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Sociology & Anthropology

Faculty

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  • Reginald Byron

    Assistant Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1419
    Mood-Bridwell 316
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    Specialty: Race, Gender, and Age Stratification; Employment Inequality; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

  • Melissa Johnson

    Associate Professor of Anthropology
    (512) 863-1406
    Mood-Bridwell 310
    email
    Specialty: Topical:Environment; Conservation; Development; Race and Racism; Social Theory;Environmental History; Tourism; Gender.Area: Belize; Caribbean;U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas

  • Edward Kain

    Professor of Sociology and University Scholar
    (512) 863-1967
    Mood-Bridwell 315
    email
    Specialty: Social Change and Families; Gender; The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Historical Demography/Mortality Change

  • Maria Lowe

    Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1936
    Mood-Bridwell 317
    email
    Specialty: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Social Movements, Activism, Race Relations, Gender Construction, Campus Climates in Higher Education

  • Sandi Nenga

    Associate Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1412
    Mood-Bridwell 308
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  • Brenda Sendejo

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    (512) 863-1409
    Mood-Bridwell 309
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    Specialty: Anthropology of religion, Mexican American spiritualities and indigenous heritage, gender and racialization, and Chicana feminisms. Geographic specialization: U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, Central and South Texas.

Emeritus Faculty