The Sociology and Anthropology Department is part of the Social Sciences Division at Wagner. This faculty listing does not include part time or adjunct professors.

 

Sociology

Dr. John Esser, Department Chair & Professor

B.S., Haverford College; M.S., J.D., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Parker Hall Room 215
Office Phone: (718) 390-3497 | E-mail: jesser@wagner.edu
Dr. Esser's Website

Dr. Jean Halley, Assistant Professor

B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y.
Research Interests: Sociology, Family Studies, Women's Studies, Critical race theory, and Film and Media Studies.
Location: Parker Hall Room 210
Office Phone: (718) 390-3487 | E-mail: jhalley@wagner.edu
Dr. Halley's Website  

Dr. Chien Liu, Associate Professor

B.S., Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute; M.A., Baylor University; Ph.D., Florida State University
Location: Parker Hall Room 213
Office Phone: (718) 390-3486 | Email: chienliu@wagner.edu
Dr. Liu's Website 

Dr. Laura Martocci, Faculty

B.A., Lafayette College; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Reasearch
Research Interests: Relational Aggression and Identity Construction; Classical Theory; Postmodern Culture
Location: Union - 3rd Floor
Office Phone: (718) 420-4068 | Email: martocci@wagner.edu

Dr. Ronald Nerio, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology 

B.A.,University of Michigan; M.A., Michigan State University; M. Phil. PhD., City University of New York
Office Phone: (718) 390-3487 Email: ronald.nerio@wagner.edu  
Dr. Nerio's Website  
 
 
 

 

Anthropology

Dr. Gordon F. McEwan, Associate Professor

B.A., Texas A.&M. University; M.A, , Ph.D., University of Texas
Research Interests: The origin of the state and New World complex societies, Archaeology of Andean South America, The Inca State and Society, Archaeology of the valley of Cuzco and the origin of the Inca State; Archaeology of the Wari State and Middle Horizon Peru; New World Archaeology; Pre-historic transoceanic contacts, archaeological frauds and mysteries
Courses Taught: Introduction to Anthropology; Introduction to Archaeology; Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries in Archaeology; Freshman LC #17 RFT- "Why You Are You"; Native Cosmology and World View in the Andes, Intermedicate LC "Two Lost Worlds"; Land of the Incas: Peru Past and Present; Drugs and Society in Ancient Peru, Intermediate LC II "High Times in the Ancient World"
Location: Parker Hall Room 212
Office Phone: (718) 390-3498 | E-mail: gmcewan@wagner.edu
Dr. McEwan's Website  

Dr. Alexa S. Dietrich, Assistant Professor

A.B., Barnard College; MPH, PhD., Emory University
Research Interests: corporations and communities; community environmental health; political ecology of Puerto Rico; the global pharmaceutical industry; social responsibility in business
Teaching Interests:  Medical Anthropology; Culture, Community, and Environment; Gender and Sexuality; Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Methods; Political Anthropology; Anthropology and Public Health; Cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America; Applying Anthropology in Everyday Life
Location: Parker Hall Room 209
Office Phone: (718) 420-4373 | E-mail: alexa [dot] dietrich [at] wagner [dot] edu
Dr. Dietrich's Website

 

Dr. Celeste Gagnon, Assistant Professor 

 
B.A., University of Delaware; M.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Office Phone: (718) 390-3126 | E-mail: celeste.gagnon@wagner.edu 
Dr. Gagnon's Website  

 

Department Contacts:

Ms. Donna Toscano, Secretary

Location: Parker Hall Room 211
Office Phone: (718) 390-3253 | E-mail: dtoscano@wagner.edu

Ms. Debra Killen, Part-Time Secretary

Location: Parker Hall Room 205
Office Phone: (718) 420-4521 I E-mail: debra.killen@wagner.edu