######### Ph.D. Committees:

- • Timothy Scott Pruett (Geography, West Virginia University, Ph.D., Defended 2012, Member); Coca or Death! The Political Ecology of Cocalero Resistance: A Comparative Analysis of the Dissertation: Coca Farmer Social Movement in Andean Peru .
- • Toni Brown-Crump (Sociology, WVU, Ph.D., 2017-2018, Member)
- • Victoria Evia (Anthropology, CIESAS, Mexico City, MX, Ph.D., 2016-2019, Defended 2019, Member); Exposición a plaguicidas agrícolas en el contexto de sojización uruguaya: Padecimientos Dissertation: 'reconocidos' y 'aguantados' y posibilidades de participación social en salud [Exposure to agricultural pesticides in the context of the Uruguayan soy boom: 'Recognized' and 'endured' suffering and the possibilities of social participation in health]
- • Sara Guthrie (Sociology, WVU, Ph.D., 2019-2020, Member)
- • Vaida Lilionyte-Manthos (Political Science, WVU, Ph.D., Defended 2021, Member)

Dissertation: Policy Dynamics in the European Parliament and in the Lithuanian Seimas Dissertation: Policy Dynamics in the European Parliament and in the Lithuanian Seimas .

- • Susana Mazuelas Quirce (Higher Education Administration, WVU, Ph.D., 2018-2022, Defended 2022, Member)

Dissertation: and Mestiza Consciousness in Appalachia: Latina Undergraduate Experiences Dissertation: and Mestiza Consciousness in Appalachia: Latina Undergraduate Experiences in a Predominantly White Institution .

- • Aurora Gernert (Sociology, WVU, Ph.D., 2022, Principal Advisor)
- • Santiago Alzugaray (Anthropology, Universidad de San Martín, Argentina, Ph.D., 2023, Defended 2023, Member)

Dissertation: y tecnología para el arroz en Uruguay: ¿Un camino sin alternativas? (Science and Dissertation: y tecnología para el arroz en Uruguay: ¿Un camino sin alternativas? (Science and Technology for Rice in Uruguay: A pathway without alternatives?)

- • Maria Noel González (Anthropology, Universidad de la República, Ph.D., 2024, Defended 2024, Member). Traer el agua a la vida. Historia, ambiente y poder en la constitución de paisajes de riego en Dissertation: el Este de Uruguay (Bring water to life: History, environment and power in the constitution of irrigation landscapes in Eastern Uruguay)
- • Stephanie House-Niamke (Sociology, WVU, Ph.D., 2024-2025, Defended 2025, Member). Dissertation: Didn't He Hide Out in Egypt Though? A Mixed Methodological Study of Black American and Gendered Socialization and Perceptions of the White Jesus Phenomenon .
- • Aron Massey (Geography, WVU, Ph.D., 2018-present, Member)
- • Nkatha Mercy (Geography, WVU, Ph.D., 2023-present, Member)
- • Nazma Ahmed (Sociology, WVU, Ph.D., 2023-present, Doctoral Advisor)
- • Megan Kruger (Sociology, WVU, Ph.D., 2024-present, Doctoral Advisor)

## SERVICE

##### Department, College, and University (WVU)

- • , WVUDepartment of Sociology &Anthropology, 2023-present. Chair
- • , WVUDepartment of Sociology &Anthropology, 2022-23. Acting Chair
- • , WVUDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, 2010-2017 Director of Undergraduate Studies (coordinated and oversaw three majors: Criminology, Sociology, and Anthropology, with a combined enrollment of 900 students)
- • , WVUDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, 2008-2017. Undergraduate Program Committee
- • WVUDepartment of Sociology and Faculty Evaluation Committee [promotion and tenure] Anthropology, 2016-2019.
- • , Provost's Office, WVU, 2022 University Promotion and Tenure Advisory Panel
- • , Sociology of Race Assistant Professor Position, WVUDepartment of Sociology and Search Committee Anthropology, 2021-22.
- • , WVUDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, 2021-22. Critical Race Ad-Hoc Hiring Committee
- • Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, WVU, 2010-2013 Research and Graduate Studies Committee,
- • , Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, WVU2009- Latin American Studies (LAS) Program Committee present; Faculty Associate since LAS program launch in 2012.