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Ursula M. Dalinghaus

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Money, Technology, & Financial Inclusion, University of California, Irvine
• Ph.D. Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• B.A. Anthropology and German, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

I am a cultural anthropologist with specializations in economic anthropology and the anthropology of money. My ethnographic research and engaged policy work examines the everyday uses of monetary technologies and the shifting relations of money, social inequality, and financial inclusion in Europe, the United States and internationally. I have a B.A. in anthropology and German from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. After receiving my Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Money, Technology, & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) at the University of California, Irvine. In partnership with IMTFI and the International Currency Association (ICA), I’ve written two white papers on the role and importance of cash in society. I have been a visiting professor of anthropology at Ripon College from 2018-2022 and participated in faculty-student collaborative research for two summers in the Ripon College Summer Opportunity for Advanced Research (SOAR) program. I am now an assistant professor of anthropology.

Marc Eaton

• Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado (sociology)
• B.A., Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington (sociology and psychology)

I have been a professor of sociology at Ripon since Fall 2011. I arrived only a few months after earning my PhD at University of Colorado-Boulder, where I studied how a progressive political organization, MoveOn.org, used the internet to mobilize both online and offline grassroots activism. My most recent research examined something quite different: paranormal investigators (aka, “ghost hunters”). Through participation in paranormal investigations as well as interviews with investigators, I explored investigators’ reasons for getting involved, their methods of determining whether a location was “haunted,” and what meanings they ultimately derived through their participation. This project culminated in a book entitled Sensing Spirits: Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts.

While at Ripon, I have taught the following sociology courses: Introduction to the Sociological Imagination, Social Problems, Deviance, Sociology of the Paranormal, Social Movements, Self and Society, Criminology, Public Sociology and Activism, Sociology of Religion, Sociological Theories, and Senior Research Seminar. In addition, I have taught two courses in the Catalyst curriculum: Weird Wisconsin (a CTL 110 course focused on Wisconsin folklore) and U.S. History as Intercultural Conflict (a CTL 210 course focused on America’s history of slavery, economic exploitation, colonialism, expansionism, and interventionism).

My scholarly interests are rooted in symbolic interactionism, which theorizes how meanings and identities are created and changed through interpersonal interaction and communication. I also have an abiding interest in examining how systemic power inequities (poverty, racism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.) affect individual life courses, and how, in turn, people organize to resist these injustices.

Jacqueline Clark

• Ph.D., Sociology, North Carolina State University
• M.A., Sociology (minor in Appalachian Studies), Appalachian State University
• B.A., Sociology, University of North Carolina-Asheville

I am a qualitative sociologist who studies social inequalities, the sociology of health and illness, as well as the sociology of jobs and work. In my spare time, I also like to scout thrift stores, flea markets, and antique stores for quirky collectibles. I’ve combined these interests in my most recent research project, which focuses on how and why some people collect contemptible collectibles or racist objects from the past.

I teach classes on social inequalities, medical sociology, death and dying, as well as sociology through film and research methods, among others.