Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Sociology Faculty

Patricia Case
Ph.D., Wayne State University
Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Deviance
E-Mail: Patricia.Case@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 3160
Phone: 419.530.4665

Dwight Haase

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology Undergraduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: Globalization, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methods [More Information...]
E-Mail: dwight.haase@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2540
Phone: 419.530.5574 

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

Areas of Interest: Education, Teaching and Learning, Social Inequality, Labor [More information...]

Email: monita.mungo@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2640E
Phone: 419.530.4075

Karie Peralta
Ph.D., University of Miami
Associate Professor of Sociology, Graduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: Community and Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education, Applied Sociology, Community-based Research, and Dominican Studies. [More information...]

Email: karie.peralta@utoledo.edu 
Office: UH 2630A
Phone: 419.530.4659

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

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E-mail:  jerry.vanhoy@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2100
Phone: 419.530.7257

Anthropology Faculty

Shahna Arps
Ph. D., The Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Cultural Anthropology, Biocultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Human Ecology and Adaptability.

Email: shahna.arps@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2680D
Phone: 419.530.4667

Melissa Baltus
Ph. D., University of Illinois
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Archaeologist

Areas of Interest: North American Archaeology, Urbanization and Early Cities, Revitalization Movements, Pottery Analysis.
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Email: melissa.baltus@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2680G
Phone: 419.530.4953

Willie McKether
Ph.D., Wayne State University
Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest:

Email: willie.mckether@utoledo.edu                        
Office: UH 2580
Phone: 419.530.4###

Angela M. Siner
M.A., History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toledo
Director of Africana Studies Program

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

E-mail:  angela.siner@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2370G
Phone: 419.530.4660

Thomas Zych
M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, Archaeologist, Anthropology Undergraduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: Archaeology of the Great Lakes/Midwest, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Analysis, 3-D Geometric Morphometrics, Ceramic Analysis, and Cultural Resource Management. [More information...]

Email: thomas.zych@utoledo.edu
Office: UH 2680C
Phone: 419.530.4395

Emeritus Faculty

Barbara Chesney - Emeritus
Ph. D., University of Michigan
Associate Professor of Sociology

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

E-Mail: barbara.chesney@utoledo.edu

Barbara Coventry - Emeritus
Ph. D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Sport, Social Inequality, Quantitative Methods

E-Mail: barbara.coventry@utoledo.edu

Seamus Metress - Emeritus
Ph. D., Indiana University
Professor of Anthropology

Areas of Interest: Indigenous Peoples and Settler Colonialism, Environmental Anthropology, Irish American History and Immigration

E-Mail: seamus.metress@utoledo.edu
Office: UH2580 

Elias Nigem - Emeritus
Ph. D., Utah State University
Associate Professor of Sociology

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

E-mail: elias.nigem@.utoledo.edu
Phone: 419.530.4662

Administrative Staff