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Faculty:
  • Rebecca L. Bach, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Specialties: Gender and Sexuality, Stratification/Mobility, Applied Sociology
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor
    Specialties: Racial Stratification, Social Theory, Critical Race Methods, Political Sociology, Latinos, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Epistemology
  • Matt Bradshaw, Assistant Professor
    Specialties: Biodemography Gene-Environment Interplay Health Religion Stratification Stress
  • Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor
    Specialties: Poverty, Intergenerational Families, Family Life Course Transitions, Neighborhood Context, Ethnographic Methods
  • Mark A. Chaves, Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity
    Specialties: social organization of religion
  • Bai Gao, Professor
    Specialties: Economic Sociology, Globalization, 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
  • Kieran J Healy, Associate Professor
    Specialties: Economic Sociology Sociology of Culture Organizations Social Theory
  • Lisa A Keister, Professor and Director of the Markets & Management Program
    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
  • James W. Moody, Robert O.Keohane Professor
    Specialties: Social networks theory quantitative methodology
  • S. Philip Morgan, Norb F. Schaefer Professor of International Studies
    Specialties: Social Demography, Sociology of the Family, Research Methods
  • Angela M O'Rand, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor
    Specialties: Stratification/Mobility, Life Course Studies, Population Aging, Social Organization of Science
  • Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Associate Professor
    Specialties: Gender, Ethnicity, Health, and Religion
  • Martin Ruef, Professor
    Specialties: Organizational Theory Economic Sociology Historical / Comparative Sociology Network Analysis
  • Lynn Smith-Lovin, Robert L. Wilson Professor
    Specialties: Social Psychology, Emotions, Gender, Group Processes
  • Ken Spenner, Professor
    Specialties: Stratification/Mobility, Social Organization, Social Psychology Organizational Change Market Transitions
  • Stephen Vaisey, Associate Professor
    Specialties: Culture and Cognition, Action Theory, Quantitative Methods
Secondary Appointment:
  • Lee D. Baker, Professor, Cultural Anthropology of African & African American Studies and Sociology, and Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College
  • Philip J. Cook, Professor
    Specialties: Alcohol and Drugs, Economy and Society
  • Michaeline A Crichlow, Professor (primary appt: African & African American Studies)
  • Jonathon N Cummings, Associate Professor (primary appt: Management and Organizations)
  • Elizabeth Frankenberg, Professor of Public Policy and Sociology and Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies
  • Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy and Assistant Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
  • Deborah T. Gold, Associate Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Human Development Certificate Program
    Specialties: Aging/Social Gerontology, Medical Sociology, Mental Health
  • Frances S Hasso, Associate Professor in Women's Studies, International Comparative Studies, and Sociology; Director, International Comparative Studies Program of Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor in Women's Studies, International Comparative Studies, and Sociology; Director, International Comparative Studies Program
  • Sherman A James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy and Susan B. King Professor of 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
  • M. Giovanna Merli, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health and Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies
  • William M O'Barr, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, English and Sociology (primary appt: Cultural Anthropology)
Visiting Faculty:
  • Maria Febbo, Visiting Assistant Professor
    Specialties: Inequality Criminology Juvenile Delinquency
  • Mary G Hovsepian, Visiting Associate Professor
    Specialties: Sociology of Economic Change Third World Development Globalization Political Sociology Gender and Work Area Studies: Middle East
  • Evan L. Jones, Visiting Associate Professor
  • Martha Reeves, Visiting Professor
  • Sam Veraldi, Visiting Associate Professor
Faculty Emeriti:
  • Nan Lin, Oscar L. Tang Family Professor
    Specialties: Social networks and social capital, Stratification/Mobility, Mental Health, China
  • Miller McPherson, Professor Emeritus
    Specialties: Organizations, Associations, Social Networks, Quantitative Methodology
  • Jack J. Preiss, Professor Emeritus
    Specialties: Role theory Criminal justice systems Social aspects of mental illness Political sociology
  • 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
  • John Wilson, Professor Emeritus
    Specialties: Volunteering, Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Religion, Leisure/Sports Recreation
Affiliated Faculty:
  • Gilbert W Merkx, Vice Provost For Int'l Affairs and Professor Of The Practice
    Specialties: Comparative/Historical Sociology, Economy and Society, Theory
  • Suzanne E Shanahan, Associate Research Professor and Associate Director of Ethics, Kenan Institute
    Specialties: Comparative Historical Sociology, Collective Behavior and Social Movements
  • 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
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