{"id":47,"date":"2017-10-28T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-sociology\/facultystaff\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:55:02","slug":"facultystaff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/facultystaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-56\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erik Larson\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2017\/10\/eriklarson-150x0-c-default.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/facultystaff\/eriklarson\/\">Erik Larson<\/a>\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Professor of Sociology and Chair\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Works at the intersections of Sociology of Law, Economic Sociology, and Political Sociology. Interests include emergence and operations of the rights of Indigenous peoples, development of new financial markets, and political contention, rule of law, and coups.<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:larsone@macalester.edu\" >larsone@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6309<\/li>\n\t      \t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-60\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erika Busse-Cardenas\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2017\/10\/Erika5-150x0-c-default.jpeg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/facultystaff\/ericcabusse\/\">Erika Busse-Cardenas<\/a>\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Associate Professor\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Areas of interest include international migration to cities, racialization, family, and reproductive justice, and urban ethnography.<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:ebusse@macalester.edu\" >ebusse@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6518<\/li>\n\t      \t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-217\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christina Hughes\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2022\/08\/Hughes-Headshot-scaled-150x0-c-default.jpeg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/facultystaff\/217\/\">Christina Hughes<\/a>\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Assistant Professor\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Drawing on diverse methods to better understand how everyday social life is embedded within the global political economy, her research broadly demonstrates how racial and gendered labor and punishment are organized within and across the Global North and South.\u00a0<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:chughes3@macalester.edu\" >chughes3@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t      \t\t  <li>she\/her\/hers<\/li>\n\t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-57\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Khaldoun Samman\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2017\/10\/khaldounsamman-150x0-c-default.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/facultystaff\/khaldounsamman\/\">Khaldoun Samman<\/a>\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Professor of Sociology\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Focuses on world historical-comparative and urban sociology, globalization, sociology of religion, and modes of identities in the Middle East<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:samman@macalester.edu\" >samman@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6845<\/li>\n\t      \t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-160\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lisa Gulya\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2019\/11\/IMG_1773-150x0-c-default.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           Lisa Gulya\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Visiting Professor\n         <\/li>\n\t               <li class=\"position-description\">Building on my Fulbright research and my experience working at the Red River Women&#8217;s Clinic in my hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, I knew studying the sociology of reproduction in global context was my preferred field. My dissertation research focused on the experiences of adoptees from Russia, comparing interviews with them, their adoptive parents, and competing narratives of &#8220;the best interest of the child&#8221; in the U.S. and Russian pressses.<\/li>\n\t\t   \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:lgulya@macalester.edu\" >lgulya@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6502<\/li>\n\t      \t      \t\t  <li>she\/her\/hers<\/li>\n\t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"card card-profile vcard tease tease-profile card-figure card-figure-left\" id=\"tease-255\">\n      <div class=\"card-figure card-figure-padded\">\n\t         <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessa Phelan\" style=\"width: auto; max-width: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2023\/09\/20230830_mac_0389-150x0-c-default.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t   <\/div>\n   <div class=\"card-body\">\n      <ul>\n         <li class=\"fn\">\n                           <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/facultystaff\/vanessa-phelan\/\">Vanessa Phelan<\/a>\n                     <\/li>\n         <li class=\"title\">\n            Department Coordinator\n         <\/li>\n\t      \t                  <li class=\"email\"><a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:vphelan@macalester.edu\" >vphelan@macalester.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t   \t      \t\t  <li>651-696-6142<\/li>\n\t      \t      \t\t  <li>she\/her<\/li>\n\t            <\/ul>\n             \n         <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}