Columbia Faculty
Karen Barkey
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1988
Interests: Comparative historical sociology; political sociology; historical methods
Peter Bearman
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1985
Interests: Social networks; comparative historical sociology; theory; adolescent health
Yinon Cohen
Professor, Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook), 1982
Interests: International migration, social stratification, labor markets
Jonathan R. Cole
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Sociology of knowledge and science
Thomas DiPrete
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Social stratification and mobility, work and labor markets, organizations, economic sociology, family, demography, quantitative methodology
Gil Eyal
Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 1997
Interests: Comparative historical sociology; knowledge theory
Priscilla P. Ferguson
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Cultural sociology
Dana Fisher
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2001
Interests: Political sociology; environmental sociology; collective behavior and social movements
Shamus Khan
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2008
Interests: Culture, Theory, Elites, Education, Gender, and Deliberative Politics
Bruce Link (School of Public Health):
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Medical sociology; mental health; statistics
Yao Lu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. UCLA, 2008
Interests: Social demography, social stratification, migration, sociology of health, education, quantitative methods
Nicole P. Marwell
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 2000
Interests: Urban sociology; community; Latina/o sociology
Debra C. Minkoff (Barnard):
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1991
Interests: Social movements, political sociology, and organizational theory and research
Alondra Nelson
Associate Professor, Ph.D., New York, 2003
Interests: race/ethnicity; gender; social movements; sociology of
science, knowledge and technology; sociology of biomedicine and health; culture;
theory
Saskia Sassen
Professor, Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1974
Interests: Globalization, urban sociology, sociology of transnational processes
Carla Shedd
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006
Interests: Crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society; social inequality; and urban sociology
Michael E. Sobel
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1980
Interests: Causal inference, social statistics
Seymour Spilerman
Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1968
Interests: Stratification; social violence; mathematical sociology
David Stark
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1982
Interests: Economic sociology; sociology of innovation; democratization and organizational change in postsocialist Eastern Europe
Diane Vaughan
Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1978
Interests: Sociology of organizations, sociology of culture, deviance and social control, field methods, research design, and science, knowledge, and technology
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1997
Interests: Urban sociology; cultural sociology; criminology/delinquency
Christopher Charles Weiss
Lecturer, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1999
Interests: Influence of schools and schooling on adolescents
Harrison White
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1960
Interests: Theory; cultural models
Joshua Whitford
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2003
Interests: Economic sociology, organizations, theory, political economy, comparative capitalisms, work and occupations, economic geography, local and regional economic development
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Emeritus Faculty
Herbert Gans
Eugene Litwak
Allan Silver
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Affiliated Faculty
Courtney Bender (Religion)
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1997
Interests: Cultural sociology, religion, theory
Todd Gitlin (School of Journalism)
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1977
Interests: Mass communication/public opinion; cultural sociology; theory
Isil Inaltong (Columbia College)
Core Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia 2008
Interests: Cultural sociology, urban sociology, qualitative methods
Bruce Kogut (School of Business)
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1983
Itnerests: International direct investment, technology policy, privatization, economic sociology, and political economy
Denise Milstein (Columbia College)
Core Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia, 2007
Interests: Mass media; cultural sociology; South America
Aaron M. Pallas (Teachers College)
Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1984
Interests: Educational stratification and the sociology of the life course
Jo Phelan (School of Public Health)
Associate Professor, Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook), 1991
Interests: Social stigma, conceptions of mental illness, social inequalities in health and mortality
Emmanuelle M. Saada (French and Romance Philology)
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2001
Interests: Historical sociology of colonization, law, citizenship and families
Michael Schudson (School of Journalism)
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1976
Interests: History and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate, and cultural memory
Julien Teitler (School of Social Work)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1996
Interests: Adolescent transitions; social inequality; family policy
Ion Bogdan Vasi (SIPA)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 2005
Interests: Adoption and implementation of local programs to address global climate change, the development of the wind energy industry, and strategies for coping with tragedies of the commons
Amy Stuart Wells (Teachers College)
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1991
Interests: Educational policy issues pertaining to the politics of race and culture, including school desegregation, school choice, and detracking in racially mixed schools
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Barnard Faculty
Elizabeth Bernstein
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2001
Interests: Sexuality, Gender, and late-capitalist transformations of intimacy; feminist theories of the state
Peter Levin
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, 2004
Interests: Economic sociology, sex and gender, organizations and work, qualitative methodology, theory
Debra C. Minkoff (Chair)
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1991
Interests: Social movements, political sociology, and organizational theory and research
Jonathan Rieder
Professor, Ph.D. Yale, 1978
Interests: Sociology of culture; race, pluralism and ethnicity in the United States; and politics and language
Guobin Yang
Associate Professor, Ph.D. New York, 2000
Interests: Contemporary Chinese culture and society; voluntary associations, new media, popular protests
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Adjunct Faculty 2009-2010
Angela Aidala
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