Department Faculty 2007-2008
Ray
Barrow (ss50@truman.edu ) has been at Truman since 1981. He holds a bachelor’s degree from
Muskingum College and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of
Arizona. His teaching interests include criminology, sociology of social
problems, inter-group relations, social methodology, and sociology of health.
His current research focuses on patient-health care provider interaction,
descriptive ethics, inter-ethnic relations, and radical criminology. Dr. Barrow
is a member of the Midwest Sociological Society, the Communal Studies
Association, and is past president of the Missouri Sociological Association.
Michael Davis (mgdavis@truman.edu ) has been at Truman since 1974. He holds his bachelor’s degree in German and his master’s and doctorate degrees in anthropology, all from the University of Oklahoma. His teaching duties include introductory anthropology (now called Anthropological Inquiry), cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and North American Indians. His current research focuses on Native North America, the cultural anthropology of the martial arts, paleotechnology, and Tai Chi Chuan. He is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, a member of the Central States Anthropological Society, and a member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. He has published a book (Ecology, Sociopolitical Organization, and Cultural Change on the Southern Plains, Thomas Jefferson University Press) and articles on the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Native North American Archery, and Tai Chi Chuan. Dr. Davis is currently on leave from 2008-2009.
Jacob
Freeman (jfreeman@truman.edu ) is new this year. He holds a B.S. in Sociology/ Anthropology
from Truman State University and a M.A. in Anthropology from the University of
Texas at San Antonio. Mr. Freeman is a member of
Society for American Archaeology. His primary interest is archaeology. His current research
interest concerns the relationships between settlement structure, diet, and
density. Mr. Freeman is teaching Anthropological Inquiry and Cross-cultural
Approaches to Diversity and Change.
Wolfgang Hoeschele
(whoesche@truman.edu )
Ext. 4032
Dr. Hoeschele has been at Truman
since 1998. Dr. Hoeschele received his doctoral degree from
Pennsylvania State University, his masters degree from Washington
State University, and his bachelors degree from the College of
Wooster. His teaching and research interests include human-nature
interactions and international development issues, with a special
emphasis on social power relations between different social classes
and different cultural and ethnic groups. Dr. Hoeschele’s area of
specialization is South Asia.
Amber
Johnson (ajohnson@truman.edu ) is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Geography and
Sociology and has been at Truman since 2001. Dr. Johnson received her bachelor’s
degree at Rice University. She holds master’s and doctorate degrees from
Southern Methodist University. Dr. Johnson is a member of Sigma Xi, the Society
for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, and is
currently on the board of trustees for the Missouri Archeological Society. Her
primary research interest is to explain similarities and differences in patterns
of culture change around the world for the last 20-30,000 years. Current
research includes both recording information from the ethnographic literature on
the organization in economy, technology, and material culture of contemporary
societies and determining how to mark organizationally important changes in
archaeological sequences. Interested students are encouraged to participate in
this research. Dr. Johnson teaches Anthropological Inquiry, Anthropology of
Gender, Anthropological Theory, World Prehistory, Human Fossil Ancestry, Social
Methodology, and Senior Seminar. In addition, she enjoys her role as the faculty
sponsor for the Anthropology Club.
Elaine
McDuff (emcduff@truman.edu ) has been at Truman since 2001. Dr. McDuff received her bachelor’s
degree in Religion from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned
her master’s degree at Duke University and her Ph.D. in Sociology at the
University of Iowa. Her research interests include stratification, sociology of
work, work and family, gender inequality, and sociology of religion. Dr. McDuff
is the past president of the Missouri Sociological Association and a member of
the Nominations and Elections Committee of the Midwest Sociological Society,
American Sociological Association, Sociologists Without Borders, Sociologists
for Women in Society, Religious Research Association, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta
Kappa. She teaches Sociological Inquiry, Social Stratification, Sex and Gender
in Society, Family, Social Psychology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of
Religion, and Senior Seminar. In addition, she supervises student internships in
sociology each semester. Dr. McDuff is also the faculty advisor for Students
for Social Change (Sociology Club).
Jonathan Smith (jvsmith@truman.edu) has been at Truman since 1994. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Texas-Arlington, and his B.S. in geography from the University of Nevada-Reno. Dr. Smith has diverse teaching and research interests which include ethnolinguistic geography; rural Missouri geography, the religious and cultural geography of small towns, cultural geographies of Africa, the geography of environmental conflicts, and the geographic perspectives on origin issues.