DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Robert A. Brown, Ph.D.
Chair
Department of Social Science
rabrown1@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall Suite 3028
Office Number: 410-651-8482
Curriculum Vitae
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Zelma E. Hayward, MPA
Administrative Assistant
zehayward@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3040
Office Number: 410-651-6086 / Fax: 410-651-6584
SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY
Prince Attoh, Ph.D.
Professor
Organizational Leadership
paattoh@umes.edu
Office: Spaulding Building
Office Number: 410-621-2280
Expertise: Cross-Cultural Leadership
Kathryn Barrett-Gaines, Ph.D.
Professor
kbarrett-gaines@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3010
Office Number: 410-651-7934
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Africa-centered World History, African History, African American History, Comparative History of Race, and Social, Cultural, and Economic History of Uganda and East African Great Lakes Region
Joyce Bell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Coordinator of the Sociology/Social Work Dual Degree Program
Social Work
jabell@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3034
Office Number: 410-621-3361
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Clinical social work, work with families and children, religion and spirituality, philosophy, working with groups
Shannon Paige Clark, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Organizational Leadership
smclark1@umes.edu
Office: Spaulding Hall, Room 1102
Office Number: 410-621-2281
Curriculum Vitae
Latest Work
Expertise: Schools as Organizations; Critical Qualitative Research; Leadership; Family-School Relations; Black Education
Leslie Foncette, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sociology
lcfoncette@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3009
Office Number: 410-651-6678
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Qualitative Research Methods, Black, Caribbean and Transnational Feminist Theory, Interdisciplinary Methods
Tao Gong, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Director
Organizational Leadership
tgong@umes.edu
Office: Spaulding Hall, Room 1110
Office Number: 410-621-2278
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Organizational Leadership, Economics, and Policy Evaluation
James Meeker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Criminology
jmeeker@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3037
Cell Phone Number: 419-202-4940
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Inequality & Criminology
Dr. Marcella L. Mulhollem
Associate Professor
Sociology
mlmulhollem@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3036
Office Number: 410-651-7336
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Sociology, Criminology, Gender, Women’s Studies
Arlisha R. Norwood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
History
anorwood@umes.edu
Office: Hazel Hall, Suite 3012
Office Number: 410-651-6240
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: 19th Century United States History/ Civil War and Reconstruction
Constance Pruitt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Political Science
cmpruitt@umes.edu
Office: Hazell Hall 3008
Office Number: (410) 621-3514
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise: Dr. Constance Pruitt is an Assistant Professor of Political Science specializing in Comparative Politics, with Africa as a regional focus, International Relations, and American Government. Her research primarily centers around campaigns and elections, politics in sub-Saharan Africa, democratization, international organizations, peace, and conflict, and the diplomatic role that the Black diaspora has within each of those areas of foreign affairs.
Marshall F. Stevenson, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
History
mfstevenson@umes.edu
Office: Spaulding Hall
Office Number: 410-621-1547
Biography
Expertise: African American—Black-Jewish Relations; Blacks in the American Labor Movement; Globalization and Competing Ideologies
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Joseph Chaikel
Adjunct Professor
History, Political Science
jchaikel@umes.edu
Office: None
Resume
Expertise: Ancient History, Holocaust
