Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Mario A. Paparozzi, Ph.D., Chair and Professor
Phone: 910.522.5783
Office: 202 Sampson

Specialty areas: Probation and Parole, Community Corrections, Criminology

John Bowman Ph.D., Professor
Phone: 910.521.6626
Office: 211 Sampson

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

Fran F. Fuller, Ph.D., Associate Professor
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Phone: 910.521.6473
Office: 208 Sampson

Specialty areas: Criminal Conduct, Criminology, Research Methods

Jessica Godsey, J.D., Assistant Professor
Phone: 910.521.6574
Office: 209 Sampson

Specialty areas: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Family Violence

Roger Guy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Phone: 910.775.4273
Office: 219 Sampson

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

Wanda Hammonds, MPA, Administrative Support Associate
Phone: 910.521.6380
Office: 202 Sampson

Timothy Hayes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Phone: 910.522.5785
Office: 212 Sampson

Specialty areas: Violence, Subcultural Theories, Criminology

Brooke Kelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Phone: 910.775.4038
Office: 222 Sampson

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

Norman Layne, Ph.D., Professor
Phone: 910.521.6474
Office: 215 Sampson

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

Kenneth Mentor, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
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Phone: 910.521.6541
Office: 217 Sampson

Specialty areas: Law and Society, Critical Criminology, Criminal Procedure, Web-Based Scholarship, Justice in the Media

Ottis Murray, Ed.D., Associate Professor
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
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
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
Phone: 910.521.6477
Office: 213 Sampson

Specialty areas: Gender and Society, Sociological Theory

James W. Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Associate Program Chair, UNCP Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies
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
Phone: 910.521.6776
Office: 210 Sampson

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