.8406

Rubin Patterson

Ph.D., Howard University
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Director, Africana Studies Program

Areas of Interest:

(1)  Community mobilization against environmental degradation and climate chaos
      and for sustainable communities and economy.
(2)  Sustainability entrepreneurship.
(3)  Eco-Industrial development and environmental justice.
(4)  African Transnationalism.

Greening Africana Studies: Linking Environmental Studies and Transforming Black Experiences.
Forthcoming publication (2013) by Temple University Press.

Additional Information
E mail: RPatter@UTNet.UToledo.Edu
Office: UH 2680G
Phone: 419.530.7253  
Fax: 419.530.8406

Africana Studies

Mark Sherry

Ph.D., University of Queensland
Associate Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Identity, Power, Theory, Race, Class, Sexuality, Gender

Additional Information
E-mail: mark.sherry@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2600E
Phone: 419.530.4076

Jerry Van Hoy

Ph.D., Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Director, Program in Law & Social Thought; Director, Master of Liberal Studies Program

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Law, Crime, Deviance, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods

E-mail:  jerry.vanhoy@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2640F
Phone: 419.530.2807

UT Law & Social Thought

Master of Liberal Studies Program

Yoon-Jung Lee

Ph.D., Stanford University
Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Urban Space, Political Ecology, Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism and Globlaization, US and Asia.

Additional Information
E-Mail: YoonJung.Lee2@utoledo.edu

 Mary D. Grigat

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida

E-Mail: Mary.Grigat@utoledo.edu

Lea S. McChesney

Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., New York University

Areas of Interest: anthropology of art (indigenous arts in the global market), museum anthropology,
cultural heritage, gender, Native North America

Email: lea.mcchesney@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419/530-4395

Willie L. McKether

Ph.D., Wayne State University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Urbanization, Business and Organizational Culture, Qualitative Methodology, African-American Migration, Globally Dispersed Work Teams, Labor-Management Relations

Additional Information
E-mail: Willie.McKether@Utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4394

Seamus Metress

Ph.D., Indiana University
Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Medical Anthropology, Conflict in Northern Ireland

Additional Information
Phone: 419.530.4652

Angela Siner

M.A., History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toledo
Instructor of Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: African American Culture, Women's Studies

E-mail:  angela.siner@utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4660