Faculty
Expertise: Sociology of race and racism, urban sociology, Latinx sociology, whiteness studies, qualitative methods
Expertise: Gender, sexuality, transnational social movements, development, labor and labor movements, feminist theory, HIV/AIDS, ethnographic and interview methods, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Office hours: Spring 2025: On Sabbatical
Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, sociology of reproduction, critical studies of global health, science and technology studies (STS), research methods, sub-Saharan Africa
- Office Hours: Spring 2025-On Sabbatical
Expertise: Environmental justice, environmental sociology, spatial inequality, political economy of cities, built environment, mutual aid, quantitative methods
Expertise: Sociology of culture, mass media, consumption and marketing, urban and suburban studies, food studies
Expertise: Social theory, philosophy of social science, culture, morality, knowledge, historical methods, economic sociology
- Office hours: Fall 2024: Wednesdays 3:30-5:30pm, in 107 Pearlman.
Expertise: Nationalism, ethnicity, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, political dissent, terrorism, modern European politics
- Office hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays 9:30-11:30am, in 107 Mandel
Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, environmental health and justice, food studies, qualitative research methods
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Expertise: Sociology of education, sociology of race and ethnicity, cultural sociology, comparative and international education, urban education policy, children, youth and families, social inequality, critical theories of race, British cultural studies
- On research leave during 2024-2025 academic year.
Affiliated Faculty
Expertise: Sociology of religion, culture, health and medicine, immigration, gender, sexuality, organizations, research methods
Expertise: Immigration, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism, sociology of religion
Expertise: Stratification, race, political sociology
Emeriti
Expertise: Gender, feminist theory, sociology of families, historical sociology, networks and communities
- On sabbatical for 2023-2024 academic year
Expertise: Classical and critical social theory, contemporary social theory, law and society, existential sociology
Expertise: Qualitative research methods, feminist research, Jewish women's studies, social psychology, group dynamics
Expertise: European integration, European politics and social policy, comparative industrial relations, and sociology of advanced capitalist societies
Expertise: Political sociology, community and civic democracy, organizations, public policy for democracy, work
Expertise: Women's changing roles, sociology of the life course, social movements
In Memoriam
The Sociology Department mourns Professor Peter Conrad's passing on March 3rd, 2024 .
A full tribute to Peter is available online.
Expertise: Medical sociology, deviance, qualitative research methods
The Sociology Department mourns Professor Gordon Fellman's passing on October 24, 2022 .
Expertise: Peace, conflict, and coexistence studies; empowerment, social class, Marx and Freud, psychoanalytic sociology, masculinities, Israeli-Palestinian confrontation
