Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton College

12 faculty and 40 courses in Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton College.

Faculty

• Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology h-index 9
• Elizabeth Durham, Assistant Professor of Anthropology h-index 2
• Annette Nierobisz, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology
• Beverly Nagel, Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Sociology, Science, Technology, and Society, Emerita
• Cheryl Yin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Latin American Studies
• Daniel Williams, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology
• Jerome Levi, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus
• Jim Fisher, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, Emeritus
• Liz Raleigh, Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair
• Meera Sehgal, Associate Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and Sociology
• Wes Markofski, Associate Professor of Sociology

Courses

• Introduction to Anthropology SOAN 110
• Introduction to Sociology SOAN 111
• Sociology of Work and Organizations SOAN 113
• Modern Families: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Family SOAN 114
• Introduction to Medical Anthropology SOAN 118
• Southeast Asian Migration and Diasporic Communities SOAN 125
• Animals and Society SOAN 140
• Colonialism, Oil, and the War on Terror: The Global Middle East SOAN 201
• Anthropology of Good Intentions SOAN 203
• Sociology of Gender SOAN 207
• Gentrification SOAN 208
• Language, Culture, and Power SOAN 209
• Neighborhoods and Cities: Inequalities and Identities SOAN 214
• More Than a Game: Sport and Society SOAN 223
• Social Movements SOAN 225
• Public Sociology of Religion SOAN 228
• Anthropology of Food SOAN 233
• Methods of Social Research SOAN 240
• Growing Up in an Aging Society SOAN 252
• Africa: Representation and Conflict SOAN 256
• Culture and Politics in India SOAN 257
• Anthropology of Health and Illness SOAN 262
• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity SOAN 272
• Urban Ethnography and the American Experience SOAN 278
• Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging in the U.S. SOAN 283
• Afro-descendant Identities in Cuba and Brazil SOAN 287
• Food Sovereignty: On Socio-Ecological Futures SOAN 306
• Human Trafficking SOAN 307
• Sociology of Mass Incarceration SOAN 310
• How Rude: (Im)politeness and (Dis)respect in Language SOAN 312
• Conscious Nature: Towards an Anthropology of Non-Human Beings SOAN 313
• Madness: Social Difference, (In)Justice and Change SOAN 315
• The Anthropology of the End of the World SOAN 320
• Buddhist Studies India Program: Contemporary Buddhist Culture SOAN 322
• Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment SOAN 323
• Sociology of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction SOAN 325
• Ecology and Anthropology Tanzania Program SOAN 326
• Greece at a Crossroads Program SOAN 327
• Sociological Thought and Theory SOAN 330
• Anthropological Thought and Theory SOAN 331

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.