Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Lauren J. Krivo, 26 Nichol Avenue, Davison Hall, Douglass Campus (848-932-6492)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

József Böröcz, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Historical; comparative; economic; leisure migration; stratification

Steven R. Brechin, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Environmental sociology; political sociology; biodiversity

Ethel C. Brooks, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., New York
International political economy; globalization; work and labor markets

Sharon Bzostek, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Princeton
Medical sociology; family; demography

Deborah Carr, Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Aging and the life course; social psychology; family; medical sociology

Patrick Carr, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Criminological theory; crime and urban communities; transitions to adulthood

Karen A. Cerulo, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Culture; communications; deviance; methods

Lee Clarke, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Organizations; technology and risk

Ira J. Cohen, Associate Professor of Sociology, FAS-N; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Social theory; sociology of everyday life

Jeanette Covington, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Deviance/criminology

Stephen Crystal, Board of Governors Professor of Social Work, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Harvard
Social policy; social gerontology; AIDS

Phaedra Daipha, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Science and technology; embodiment; everyday life; theory

Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Associate Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Urban communities; race and ethnicity; Caribbean; methods; policy; crime

Nancy DiTomaso, Professor of Management, RBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Organizations; theory; economy and society

William A. Firestone, Distinguished Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, GSE; Ph.D., Chicago
Education; policy implementation; qualitative methods; organizations

Judith J. Friedman, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Urban communities; environment; demography

Judith M. Gerson, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Gender; work; social theory

Stephen Hansell, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Chicago
Medical; social psychology; education

Paul Hirschfield, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Criminology; youth; social policy

Allan V. Horwitz, Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Yale
Deviance and social control; mental illness; law

Joanna Kempner, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Science; medical sociology; gender

Lauren J. Krivo, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Texas
Crime and urban communities; race-ethnicity; social demography

Catherine Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Race and ethnicity; gender; political sociology; immigration; medical sociology

Donald Light, Professor of Psychiatry, Rowan-SOM; Ph.D., Brandeis
Comparative health care; social policy; professions

Jacquelyn Litt, Professor of Sociology, SAS, and Dean, Douglass Residential College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Gender; carework; disaster

Norah MacKendrick, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Environmental sociology; political sociology; consumption

Paul McLean, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Historical-comparative; economic; patronage networks

David Mechanic, University Professor and René Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Stanford
Medical; social psychology; psychiatry

Ann Mische, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., The New School
Political culture; social movements; social networks; microinteraction; temporality

Ann P. Parelius, Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Education; marriage and family

Robert J. Parelius, Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Education

Julie Phillips, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Demography; crime; migration; methods; urban geography; mortality

David Popenoe, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Family and community; comparative social systems

Patricia A. Roos, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Stratification; work; gender

Sarah Rosenfield, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Texas
Medical sociology; mental illness

Thomas Rudel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Yale
Development; environment; human ecology

Zakia Salime, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
Social movements; sex and gender; globalization

Hana Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Culture; social networks; social change; organizations; social psychology

D. Randall Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Methodology; statistics; sports

Kristen Springer, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Gender; health; families; aging

Arlene J. Stein, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Gender and sexuality; culture; social movements

Jackson Toby, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Criminology/deviance; theory; education

Chaim I. Waxman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., The New School
Religion; ethnicity; social welfare

Helene R. White, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, SAS/CAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Alcohol and drugs; deviance

Richard Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Binghamton)
Social construction of identities; visual sociology

Benjamin D. Zablocki, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Religion; life course; social psychology

Eviatar Y. Zerubavel, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Cognitive sociology; sociology of time; social memory; everyday life

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Drew Humphries, Professor of Sociology, FAS-C; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Criminology; law and society

Valerie R. Johnson, Associate Professor of Alcohol Studies, CAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Alcohol and drug studies

Vikki Katz, Assistant Professor of Communication and Information, SC&I; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Sociology of the family; immigration; sociology of media

Deepa Kumar, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Islamophobia; empire; gender; globalization; social class

Naa Oyo Kwate, Associate Professor of Human Ecology and Africana Studies, SEBS; Ph.D., St. John's
Urban inequality; African-American health

Dawne Mouzon, Assistant Professor of Planning and Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Rutgers
Physical and mental health disparities; race; gender; sociology of the family

Lenna Neponmyaschy, Assistant Professor of Social Work/IHHCPAR, SSW; Ph.D., Columbia
Social policy; poverty and inequality; child health and development

Karen M. O'Neill, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS/SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Land-use conflicts; social classes; the state

Kristin Scherrer, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan
Intergenerational family relationships; marginalized sexual identities; aging and the life course

Rachael Schwom, Assistant Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Organizational, political, and environmental sociology; institutional change

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty

Carol A. Boyer, Associate Research Professor, IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Yale
Mental health; health care

Mary Chayko, Teaching Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Rutgers
Impact of the internet and digital media on community, society, and self