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Grimshaw Professor, Sociology
Department Chair
Research Interests
social stratification; economic and political sociology; comparative and historical sociology; international development
Professor, Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences
Research Interests
demography; family; health; gender; India; Nepal
Provost Professor, Sociology
Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute
Research Interests
family sociology; social demography; social psychology; reproductive health; intensive longitudinal data collection; mixed-methods analysis
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
social psychology; intergroup conflict and cooperation; gender; collective action; inequality; theory; social networks
Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
gender inequality; work; labor markets; mobility; social inequality; organizations; employment discrimination; quantitative methods
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
gender; race; ethnicity; work; inequality; organizations
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor, Sociology
Director, Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research
Research Interests
social demography; sociology of education; stratification; survey methods
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
Inequality, Culture, Education, the Family, Organizations, Qualitative Methods, Theory
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
Law; Social Control; Inequality; Transportation; Organizations
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
medical sociology, health demography, health policy, health inequalities
Provost Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
social psychology; medical sociology; mental health; race and ethnic relations
Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
Medical Sociology, Substance Use, Deviance, Youth/Youth Cultures, Sexuality/Sexual Health, Health Policy
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
culture; family; race; ethnicity; immigration
Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
sociology of education; stratification; Asian American studies
Clinical Associate Professor, Sociology
Director, Social Science Research Commons
Research Interests
intersections of inequality, culture, and education
Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
China; law and society; work and occupations; development
Lecturer, Sociology
Research Interests
taste and aesthetics, social psychology, culture and media, power and inequality
Luther Dana Waterman Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
Suicide; Children/Youth; Medical Sociology; Mental Health; Social Psychology; Culture; Organizations; Education; Gender; Sexuality
Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
race/ethnicity; immigration; collective behavior/social movements; inequality
Associate Director, Irsay Institute for Sociomedical Sciences Research
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor
Research Interests
medical sociology; social networks; biosociology; mental illness; quantitative methods
James H. Rudy Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
sociology of family; sociology of education; gender; social psychology
Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology
Research Interests
organizational analysis; political sociology of social movements; sociology of education; mathematical sociology
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