Social Sciences
Overview
Students wishing to combine study in several social science disciplines may consider a Social Sciences Divisional Area of Concentration (AOC).
Faculty in Social Sciences
Frank Alcock, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies
Michelle Barton, Associate Professor of Psychology
Carrie Beneš, Professor of History
Nat Colletta, International Affairs Scholar-in-Residence
Tracy Collins, Associate Professor of Economics
Duff Cooper, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods/Director of Social Sciences Research Lab
David Ellis, Associate Professor of Political Science
Barbara Feldman, Professor of Sociology
Yidong Gong, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (On Leave)
Michael Gorup, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Steven Graham, Associate Professor of Psychology
David Harvey, Professor of History
Sarah Hernandez, Associate Professor of Sociology and Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Barbara Hicks, Professor of Political Science
Andrew Humphries, Assistant Professor of Economics and Great Books
William Hustwit, Associate Professor of History
Marcus Ingram, Associate Professor of Economics and Finance
Richard Izquierdo, Associate Professor of Political Science
Tarron Khemraj, Professor of Economics and International Economics/William and Marie Selby Chair
T. J. H. McCarthy, Professor of Medieval History
Patricia Jewel Morrison, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Scott Palumbo, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Frederick Pirone, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Adam Rowe, Assistant Professor of History
Matthew Schalles, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Xia Shi, Associate Professor of History and International and Area Studies/Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies
Audrey Sprenger, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Christina Toms, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Casey Wheatland, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Sherry Yu, Associate Professor of Economics
Queen Meccasia Zabriskie, Associate Professor of Sociology (On Leave)
Jienian Zhang, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Emeritus Faculty
Anthony Andrews, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Uzi Baram, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Gordon Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Psychology
David Brain, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Charlene Callahan, Professor Emerita of Psychology
Richard Coe, Professor Emeritus of Economics
Justus Doenecke, Professor Emeritus of History
Maria Vesperi, Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Requirements for the Divisional AOC in Social Sciences
Course requirements for the Social Sciences Area of Concentration include: one introductory and two or more advanced courses and/or tutorials in at least three social science disciplines. This would mean a minimum of nine courses or tutorials in the social sciences. A Social Sciences AOC also involves a senior thesis that uses social scientific research methods. Students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the various methodologies employed by social scientists and, where possible, to take a research methods course in one of the fields most appropriate to their eventual thesis projects.
The program of study will be worked out by the student and a sponsor. The Area of Concentration form must be signed by at least two social sciences faculty in different fields who are in agreement on the student's plan of study. The senior thesis must be sponsored by a social sciences faculty member. The Baccalaureate Committee must also include two other members of the social sciences faculty.
Representative Senior Theses in Social Sciences
- LatinX First-Generation Students in Los Angeles and the Fight for Four Year College Attainment
- Librarianship in the Era of Inequality: A Study on the Local Response to the Changing Roles of Public Libraries
- Race, Power, and Memory: An Oral History of Gasparilla Island's Black Community
- A Virtuous Market: School Choice and Student Access at a Florida Charter School
- Gazing Upon the Goo-Goo Land: Constructions of the Filipino Identity in U.S. Newspapers, 1898–1904
- "Somos Seres Humanos. Merecemos Vivir Dignamente": Coloniality and Human Rights in the Face of Family Separation
- Population Growth and Development in Miami, Tampa, and Orlando from 1920 to 1975