Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology

News and Announcements

• Check out our most recent award and scholarship winners for Spring 2020!
• Anthropology professor, Dr. Brent Woodfill spent the summer searching for a lost Maya city that lived outside of Spanish control for over 100 years before finally being conquered in 1695. A journalist from Science Magazine traveled with him and published a feature length story about it in August titled, In Search of the 'White Jaguar'. 
• The Open Rivers Journal just posted an editorial by our very own, Dr. Brent K.S. Woodfill, titled, "An Archaeologist Writes Against the Anthropocene," which is included in the journal's Summer 2019 issue.
• Wiley Sociology named their most popular article of 2018 titled, "Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?" co-authored by Ty Miller, Ph.D. and Michael T. Light.
• Dr. Chris Gillam recently traveled for his ongoing research on Ice Age cultures of northern Mongolia. Dr. Gillam and his international colleagues, has led to the discovery of 95 archaeological sites dating to the Upper Paleolithic Period, ca. 45,000-12,000 years old, along the tributaries of the Selenge River.
• In fall 2017, the students of Anthropology 345, Fieldwork in Archaeology with Archaeologist Chris Gillam, discovered the location of field slave quarters at Historic Brattonsville. This is a very exciting and exceptional contribution to the history of the site.