Office: 404-270-6053
Fax: 404-270-5632
Email: dwhite@spelman.edu
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DR.
DARYL WHITE
Professor
and Department Chair
I
am an anthropologist who loves
the broad, holistic, global
nature of the anthropological
study of society and culture. The
countless interconnections,
which link our everyday, lives
with global processes and historical
events fascinate me. And
I deeply feel we must strive
to understand these interconnections
in order to responsibly shape
our futures. I
specialize in the study of
religion, ritual, and other
symbolic systems such as consumerism,
advertising, and mass media. Most
of my research has been about
race, gender and sexuality
issues in contemporary U.S.
religion, and most of my writing
on these topics is about southern
Protestantism and Mormons. I
enjoy teaching a wide range
of courses in anthropology
and sociology, and I participate
in interdisciplinary courses
such as African Diaspora and
the World, Industrial
Ecology, and anthropology/drama
course in Ritual and Performance.
Daryl
White is an anthropologist
and member of the department
since 1985. His teaching interests
include the study of contemporary
culture and mass media, social theory,
and issues surrounding social
stratification and power. Most
of his research has been about
religion, especially religion
in the southern U.S. and Mormonism. He recently co-edited the book, Religion
in the Contemporary South:
Diversity, Community and Identity.
Courses:
Anth
333 and Drama 333 Ritual and Performance
Soc
336 and Soc 336 Special Topics:
Qualitative Methods |
Office: 404-270-6054
Fax: 404-270-5632
Email: bcarter@spelman.edu
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DR.
BARBARA CARTER
Professor
With
extensive
experience
in
teaching,
in
research
and
in
higher
education
administration,
Barbara
Carter
has
been
at
Spelman
since
1981. Her
research
has
focused
on
topics
of
race
relations
and
social
change
and
also
on
the
experiences
of
women
and
girls
in
penal
institutions. She
is
the
co-author
of, Protest,
Politics
and
Prosperity:
Black
Americans
and
White
Institutions,
1940-75. Her current interests include race relations
in
global
context,
with
special
emphasis
on
Brazil.
Courses:
Soc
291 Race, Class and Gender
Soc
430 Race and Ethnicity in Latin
America
Soc
201 Intro for Sociology for Majors |
Office: 404-270-5639
Fax: 404-270-5632
Email: mphillip@spelman.edu |
DR.
MONA PHILLIPS
Professor, Director, Teaching Research and Resource Center
Mona
Phillips
has
been
in
the
department
since
1985
and
received
the
Outstanding
Teaching
Award
in
1994.Her
teaching
and
research
areas
are
race/ethnicity,
and
women’s
studies—with
a
particular
emphasis
on
women
of
African
descent.
She
is
currently
co-investigator
on
a
research
project
which
explores
the
stresses
and
strains
of
African
American
women’s
lives
and
their
impact
on
reproductive
health
outcomes.
Courses:
Soc
422 Contemporary
Social
Theory
(pdf)
Soc
305
Cross-Cultural
Perspectives
on
Gender |
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DR. CYNTHIA SPENCE
Director,
UNCF/Mellon
Programs
Associate
Professor
Cynthia
Spence is a specialist in Criminal
Justice,
she recently completed research
in how the court system deals
with those who become labeled
mentally unfit for trial. Her teaching and research interests include
the examination of social and
psychological antecedents to
crime and criminality and the
response of the legal system
to women, minorities and the
mentally ill.
Courses:
Soc
480 Women, Values and Law
Soc
230 Violence Against Women |
Office: 404-270-5540
Email: ueda@spelman.edu
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DR.
YOKO UEDA
Assistant
Professor
Yoko
Ueda
was
born
in
Japan,
educated
and
worked
in
both
Japan
and
Canada. She
joined
the
department
in
1994. Her
teaching
and
research
areas
include
the
social
organization
of
knowledge,
sociology
of
organizations
and
work,
and
feminist
studies
with
special
focus
on
contemporary
Japan. Her
current
research
involves
an
inquiry
into
the
relationship
between
management
practices
and
training,
and
its
implications
for
women
in
society.
Courses:
Soc
360 Women in Japanese Society
Soc
202 Social Problems |
Office: 404-270-5629
Fax: 404-270-5632
Email: bwade@spelman.edu
Recent Photos
Articles
Comprehensive Examination of the Health Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of Student Attending Historically Black College and Universities
Disabling Nature of HIV
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DR.
BRUCE WADE
Associate
Professor
Bruce
H. Wade came to the department
in 1987. His specialty
areas include analyses
of contemporary rap music,
the sociology of health,
health care and wellness,
research methodology and
computer applications and
the contraceptive attitudes
of African Americans. Deeply
involved in community research,
education and consulting,
he has conducted seminars
and training sessions across
the State of Georgia.
Courses:
Soc
335 Research Methods (pdf)
Soc
402 Medical Sociology
Course Syllabi
Soc. 407 Fall 2007 |
Office: (404) 270-5886
Fax: 404-270-5632
Email: jwever@spelman.edu
212 Giles Hall (G212)
Fall Office hours:
Tues. / Thurs. 1:20-2:20 pm, or by appointment
(email is better than voicemail for important messages) |
Dr. Jerry Wever
Assistant Professor
Jerry Wever, assistant professor of anthropology, is a cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist from N.Y., USA.
His Ph. D. is from the department of anthropology at University of Iowa, where he was part of the Caribbean, Diasporas, Atlantic Studies Program.
His work is on globalization, creolization and cultural decolonization in the French Creolephone Caribbean and Indian Ocean (in St. Lucia and New Orleans in the Caribbean, and Seychelles, Rodrigues and Chagos in the Indian Ocean).
He teaches Social Histories of Caribbean Musics: An Anthropology of Music and Globalization; Earth (the seminar): Sustainability; Anthropology of Globalization and Social Inequalities; Seminar in Caribbean Anthropology; Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology; Seminar in Medical Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Urban Anthropology Seminar on the Atlanta Beltline; Sociology and Anthropology Thesis Seminar; Sociology and Anthropology Internship; African Diaspora and the World (ADW); Archives of a Free Thinking Woman: Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar (Free Thinking Women seminar); and Intro to Anthropology. |
Email: ewilli29@spelman.edu
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DR. ERICA LORRAINE WILLIAMS
Assistant Professor
Erica Lorraine Williams joined the department of sociology and anthropology as an Assistant Professor in 2009. She completed her Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University in January 2010.
She earned her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford in 2005, and her B.A. in Anthropology and Africana Studies from New York University in 2002.
Her dissertation, "Anxious Pleasures: Race and the Sexual Economies of Transnational Tourism in Salvador, Brazil," is an ethnography of the sexual and cultural politics of the tourism industry in Salvador, Bahia.
Her research focuses on the relationships between "sex tourism" and the marketing of an eroticized Afro-Brazilian culture as a tourist commodity in Salvador.
Her teaching interests include: Introduction to Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender, Anthropology of Globalization; Anthropology of Latin America; and Race, Erotics and Globalization She also teaches African Diaspora and the World (ADW).
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