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Gabriel Abend – Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 2008 (Sociology) Northwestern University; M.A. 2003 (Sociology) Northwestern University; B.A. 2000 (Political Science) Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay).
Economic Sociology; Theory; Culture; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Business Ethics; Sociology of Morality; Logic of Inquiry.
Richard Arum – Professor of Sociology and Education
Ph.D. 1996 (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley; M.Ed. 1988, Harvard Graduate School of Education; B.A. 1985 (Political Science), Tufts University.
Education; legal and institutional environments of schools; social stratification; student achievement and socialization; formal organizations; self employment.
Neil Brenner – Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies
Ph.D. 1999 (Political Science), University of Chicago; M.A. 1996 (Geography), University of California (Los Angeles); M.A. 1993 (Political Science), University of
Chicago; B.A. 1991 (Philosophy), Yale University.
Urban sociology, urban political economy and urban theory; political sociology, state theory and political geography; comparative European and North American urban, suburban and regional development; comparative capitalisms; critical social/spatial theory; globalization studies.
Craig Calhoun – University Professor
D.Phil. 1980 (Sociology and History), Oxford University; M.A. 1975 (Social Anthropology), Manchester University; M.A. 1974 (Anthropology), Columbia University; B.A. 1972 (Anthropology), University of Southern California.
Social, political, and cultural theory; comparative historical sociology; public communication; social solidarity; collective action and social movements; social change.
Vivek Chibber – Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1999 (Sociology), University of Wisconsin; M.A. 1991 (Sociology), University of Wisconsin; B.A. 1987 (Political Science), Northwestern University
Economic sociology; sociology of development; Marxian theory; political sociology; comparative-historical sociology; social theory.
Dalton Conley – University Professor; Acting Dean of Social Sciences
Ph.D. 1996 (Sociology), Columbia University; M.P.A. 1992 (Public Policy), Columbia University; B.A. 1990 (Humanities), University of California, Berkeley.
Stratification/mobility; race; urban sociology; social policy; health and society.
Juan Corradi – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1974 (Sociology), M.A. 1967 (Sociology), B.A. (summa cum laude) 1965 (Sociology), Brandeis University.
Fear and violence; urban cultures; corporate social responsibility programs in developing countries; sociological theory; sociology of culture.
Jo Dixon – Associate Professor of Sociology and Law & Society
Ph.D. 1989 (Sociology), Indiana University; M.A. 1981 (Sociology), Emory University; B.A. 1972 (Sociology), University of North Carolina.
Law and society; human rights; gender and law; legal profession; criminology; criminal courts; violence; Central Europe.
Troy Duster – Silver Professor
Ph.D. 1962, Northwestern University; M.A. 1959, University of California (Los Angeles); B.A. 1957, Northwestern University.
Sociology of science; sociology of knowledge; deviance and control; sociology of law; race and ethnicity; policy; deviance.
Thomas Ertman – Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 1990, M.A. 1985, B.A. 1981, Harvard University.
Comparative/historical sociology; political sociology; social theory; sociology of the arts.
David Garland – Professor of Sociology and Law
Ph.D. 1984 (Socio-Legal Studies), University of Edinburgh; M.A. 1978 (Criminology), University of Sheffield; LL.B. 1977, University of Edinburgh.
The legal institutions of punishment and control; history and sociology of criminological knowledge; social solidarity; the welfare state.
Kathleen Gerson – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1981 (sociology), M.A. (sociology), California (Berkeley); B.A. (magna cum laude) 1969 (sociology), Stanford.
“The Time Divide”: work, family, and social policy in a hurried age; children of the gender revolution: growing up in an age of work and family change; moral dilemmas, moral strategies, and the transformation of gender.
Jeff Goodwin – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1988 (Sociology), M.A. 1983 (Sociology), B.A. 1980 (Social Studies), Harvard University.
Social movements, revolutions, and terrorism; comparative and historical sociology; social theory; public sociology.
David Greenberg – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1969 (Physics), M.S. 1963 (Physics), B.S. 1962 (Physics), University of Chicago.
Criminology; sociology of law; mathematical modeling; ancient civilizations; deviance; human sexuality; sociology of science; evolutionary psychology; statistical methods in the social sciences.
Doug Guthrie – Professor of Management and Sociology
Ph.D. 1997 (Sociology), M.A. 1994 (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley; B.A. 1992 (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Chicago.
Economic sociology; corporations; sociology of China.
Lynne Haney – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1997 (sociology), California (Berkeley); M.A. 1992 (sociology); B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) 1990 (sociology), California (San Diego).
Gender studies/feminist theory; political sociology; European studies; the welfare state; ethnographic methods.
Barbara Heyns – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1971 (Sociology), M.A. 1969, University of Chicago; B.A. 1966, University of California, Berkeley.
Sociology of education; social stratification; post-communist transitions; sociology of childhood; methodology/survey research.
Ruth Horowitz – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1975, M.A. 1972, University of Chicago; B.A. 1969, Temple University.
Social control; deviance; juvenile delinquency; urban communities; field research methods.
Robert Max Jackson – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1981 (Sociology), M.A. 1974 (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley; B.A. 1971 (Psychology and Sociology), University of Michigan.
Gender inequality; stratification; economy and society; theory; research Methods.
Guillermina Jasso – Silver Professor
Ph.D. 1974 (Sociology), Johns Hopkins University.
Sociobehavioral theory; distributive justice; status; international migration; inequality; probability distributions; mathematical methods for theory building; factorial survey methods for empirical analysis.
Colin Jerolmack - Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Ph.D. 2009, M.A. 2005 (Sociology), City University of New York; B.S. 2000 (Psychology), Drexel University.
Ethnography; urban communities; environmental sociology; animals and society; culture; health; social theory.
Eric Klinenberg – Professor of Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 2000 (Sociology), M.A. 1997 (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley; B.A. 1993 (History/Philosophy), Brown University.
Urban studies; media and cultural production; risk and disaster; race; theory.
Edward Lehman – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1966 (Sociology), Columbia University; M.A. 1959 (Sociology), B.S. 1956 (Sociology), Fordham University.
Political sociology; cultural sociology; sociological theory.
Steven Lukes – Professor of Sociology
D.Phil. 1968 (Sociology), M.A. 1967, B.A. 1962, Oxford University.
Political and social theory; the sociology of Durkheim and his followers; individualism; power; rationality; the category of the person; Marxism and ethics; sociology of morality; new forms of liberalism.
Richard Maisel – Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1958 (Sociology), Columbia University; B.A. 1949 (Sociology), SUNY, Buffalo.
Voting behavior; African American immigration from the south in the post World War I period; development of communication systems; research methods and statistics.
Jeff Manza - Professor of Sociology; Department Chair
Ph.D. 1995 (Sociology), M.A. 1989, B.A. 1984, University of California, Berkeley.
Social inequality, political sociology and public policy.
Gerald Marwell – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1964, M.A. 1959, New York University; B.S. 1957, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Collective behavior/social movements; religion; social psychology.
Harvey Molotch – Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies
Ph.D. 1968 (Sociology), M.A. 1966 (Sociology), University of Chicago; B.A. 1963 (Philosophy), University of Michigan.
Urban development and political economy; the sociology of architecture, design, and consumption; environmental degradation; mechanisms of interactional inequalities.
Ann Morning – Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 2004 (Sociology) Princeton University; M.A. 1992 (International Affairs) Columbia University; B.A. 1990 (Economics & Political Science) Yale University.
Race and ethnicity, especially racial classification; multiracial population; demography; sociology of knowledge and science; immigration; economic sociology.
Caroline Persell – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1971 (Sociology), M.A. 1967 (Sociology), Columbia University; B.A. 1962 (English), Swarthmore College.
Sociology of education; race and education in the U.S. and in comparative perspective; education and inequality; technology, teaching, and learning; scholarship of teaching and learning; income inequality; the black-white educational achievement gap.
Deirdre A. Royster – Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
Ph.D. 1996 (Sociology), M.A. 1991 (Sociology), Johns Hopkins University; B.S. 1987 (Sociology & Psychology), Virginia Tech.
Racial inequality; Work/Labor/Labor workers; Urban political economy; Responsive public policy.
Richard Sennett – University Professor
Ph.D. 1969, Harvard University; B.A. 1964 (with special honors), University of Chicago.
Urban sociology; art/music; family; history of ideas; and history of the body.
Patrick Sharkey – Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2007 (Sociology and Social Policy), Harvard University; B.A. 2000 (Public Policy and American Institutions), Brown University
Neighborhoods and communities; stratification and mobility; urban sociology; crime and violence; social policy.
Judith Stacey – Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Sociology
Ph.D. (Sociology) 1979, Brandeis University; M.A. (History) 1968, University of Illinois, Chicago; B.A. (Social Studies), 1964, University of Michigan.
Gender; family; sexuality; feminist and queer theory; ethnography.
Florencia Torche – Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 2004 (Sociology), Columbia University; M.Sc. (Sociology) 2001 Columbia University; B.A. 1996 (Sociology), Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Comparative sociology, stratification, education, wealth inequality, intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
Lawrence Wu – Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Stanford 1987 (Sociology); A.B. Harvard 1980 (Sociology and Applied Mathematics).
Family; poverty; social demography; life course; methods for studying social change.
Associated Faculty
Kimberly DaCosta, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Ryan Goodman, School of Law
Marion Nestle, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health
Pedro Noguera, Department of Teaching & Learning
Affiliated Faculty
Rodney Benson, Department of Culture and Communication
James Jacobs, School of Law
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, International Education and Educational Sociology
Arvind Rajagopal, Department of Culture and Communication
Visiting Scholars
Delia Baldassarri, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Mahito Hayashi, Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Mildred Schwartz, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago
Faculty Emeriti
Wolf V. Heydebrand
Edwin M. Schur
Patricia C. Sexton
Dennis H. Wrong
