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In this issue:
Dates to Remember
Dean’s List—Fall
2012
Outstanding
Anthropology and
Sociology Seniors
Sociology Club
Forensic Science
Society
AnthroSociety
Anthropology Round-
Up
Donor List
Faculty News
Information for New
Majors/Minors
Information for
Current Students
Fall 2013/Spring 2014
Schedules
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has survived its first academic year under
semesters, and because the University had invested so heavily in the preparations for the
changeover – and for so long – things have gone very well. Yes, the courses run for several
weeks longer than they used to, and many professors will be fine-tuning their efforts over the
next couple of years to get the pace just right. Students have been told to take five courses
every semester in order to graduate in four years, and some were openly voicing their
frustrations at having to cope with the demands of five courses when most had been used to
dealing with four courses in a term. It does involve adjustments, for faculty as well as students.
The “summer” session will be another place in which we will also have to readjust: the first
“A” term of summer actually begins and ends in the spring (May 6-June 14). My Field School in
Archaeology will be held in the A term, so we expect much cooler conditions and hope for not
too much rain!
The Department welcomed two new faculty members last Fall. Dr. Amelia Hubbard received
her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2012, and took over the reins from Anna Bellisari
teaching the biological anthropology courses. Dr. Gaetano Guzzo was rehired after a year’s
absence as a Lecturer of Sociology. He was very happy to return, and no one foresaw that he
would experience a heart attack (while teaching a class) in October! He has begun a long
recovery and is now back home in Wooster, Ohio. We hope that he makes a full recovery and
can at some time in the future return to us. We were very fortunate that two adjuncts,
Candice Flowers-Taylor and Carin Benning, and an emeritus professor, Jeanne Ballantine, all
stepped in and took over Guy’s classes for the remainder of the Fall semester.
The College of Liberal Arts also selected a new Dean during the Fall. Dr. Kristin Sobolik joined
us in January from the University of Maine, where she was most recently an Associate Dean in
the College of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, she is an anthropologist who has combined
archaeological and archaeobiological interests; she has published extensively, with most of her
fieldwork having been done in the American southwest and in Maine. As an anthropologist, we
serve as her home department, and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with
her.
Message f rom the Chair
Spring 2013
SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
NEWSLETTER
Dates to Remember
May 6 F i rst day A/C terms
May 17 Deadl ine for summer graduat ion appl icat ions
May 27 Memoria l Day—Univers i ty c losed
June 12 Last day Summer A term
June 13 Summer A term f inal exams
June 17 F i rst day B term
July 4 Independence Day—Univers i ty c losed
Ju ly 24 Last day Summer B/C terms
Ju ly 25 Summer B/C term f ina l exams
August 26 F i rst day Fa l l semester
DEAN’S LIST—FALL 2012
Anthropology
Gregory Borgert
Stephen Catanzar i t i
Georg ia Fenton
Kait l in F lamm
Jenna Kolb Socio logy
Christ ian Kuykendal l Teresa Butler
Hannah Magee Joshua Col l ins
Adam Tokarsky Sarah Dahl inghaus
Camee Decknadel
Tameka F incher
Kseniya Maksachova
Kat ie McGrath
Angela Pernel l
Daniel Petty
Shawn Rol fe
Tyler Ryan
Amaha Se l lass ie
Matthew Sommervi l le
Outstanding Anthropology Senior
After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Shawn Rolfe attended college in order
to obtain a degree in finance and economics. However, life does not always go as
planned, and with some life altering experiences, he left school to pursue a career in
business. Although successful in business, Shawn felt compelled to start a new chapter in
his life by returning to school at WSU in 2010 and majored in sociology with a minor in
crime and justice studies. Recently he presented his departmental honors thesis, “Sex
Offenders and the Obstacles They Face Reentering Society,” at the 2013 Annual Meet-
ing of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Shawn’s hard work and dedication on
this project and throughout his course work has earned him multiple distinctions. Shawn
gives credit for his success to his wife and daughter, along with his mentor Dr. Karen
Lahm and the entire Sociology Department at WSU. He feels that without them, he would not be where he is
today. In the fall, Shawn will begin graduate work at the University of Louisville on a full academic scholarship.
He plans on continuing his research on sex offenders and the reentry process for all offenders. Ultimately,
Shawn wants to obtain his Ph.D. in order to teach and continue to do research that will help mold future poli-
cies for those who face insurmountable barriers in the reintegration process.
Dr. Karen Lahm and Shawn Rolfe, at the recent ACJS meeting in Dallas, Texas. Shawn
presented his paper from his senior thesis on Sex Offenders and Housing Availability.
He has received full funding in the form of a graduate teaching assistantship to pursue
his Master's Degree at the Univ. of Louisville this upcoming Fall. After that, he will con-
tinue on with his PhD. He is also the Outstanding SOC graduate for this year.
Georgia Fenton was raised in Newark, Ohio, along with her three younger siblings, by her
parents, Kelly and David Fenton. After graduating from Newark High School, she choose to
pursue her undergraduate degree in Anthropology at Wright State. Throughout her college
career she has been apart of the University Honors Program, the Wright State University
Chamber Orchestra, the Wright State Symphony Orchestra and the Wright State Anthro-
pology Club. This past summer she participated in the Wright State University Field School
in Archaeology. She plans on attending Graduate School at Wright State University in the
Public History Program. She hopes to one day work at a museum or an archival institution,
working with and preserving elements of both history and prehistory.
Outstanding Socio logy Senior
Socio logy Club
AnthroSociety
AnthroSociety is a student initiated, student lead, and student run organization at Wright State. The association is
open to all students with an interest in anthropology to meet and discuss all things anthropological. The
AnthroSociety is focused on creating undergraduate-faculty relationships, as well as helping students in locating
field schools, internship opportunities, graduate schools, and professional career opportunities, as well as
promoting an academic environment for further professionalization. Please follow the links below for tutoring
services, guest lectures, trips, and workshops and feel free to contact them via e-mail for more information.
Website: http://wright.orgsync.com/org/anthropologysociety
E-mail: [email protected]
Anthropology Alumni Roundup
Taking the top spot here is Jon Carroll ’96, MA ’02 who defended his Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology
(archaeology) this winter at Michigan State, which explores the sociopolitical interaction and integration of a late
prehistoric phase in Michigan: congratulations, Dr. Carroll! I saw in the WSU Alumni magazine that Fernando
Viera ’86 is Stedman Machine Co.’s Latin America sales manager. I vividly recall the VHS tapes Fernando made of the field school’s work at the Owens Rockshelters, including footage of what happened when the director was
away at WSU of a morning. Tiffany Bevins O’Sheal ‘05 was appointed Archivist at the Utah State Archives.
Tiffany received MA degrees in anthropology from Ball State and in Public History from WSU.
The WSU Sociology Club mission is to encourage the pursuit of
excellence in sociology within the Wright State community. As an
organization it strives to develop and refine the sociological skills of
the club members, and to serve as a forum for examining and dis-
cussing current sociology techniques and studies. The Sociology Club encourages student research and collabo-
ration at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and promotes learning about human diversity. For infor-
mation, contact the president for 2013-2014, Gabrielle Lyles, or access contact infor-
mation on the club’s Orgsync page, https://orgsync.com/46612/chapter.
Forens ic Sc ience Society
The WSU Forensic Science Society (FSS) is dedicated to foster knowledge and
learning of new techniques in that field, and to help students in their careers by giving
them experience and facilitating attendance at professional conferences. President and
founding member Erin Berdanier is graduating, so the new president is Josh Edington.
Future plans include a website and Facebook page. For more information, visit FSS on
OrgSync page.
Donor List
Dr. Tracey Steele
Dr. Karen Lahm
Dr. Marlese Durr
Mrs. Christine S. Folino
Mrs. Joyce McDaniel
Ms. Sandra Slater
Dr. Robert Riordan Mr. Robert Schumeth
Ms. Ruth Simms
Mr. Ralph Daniels
Mrs. Joan Johnson
Lora Dues
Mr. Gregory Merrill
Mr. R. Greggory Cross
Mrs. Sally Gooding
Mrs. Mary Kay
Ms. Faith Lahm
Mrs. Joyce Goulart
Mrs. Dawn Darden
Mr. Thomas Reichert
Mr. Gregory Borgert, Ms. Georgia Fenton and Mr. Robert Whittaker were the recipients of the Gary M.
McDaniel Scholarship award for the 2012-13 academic year. We are pleased to announce that Mr. David Wean
was the first recipient in February 2013 of the Ellen Murray Scholarship.
Please consider donating to one of the Sociology/Anthropology scholarship funds listed below. Your donations
are very much appreciated and will help students within the department!
Ellen Murray Memorial Scholarship fund (Sociology)
Gary McDaniel Memorial Scholarship fund (Anthropology)
Contributions are also welcomed to the department’s Program Fun, which is used to support speakers in classes,
small purchases of equipment, small emergency grants to students, etc.
Please make checks payable to Wright State University and designate the appropriate scholarship or program
fund.
Faculty News
Dr. Jim Adamitis has a “cutting edge” website for internships that now includes an instructional video as well as all agency
protocols. He reminds potential internees (with at least junior status and university core done) that they must apply online via
the CJS website before they can be considered for an internship. Jim stays very busy with this and his classes, but is hoping to
get away for some horseback riding in Colorado this summer.
Dr. Jacqueline Bergdahl primarily teaches research methods and statistics. Jackie has research interests in driving,
food and fitness. She is currently developing a Sociology of Food course which explores what we eat, who grows, process-
es, and serves our food, and how we grow and process our food, among other topics.
Dr. Marlese Durr will serve as a Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Society for
the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in San Francisco in 2014 and was elected president of the SSSP, whose goal is to
encourage research and teaching on significant problems of social life and, particularly to encourage the work of young sociologists.
Dr. Amelia Hubbard joined the department in Fall of this year as the new biological anthropologist. In December, she
conducted archaeological fieldwork in Kenya and will return this summer with two Anthropology students as part of a Wen-
ner-Gren Engaged Anthropology grant. Amelia looks forward to teaching a new course (Fall) called Methods in Human Oste-
ology as well as continuing to teach Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Fall and Spring), now a course listed among the
natural sciences options in the new WSU Core (General Education) and Modern Human Variation and Adaptation (Spring).
Azi Jahanbegloo, M.A., continues to teach several sections of SOC 2000 each year. She has a new cat at
home, and her daughter Pegah, who attended Wright State as both an undergraduate and graduate student, is
getting married.
Dr. Chigon Kim is returning from a one-year sabbatical and will be teaching courses on methods, social inequality and im-
migration.
Dr. Frank Eguaroje will be teaching several courses on Africa next year, as well as a course entitled, "Visual Art in
Western Culture."
Dr. Karen Lahm recently published a chapter on the availability of rehabilitative programs in Correctional Con-
texts by Latessa and Holsinger, received a CoLA grant to study violence and misbehavior among women inmates
at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, and just presented a poster on the lives of women prior to prison at
the ACJS conference in Dallas. She will be teaching Victimology in Fall, 2013, and is looking forward to a semester
of professional development leave to do research in Spring, 2014. Dr. Lahm is pictured one page three with Soci-
ology Honors student Shawn Rolfe at the recent ACJS conference, where he presented his research on sex of-
fenders.
Dr. Laurel Monnig will travel to Guam this summer to conduct independent research and will offer a new
course in the fall, Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific.
Dr. Michael Norris visited northern India with his son in December, and has been encouraging students to compare
and contrast the highly publicized gang rape that occurred in Delhi during his visit with the recent rape trial in Steuben-
ville, Ohio. He had a book chapter published in Spanish last year, presented a paper on the global war on drugs at the
ACJS meeting in Dallas, and is currently working on research about police visibility and citizen fear of crime with Dr. Os-
man Dolu, our visiting scholar from Turkey.
Dr. David Orenstein will be teaching courses on sociological theory and continuing a new course called "Firearms
and Society" in the spring. His son Phil will enter his third year of law school.
Dr. Geoffrey Owens traveled to the University of Edinburgh-Scotland in February as a guest speaker at the Centre for
African Studies. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter who enjoyed seeing sites around Scotland including the
Royal mile, Edinburgh Castle, and Mary King’s Close. He will be teaching courses on the anthropology of religion, African
oral traditions, and political anthropology this year.
Dr. Bob Riordan presented an invited paper in a symposium at the Eastern States Archaeological Federation meeting in
October, which he revised this winter into an article to be included in the forthcoming book from the University Press of
Florida. He will be running his annual field school this summer at the Fort Ancient Site. He will also be teaching two seminars
next year on historical archaeology and archaeological theory.
Faculty News (cont ’d)
Faculty News (cont ’d)
Dr. Norma Shepelak applied for a grant to study school shootings and will be teaching Deviant Behavior and Modern
Society.
Dr. LaFleur Small will be returning from a one-year sabbatical, during which she worked on articles for publication and advised
graduate students with their projects. She will be teaching SOC 2000, Medical Sociology and Aging and HIV.
Dr. Tracey Steele was awarded a LEADER Consortium Mini-Grant with Sarah Twill of the Center for Teaching and Learn-
ing for a peer-mentoring project designed to help mid-career women faculty in STEM disciplines advance in rank. Dr. Steele
will be on Professional Development Leave next year, working on several research projects, including an analysis of how pris-
on correctional officers cope with the sexual behaviors of the inmates in their charge, and an investigation of factors shap-
ing individual perceptions of the prevalence of false rape allegations.
Jon Varhola, M.A., has received a Teaching Innovation Grant, and recently presented a paper on college student percep-
tions of sex offenders at the Midwest Sociological Society conference in Chicago, and took two undergraduates to the
conference who did poster presentations. He is developing a Crime, Law and Deviance section for SOC 2000 and plans
two new ABS 7600 seminars: Sex Offenders and the Law, and Problematic Police Procedures and Practices.
Dr. Julianne Weinzimmer has new research projects on mothering in the context of intimate partner violence, and con-
tent analysis of hegemonic masculinity, emphasized femininity, and sexual objectification on a Midwestern college campus,
which she recently presented at the Midwestern Sociological Society in Chicago. She is preparing a new course for the fall on
qualitative methods, which will develop students’ research skills through experiential learning.
In format ion for New Majors /Minors
If you are graduating this summer (2013) please remember the following:
You must submit an application to graduate no later than May 17th
You must complete a grad check with your Sociology or Anthropology advisor to ensure you have met all
your requirements. Grad checks are then turned into the registrar’s office with the application to gradu-
ate and $35 fee.
If you will be a Sophomore or Junior in the 2013-2014 year, consider making an appointment with your faculty advisor to begin:
Planning for field schools, internships, or other applied experience in your last two years
Consideration of your plans after graduation: will you apply to graduate school, take time off, or go into the job market?
Deciding if you might want to study abroad
All majors should have TWO advisors: 1) an Anthropology or Sociology faculty member and 2) a COLA ad-
viser. Your COLA adviser is assigned to you upon completing paperwork for the major, but YOU will need
to talk to Susan Schultheis ([email protected] or (937) 775-26667) to select your faculty advisor.
Your ANTH or SOC faculty advisor can:
assist you with career choice decisions
assist you with issues related to professional development and ethics
acquaint you with available educational resources
evaluate your progress toward your professional goals
Your student services advisor can:
help you set a plan to graduate on time
answer questions about University requirements for courseloads and credit hours
consult with your faculty advisor concerning course substitutions or changes to your program of study
In format ion for Current Students
FALL 2013 SCHEDULE
SPRING 2014 SCHEDULE
SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY FACULTY
Riordan, Robert, Chair Ext. 2667 266 Millett Hall
Adamitis, Jim Ext. 4465 289 Millett Hall
Bergdahl, Jacqueline Ext. 2272 257 Millett Hall
Durr, Marlese Ext. 2275 255 Millett Hall
Eguaroje, Frank Ext. 3980 288 Millett Hall
Guzzo, Gaetano Ext. 5261 229 Millett Hall
Hubbard, Amelia Ext. 4947 262 Millett Hall
Jahanbegloo, Azadeh Ext. 2930 287 Millett Hall
Kim, Chigon Ext. 3548 259 Millett Hall
Lahm, Karen Ext. 4165 267 Millett Hall
Monnig, Laurel Ext. 2952 293 Millett Hall
Norris, Michael Ext. 2921 260 Millett Hall
Orenstein, David Ext. 4529 268 Millett Hall
Owens, Geoffrey Ext. 2923 265 Millett Hall
Shepelak, Norma Ext. 3091 253 Millett Hall
Small, LaFleur Ext. 2152 263 Millett Hall
Steele, Tracey Ext. 4096 261 Millett Hall
Varhola, Jonathan Ext. 3436 226 Millett Hall
Weinzimmer, Julianne Ext. 2442 264 Millett Hall
