Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Mario A. Paparozzi, Ph.D., Chair and Professor
Email:mario.paparozzi@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.522.5783
Office: 202 Sampson

Specialty areas: Probation and Parole, Community Corrections, Criminology

John Bowman Ph.D., Professor
Email:john.bowman@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6626
Office: 211 Sampson

Specialty areas: The Family, At-risk Youth, Health Promotion and Wellness, Chinese Studies

Jessica Godsey, J.D., Assistant Professor
Email:jessica.godsey@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6574
Office: 209 Sampson

Specialty areas: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Family Violence

Roger Guy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Email:roger.guy@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.775.4273
Office: 208 Sampson

Specialty Areas: Urban Sociology, Race, Class, and Crime

Wanda Hammonds, MPA, Administrative Support Associate
Email:wanda.hammonds@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6380
Office: 202 Sampson

Timothy Hayes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Email:timothy.hayes@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.522.5785
Office: 212 Sampson

Specialty areas: Violence, Subcultural Theories, Criminology

Brooke Kelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Email:brooke.kelly@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.775.4038
Office: 222 Sampson

Specialty areas: Inequalities, Gender, Family, Work, and Poverty

Norman Layne, Ph.D., Professor
Email:norman.layne@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6474
Office: 215 Sampson

Specialty areas: Health and Society, Community Health, Drug Use and Abuse

Steve Marson, Ph.D., Professor
Email: steve.marson@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6475
Office: 221 Sampson
Website: http://www.uncp.edu/home/marson/

Specialty areas: Technology, Gerontology, Ethics, Research/Statistics

Rohald Meneses, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Email: rohald.meneses@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6473
Office: 219 Sampson

Specialty areas: Criminology and Deviance, Race and Ethnic Relationships, Research/Statistics, Comparative Law, Theory

Kenneth Mentor, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Email: mentor@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6541
Office: 217 Sampson
Website: http://www.uncp.edu/home/mentor/

Specialty areas: Law and Society, Critical Criminology, Criminal Procedure, Web-Based Scholarship

Ottis Murray, Ed.D., Associate Professor
Email:ottis.murray@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6821
Office: 214 Sampson

Specialty areas: Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Popular Culture, Death and Dying, Computer/Technology & Society

Anna Netterville, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Email:netter@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6232
Office: 218 Sampson

Specialty areas: Deviance, Domestic Violence in Rural Populations, Social Stratification, Identity Salience

Sam Pearson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Email:sam.pearson@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6885
Office: 207 Sampson

Specialty areas: Criminology, Private Security, Community Policing, Criminal Investigation, Criminal Justice Administration and Management

Rasby Marlene Powell, Ph.D., Professor
Co-director of the Interdisciplinary Gender Minor
Email:rasby.powell@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6477
Office: 213 Sampson

Specialty areas: Community, Theory, Qualitative Research, and Sociology of Emotions.

James W. Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Associate Program Director of the UNCP Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program
Email:james.robinson@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6472
Office: 216 Sampson

Specialty areas: Theory, Social Psychology, Social Inequality, Organizations, Research Methods, Statistics

Michael Spivey, Ph.D., Associate Professor
UNCP Director of Service-Learning
Email:michael.spivey@uncp.edu
Phone: 910.521.6776
Office: 210 Sampson

Specialty areas: Social Inequalities, Native American Studies, Critical Theory/Cultural Studies, Ethnography