Sociology Faculty: Social Inequalities

Steve Vallas,
Professor and Chair

Research interests: Sociology of Work and Organizations; Sociological Theory; Culture and Social Inequality.

Mark Jacobs,
Associate Professor

Research interests: Stratification, Gender, Social Psychology, Community, Qualitative Research, Sociology of Culture

Joseph Scimecca,
Professor

Research interests: Humanist Sociological Theory, Sociology of Higher Education, Intersection of Social Science and Religion

Greg Guagnano,
Associate Professor

Research interests: Political Economy of Resource Control, Social Psychology of Environmental Concern, Resource Conservation Behavior

Shannon Davis,
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Gender inequality; marriage and family life; quantitative methods; family formation  and occupational attainment.

Amy Best,
Associate Professor and Sociology Graduate Director

Research interests: Youth, Culture, Social Inequalities, Feminist and Qualitative Approaches to Social Research

Nancy Hanrahan,
Associate Professor and Women’s Studies Program Director

Research interests: Cultural sociology, Feminist theory, Sociology of music, Critical theory

Rutledge Dennis,
Professor

Research interests: Sociology of Ideas, Theoretical Sociology, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban Communities, Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

Victoria Rader,
Associate Professor

Research interests: Social Movements, Student Activism, Social Change, Construction of Difference , Sociology of Education

Karen Rosenblum,
Associate Professor

Research interests: Sex and gender, Deviance, Language

Patty Masters,
Term Associate Professor

Research interests: Sociology of culture, social theory, social control and juvenile justice, public scandal

Sociology Faculty: Global Sociology

John Dale,
Assistant Professor

Research interests: human rights; political sociology; transnational social movements; global conflict analysis; the economic sociology and politics of globalization and development.

Johanna Bockman,
Assistant Professor and Global Affairs Program Director

Research interests: Globalization, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, Socialism and Postsocialism.

Tony Samara,
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Race, ethnicity and nationalism, Globalization, Urban studies, criminology and international development and security.

Concentration further supported by two full-time anthropology professors:

Linda Seligmann,
Professor and Anthropology Graduate Director

Research interests: Specialist in the Andean Region of Latin America, Agrarian Issues, Political Economy, The Dynamics of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Informal Sector, Transnational and transracial adoption

Hugh Gusterson,
Professor

Research interests: nuclear weapons, militarism, anthropology of science, social movements, pharmaceutical cultures, American culture, public anthropology, social theory.

Sociology Faculty: Center for Social Science Research

Laurie Dopkins,
Associate Professor

Research interests: Social Policy, Evaluation Research, Use of Social Indicators, Applied Social Research

Emily Zimmerman,
Term Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Research

Research interests: Sociology of family, research methods, children at risk

In addition to the department’s 16 full-time sociologists, the program can actively draw on the expertise of sociologists in several other departments, including distinguished faculty in such departments as the School of Public Policy, the Administration of Justice, and the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.