Tenure-line Faculty
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Amy L Best
Professor
Sociology: Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation
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John G. Dale
Associate Professor
Sociology: sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and transnational conflict; critical sociology of development; community and urban sociology; comparative and historical sociology; and area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.
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Rutledge M Dennis
Professor
Sociology: Sociology of ideas, theoretical sociology, political sociology, race and ethnic studies, urban communities, the sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
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Nancy W Hanrahan
Associate Professor
Sociology: critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
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Dae Young Kim
Associate Professor
Sociology: Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization
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Lester R. Kurtz
Professor
Sociology: Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, sociology of religion, Global Social Thought
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Brian Louis Levy
Assistant Professor
Sociology: Inequality, Poverty, Mobility; Neighborhoods; Community and Urban Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Education; Social Demography; Quantitative Research Methods; Causal Inference
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Ben Manski
Assistant Professor
Sociology: Social movement; next system studies; sociology of constitutions and constitutionalism; democratization; environmental sociology; federalism and municipalism; philosophy of social science.
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Manjusha Nair
Director of PhD Program in Sociology
Associate Professor
Sociology: Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa
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Amaka Okechukwu
Assistant Professor
Sociology: Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Black Politics, Ethnography, Oral History
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Joseph A Scimecca
Professor
Sociology: Humanist sociological theory, the sociology of higher education, and the intersection of social science and religion
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Blake Silver
Associate Professor
Sociology: Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; race, class, and gender; parent and family involvement in education; transition to adulthood; research methods; second-generation immigrant students
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James Witte
Professor
Sociology: Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan