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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2017 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Sociology 920  
Graduate School-New Brunswick
Sociology 920

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Steven R. Brechin, 26 Nichol Avenue, Davison Hall, Douglass Campus (848-932-6492)

Website: http://sociology.rutgers.edu/graduate

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)
Environment; political organizations

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

Ali Chaudhary, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D. California (Davis)
Global processes; immigration; citizenship; political organizations

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

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

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

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, Associate 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emily Bosk, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Child well-being; welfare services/policy; social service system integration

Dana Britton, Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, SMLR; Ph.D.,Texas Gender, work, and occupations

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

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

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

Peter J. Guarnaccia, Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Connecticut
Medical anthropology; Latino health and mental health; acculturation

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

Jeffrey Lane, Assistant Professor of Communication, SC&I; Ph.D., Princeton
Urban ethnography; media and neighborhoods; communication and inequality

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 

Rachael Schwom, Associate 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

 
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