Sociology Faculty
CLARE BOULANGER
Professor of Anthropology
email: boulange@mesastate.edu
Anthropology
B.A. (Anthropology and Studio Art), SUNY Plattsburgh, 1980; M.A.
(Sociocultural Anthropology), University of Minnesota, 1984, Ph.D.
(Sociocultural Anthropology), University of Minnesota, 1991. Dr.
Boulanger's topical interests lie broadly in the area of political
economy, explored through such aspects as ethnicity and class.
In terms of geographic focus, she has carried out field research
in the U.S. and in both mainland and Bornean Malaysia. She has
published a number of articles, primarily in Asian studies journals.
Courses taught include Cultural Anthropology, World Prehistory,
Gender and Culture, Language and Culture, Regional Study—Southeast
Asia, Ethnic Groups, and Globalization and Culture Change.
ADELE CUMMINGS
Professor of Sociology
email: acumming@mesastate.edu
Sociology
B.A. (Psychology), Florida State University, 1983; M.S. (Educational
Foundations and Policy Studies), Florida State University, 1987;
Ph.D. (Sociology), Duke University, 1995. Dr. Cummings´
research interests include comparative historical sociology, environmental
sociology, natural resource allocation and ideology. She teaches
General Sociology, Methods of Social Research, Contemporary Social
Theory, Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Sociology
of Religion.
BARRY MICHRINA
Professor of Anthropology
email: michrina@mesastate.edu
Anthropology
B.S. (Chemistry), St. Francis College, 1969; M.S. (Physical Chemistry),
Colorado State University, 1971; Ph.D. (Agronomy), The Pennsylvania
State University, 1981; Ph.D. (Cultural Anthropology) S.U.N.Y.
Binghamton, 1991. Dr. Michrina's research interests have included
Pennsylvania coal miners and their families, Ute tribal members,
and field methods. He is the author of two books: Pennsylvania
Mining Families, the Search for Dignity in the Coalfields and
Person to Person: Fieldwork, Dialogue, and the Hermeneutic Method.
He is founder and advising editor for Vignettes, A Journal of
Undergraduate Ethnography and executive board member for the Society
for Humanistic Anthropology. He teaches Cultural Anthropology,
Native North Americans, Ethnopsychology, Religion and Culture,
World Cultures, and Ethnographic Methods.
Visit Dr. Michrina´s Vignettes (a journal of undergraduate
student ethnographies) site at: http://www.mesastate.edu/~michrina/VIGNET~1.HTM
BRENDA WILHELM
Associate Professor of Sociology
email: bwilhelm@mesastate.edu
Sociology
B.A., University of Minnesota (Sociology and Mass Communications),
1993; M.A. (Sociology) University of Arizona, 1995: Ph.D. (Sociology)
University of Arizona, 1999. Dr. Wilhelm's primary research interests
include the life course, family sociology and social movements.
Her courses include Marriage and Families, Social Problems, Life
Course Sociology, Gender, Classical Theory, Collective Behavior
and Social Movements, and Population.
