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Department of Sociology

Faculty in Sociology

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Stephanie A. Bohon
Associate Professor
Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Social and applied demography, immigration to emerging gateway places, Latino migration, ethnic economies, and immigrant incorporation/adaptation



Hoan Bui
Associate Professor
Michigan State University, 2001
Intimate violence, juvenile delinquency, immigration and crime, women/minorities in criminal justice
website



Sherry Cable
Associate Professor
Pennsylvania State University, 1985
Environmental sociology, social movements, environmental justice
website



Yuri Chumakov
Lecturer
University of Notre Dame, 2003
Sociology of religion, national identity, gender and religion



Harry F. Dahms
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
New School for Social Research, New York, 1993
Theory (classical, contemporary, critical), globalization, economic sociology/political economy, social inequalities, entrepreneurship
website



Steven P. Dandaneau
Associate Professor, Associate Vice Provost, and Director of the Chancellor's Honors Program
Brandeis University, 1992
Social theory, political economy, community, critical theory, postmodernism
website



Beth Degutis
Lecturer
University of Tennessee, 1993
Class structure, sociology of health, and sociology of ageing
website


Ben Feldmeyer
Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University, 2007
Criminology, demography, race/ethnicity, stratification, research/quantitative methods, sentencing and the courts



R. Scott Frey
Professor and Head
Colorado State University, 1980
Environmental sociology, development, comparative/historical sociology




Paul K. Gellert
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998
Environmental sociology, development, comparative/historical sociology, political economy, Asian studies, global studies
website


Asafa Jalata
Professor
State University of New York, Binghamton, 1990
Political economy, global studies, race and ethnicity, sociology of development, national movements, terrorism, nationalism, African and African-American studies
website



Robert Emmet Jones
Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Committee of Undergraduate Studies
Washington State University, 1990
Environmental sociology, human dimensions of ecosystem management, public opinion and policy, research methods, rural sociology, social psychology
website


Suzanne Kurth
Associate Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago, 1971
Social psychology, gender, sexual harassment, technological change in communications and social interaction/relationships
 


Judy Morelock
Lecturer
Pennsylvania State University, 1976

Social psychology, family, and stratification



Lois Presser
Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati, 2002
Criminological theory, restorative/community justice, narratives of violent offenders and victims of violence
website



Wornie L. Reed
Professor and Director of African and African-American Studies
Boston University, 1976
African American communities, children and youth, criminal justice, health and medical care, sports and society
website


 
Jon Shefner
Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Global Studies
University of California, Davis, 1997
Political economy of development, globalization, social movements, Latin America



Neal Shover
Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana, 1971
Criminal organization, criminal careers, white-collar crime, social sources of punishment variation



Michael Skladany
Lecturer
Michigan State University, 2000
Rural, Community and Environmental Studies, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK), Social Movements
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James Talley
Lecturer
University of Tennessee, 2001

 

Affiliated Faculty

 

Terrell L. Strayhorn
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor of Higher Education , and Special Assistant to the Provost
Virginia Tech, 2005
 

 

Emeritus Professors


Michael Betz
Michigan State University, 1968
Sociology of medicine, alternative health care systems
website



James Black
University of Iowa, 1966
Homicide studies, multiple offender killings, murder for hire, crime films and society



Donald W. Hastings
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1970
Environmental sociology, sociology of sport, demography, sociology of religion
website



Thomas C. Hood
Duke University, 1969
Collective behavior and social movements, environmental sociology, theoretical social psychology

Updated 8-1-2007