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Sociology has twenty seven full-time faculty members, several active faculty emeriti, and a number of affiliated faculty from other Maryland departments.
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Feinian Chen

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Demography; Gender, Work and Family; Aging; China

Philip Cohen

Professor

Ph.D. University of Maryland

Gender, Work and Family; Stratification; Demography

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, Organization

Dana R. Fisher

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Environment, Qualitative Methods, Globalization, Political Participation, Social Movements

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

Meredith Kleykamp

Assistant Professor 

Ph.D. Princeton University

Military, Demography

Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz

Professor and Graduate Director

Ph.D. Binghamton University

Comparative, Theory, Development, Stratification

Jeffrey Lucas

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Iowa

Social Psychology, Military Sociology, Theory

 

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 and Associate Chair

Ph.D. Michigan State University

Stratification

 

Christina Prell

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. R.P.I.

Networks, Environment, Stratification

 

Harriet Presser

Distinguished University Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Demography; Gender, Work & Family

 

Stanley Presser

Professor

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Social Psychology

Rashawn Ray

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Indiana University

Social Psychology, Race/ Ethnicity, Stratification

 

Michael Rendall

Professor

Ph.D. Brown University

Demography; Gender, Work & Family

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

Reeve Vanneman

Professor and Chair

Ph.D. Harvard University

Stratification, Gender, Development

 

Research Faculty:

 

Wilbur Hadden

Senior Research Scientist

Carmi Schooler

Senior Research Scientist

Jerald Hage

Professor Emeritus

Leonard Pearlin

Professor Emeritus

 

Emeritus Faculty:

Suzanne Bianchi

Professor Emeritus

Kenneth C. W. Kammeyer

Professor Emeritus

Edward Z. Dager

Professor Emeritus

Bart Landry

Professor Emeritus

Janet G. Hunt

Associate Professor Emeritus

Joeseph Lengermann

Associate Professor Emeritus

Larry L. Hunt

Associate Professor Emeritus

Barbara F. Meeker

Professor Emeritus

 

Mady Wechsler Segal

Professor Emeritus

 

Affiliate Faculty:

David Andrews

Professor, Kinesiology

John H. Laub

Distinguished University Professor, Criminology

Bonnie Thornton Dill

Professor, Women's Studies

Sangeetha Madhavan

Associate Professor, African American Studies

Gniesha Dinwiddie

Assistant Professor, African American Studies

Larry Hajime Shinagawa

Director, Asian American Studies

Edward L. Fink

Professor, Communication

Laura B. Wilson

Professor, Health Administration

Sandra L. Hofferth

Professor, Family Sciences

Ruth Zambrana

Professor, Women’s Studies

Gary D. Lafree

Professor, Criminology

   
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