Faculty & Staff

Patricia Ade, Office Manager
Room: L-329, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3281
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: ade@sxu.edu
Web Address: http://faculty.sxu.edu/~ade/

James Andreou, M.A., Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Room: L-329A, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3550
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: andreous@sxu.edu

James Andreou has a BA and MA in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has a JD from the Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago Kent College of Law. Andreou has 24 years experience in Criminal and Special Prosecutions Bureaus of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office with a specialization in Criminal Law and Procedure. He is especially interested in studying the areas of Courtroom Strategies and Immigration and Crime.

David Arenas, Ph.D., Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Room: L-312A, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3762
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: arenas@sxu.edu

In my studies, I examine the critical and creative responses to the relation between history and social organization in different societies. As such, my work strives to understand the inter- and intra- personality of societal poetics and struggles in terms of how new relations are created amid historical contexts of mutual learning. In terms of classroom methodologies, I attempt to create a learning environment responsive to and derivative of the poetic and historical struggles of my students.

Jacqueline Battalora, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department Chair
Room: L-319, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3949
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: battalora@sxu.edu

Jacqueline Battalora is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice who teaches in the areas of social theory and sociology of law. Her interest is in critical race theory and social inequality with specialization in the racial construction of whiteness in U.S. law and society.

Kathleen Carey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Room: L-343, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3761
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: carey@sxu.edu

Dr. Kathleen Carey received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago with a specialization in Gerontology.  She also had a concentration in Survey Research Methods. Dr. Carey worked as a consultant to the City of Chicago’s Department of Aging for 10 years.  Her teaching interests include Statistics, Research Methods, Sociology of the Aging, Sociology of Childhood and Sociology of the Family.  Dr. Carey’s recent research focuses on the public policy implications of the growing numbers of frail elderly.

Richard Fritz, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Room: L-315, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3553
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: fritz@sxu.edu

Education:

• B. A., Psychology/Sociology, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL, 1970
• M.A., Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 1976
• Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1986

Research Interests:

• Sociology of Peace
• Social Psychology
• Social Theory

John Gutowski, Professor
Room: N-413, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3271
Fax: (773) 298-3226
E-mail: gutowski@sxu.edu

John Gutowski is professor of Anthropology and English. His research interests in the area of cultural anthropology include American studies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, folk narrative, myth, legend, ritual, and community celebration. He teaches courses in Cultural Anthropology; Folklore; Myth and Mythology; Language, Culture, and Society; and the Sociology of Sports.

Iman Saca, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Room: L-317, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3875
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: saca@sxu.edu

Iman N. Saca is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Saint Xavier University and the director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program. She teaches all the major branches of Anthropology (cultural, physical and archaeology), as well as courses on the archaeology of the Middle East (Prehistory) and Middle Eastern culture and society. Most of her research focuses on the Middle East, for which she travels to Jordan and Palestine every summer.  Dr. Saca is currently working on a proposal that will bring together various governmental and non-governmental institutions interested in the protection of the cultural and archaeological heritage in conflict areas especially the West Bank and Gaza.  She has presented and given talks at various national and international conferences, and published few articles on the Prehistory of the Levant and the art of Palestinian Embroidery.

Elijah Ward, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Room: L-312B, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3453
Fax: (773) 298-3314
E-mail: eward@sxu.edu

Dr. Ward is a native of Chicago who received his doctorate at Northwestern University. He conducted postdoctoral research for several years in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His interests include racial and ethnic relations, hospice care, HIV/AIDS, religious communities purposed toward self-transcendence and world peace movements.