Sociology
Campus Life

The Department of Sociology has twenty eight full-time faculty members and a number of affiliated faculty, comprised of scholars from diverse backgrounds and institutions, including the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Institute of Mental Health.  All of the program areas are directed by well known scholars in their own field: Comparative Sociology (Meyer Kestnbaum), Demography (Harriet Presser); Development (Kurt Finsterbusch), Gender, Work, and Family (Suzanne Bianchi); Military Sociology (David Segal); Social Psychology (Melissa Milkie); Stratification (Bart Landry); and Theory (George Ritzer). 

 


Regular Faculty:

 

Patricia Hill Collins

Distinguished University Professor

Ph.D. Brandeis University

Racial theory, Intersectional theory, Black feminist theory, Sociology of knowledge
 

Sonalde Desai

Professor

Ph.D. Stanford University

Demography, Development, Gender, Work and Family
 

William W. Falk

Professor

Ph.D. Texas A&M

Stratification, Theory
 

Kurt Finsterbusch

Professor

Ph.D. Columbia University

Development, Organizations

Frances Goldscheider

College Park Professor

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Demography; Gender, Work & Family

Joan R. Kahn

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Demography; Gender, Work & Family, Aging and the Life Course, Health Inequalities, Immigration and Ethnicity, Fertility
 

Meyer Kestnbaum

Associate Professor 

Ph.D. Harvard University

Military, Comparative, Theory
 

Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Binghamton University

Comparative, Theory, Development, Stratification
 

Bart Landry

Professor

Ph.D. Columbia University

Stratification, Gender, Work and Family
 

Joseph J. Lengermann

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

Ph.D. Cornell University

Organizations and Occupations, Medical Sociology
 

Jeffrey Lucas

Associate Professor and Graduate Director

Ph.D. University of Iowa

Social Psychology, Military Sociology, Theory
 

Laura Mamo

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco

Theory; Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies

Kris Marsh

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Demography, Race/Ethnicity

Melissa Milkie

Professor

Ph.D. Indiana University

Social Psychology, Gender, Work and Family
 

Linda Moghadam

Instructor and Undergraduate Director

Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park

 

Alan Neustadtl

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Stratification, Quantitative Research Methods

Julie Park

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Immigration, Demography, Asian American Studies, Race/Ethnicity

John Pease

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Michigan State University
 

Harriet B. Presser

Distinguished University Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Demography, Gender, Work and Family
 

Stanley Presser

Professor

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Social Psychology
 

George Ritzer

Distinguished University Professor

Ph.D. Cornell University

Theory; Consumption, Globalization
 

John P. Robinson

Professor

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Social Psychology, Gender, Work and Family
 

David R. Segal

Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Military Sociology, Theory
 

Mady Wechsler Segal

Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Military, Gender, Work and Family, Social Psychology
 

Reeve Vanneman

Professor and Chair

Ph.D. Harvard University

Stratification, Gender, Development


Piergiorgio Degli Esposti, Bologna University (Italy)

Shay Hershkovitz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)

Jack Sandberg, McGill University

Guy Stecklov, Hebrew University


Research and Emeritus Faculty:

 

Suzanne Bianchi, Professor Emeritus

Edward Z. Dager, Professor Emeritus

Jerald Hage, Professor Emeritus

 

Ramon E. Henkel, Associate Professor Emeritus

 

Janet G. Hunt, Associate Professor Emeritus

 

Larry L. Hunt, Associate Professor Emeritus

 

Barbara F. Meeker, Professor Emeritus

 

Kenneth C. W. Kammeyer, Professor Emeritus

 

Leonard Pearlin, Senior Research Scientist

 

Carmi Schooler, Senior Research Scientist

 


 

Affiliate Faculty:

 

David Andrews, Associate Professor, Kinesiology

 

Bonnie Thornton Dill, Professor, Women's Studies

Gniesha Dinwiddie, Assistant Professor, African American Studies

Edward L. Fink, Professor, Communication

Frances Goldscheider, Professor, Family Science

Sandra L. Hofferth, Professor, Family Studies

 

Gary D. Lafree, Professor, Criminology

 

John H. Laub, Professor, Criminology

 

Sangeetha Madhavan, Assistant Professor, African American Studies

 

Laura B. Wilson, Professor, Health Administration

Ruth Zambrana, Professor, Women’s Studies

  

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