Dr. Adams O’Connell has served on the American Sociological Association (ASA) Ethics Committee and currently serves on the ASA Sociology of Law Undergraduate Paper Committee. She also served on the Greenville Hospital System’s (Greenville, South Carolina) MedEx Academy Development Committee. She is the author of the book Getting Cut: Failing to Survive Surgical Residency Training (University Press of America) and has also authored several book chapters, articles in peer-reviewed journals, and conference presentations. Current projects include a multi-institutional study of the training and practice expectations of premedical students and a study on the unmet medical needs of the clientele of an urban food bank.

Teaching: Dr. Bloom’s course offerings include Cultural Anthropology, Health in Cultural Perspectives, and Sociology/Anthropology of Gender, among others. Her courses focus on themes such as gender-based violence, inequalities in healthcare and social service systems, cross-cultural perspectives on the body and health, globalization, and migration.

Current Research: Dr. Bloom’s research interests include the intersection of gender-based violence with health, disability, aging, and immigration. Her current project focuses on understanding how immigrant Latina women receiving services for domestic violence in the U.S. combine evangelical Christianity with social and health services to move forward through violence. Through this study, she is investigating domestic violence from a life-course perspective by considering the long-term effects of violence and how social services can better accommodate aging survivors and survivors with disabilities. Dr. Bloom is an active member of the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the American Anthropological Association. She regularly presents her work at academic conferences as well as collaborates on research with social work researchers and social service and health practitioners. Her previous research project centered around domestic violence services in Uruguay.

Dr. Chu received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. In addition, he has a J.D. degree from American University Washington College of Law. Dr. Chu has published articles on the socialization of criminal discourse, and law school socialization. He is currently researching the socialization of criminal prosecutors and defendants after law school. Dr. Chu is an active member of the American Anthropological Association and has an active attorney license from the New York State Bar. 

Dr. Keshodkar is currently working on two projects—one focused on exploring transnational social/cosmopolitan networks across the Indian Ocean, and the other analyzing the relationship between tourism, development, and cultural change in Muslim societies. He teaches courses in Modern African History and Society, Africana Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and Indian Ocean Studies. Topics of his courses include identity politics, movement of identities, tourism and development, transnationalism, comparative sociology, globalization, and anthropological research methods.

Dr. Malinski is primarily interested in the impact that crime and the criminal justice system have on children and adolescents. Specifically, she is interested in better understanding youth offending and victimization in various forms. Her current projects are aimed at better understanding the impact of bullying and cyberbullying victimization on adolescents, as well as the relationship between these two forms of victimization. Specifically, she is currently engaged in research examining what impact bullying and cyberbullying victimization have on several mental health outcomes. She is also working on another study seeking to better understand the relationship between bullying victimization and cyberbullying victimization, including potential trajectories of offline and online victimization. Dr. Malinski is an active member of both the American Sociological Association and the American Society of Criminology and presents her research findings regularly. Her publications include:

Malinski, R., Holt, T. J., Cale, J., Brewer, R., & Goldsmith, A. (2022). Applying Routine Activities Theory to Assess On and Offline Bullying Victimization among Australian Youth. Journal of School Violence, 1–13.

 Malinski, R., Monaco, A., & Vander Ven, T. (2021). (My Full Name) IS A WHORE: Gendered Experiences in Cyberbullying and Online Harassment. In Deviance Today (2nd ed., pp. 403–436). Routledge.*

 Zeoli, A. M., Malinski, R., & Brenner, H. (2017). The Intersection of Firearms and Intimate Partner Homicide in 15 Nations. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838017738725.

Dr. Wetcher-Hendricks received her B.A. in communications with a specialization in Journalism from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), as well as her M.A. in Social Relations and Ph.D. in Applied Social Research from Lehigh University. She is the author of Analyzing Quantitative Data: An Introduction for Social Researchers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011) Dr. Wetcher-Hendricks' main academic interest is social research methodology, specifically analysis of quantitative data (statistics). Within this field, she has completed several analyses of statistical models and derivations of statistical formulas, highlighted both in scholarly journals and at academic conferences. In addition to her focus on research methodology, topical areas of research that Dr. Wetcher-Hendricks has pursued include interpersonal and mass communication, gender relations, popular culture phenomena, and classroom teaching strategies. She has served as a consultant for academic personnel and community agencies pursuing independent research projects. One of her most gratifying accomplishments, however, was receiving the 2013 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.