Dr. Byfield's overall research focuses on the role of language in society and how the powerful and those with less influence use language to shape their world.  Her research explores media in society, cultural studies, social theory, and the co-determined nature of race, gender, and class formations.

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Dr. Friday's research centers on how time is used and manipulated by institutional and political actors to create and reproduce social inequalities along racialized, gendered, and heteronormative lines – particularly in carceral spaces. Moreover, she uses engaged and activist methods to address and alleviate issues faced by those impacted by imprisonment and their communities.

Dr. Galvin teaches and does research in anthropology of globalization, colonialism; popular culture studies; anthropology of the state; citizenship; political economy; the Caribbean; the African Diaspora; the United States; history of anthropology, theory and methods.

Dr. Glaser is an applied/activist medical anthropologist, with research foci in nursing and care sector work, migration, gender, race, aging, labor process, and political economy. 

Dr. Indergaard's research focuses on the social impact of globalization, new technology and economic restructuring on cities and regions as well as political and policy responses.

Dr. Lazrus' research interests range from the protection and conservation of antiquities to changing land-use patterns in Italy, where she has worked professionally for the last thirty years, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software as a tool for better visualizing and understanding the past. 

Dr. Rodriguez's areas of specialization include race, class, gender and sexuality, decolonial theory, antiracist social justice, 19th- and 20th-century American culture and politics, and comparative Ethnic Studies. 

Dr. Montana's research focuses on the power dynamics of race, class, and gender found within a matrix of criminalization in American social life. 

Dr. Trumino specializes in the sociology of sport and social theory.  In addition, he teaches deviant behavior, inequality, urban sociology, the sociology of community, the sociology of neighborhoods, and the sociology of violence and war.

Dr. Villalon's background in political science and international relations, together with her expertise in Latin America and Latin American immigrants and feminism, has shaped her transnational sociological perspective distinctively. 

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As an international criminologist and sociologist, Dr. Zhuo conducts research within the global arena specializing in crime and law, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, and family dynamics.