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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

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