Faculty & Staff
Paul Dean (Department Chair)
Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Justice; Coordinator of Faculty Onboarding
Elliott Hall 312
740-368-3837
psdean@owu.edu
Stratification and Inequality; Race and Ethnicity; Social Justice; Social Movements; Economic Sociology; Socially Responsible Business; Sociological Theory; Globalization; First-Gen Students; Service Learning
Vanessa Hildebrand
Associate Professor of Sociology-Anthropology
Elliott Hall 309
740-368-3786
vmhildebrand@owu.edu
Medical Anthropology; Development, Policy, and Global Health; Midwifery; Medical Education; Gender and Feminist Theory; Cultures of Biomedicine and Ethnomedicine; Maternal and Infant Health; Family; Research Methods; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, USA.
Veda Hyunjin Kim
Assistant Professor of Sociology-Anthropology
Elliott Hall 308
740-368-3866
vhkim@owu.edu
Criminology, Crimes of the Powerful, Comparative Historical Sociology, Empire and Postcolonial Studies, Genocide, Transitional Justice, Intersectionality, and Social Theories.
Part-Time Faculty
Sean Brown
Part-Time Instructor in Sociology-Anthropology
Elliott Hall 402
sfbrown@owu.edu
Sociology of Sport (particularly youth sport); Social and Cultural Capital; Community Sociology; Sociology of Education; Qualitative Methods; Postcolonial Theory
Sam Mitchell
Part-Time Instructor in Sociology-Anthropology
Elliott Hall 402
srmitchell@owu.edu
Stratification and Inequality, Gender and Partnering Intentions: Higher Education, Academic Fraud, First-Generation College Students, Student Assessment and Instructional Design, and Credentialism
Joe Dixon
Part-Time Instructor in Sociology-Anthropology
Elliott Hall 402
jadixon2@owu.edu
Wicked Problems, War and Warfare through History, Counterinsugency and Terrorism, International Drug Control
I take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the modern world, in both my research and my teaching. I am interested in the challenges of decision-making under uncertainty and the limits of scientific approaches to understanding social problems. My current research addresses efforts to develop and implement more rational approaches to drug control.
Staff
Deborah Lovell
Academic Assistant
Elliott Hall 205
740-368-3906 | djlovell@owu.edu
Retired Faculty
Theodore (Ted) Cohen
Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
John (J.D.) Durst
Emeritus Part-Time Associate Professor of Sociology-Anthropology, Social Justice
Mary Howard
Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
James Peoples
Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
Department Contact Info
Location
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
Department Contact
Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Justice
Elliott Hall 312
740-368-3837
psdean@owu.edu
Academic Assistant: Deborah Lovell
Academic Assistant
Elliott Hall 110
740-368-3906
djlovell@owu.edu