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Grimshaw Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
social stratification; economic and political sociology; comparative and historical sociology; international development
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests
demography; family; health; gender; India; Nepal
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
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
social psychology; intergroup conflict and cooperation; gender; collective action; inequality; theory; social networks
Rudy Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
electoral politics; public opinion; social change; quantitative methods; welfare states
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
gender inequality; work; labor markets; mobility; social inequality; organizations; employment discrimination; quantitative methods
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
gender; race; ethnicity; work; inequality
Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
inhabited institutionalism; social psychology; organizations; culture; theory; ethnography
Associate Professor, Sociology
Director, Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research
Research Interests
social demography; sociology of education; stratification; survey methods
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
sociology of health and illness; social demography; life course; stratification
Provost Professor, Sociology
Associate Vice President for Faculty and Belonging
Research Interests
social psychology; medical sociology; mental health; race and ethnic relations
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
culture; family; race; ethnicity; immigration
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
sociology of education; stratification; Asian American studies
Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Provost Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
mental health; medical sociology; social psychology; stratification; life course
Professor, Sociology
On leave 2023-24
Research Interests
stratification and mobility; entrepreneurship; work; welfare state; quantitative methods
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 Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
Suicide; Children/Youth, Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Social Psychology; Culture
Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
race/ethnicity; immigration; collective behavior/social movements; inequality
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
aging and the life course; medical sociology; family and work
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor
Research Interests
medical sociology; social networks; biosociology; mental illness; quantitative methods
Distinguished Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
medical sociology; suicide; social networks; mental health/illness
James H. Rudy Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
sociology of family; sociology of education; gender; social psychology
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
law and organizations; gender and sexuality; education; comparative and historical sociology; politics and social movements; multiple methods
Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology
Department Chair
Research Interests
organizational analysis; political sociology of social movements; sociology of education; mathematical sociology
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
economic sociology, social networks, computational methods, conversation analysis
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