Kenneth Bolton, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Department Head and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: Gender Studies, Criminology, race and
ethnicity.
Michael Bisciglia, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University)
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: Homicide, Macro-Crime, Race and Ethnicity,
and Statistics
John G. Boulahanis, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University),
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: Homicide Studies, Crime Mapping, Quantitative Methods.
David Burley, Ph.D. (University of New Orleans)
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: environmental sociology, place attachment and environmental change, sustainable environments and economies, social construction of race, whiteness studies
Mary Anna Casstevens, M.A. (Texas A&M)
Instructor of Sociology
Areas of Interest:
Russell Castro, M.A. (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Instructor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Connect to Russell Castro's Homepage
Kellen Gilbert, Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Interest: Physical Anthropology, Primatology, Amazonia.
Rebecca Hensley, M.A. (Western Illinois University)
Instructor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Power Relations, Race, Gender and
Globalization
Anna Kleiner, Ph.D. (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Associate Professor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Rural Sociology, Community-Based
Participatory Research, Community Development, Agriculture
and Food, and Disasters.
Bonnie L. Lewis, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Director of the Southeastern Social Sciences Research Center
and Professor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Applied Social Research.
Tara Mann, J.D. (Loyola - New Orleans)
Instructor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: International law and Middle East studies, Law and Sex Crimes, Constitutional law.

Molly McGraw, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University)
Associate Professor of Geography
Areas of Interest: Fluvial and Coastal Geomorphology, Wetlands, Cyrosphere, GIS.
Gerald McNeill, M.A. (University of New Orleans)
Instructor of Geography
Areas of Interest: Necrogeography, Architectural Geography, Geographic Education, Louisiana Geography.
Dale Parent, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Professor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Applied Sociology, Sociology of Health.
Marc Riedel, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: Criminal Violence, Homicide, Quantitative
Methods
Peter Shrock, Ph.D. (University at Albany, SUNY)
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: organizational crime, regulation, and the social construction of deviant behavior and authority
Administrative Assistant 3
Administrative Assistant 1
Photographs by Jessica Darbonne.