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Social Sciences Advising

Winter 2025 Semester Advising Week - March 24-27

The Social Sciences Department will be holding advising hours during the week of March 24-27, 2025. Specific hours for each pre-major are broken down below. All advising will take place on the 2nd floor of White Hall unless otherwise noted as virtual. If you choose to take part in the virtual option, please click on the link provided below. 

Pre-Anthropology

  • Tuesday, March 25 from 8-9 a.m.; 12:15-1:15 p.m. and 1:30-2:30 p.m.
  • Thursday, March 27 from 8-9 a.m.; 12:15-1:15 p.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Pre-Economics

  • Monday, March 24 from noon-2 p.m. and 3-5:30 p.m.
  • Tuesday, March 25 from 10-noon and 12:30-2:30 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 26 from 9 a.m.-noon. and 3-5:30 p.m.

Pre-History

  • Tuesday, March 25 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-6 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 26 from 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Pre-Political Science

  • Monday, March 24 from 10:45 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m.
  • Tuesday, March 25 from 10 a.m.-noon; 2-4 p.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 26 from 9:45 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m.
  • Thursday, March 27 from 2-4 p.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Pre-Sociology

  • Monday, March 24 from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (VIRTUAL(link is external) only) and 2:45-3:45 p.m.
  • Tuesday, March 25 from 9-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-4:30 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 26 from 2:45-5 p.m.
  • Thursday, March 27 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. and noon-2 p.m.

Schedule an Advising Time

The Social Science Department is committed to discipline-specific academic advising.  If you are interested in learning more about majoring in any of the disciplines in Social Sciences and cannot attend the event, please contact the respective faculty members teaching in those areas.

To set up appointments for individual advising outside of the scheduled advising time, please contact:

Anthropology

Dillon Carr, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Department Head
Office: 201F, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4284
Email: dcarr@grcc.edu(link sends email) 

Economics

Lisa Gloege, Ph.D., Professor
Office: 201C, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4781
Email: lgloege@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Mihnea Tudoreanu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Office: 201B, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4411
Email: mihneatudoreanu@grcc.edu(link sends email) 

Gender Studies

Emily Pain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Coordinator of Gender Studies
Office: 201D, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-3336
Email: emilypain@grcc.edu(link sends email) 

Geography

Mike DeVivo, Ph.D., Professor
Office: 201A, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4410
Email: mdevivo@grcc.edu(link sends email) 

History

Robert Hendershot, Ph.D., Professor
Office: 203D, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4104
Email: rhenders@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Mike Light, Professor
Office: 203J, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4298
Email: mlight@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Susan Williams, Professor
Office: 203E, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4418
Email: swilliams@grcc.edu (link sends email)

Political Sciences

Yan Bai, Professor
Office: 203K, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4407
Email: ybai@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Heather Richards, Professor
Office: 201E, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-3165
Email: hrichards@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Keith St. Clair, Professor
Office: 203B, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4401
Email: kstclair@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Sociology 

L. Daisy Henderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Office 203A, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-2557
Email: lilianhenderson@grcc.edu (link sends email)

Emily Pain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Office 201D, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-3336
Email: emilypain@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Cedric Williams, Professor
Office: 203L, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4400
Email: cwilliam@grcc.edu(link sends email)

Department

Office: 2nd Floor, White Hall
Phone: (616) 234-4283
Email: socialscience@grcc.edu(link sends email)

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