All Faculty

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  • Daniel Kamran Afzal

    Daniel Kamran Afzal

    Graduate Lecturer

    Sociology: Health ecologies, cultural psychodynamics, critical psychology, trauma, phenomenology, medical humanities

  • Marisa Allison

    Marisa Allison

    Affiliate Faculty

    Sociology

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  • Amy L Best

    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

  • Thomasina Borkman

    Thomasina Borkman

    Emeritus Faculty

    Sociology: Sociology of health and illness, organizational analysis, small group behavior, social problems, qualitative research methods

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  • Melissa A. Cidade

    Melissa A. Cidade

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Survey Methodology; Statistics; Survey Cognition

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  • John G. Dale

    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.

  • Rutledge M Dennis

    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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  • Gregory A Guagnano

    Gregory A Guagnano

    Emeritus Faculty

    Sociology: Political economy of resource control, environmental sociology, social psychology of environmental concern, research methods and design, statistics, diffusion of technological innovation

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  • Nancy W Hanrahan

    Nancy W Hanrahan

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts

  • Abdallah Hendawy

    Abdallah Hendawy

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Social Movements, Radicalization, Insurgency, Middle East, Egypt

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  • Hale Inanoglu

    Hale Inanoglu

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Sociology of religion, Muslims in the US, diaspora, gender.

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  • Mark D Jacobs

    Mark D Jacobs

    Emeritus Faculty

    Sociology: Sociology of culture, social theory, social control and juvenile justice, public scandal

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  • Dae Young Kim

    Dae Young Kim

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Immigration, ethnicity, race, Asian American studies, and globalization

  • Lester R. Kurtz

    Lester R. Kurtz

    Professor

    Sociology: Nonviolent social movements, Gandhi, sociology of religion, Global Social Thought

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  • Brian Louis Levy

    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

    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.

  • Patricia Anne Masters

    Patricia Anne Masters

    Director of Undergraduate Program in Sociology

    Professor

    Sociology: Gender, social psychology, community, children and youth, family. and qualitative research methods

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  • Manjusha Nair

    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

    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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  • Carol Petty

    Carol Petty

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Globalization, Global Subjectivities, Civic Engagement, Citizenship Studies, Social Inequalities, Integration Policy, Sociology of Culture, Interpretive Sociology, Sociological Theory

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  • Zahra S.A Rafie

    Zahra S.A Rafie

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Equity, empowerment, and inclusion, Qualitative Research, Gender Equity, Youth/Immigrant/Refugee Rights, Religious Equality/Freedom Community Activism/Advocacy and Social Justice

  • Karen E Rosenblum

    Karen E Rosenblum

    Emeritus Faculty

    Sociology: Global and American social problems from an economic perspective; comparative stigma

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  • Randall Salm

    Randall Salm

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Peace, armed conflict, child soldier identity

  • Joseph A Scimecca

    Joseph A Scimecca

    Professor

    Sociology: Humanist sociological theory, the sociology of higher education, and the intersection of social science and religion

  • Blake Silver

    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

  • Earl Smith

    Earl Smith

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sociology: Social Stratification. Crime. Sociology of Sport

  • Elizangela Storelli

    Elizangela Storelli

    Director of MA Program in Sociology

    Associate Professor

    Sociology: Sociology of aging, including global population aging and well-being, sociology of family, intergenerational networks of care, gender inequality, and quantitative studies.

  • Christian Rafael Suero

    Christian Rafael Suero

    Instructor

    Sociology: Sociology of education, well-being, labor, race, and class.

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  • James Witte

    James Witte

    Professor

    Sociology: Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan