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Faculty and Staff

	Heidi Altman Associate Professor of Anthropology Anthropology Undergraduate Program Coordinator haltman@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1059A, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5723 Curriculum Vitae
	Kara Bridgman Sweeney Lecturer of Anthropology ksweeney@georgiasouthern.edu University Hall 211, Armstrong Campus 912-344-3141 Curriculum Vitae
	Ted M. Brimeyer Department Chair Graduate Program Director Professor of Sociology tbrimeyer@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1003B, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5443 Curriculum Vitae
	Alicia Brunson Associate Professor of Sociology abrunson@georgiasouthern.edu University Hall 223, Armstrong Campus 912-344-3469 Curriculum Vitae
	Adrienne Cohen Professor of Sociology acohen@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1019, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5012 Curriculum Vitae
	J. Matthew Compton Director, Laboratory of Archaeology Curator, R M Bogan Archaeological Repository jcompton@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 2256B, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5548 Curriculum Vitae
	Nancy L. Malcom Professor of Sociology Sociology Undergraduate Program Coordinator nmalcom@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1059, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5168 Curriculum Vitae
	Ryan McNutt Assistant Professor of Anthropology rmcnutt@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1050, Statesboro Campus 912-478-2237 Curriculum Vitae More Information Dr. McNutt earned his B.S. in Anthropology from Middle Tennessee State University in 2006, and his Mlitt (2010) and PhD (2014) in Archaeology from the University of Glasgow, where he specialized in conflict archaeology. His research interests include utilizing technology such as LIDAR and GIS to answer questions about battlefield and conflict sites, power and dominance in the landscape, and the impact of violence on non-combatants. This includes the archaeology of internment and POW camps, where place becomes transformed through social interaction into a space of the dominant and dominated, with landscapes and architecture spatially arranged in a grammar of control and constant observation. His past research has focused on developing and implementing a predictive GIS model for the most probable location of battlefields within wider landscapes. This GIS model was successively applied to battlefields ranging AD 1296 to 1745. Working with the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, he participated in projects on various types and periods of conflict sites, ranging from the Battle of the Somme, to Bannockburn, to POW camps in Poland, to WWII aircraft crashes in remote locales of Scotland.Several of these projects were part of documentaries, and sparked another of his research interests, which is the communication of archaeology public. Archaeology, is at its heart, a communal endeavor, and communicating its importance to the wider public should remain one of its guiding tenets. He also works as a consultant on development projects for television documentaries.
	Tricia Noone Senior Lecturer of Sociology tnoone@georgiasouthern.edu University Hall 241, Armstrong Campus Curriculum Vitae
	Nathan Palmer Assistant Professor of Sociology npalmer@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1062, Statesboro Campus 912-478-7897 Curriculum Vitae
	Elizabeth Rahilly Assistant Professor of Sociology erahilly@georgiasouthern.edu University Hall 227, Armstrong Campus 912-344-3527 Curriculum Vitae
	Ned Rinalducci Associate Professor Sociology erinalducci@georgiasouthern.edu University Hall 218, Armstrong Campus 912-344-2968 Curriculum Vitae
	Baker Rogers Associate Professor of Sociology barogers@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1014B, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5731 Curriculum Vitae
	April M. Schueths Professor of Sociology aschueths@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1060, Statesboro Campus 912-478-2368 Curriculum Vitae
	Eric O. Silva Professor of Sociology eosilva@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1013A, Statesboro Campus 912-478-1964 Curriculum Vitae
	Jennifer Sweeney Tookes Associate Professor of Anthropology jtookes@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1018, Statesboro Campus 912-478-6587 Curriculum Vitae More Information Dr. Jennifer Sweeney Tookes is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgia Southern University. She is an applied anthropologist conducting field research in the US South and the Caribbean since 2003. Her dissertation research on the Caribbean island of Barbados and with migrant Barbadians in Atlanta, GA examined food, health, and the body in the diaspora. Sweeney Tookes’s post-doctoral research fellowship at Emory University asked: “How can Georgia seafood producers use the burgeoning local food movement to increase their participation in the inland market; and make sustainable, local seafood available to a larger segment of the Georgia population?” and included an extensive applied outreach focus with local foods and Georgia fishing communities. Her current research projects focus on collaboration with fishermen in Georgia and in the US Virgin Islands to investigate new opportunities to support commercial fishing communities. Current projects include: expansion of local markets for Georgia oysters (USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education project with UGA and Emory), an oral history project with Georgia fishermen (Georgia Department of Natural Resources collaboration with Georgia Sea Grant), a pilot study examining health and well-being among fishing crew in the Savannah River Basin (Marine Fisheries Institute project with Emory University) and a social census of Georgia’s working waterfronts (Georgia Sea Grant funded collaboration with Emory and UGA Marine Extension). Sweeney Tookes is a member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC)’s SocioEconomic Panel and active in the Society for Applied Anthropology. Additional Links: WorkingWaterfronts.org Selected Works of Jennifer Sweeney Tookes
	Marieke Van Willigen Professor of Sociology mvanwilligen@georgiasouthern.edu Office:Carroll 1059A, Statesboro Campus Phone:912-478-5426 Curriculum Vitae More Information Dr. Van Willigen earned her BA from Ithaca College in upstate New York and her MA and PhD in Sociology from The Ohio State University. She then spent 19 years as a faculty member at East Carolina University in Greenville NC. During that period she served as Undergraduate Director, Women’s Studies Director, Interim Chair, and Associate Dean. She joined the faculty at Georgia Southern University in 2015 as Professor and Chair. Her research and teaching interests lay at the intersections of gender, mental/physical health, and the sociology of adolescence. She has also spent 15 years teaching social statistics to terrified undergraduate and graduate students, and counted herself as successful when they left class most days with a smile on their faces.
	Clare Walsh Senior Lecturer of Sociology cwalsh@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 2269B, Statesboro Campus 912-478-1473 Curriculum Vitae More Information Dr. Walsh received her MA in Women Studies from the University of South Florida in 2007 and her PhD in Sociology with a Concentration in Women’s Studies from the University of Florida in 2013. After two years as a Visiting Professor in Sociology at Texas Tech University she joined the faculty at Georgia Southern University in 2015. The intersections of sexuality, gender, and race, especially in the context of family and the scholarship of teaching and learning are her research interests. Her instructional style reflects a perspective based in feminist pedagogy.
	M. Jared Wood Associate Professor of Anthropology mwood@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 1049, Statesboro Campus 912-478-5789 Curriculum Vitae
	Pidi Zhang Associate Professor of Sociology pzhang@georgiasouthern.edu Carroll 2271B, Statesboro Campus 912-478-0004 Curriculum Vitae