The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington offers a B.A. in sociology and in anthropology. The sociology program studies the social factors that shape life in modern America and the world, and the methods and theories sociologists use to study and explain these. The anthropology program studies the practices and beliefs of Non-Western and Western societies as well as global processes such as colonialism and neo-colonialism, with the goal of understanding what it means to be human in the broadest sense. For more information, visit the Sociology and Anthropology webpage.
Submissions from 2015
Motherhood in U.S. Academe: How the Presence of Women Disrupts the Ideal Worker Model in Colleges and Universities, Kristin Marsh
Submissions from 2014
The Anthropology of Guilt and Rapport: Moral Mutuality in Ethnographic Fieldwork, Eric Gable
Submissions from 2013
Hegemony and Humanitarian Norms: The US Legitimation of Toxic Violence, Eric Bonds
Submissions from 2012
Indirect Violence and Legitimation: Torture, Surrogacy, and the U.S. War on Terror, Eric Bonds
“Green” Technology and Ecologically Unequal Exchange: The Environmental and Social Consequences of Ecological Modernization in the World-System, Eric Bonds and Liam Downey
Submissions from 2011
Cultural Capital—Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Using Race to Unpack Systemic Class Differences, Leslie Martin
Submissions from 2010
Worldliness in Out of the Way Places, Eric Gable
Submissions from 2002
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: Conflict and Contradiction in Post-War Guatemala (Review Essay), Kristin Marsh