Faculty and Staff
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
Russell Castro, M.A. (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Instructor of Sociology
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
Bonnie Lewis, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Tara Mann, J.D. (Loyola - New Orleans)
Instructor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: International law and Middle East studies, Lawand Sex Crimes, Constitutional law.
Molly McGraw, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University)
Associate Professor of Geography
Webmaster
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.
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
Nicole Youngman, Ph.D. (Tulane University)
Instructor of Sociology
Areas of Interest: environmental and disaster issues,
New Orleans
Administrative Assistant 3
Administrative Assistant 1