Faculty

Faculty	Contact Info	Areas of Study
J. Kevin Eckert Professor, Department Chair	PUP 225 410.455.5698 eckert@umbc.edu	Cultural anthropology, anthropology of aging, long-term care, research design/qualitative methodologies, senior’s housing and aging services
John Schumacher Associate Professor, Asst Dept Chair	PUP 217 410.455.3184 jschuma@umbc.edu	Medical sociology, social gerontology, physician-patient relationships
Marina Adler Professor	PUP 232 410.455.3155 adler@umbc.edu	Social science methodology and statistics; cross-national gender, work and family issues; social inequality (race, class, gender) and social policy
Bambi Chapin Assistant Professor	PUP 211 410.455.2082 bchapin@umbc.edu	Psychodynamics & child development in socio-cultural context, social & emotional relationships, mental health & illness, dissociation & trauma, trance & spirit possession, South Asia
Sarah Chard Associate Professor	PUP 213 410.455.3380 schard@umbc.edu	Medical anthropology, urban anthropology, treatment seeking, social support
Nicole Cousin-Gossett Lecturer (Sociology)	PUP 215 410.455.6330 cgossett@umbc.edu	Economic Sociology; social inequality (race and class); alternative economic markets
Angelica Herrera Assistant Professor	PUP 228 410.455.2060 angelph@umbc.edu www.angelicaherrera.com	Public health & aging policy; family caregiving & diabetes management; health IT in home care; Latino aging; long-term care and home- and community-based services; mental health; intervention & translational research.
Andrea Kalfoglou Assistant Professor	PUP 212 410.455.2061 akalfogl@umbc.edu	Bioethics; feminist bioethics; public health ethics; public health policy; women’s health; reproductive policy and ethics; genetics policy and ethics; research ethics; research methods
Ilsa Lottes Professor	PUP 231 410.455.2087 lottes@umbc.edu	Sexual and reproductive health and rights, inequality, research methods, sexuality, social determinants of sexual health
Christine Mair Assistant Professor	PUP 230 410.455.8064 christine_mair@umbc.edu	life course, social ties, family, aging, health, social inequality (race, class, and gender), and globalization
Seth Messinger Associate Professor	PUP 233 410.455.2073 sethm@umbc.edu	Medical anthropology, anthropology of cities, anthropology of North America, psychiatry, trauma, social organization of medical work
Leslie Morgan Professor	PUP 218 410.455.2074 lmorgan@umbc.edu	Aging, gender roles, family, senior living arrangements
Luis Pinet-Peralta Associate Director, HAPP	PUP 222 410.455.2079 lpinet1@umbc.edu	coming soon
William Rothstein Professor, Graduate Program Director	PUP 224 410.455.2078 rothstei@umbc.edu	Medical sociology, history of American medicine
Robert Rubinstein Professor	PUP 214 410.455.2059 rrubinst@umbc.edu	Cultural and medical anthropology, anthropology of aging, gerontology, gender, qualitative research methods
Mary Stuart Professor	PUP 219 410.455.2084 stuart@umbc.edu	International best practices in chronic disease management, community translation of exercise interventions for chronic diseases
Micah Trapp Lecturer (Anthropology)	PUP 244 410.455.3362	anthropology of food; household food economies; food security; refugees and migration; humanitarianism; transnationalism; social status; West Africa; United States
Jamie Trevitt Assistant Professor	PUP 223 410.455.2079 trevitt@umbc.edu	Population health, reproductive health, social and economic determinants of fertility, maternal/child health, family formation, contraception, social demography, quantitative methods and statistics
Brandy Wallace Assistant Professor	PUP 229 410.455.5815 bhwalla@umbc.edu	social inequality (race, class, gender), paraprofessional healthcare workforce in senior housing, physician-patient interaction, health disparities