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The faculty of the Sociology Department is composed of approximately 25 full time members many of whom are also part of the Population Studies Center. The Department also has a number of affiliated faculty from the Education, Medical, Nursing, Social Policy and Practice, and Wharton Schools; as well as associated faculty from other departments.

Our faculty is highly diversified and conducts research on central sociological issues of theoretical and empirical relevance. It maintains strong international connections, and each year welcomes students and visitors from a number of foreign countries. Currently, the department ranks among the top ten in the United States based on faculty research and productivity.

Chair: Tukufu Zuberi
Graduate Chair: Emily Hannum
Undergraduate Chair: Jason Schnittker

Standing Faculty

  • Paul D. Allison, Ph.D.

    Methodology & Statistics

  • Amada Armenta, Ph.D.

    Immigration
    Bureaucracy and institutions
    Race/Ethnicity
    Latinos in the U.S.  

  • Charles L. Bosk, Ph.D.

    Medical Sociology/Professions and Professionalization
    Deviance and Social Control
    Field Methods of Research

  • Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Ph.D.

    Urban inequality
    Racial attitudes and intergroup relations
    Racial residential segregation
    Minorities in higher education
    Racial identity

  • Randall Collins, Ph.D.

    Sociological Theory
    Macro-Historical
    Sociology of Political and Economic Change
    Micro-Sociology: Face-to-Face Interaction
    Sociology of Intellectuals
    Social Conflict (Especially Violent Conflict)

  • Irma T. Elo, Ph.D.

    Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differences in health and mortality
    Family Sociology
    Medical Sociology
    Mathematical Demography

  • Chenoa Flippen, Ph.D.

    Racial and ethnic inequality
    Urban poverty
    The Hispanic population of the United States
    Aging and the life-course
    Immigration and immigrant adaptation

  • David Grazian, Ph.D.

    Sociology of Culture
    Popular Culture and Mass Media
    Urban Sociology
    Symbolic Interaction
    Ethnographic Methods

  • Michel Guillot, Ph.D.

    Social and Formal Demography
    Medical Sociology
    Health of Populations

  • Emily Hannum, Ph.D.

    Education
    Social Stratification
    Poverty and Child Welfare
    Gender and Ethnicity
    Economic Development
    Chinese Society

  • Kristen Harknett, Ph.D.

    Social demography
    Economic underpinnings of marriage decisions
    Racial and ethnic patterns of family formation
    Assortative mating
    Family structure and child well-being
    Social policies, social networks, and poverty

  • Onoso Imoagene, Ph.D.

    Immigration
    Inter-ethnic group relations
    The African Second generation in the U.S. and U.K
    Race and Ethnicity
    Immigrant educational attainment and social mobility

  • Jerry A. Jacobs, Ph.D.

    Working Time and Work-Family Conflict Work
    Gender and Education
    Gender and Careers
    Interdisciplinarity

  • Grace Kao, Ph.D.

    Race and Ethnicity
    Education
    Adolescence
    Adaptation of Immigrants

  • Hans-Peter Kohler, Ph.D.

    The demography of lowest-low fertility
    Bio-social determinants of fertility
    Social interactions and demographic behaviors 

  • Annette Lareau, Ph.D.

    Social Stratification
    Family Education
    Ethnographic methods
    Childhood

  • Robin L. Leidner, Ph.D.

    Sociology of Work
    Sociology of Gender
    Parenting
    Feminist Movement
    Organizations

  • Janice F. Madden, Ph.D.

    Urban and Regional Economics
    Labor Markets
    Demography
    Gender and Race

  • Hyunjoon Park, Ph.D.

    Education
    Social Stratification
    Family
    Social Demography
    Social Change in Korea and other East Asian countries

  • Emilio A. Parrado, Ph.D.

    Demography
    International Migration
    Hispanic Immigrant Adaptation
    Social Change in Latin America
    Family and Fertility Behavior

  • Dorothy Roberts, Ph.D.

    Gender and Race
    Family
    Criminal Justice
    Bioethics
    Sociology of Science

  • Jason Schnittker, Ph.D.

    Medical Sociology
    Social Psychology
    Stratification Methods

  • Herbert Smith, Ph.D.

    Research Design
    Demography and Demographic Forecasting

  • Melissa Wilde, Ph.D.

    Sociology of Religion
    Social Movements
    Culture

  • Guobin Yang, Ph.D.

    Social movements
    Online activism and Internet studies
    Social memory
    Voluntary associations

  • Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.

    Sociology
    Population Studies
    Africana Studies
    Filmmaking

Adjunct, Secondary, Affiliated, and Emeritus Faculty and Lecturers

  • Linda H. Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN

    Medical Sociology
    Health Services Research
    Health and Social Policy
    Health Outcomes Research
    Health and Population

  • Elijah Anderson, Ph.D.

    Social Organization
    The Urban Underclass
    Interactional Social Psychology
    Race Relations
    Qualitative Methods

  • Ivar Berg, Ph.D.

    Economic Sociology
    Sociology of Work and Organizations

  • Harold J. Bershady, Ph.D.

    Sociological Theory

    History of Social Thought

    Sociology of Knowledge

    Sociology of Culture

    Psychology and Sociology

    Urban and Community Sociology

    Philosophy of the Social Sciences

    Social Organization

  • Virginia W. Chang, M.D., Ph.D.

    Medical Sociology
    Social Stratification
    Social Epidemiology
    Health Services
    Research Methods

  • Diana Crane-Herve, Ph.D.

    History and sociology of the arts
    The news and entertainment media
    Fashion in clothing and other material goods

  • Douglas Ewbank, Ph.D.

    Life Course
    Longevity
    Demography
    Population Studies

  • Hocine Fetni, Ph.D.

    Law and Social Change: A Comparative Analysis
    Globalization and The Legal Profession: An International Comparison
    The Crisis of Democracy and Law in the Middle East and North Africa
    Family Law and Social Change in Algeria
    The Notion of Social Control and Islamic Law
    International Law and Globalization
    Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Africa

  • Renee C. Fox, Ph.D.

    Sociology of medicine
    Medical research
    Medical education
    Medical ethics
    Medical humanitarianism

     

  • Frank F. Furstenberg, Ph.D.

    Family Sociology
    Demography
    Urban Sociology
    Gender Studies
    Sociology of Education
    Children, Youth and Public Policy

  • Richard Gelles, Ph.D.

    Child Welfare
    Public Policy
    Family Violence

  • Mauro Guillén, Ph.D.

    Organizational Theory
    Multinational Management
    Economic Sociology
    International Banking Strategies
    Globalization
    Emerging Multinational Firms
    International Political Economy

  • Richard Ingersoll, Ph.D.

    School organization
    Teacher quality
    Sociology of education
    Sociology of organizations, occupations and work/organizational theory
    Educational policy

  • Elihu Katz, Ph.D.

     

  • Samuel Klausner, Ph.D.

    Sociology of Religion
    Sociological Theory
    International Law and Relations
    Historical Sociology
    Sociology of Culture
    Middle Eastern Studies

  • Ross Koppel, Ph.D.

    Sociological and Demographic Research

  • Demie Kurz, Ph.D.

     

  • Eileen V. Lake, Ph.D., RN, FAAN

     

  • William Laufer, Ph.D.

    Corporate criminal law
    Corporate ethics law and psychology Criminology

  • Afaf I. Meleis, Ph.D., DrPS(hon), FAAN

     

  • Marshall W. Meyer, Ph.D.

    Management in China
    measurement of organizational performance
    organizational design
    organizational change Recent Consulting Strategies for Chinese firms
    design and evaluation of performance measurement systems Current Projects State-owned enterprise reform in China
    internationalization of Chinese firms
    technology and knowledge transfer in Chinese high-tech industrial parks

  • Samuel Preston, Ph.D.

    Demography
    Health of populations

  • Thomas J. Sugrue, Ph.D.

    Twentieth-century American politics Urban History Civil Rights, and Race

  • Michael Useem, Ph.D.

    Leadership Decision Making Governance Corporate Change and Restructuring