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Department of Sociology
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Faculty
| Name | Contact Info | Interest Areas |
|---|---|---|
| Abdi, Cawo Assistant Professor |
1146 Social Sciences 612-624-3714 cabdi@umn.edu |
Migration; Gender, Race and Class; Family; Islam; Development Studies; Human Rights; Globalization; Africa; Middle East |
| Aminzade, Ronald Professor |
1031 Social Sciences 612-624-9570 aminzade@umn.edu |
Historical and Comparative; Political Sociology; Sociology of Development; Nationalism; Race Relations; Social Movements; Democratic Theory; Sociology of Higher Education |
| Baer, Alejandro Associate Professor |
1133 Social Sciences 612-624-7548 abaer@umn.edu |
Social Memory Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sociology of Religion, Media and Communication, Antisemitism, Judaism, Qualitative Methods, Visual Sociology. |
| Bian, Yanjie Professor |
967 Social Sciences 612-624-9554 bianx001@umn.edu |
Economic sociology; Social networks; Social stratification; Chinese society |
| Boyle, Elizabeth Professor |
909 Social Sciences 612-624-3343 boyle014@umn.edu |
Sociology of Law; Globalization; Immigration; Human Rights |
| Broadbent, Jeffrey Associate Professor |
1026 Social Sciences 612-624-1828 broad001@umn.edu |
Political Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Social Movements; Network Analysis; Discourse Analysis, Institutions and Culture; Cross-national Comparative Methods; Climate Change; Japan; East Asia; Field Work. |
| Edgell, Penny Professor |
1039 Social Sciences 612-624-9828 edgell@umn.edu |
Culture; Religion; Gender & Family; Symbolic Boundaries & Inequality |
| Ferrales, Gabrielle Assistant Professor |
1152 Social Sciences 612-624-5021 ferrales@umn.edu |
Law and Society; Gender; Criminology and Criminal Justice; International Criminal Law; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis |
| Gerteis, Joseph Associate Professor |
1125 Social Sciences 612-624-1615 gerte004@umn.edu |
Historical Sociology; Politics and Social Movements; Social Theory; Social Class and Race |
| Goldman, Michael Associate Professor |
952 Social Sciences 612-624-0051 mgoldman@umn.edu |
Transnational, Political, and Environmental Sociology; Global Urbanization; Transnational Institutions of Finance, Development, & Expert Networks. |
| Gowan, Teresa Associate Professor |
1080 Social Sciences 612-626-1863 tgowan@umn.edu |
Urban Sociology, Ethnography, Poverty and Inequality, Deviance and Social Control |
| Hartmann, Douglas Professor |
835 Social Sciences 612-624-0835 hartm021@umn.edu |
Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Integration; Culture (including Popular Culture, Sports, and Religion); Social Movements and Social Change; American Society; Field Methods; Contemporary Theory |
| Hull, Kathleen Associate Professor |
1131 Social Sciences 612-624-4339 hull@umn.edu |
Culture; Law; Social Movements; Family; Gender and Sexuality |
| Kelly, Erin Associate Professor |
1133 Social Sciences 612-624-0228 kelly101@umn.edu |
Organizations and Work; Gender; Family and Life Course; Law and Social Policy |
| Knoke, David Professor |
939 Social Sciences 612-624-6816 knoke001@umn.edu |
Organizations and Work; Social Networks; Economic Sociology; Methods and Statistics |
| Liebler, Carolyn Assistant Professor |
1148 Social Sciences 612-626-7252 liebler@umn.edu |
Race and Ethnicity; Social Demography; Social Stratification; Indigenous Peoples; Sociology of the Family and Life Course; Social Support |
| Logan, Enid Associate Professor |
956 Social Sciences 612-624-3598 elogan@umn.edu |
Contemporary U.S. Race Relations; Sociology of Afro-Latin Populations; Family, Marriage and Gender; Race and Media; Race and Law; Historical and Comparative Methods |
| Malmquist, Carl Professor |
1174 Social Sciences 612-624-4147 malmq001@umn.edu |
Juvenile Justice; Homicide; Adolescence; Law and Society; Law and the Mental Health System |
| Meier, Ann Associate Professor |
1127 Social Sciences 612-626-7230 meierann@umn.edu |
Family and Life Course; Adolescent and Young Adult Development; Research Methods |
| Moen, Phyllis Professor |
1123 Social Sciences 612-625-5483 phylmoen@umn.edu |
Work, Family, Health, Policy, Age and the Gendered Life Course |
| Mortimer, Jeylan Professor |
1014 Social Sciences 612-624-4064 morti002@umn.edu |
The Life Course, Social Psychology, Work |
| Page, Joshua Assistant Professor |
935 Social Sciences 612-624-9333 page@umn.edu |
Crime, Law, Deviance, and Punishment; Labor and Unionization; Political Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Theory |
| Park, Lisa Sun-Hee Professor |
1035 Social Sciences 612-624-8563 lspark@umn.edu |
Immigration and Welfare Policy; Immigrant Health Care; Race, Class, and Gender; Asian American Studies; Environmental Justice; Urban Theory and Methods |
| Pellow, David Professor |
1070 Social Sciences 612-624-5006 dpellow@umn.edu |
Environmental justice studies; Racial and ethnic inequality; Transnational social movements; Qualitative research methods; Labor studies; Immigration |
| Samaha, Joel Professor |
1033 Social Sciences 612-624-3529 jbs@umn.edu |
Criminal Law and Procedure in U.S. Society; History of Criminal Justice |
| Savelsberg, Joachim Professor |
1144 Social Sciences 612-624-0273 savel001@umn.edu |
Sociology of Law; Sociology of Knowledge; Criminology; Sociological Theory |
| Schurman, Rachel Professor |
1078 Social Sciences 612-624-1039 schurman@umn.edu |
Agri-food Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, International Political Economy, Environmental Sociology |
| Swartz, Teresa Associate Professor |
933 Social Sciences 612-626-1862 tswartz@umn.edu |
Families; Intergenerational Relations; Social Inequality; Asian American Studies; Gender; Foster Care and Welfare State; Transitions to Adulthood; and Carework. |
| Uggen, Christopher Professor |
1167 Social Sciences 612-624-4016 uggen001@umn.edu |
Crime, Law, and Deviance; Life Course; Inequality; Methods |
| Warren, John "Rob" Professor |
1172 Social Sciences 612-624-2310 warre046@umn.edu |
Social Inequality; Education; Aging and the Life Course; Health Disparities |
Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Contact Info |
|---|---|
| Brewer, Rose Professor, African American & African Studies |
brewe001@umn.edu |
| Call, Kathleen Professor, School of Public Health |
callx001@umn.edu |
| Feld, Barry Professor, Law School |
feldx001@umn.edu |
| Jacobs, Walt Associate Professor, African American & African Studies |
wrjacobs@umn.edu |
| McAlpine, Donna Associate Professor, School of Public Health |
mcalp004@umn.edu |
| Menanteau, Dario Professor, School of Social Work |
dmenante@umn.edu |
| Oakes, Michael Associate Professor, School of Public Health |
oakes007@umn.edu |
| Pierce, Jennifer Professor, American Studies |
pierc012@umn.edu |
| Roberts, Christopher Associate Professor, Law School |
cnr@umn.edu |
| Ruggles, Steven Professor, History & Director, MN Population Center |
ruggl001@umn.edu |
| Seashore, Karen Professor, CEHD, Org. Leadership, Policy & Development |
klouis@umn.edu |
| Shippee, Tetyana Assistant Professor, School of Public Health |
tshippee@umn.edu |
| Snyder, Mark Professor, Psychology |
msnyder@umn.edu |
| Soss, Joe Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
jbsoss@umn.edu |
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Contact Info |
|---|---|
| Anderson, Ronald Professor Emeritus |
rea@umn.edu |
| Fulton, Robert Professor Emeritus |
fulto001@umn.edu |
| Nelson, Joel Professor Emeritus |
nelso004@umn.edu |
| Reiss, Ira Professor Emeritus |
irareiss@comcast.net |
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Faculty News
Goldman Wins CLA Teaching Award
Michael Goldman received one of two Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards for 2012-13. This award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts. He will be recognized at a special event in 2013-14.
May 23rd, 2013Two Top Journals Coming to Minnesota!
Joachim Savelsberg and Timothy Johnson (Political Science) have accepted coeditorship of Law & Society Review (LS&R). This is the journal of the Law & Society Association and regarded by socio-legal scholars worldwide as a leading publication for work bearing on the relationship between society and the legal process.
John "Rob" Warren will be the editor of Sociology of Education (SOE), a journal of the American Sociological Association. This is the top ranked publication in education research. They publish research that examines how social institutions and individuals' experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development.
February 27th, 2013
