Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN)

HONORS: An Honors Program in sociology and anthropology is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.

Department Head: Jonathan Eastwood
          Interim Department Head, Fall 2021: Alison Bell

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular-faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Alison K. Bell, Ph.D.—(1996)-2021
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Lynn G. Chin, Ph.D.—(2012)-2018
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Stanford University

Jonathan Eastwood, Ph.D.—(2006)-2015
Laurent Boetsch Term Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Boston University

Donald A. Gaylord. M.A.—(2013)-2013
Instructor in Anthropology and Research Archaeologist
M.A., University of Virginia

Sascha L. Goluboff, Ph.D.—(1999)-2013
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Illinois

Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Ph.D.—(1991)-1994
William P. Ames Jr. Professor in Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences

Marcos Emilio Pérez, Ph.D.—(2018)-2018
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Law
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Degrees/Majors/Minors

• Sociology and Anthropology major leading to BA degree

• Archaeology minor

Courses

• SOAN 101 - Introduction to Anthropology: Investigating Humanity
• SOAN 102 - Introduction to Sociology: Investigating Society
• SOAN 150 - SOAN Works
• SOAN 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar in Sociology
• SOAN 181 - FS: First-Year Seminar in Anthropology
• SOAN 205 - Power and Status: An Introduction to Social Influence
• SOAN 206 - Archaeology
• SOAN 207 - Biological Anthropology
• SOAN 208 - Qualitative Methods
• SOAN 210 - Field Methods in Archaeology
• SOAN 211 - Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
• SOAN 212 - Theories of Social Psychology
• SOAN 215 - Anthropology of Disability
• SOAN 218 - Basic Statistics in the Social Sciences
• SOAN 219 - Applied Bayesian Regression for the Social Sciences
• SOAN 220 - A World of Data: Baseball and Statistics
• SOAN 222 - Data Science Tools for Social Policy
• SOAN 225 - Peoples of Central Europe Through Literature and Film
• SOAN 228 - Race and Ethnic Relations
• SOAN 230 - Discovering W&L’s Origins Using Historical Archaeology
• SOAN 235 - Anthropology of Death
• SOAN 238 - Anthropology of American History
• SOAN 240 - Food, Culture, and Society
• SOAN 243 - Imaging Tibet
• SOAN 245 - European Politics and Society
• SOAN 246 - Post-Communism and New Democracies
• SOAN 250 - Revolutions and Revolutionaries
• SOAN 252 - Language, Culture, and Communication
• SOAN 253 - Narrating Our Stories: Culture, Society, and Identity
• SOAN 256 - The History of Violence in America
• SOAN 257 - Anthropology of Public Policy
• SOAN 258 - Ethnographies of Global Poverty
• SOAN 260 - Cults
• SOAN 261 - Campus Sex in the Digital Age
• SOAN 263 - Poverty and Marginality in the Americas
• SOAN 264 - States, Data, and Population Policies in the Americas
• SOAN 265 - Exploring Social Networks
• SOAN 266 - Neighborhoods, Culture, and Poverty
• SOAN 267 - Simulating Society
• SOAN 268 - Migration, Identity, and Conflict
• SOAN 269 - Studying Global Culture with the World Values Survey
• SOAN 270 - Deviance
• SOAN 276 - Art & Science of Survey Research
• SOAN 277 - Seminar in Medical Anthropology
• SOAN 278 - Health and Inequality: An Introduction to Medical Sociology
• SOAN 279 - Conceptions of Race and Health: Black & White=Gray
• SOAN 280 - Gender and Sexuality
• SOAN 281 - Adolescence Under the Microscope
• SOAN 285 - Introduction to American Indian Religions
• SOAN 286 - Lakota Land Culture, Economics and History
• SOAN 288 - Childhood
• SOAN 290 - Special Topics in Sociology
• SOAN 291 - Special Topics in Anthropology
• SOAN 367 - Seminar: 9/11 & Modern Terrorism
• SOAN 370 - Theorizing Social Life: Classical Approaches
• SOAN 371 - Theorizing Social Life: Contemporary Approaches
• SOAN 390 - Special Topics in Sociology
• SOAN 391 - Special Topics in Anthropology
• SOAN 395 - Senior Seminar in Social Analysis
• SOAN 396 - Senior Seminar in Anthropological Analysis
• SOAN 401 - Directed Individual Study
• SOAN 402 - Directed Individual Study
• SOAN 403 - Directed Individual Study
• SOAN 421 - Directed Individual Research
• SOAN 422 - Directed Individual Research
• SOAN 423 - Directed Individual Research
• SOAN 493 - Honors Thesis