Karen Barkey (Director of Undergraduate Studies):
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 (Director of Graduate Studies):
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 (Chair):
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:
Instructor, MS, Wisconsin, 2004
Interests: Modernist classical music, deliberative processes, and the development of feminist sociological thought
Bruce Link (School of Public Health):
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Medical sociology; mental health; statistics
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
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
Allan Silver:
Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1964
Interests: Historical sociology; political sociology; trust and moral order
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
Charles Tilly:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1958
Interests: Social processes; contentious politics
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 A. Venkatesh:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1997
Interests: Urban sociology; cultural sociology; criminology/delinquency
Duncan J. Watts:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1997
Interests: Social networks; mathematical sociology; collective behavior/social movements
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
Herbert Gans
Eugene Litwak
Courtney Bender (Religion):
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1997
Interests: Cultural sociology, religion, theory
Marcia Carlson (School of Social Work):
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1999
Interests: Family; policy analysis and public policy; demography
Todd Gitlin (School of Journalism):
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1977
Interests: Mass communication/public opinion; cultural sociology; theory
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
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
Abram DeSwaan
Nathaniel Deutsch
Herbert Gans
James Jasper
John Torpey
Niza Yanay