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Officers:
- Phil Morgan, Chair and Professor
Specialties: Social Demography,
Sociology of the Family,
Research Methods
- Suzanne Shanahan, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor
Specialties: Comparative Historical Sociology,
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
- John Wilson, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor
Specialties: Volunteering,
Collective Behavior/Social Movements,
Religion,
Leisure/Sports Recreation Faculty:
- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor
Specialties: Racial Stratification
Social Theory
Critical Race Methods
Political Sociology
Latinos, Latin America, and the Caribbean
- David Brady, Associate Professor
Specialties: Poverty and Inequality,
Political Sociology,
Globalization,
Comparative/ Historical,
Work and Labor,
Research Methods
- Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor
Specialties: Poverty
Intergenerational Families and Life Course Transitions
Neighborhood Context
Ethnographic Methods
- Mark Chaves, Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity
Specialties: sociology of religion,
sociology of organizations
- Chenoa A Flippen, Assistant Professor Starts 7/08
Specialties: Demography,
Race and Ethnicity,
Stratification
- Bai Gao, Professor
Specialties: Economic Sociology,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Comparative Political Economy
- Linda K George, Professor
Specialties: social antecedents of physical and mental health
social factors affecting recovery from illness
stress and social support
religion and health
life course trajectories
- Gary Gereffi, Professor
Specialties: Development,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Economy and Society
- Lisa A Keister, Professor
Specialties: Economic sociology
Organizations and organization theory
Social stratification
Chinese economic transformation
Chinese society
- Kenneth C Land, John Franklin Crowell Professor (primary appt: Demographic Studies)
Specialties: Mathematical Sociology,
Statistical Methods,
Demography,
Crime, Law and Deviance,
Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Measurement
- Nan Lin, Oscar L. Tang Family Professor
Specialties: Social networks and social capital,
Stratification/Mobility,
Mental Health,
China
- Miller McPherson, Professor
Specialties: Organizations,
Associations,
Social Networks,
Quantitative Methodology
- James Moody, Associate Professor
Specialties: Social networks
theory
quantitative methodology
- Angela M O'Rand, Professor
Specialties: Stratification/Mobility,
Life Course Studies,
Population Aging,
Social Organization of Science
- Emilio A Parrado, Associate Professor
Specialties: Demography,
Hispanics,
Migration and Immigration,
Development
- Lynn Smith-Lovin, Robert L. Wilson Professor
Specialties: Social Psychology,
Emotions,
Gender
- Ken I Spenner, Professor
Specialties: Stratification/Mobility,
Social Organization,
Social Psychology
Organizational Change
Market Transitions
- P. J. Eric Stallard, Research Professor
- Anatoli Yashin, Research Professor
Secondary Appointment:
- Lee D. Baker, Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology (primary appt: African & African American Studies)
- Philip J. Cook, Professor
Specialties: Alcohol and Drugs,
Economy and Society
- Michaeline Crichlow, Associate Professor (primary appt: African & African American Studies)
- Elizabeth Frankenberg, Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies (primary appt: Public Policy Studies)
- Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy (primary appt: Public Policy Studies) and Assistant Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
- Deborah T Gold, Associate Professor of Medical Sociology
Specialties: Aging/Social Gerontology,
Medical Sociology,
Mental Health
- Sherman James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies (primary appt: Public Policy Studies) and Professor of Community and Family Medicine; Professor of African and African-American Studies
Specialties: Reducing Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
Effects of Childhod Poverty on Adult Health
Poverty and Public Policy
- Charles M. Payne, Professor
Specialties: Collective Behavior/Social Movements,
Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations Visiting Faculty:
- Rebecca L. Bach, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies and Visiting Associate Professor
Specialties: Gender and Sexuality,
Stratification/Mobility,
Applied Sociology
- Liz Drogin, Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties: Marriage and Family
Social Inequality
Gender and Culture
- Rebecca Dunning, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Mary Hovsepian, Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties: Economic Change and Third World Development
Globalization
Political Sociology
Gender and Work
Area Studies: Middle East
- Gary L Hull, Director of VEM
- Evan L. Jones, Visiting Associate Professor
- Sherri Lawson Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Noah Mark, Visiting Associate Professor
- Martha Reeves, Visiting Professor
- Ma Rong, Director, Center for Sociological Research and Development Studies, Peking University
Specialties: Economic Development
Labor Transfer
Ethnic Relations in the West of China.
- William Tobin, Visiting Associate Professor
- Sam Veraldi, Visiting Associate Professor
Faculty Emeriti:
- George Maddox
Specialties: Aging/Social Gerontology,
Medical Sociology,
Social Organization
- Ida H Simpson, Professor Emerita
Specialties: Occupations/Professions,
Work and Labor Markets,
Family
- Joel Smith, Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Mass Communication/Public Opinion,
Political Sociology,
Quantitative Methodology
- Edward A Tiryakian, Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Theory,
History of Sociology/Social Thought,
Religion
Globalization
National Identity
Sociology of Disasters Affiliated Faculty:
- Gilbert W Merkx, Vice Provost For Int'l Affairs and Professor Of The Practice
Specialties: Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Economy and Society,
Theory
- Zeng Yi, Professor at the Center for Study of Aging and Human Development and Geriatric Division / Dept of Medicine of Medical School, and Institute of Population Research
Specialties: population healthy aging;
new method of family household forecasting and its applications,
social development planning and policy analysis;
family dynamics & life course including marriage, divorce and cohabitation;
economic and social changes in China Lecturers and Instructors:Postdoctoral Fellow:
- Wenhong Chen, Post Doc
- Andrew M. Cislo, Post Doc
Specialties: Latino/a Health,
Immigration & Adaptation,
Aging & the Life Course,
Institutional Care for Older Adults,
Health Disparities,
Race & Ethnic Relations |
