Adjunct Faculty

Linda Carelli is a part time lecturer in the Department of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University and an MSW and BA from West Virginia University. She has taught various courses at Rutgers including Social Problems, Sociology of Age, and Sexuality and Society, and currently Sociology of Mental Illness. Previously she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at William Paterson University and before that an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Rutgers University. Her research interest focus on the relationship between stigma and sexuality as it influences the Developmentally Disabled. She also maintains a private practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in couple and marriage counseling and sex therapy.

Aghil Daghagheleh is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology, Rutgers University. He is currently a graduate fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University (CCA) and recently finished a project on social movements and electoral politics in Iran. In his current research project, "Refusal: Resistance, Subjectivity, and Construction of Arabness in Iran," Aghil explores the geography of social marginalization in contemporary Iran, a topic which brings together research on the politics of marginalized communities, social movements, race and ethnic relations, nationalism, political economy, religion, and resistance. Through an ethnographic study of the everyday experiences and politics of Arab minority, Aghil shows how ethnicity becomes a significant facet of subaltern politics and explores modalities of resistance, subversion, negotiation, and refusal that marginalized communities deploy to cope with the effects of ethnoreligious nationalism and to unsettle ethnicity, nationhood, and citizenship, as major products of state classification. He problematizes the notions of citizenship and belonging in the Islamic Republic by highlighting the work of classification in perpetuating structures of power and forms of everyday domination and resistance. Aghil is also participating in a comparative research project, "The Rise of The Peripheral," that explores the conflicts about the extraction of natural resources that are increasingly expressed in indigenous, ethnic, racial, and decolonial terms. He works with Dr. Zakia Salime (Rutgers) to examines the collective and individual forms of resistance at the nexus of neoliberal economics and political authoritarianism in the United States, Morocco, and Iran.

Chris Drue, PhD, is a sociologist with a research background in environmental and urban sociology, social movements, and land use politics. Chris has more than fifteen years of university teaching experience in Sociology, Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Writing Programs, and Psychology, and in several institutional contexts. He serves as the Associate Director of Teaching Evaluation at the Office of Teaching Evaluation & Assessment Research (OTEAR) at Rutgers, where he supports teaching evaluation and the assessment of learning, and develops programming promoting effective teaching strategies for Rutgers instructors. Chris received his PhD in sociology from the University of California San Diego.

Heather Moulton received her undergraduate degree from Tufts University, and her MS/MPH and DrPH degrees from the Mailman School of Public Health’s Division of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University where her focus was on aging with life-long chronic disability. Previously, she held a full-time position in a graduate program at Mercy College in occupational therapy teaching gerontology and research courses, and was Research Coordinator for thesis research. She was also Research Director at a community-based organization where she conducted applied social gerontology research. In addition to teaching in the Sociology department at Rutgers, Heather practices clinically as an OT. Both her research and clinical experience has informed her understanding of the fundamental causes and social determinants of health, as well as health inequality.

I retired after 36 years in the publishing industry and began teaching at Rutgers in January 2008.  I teach Sociology of Deviant Behavior 304 every semester and occasionally I teach Introduction to Sociology 101, Sociological Analysis of Social Problems 103, Sociology of Education 218, Political Sociology 290, Race Relations 306, and Social Inequalities 332.