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). 

Stratification; Theory
 

Kurt Finsterbusch

Professor

Ph.D. Columbia University

Development, Organizations
 

John Iceland

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Brown University

Demography, Stratification, Poverty and Inequality, Residential Segregation and Social Policy
 

Joan R. Kahn

Associate Professor, Graduate Director

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
 

Dae Young Kim

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate Center

Stratification, International Migration, Race and Ethnic Relations, Asian American Studies
 

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
 

Annette Lareau

Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Stratification, Gender, Work and Family, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Education, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Culture
 

Ulla Larsen

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Princeton University

Demography
 

Joseph J. Lengermann

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

Ph.D. Cornell University

Organizations and Occupations, Medical Sociology
 

Jeffrey Lucas

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Iowa

Social Psychology, Military Sociology, Theory
 

Laura Mamo

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco

Theory; Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies
 

Steven P. Martin

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Demography, Quantitative Research Methods
 

Melissa Milkie

Associate 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
 

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

Ph.D. Harvard University

Stratification, Gender, Development
 

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Research and Emeritus Faculty:

Remi Clignet, 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

Jonathon Mote, Assistant Research Scientist

Kenneth C. W. Kammeyer, Professor Emeritus

Leonard Pearlin, Senior Research Scientist and Graduate Faculty

Carmi Schooler, Senior Research Scientist and Graduate Faculty