Michele Adams
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3015 | madams@tulane.edu
Sociology of Marriage and Family; Online Dating Relationship Trajectories; Sociology of Gender; Sociology of Culture; Social Theory; Social Psychology
Richard D. Ager
Associate Professor, Director, Porter-Cason Institute, School of Social Work
Director, Center for Lifelong Learning, School of Social Work
(504) 862-3470 | ager@tulane.edu
Addictions; Clinical Practice; Evidence-Based Community Practices
Iñaki Alday
Dean, School of Architecture
Richard Koch Chair in Architecture
(504) 865-5392 | ialday@tulane.edu
Architecture and Urbanism; Climate Change; Adaptation; Interdisciplinarity
Katherine Andrinopoulos
Associate Professor, International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Program Director, International Health and Development MPH Program
(504) 988-4510 | kandrino@tulane.edu
International Health & Development; HIV, Family Planning, Malaria
Rebecca Atencio
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Liberal Arts
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Portuguese, Director of Gender & Sexuality Studies
(504) 862-3401 | ratencio@tulane.edu
Contemporary Brazil; Memory Politics; Gender and Sexuality Studies
William Balée
Professor and Department Chair, Anthropology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3055 | wbalee@tulane.edu
Cultural Anthropology; Amazonia; Historical Ecology; Ethnobiology
Carl L. Bankston
Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3024 | cbankst@tulane.edu
International Migration; Sociology of Religion; Sociology of Education
Robin Bartram
Assistant Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3010 | rbartram@tulane.edu
Urban Studies; Housing and the Built Environment; Inequality, Governance and Legal Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies
Thomas Beller
Associate Professor, English
(504) 862-8173 | tbeller@tulane.edu
The Short Story; The Personal Essay; Vignette; Urban Sketch; The Flaneur; Urban History; Basketball; Lead and Lead Poison; New York City; New Orleans
William E. Bertrand
Wisner Professor, Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
(504) 865-5240 | wbertran@tulane.edu
Surveillance Systems; Multi-Method Evaluation Information Systems; Social Epidemiology
Joan Blakey
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Social Work
(504) 862-3493 | jblakey1@tulane.edu
Trauma and Substance Abuse Among Women Involved with the Child Protection and Criminal Justice Systems
Fred Buttell
Professor, School of Social Work
Director, Elizabeth Wisner Center for Research on Children and Families
(504) 865-3486 | buttell@tulane.edu
Intimate Partner Violence; Batterer Intervention Program Evaluation; Community-Based Correction Programs
Edson Cabalfin
Professor of Practice in Design Thinking, School of Architecture
Director of the Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Program
(504) 314-2368 | ecabalfin@tulane.edu
Intersections of Architecture History and Theory; Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Postcolonial Theory; Southeast Asian Studies; Spatial Justice, Public Interest Design; Heritage Conservation
Richard Campanella
Senior Professor of Practice, School of Architecture
(504) 862-8453 | rcampane@tulane.edu
Urban Geography; History and Demography of New Orleans
M. Pia Chaparro
Assistant Professor, International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
(504) 988-4533 | pchaparro@tulane.edu
Social and Environmental Determinants of Obesity; Double Burden of Malnutrition in Latin America; Food Insecurity
Xiaojin Chen
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3008 | xchen1@tulane.edu
Migration and Children's Development in China; Developmental and Life Course Criminology; Victimization; Social Statistics
Mariana Craciun
Assistant Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3002 | mcraciun@tulane.edu
Sociology of Medicine and Mental Health; Science and Technology Studies; Qualitative Methods
Michael Cunningham
Associate Provost, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Professor, Psychology and African and African American Diaspora Studies, School of Liberal Arts
Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow
(504) 862-3308 | mcunnin1@tulane.edu
Adolescent Development; Resilience and Vulnerability in African American Children and Adolescents
Allison Emmerson
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, School of Liberal Arts
504-862-3083 | aemmerso@tulane.edu
Roman Archaeology; Pompeii; Ancient Italy; Urbanism; Death and the City
Francisco Estrada-Belli
Research Assistant Professor, Archaeology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 865-5335 | festrad1@tulane.edu
Maya Archaeology; Remote Sensing and Lidar; Geographic Information Systems
Reggie Ferreira
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Program Director, Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy
(504) 862-3479 | rferrei@tulane.edu
Community Disaster Resilience; Social Vulnerability Studies; Special Needs Populations
Charles R. Figley
Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Work
Professor, School of Social Work
Paul Henry Kurzweg Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health
Director, Traumatology Institute
(504) 862-3473 | figley@tulane.edu
Traumatology; Disaster Mental Health; Psychosocial Stress
Terrence Fitzmorris
Adjunct Professor, History, School of Liberal Arts
Associate Dean, School of Continuing Studies
(504) 865-5555 | tfitzmo@tulane.edu
Louisiana History from the 1840s to Civil Rights Era; New Orleans History; Irish and Irish-American Life; Louisiana During Huey Long's regime
Samantha Francois
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
504-862-3496 | sfrancoi@tulane.edu
Adolescent Development, Vulnerability, and Resilience in African American Communities; Systemic Violence; School-to-Prison Pipeline
Guadalupe García
Associate Professor, History, Latin American Studies, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8539 | ggarcia4@tulane.edu
History of Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean; Colonialism, Race, and Mapping
Rubén García Rubio
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
504-314-2327 | grubio@tulane.edu
Architecture and Urbanism
Maurya W. Glaude
Professor of Practice, School of Social Work
(504) 247-1456 | gmaurya@tulane.edu
Adolescent Development, Mental Health, Continuing Care Services, and Substance Use Disorders; Culturally Relevant Practice Models
Kevin Fox Gotham
Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
Director, Urban Studies Program
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3004 | kgotham@tulane.edu
Urban Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity
Tonya Cross Hansel
DSW Program Director, School of Social Work
(504) 247-1450 | tcross1@tulane.edu
Disaster Mental Health; Trauma; Program Evaluation and Service Outcome Research
Douglas N. Harris
Professor, Chair, Economics, School of Liberal Arts
Schleider Foundation Chair in Public Education
(504) 862-8352 | dharri5@tulane.edu
Economics of Education; Teacher Labor Markets; Charter Schools
Andy Horowitz
Assistant Professor of History, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8608 | ahorowitz@tulane.edu
Modern American Political; Cultural and Environmental History
Brian Horowitz
Sizeler Family Professor, Jewish Studies, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3075 | horowitz@tulane.edu
Jewish Urbanism; Central and Eastern Europe; Israeli Politics, Economics, and Culture
Oliver Houck
Professor, Latin American Studies, School of Law
(504) 865-5946 | ohouck@tulane.edu
Environmental, Natural Resources and Criminal Law; Wildlife, Wetland, Coastal and Pollution Issues
Xin Jiang
Assistant Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
xjiang11@tulane.edu
Juvenile Delinquency, Criminology; Immigrant Assimilation
Katherine Johnson
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3016 | kjohns25@tulane.edu
Sociology of Reproduction; Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healthcare; Family Sociology; Sociology of Gender, Feminist Theory
Margarita Jover
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
(504) 314-2334 | mjover@tulane.edu
Ecologies of Urban Prosperity; Socioecological Urbanism; Flooding Dynamics and Public Space
Jesse Keenan
Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture
(504) 314-2331 | jkeenan@tulane.edu
Real Estate and Infrastructure; Climate Change Adaptation; Building Science and Economics; Environmental Finance; Federal, State and Local Climate Policy; Housing Studies
Carl Kendall
Professor, Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Director, Center for Global Health Equity, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
(504) 988-5347 | ckendall@tulane.edu
Sociocultural Components of Disease; Medical Anthropology; HIV prevention and Treatment; Health Disparities
Sally J. Kenney
Newcomb College Endowed Chair and Professor, Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute
(504) 865-5422 | skenney@tulane.edu
Women and Politics; Feminist Organizations; and Feminist Social Movements.
Michael Kuczynski
Professor, English, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 869-8150 | mkuczyn@tulane.edu
Chaucer and Middle English Literature; Religion and Literature in Medieval and Early Modern England; Poetry and the Visual Arts
J. Celeste Lay
Associate Professor, Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8323 | jlay@tulane.edu
American Political Behavior; Political Socialization; Rural and Urban Politics; Voting Behavior, and Public Policy
Amalia Leguizamón
Assistant Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3009 | aleguiza@tulane.edu
Political Economy of the Environment in Latin America; Social Movements; Agrarian and Food studies; Resource Extraction Projects and Technologies
Camilo Arturo Leslie
Assistant Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
cleslie1@tulane.edu
Sociology of Law and Economics; Comparative and Historical Sociology; White-Collar Crime
Marva L. Lewis
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
mlewis@tulane.edu
Parent-Child Attachment; Racism-Based Stress; Culturally Valid Research Methods; Colorism in African American Families
Jana K. Lipman
Associate Professor, History, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8618 | jlipman@tulane.edu
Immigration; Refugees; Labor and Working Class History; US Empire
Aubrey Spriggs Madkour
Associate Professor, Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
(504) 988-3540 | aspriggs@tulane.edu
Adolescent Health and Development; Teen Dating Violence; Social and Determinants of Health; Sexual and Reproductive Health
Adeline Masquelier
Professor, Anthropology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3594 | amasquel@tulane.edu
Cultural Anthropology; Religion; Medicine; Gender; West Africa
Nancy Maveety
Professor, Chair, Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8300 | nance@tulane.edu
U.S. Supreme Court Studies; Judicial Decision Making; Comparative Judicial Politics
Vicki Mayer
Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives and Curriculum
Professor, Communications, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3035 | vmayer@tulane.edu
Media Audiences, Production Studies, Communication Labor, Political Economy; Citizenship and Culture, Latin American and Latino Media, Alternative and Community Media
Catherine McKinley
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
(504) 862-3495 | catmckinley@tulane.edu
Indigenous Communities; Historical Oppression; Family Violence; Mental Health Disparities
Laura McKinney
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3013 | lauramc@tulane.edu
Environmental Sociology; Global Social Change and Development; Global and Local Sustainability; Rural and Community Development; Quantitative Methodologies
John McLachlan
Professor, Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Weatherhead Distinguished Professor, Environmental Studies
Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
(504) 988-6910 | jmclach@tulane.edu
Developmental Pharmacology; Environmental Estrogens; Human Health and Behavior
Laura Murphy
Clinical Associate Professor, Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Lead Convener, Graduate and Professional Programs and Coordinator of Design Thinking Outreach at the Taylor Center
(504) 988-2681 | lmurphy@tulane.edu
Social Innovation and Design; Environmental Change and Sustainability; Technology; Global Development Theories and Practice
Christopher Oliver
Professor of Practice, Sociology, Environmental Studies, School of Liberal Arts
Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Professorship and Carnegie Corporation of New York, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship III, Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking
(504) 865-5541 | coliver6@tulane.edu
Urban Political Ecology; Environmental Sociology; Urban Development and State Policies; Human Health and Behavior; Housing and Inequality
Stephen Ostertag
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3023 | sostertag@tulane.edu
Cultural Sociology; Media Sociology; Cognition, Crime and Incarceration; Social Control; Media Representations of Racism and Systemic Oppression
Marline Otte
Associate Professor, Sizeler Professorship of History, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8621 | motte@tulane.edu
Modern European History; Germany and Cultural History; German Popular Entertainment
Stacy Overstreet
Professor, Psychology, School of Science and Engineering
(504) 862-3332 | soverst@tulane.edu
Childhood Trauma and Chronic Stress; Family Violence; School-Based Intervention; Trauma-Informed Care
Patrick Rafail
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3001 | prafail@tulane.edu
Social Movements and Collective Behavior; Applied Statistics; Political Sociology; Social Control; Complex Organizations; Urban Policing; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing.
Carol McMichael Reese
Favrot Professor, School of Architecture
Co-director, Urban Studies Minor program, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 314-2328 | creese1@tulane.edu
Art and Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism, 19th-21st Centuries; Urban History and Design; Critical History and Theory of Urbanization; Techniques of Architectural and Urban Representation; Critical Studies of Museum Design and Installation; Research Methodologies; Critical History and Theory of Latin American Urbanization
Thomas F. Reese
Executive Director, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Professor, Art History, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 865-5164 | treese@tulane.edu
Eighteenth-Century Spanish Art and Politics; Cultural Contact in Sixteenth-Century Mexico; Devotional Space in Colonial Andean Society; Contemporary Architectural Practice in Europe and the Americas; Critical History and Theory of Latin American Urbanization
Matt K. Sakakeeny
Associate Professor, Music, Ethnomusicology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 865-5274 | mattsak@tulane.edu
New Orleans Culture; African American Music; the Intersection of Music, Race, and Power
Mimi Schippers
Professor, Chair, Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3011 | mimi@tulane.edu
Gender and Sexuality; Feminist Theory; Social Theory and Cultural Studies; Queer Theory, Polyamory, and Non-Monogamies
Kenneth Schwartz
Professor, School of Architecture
Michael Sacks Chair in Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship, Director of Phyllis Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking
(504) 314-2376 | kschwartz@tulane.edu
Community Planning; Design Excellence in Architecture; Civic Engagement and Social Innovation
Thomas W. Sherry
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Science and Engineering
Siegel Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking
(504) 862-8296 | tsherry@tulane.edu
Migratory Bird Ecology; Tropical Ecology and Evolution; Conservation Biology; Global Climate Change
G. Eduardo Silva
Lydian Chair Professor, Friezo Foundation Chair, Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-8312 | gesilva@tulane.edu
Latin American Politics; Comparative Political Economy; Sustainable Development
David Smilde
Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Social Relations, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
(504) 862-3012 | dsmilde@tulane.edu
Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Religion; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Human Rights and Latin America
Benjamin Smith
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Director of Graduate Programs, Architecture
(504) 314-2335 | bsmith34@tulane.edu
Advanced Architectural Practices; Architecture and Aesthetics; Institutions and Pedagogy
Nicholas Randolph Spitzer
Professor, American Studies, Professor, Anthropology
(504) 865-5336 | nspitzer@tulane.edu
American Vernacular Music; Ethnography of Gulf South Expressive Culture; Cultural Conservation; Creoles and Cultural Creolization; Public Cultural Policy; Creative Practice as Producer and Host of American Routes (Co-produced by American Public Media)
John H. Stubbs
Director, Master of Preservation Studies
Christovich Senior Professor of Preservation Practice
(504) 314-2367 | jstubbs2@tulane.edu
International Architectural Preservation; Architectural History; Preservation Planning
Catherine Taylor
Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
(504) 988-0292 | ctaylor5@tulane.edu
Children, Social Norms, and Violence Prevention; Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence and their Co-occurrence; Child Physical Abuse; Determinants of Childhood Aggression; Mass Media/Communication and Public Health; Primary Prevention; Program Evaluation; Social Epidemiology
Katherine Theall
Associate Professor, Cecile Usdin Professorship in Women's Health
Director, Mary Amelia Women's Center, Department of Global Community Health & Behavioral Science, Public Health & Tropical Medicine
(504) 988-4535 | ktheall@tulane.edu
Social Determinants of Health; Social Epidemiology; Women and Children's Mental and Behavioral Health
Allison Truitt
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Urban Studies
(504) 862-3058 | atruitt@tulane.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology; Economic Transformations; Money and Other Means of Circulation; Cities, Consumption, and Globalization; Southeast Asia, Vietnam
Mark Van Landingham
Thomas C. Keller Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
(504) 988-2113 | mvanlan@tulane.edu
Migration and Health; Immigrant Health; Disasters and Health; and HIV/AIDS
Chad Van Schoelandt
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
(504) 862-3379 | cvanscho@tulane.edu
Social and Political Philosophy; Political Economy; Social Norms and Social Morality
Lindsay Weixler
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Co-Director, New Orleans Early Education Research Alliance
lweixler@tulane.edu
Early Childhood Education; Child Development; Education Policy; Educational Equity and Access; Research-Practice Partnerships
