The First 100-Years

View of University of Minnesota campus, 1900

[Pillsbury, Nicholson, Eddy, & Burton Halls & Old Main]

Samuel Smith, Faculty,
1898-1915

[1st Dept. Chair]

AnthropologistAlbert Jenks, Sociology Faculty,   1906-1912

Folwell Hall, home for sociology, 1910-1932

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Sociologist George Vincent, President, U. of Minnesota, 1911-1917
[Co-authored first American Sociology Textbook]

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

George Vincent (left) walking with Cyrus Northrop

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Arthur Todd, Faculty,
1915-1921

[Chair, 1919-21]

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Stuart Chapin, Chair, 1922-1951

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Stuart Chapin, Chair, with Social Work Faculty in 1948

Elio Monachesi, Chair 1952-70 (on the left)

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Pitirim Sorokin, Faculty, 1924-1930

Clifford Kirkpatrick, Faculty, 1930-1950

Mildred Parten, Sociology PdD, 1929

Jones Hall

[Home of Sociology, 1932-1949]

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

George Vold, PhD. 1930

Faculty, 1932-1964

[Photo 1958, U of MN Archives]

Lowery Nelson, Faculty  1937-1956

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Conrad Taeuber, PhD, 1931

[Directed 1960 & 1970 U. S. Censuses]

William Sewell,
PhD. 1939

Delbert Miller, PhD 1940

Louis Guttman, PhD, 1942

Theodore Caplow, PhD 1946

Faculty, 1946-1960

Don Martindale, Faculty,    1948-1983

Arnold Rose, Faculty,
1949-1968

[Photo: Receiving his B.A. in Economics in 1935
University of MN Archives]

Arnold Rose, Faculty, 1949-1968

"Action Researcher"

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

1954 Faculty,

& Ford Hall, Dept home 1950-63

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

George Donohue, Faculty, 1955-1992

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Reuben Hill, Faculty, 1957-1983

Roy Francis (left), Reuben Hill, & Arthur Johnson working in Family Study Center, 1958

Sheldon Stryker,
[PhD., 1955]

[1948 photo]

Social Sciences Bldg Under Construction, Winter, 1962

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Joan Aldous, Faculty, 1963-1974

David Ward, Faculty, 1964-1999

[Chair, 1984-88 and 1992-95]

Irving Tallman, Faculty, 1966-1977

Robert Fulton, Faculty, 1966-97

Richard Hall, Faculty, 1967-77

[Chair, 1976-77]

Bert Ellenbogen (left) 1966-1986,
& Don McTavish, 1967-1999

Carolyn Rose, Faculty, 1968-75

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Roberta Simmons, Faculty,
1969 -1990

Ira Reiss, Faculty, 1969-97

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

David Ward’s Office, after demonstrations against the Criminal Justice Studies Center, 1970

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

George Bohrnstedt, Faculty, 1969-73

Chair: 1970-73

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

Joseph Galaskiewicz, Faculty, 1976-2001
Chair, 1988-89

[Shown here in 2001 with Scott Eliason]

Gary Fine, Faculty, 1976-1990

Candace Kruttschnitt, 1979-

Chair, 1998-2001

David Cooperman, Faculty 1968-1999

Chair: 1980-83

John P. Clark,
Faculty 1968-1990

Chair, 1983-84

[Photo: University of MN Archives]

David Knoke Faculty, 1985-

[Chair, 1989-92]

{Photo is from SRI 1990 Celebration of Award to Jodi Burmeister}

Ron Aminzade & Jody Burmeister , 1990 SRI

SRI 1990: Kent Sandstrom receiving Research Excellence Award from William Brustein

Ronald Aminzade, SRI 1990

Philip Tichenor (left), George Donohue, Clarice Olien, Rural Sociology Dept. about 1990

Dario Menanteau-Horta, PhD. 1967

Director, Center for Rural Sociology and Community Analysis, Univ. of Minnesota

1995 Faculty

Ronald Aminzade,
1984-

Chair 2001-

Centennial Celebration: 2001-2002

The Challenge:
2002-2102