Linda H. Aiken - Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, and Professor of Sociology; Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, University of Texas at Austin, 1973. Areas of interest: Medical sociology, health workforce and migration, health outcomes research, hospital quality and safety, health policy Author of Applications of Social Science to Clinical Medicine and Health Policy.

Paul D. Allison - Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1976. Areas of interest: Quantitative Methods, Evolution and Sociology, Altruism. Author of Event History Analysis.

Charles L. Bosk - Professor. Ph.D. Chicago 1975. Areas of interest: Professions and Professionalization; Medical Sociology, Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization, Law & Society. Author of Forgive and Remember; Managing Medical Failure and What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography

Virginia Chang - Virginia W. Chang - Assistant Professor, Medicine and Sociology. M.D., University of Michigan 1994. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago 2003. Areas of interest: Medical Sociology; Social Stratification; Social Epidemiology; Health Services Research; Health Disparities; Social Theory; Gender Studies.

Camille Zubrinsky Charles - Professor. Faculty Associate Director, Center for Africana Studies; Ph.D. UCLA 1996. Areas of interest: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Urban Sociology, Statistics.

Randall Collins - The Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology; Graduate Group Chair, Department of Sociology, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1969. Areas of interest: Violence, Social Conflict, Micro-Sociology/Social Interaction, Networks, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Sociological Theory.

Diana Crane - Professor Emerita. Ph.D. Columbia 1964. Areas of interest: Sociology of Science; Sociology of Culture; Medical Sociology; Sociology of the Arts; Sociology of Popular Culture. Author of The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1948-1985.

Irma Elo - Associate Professor. Ph.D. Public Policy and Demography, Princeton 1990; Areas of interest: Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differences in health and mortality, Aging and the Life Course, Medical Sociology, Family Sociology, Mathematical Demography.

Chenoa Flippen -

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. - Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology. Ph.D. Columbia 1967. Areas of interest: Family, in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, Cross-National Research on Children’s Well-Being, Life Course Studies, Transitions to Adulthood.

Richard Gelles - Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice; The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence, the School of Social Policy and Practice; Joint Appointment, Professor, Sociology and Professor, Social Policy and Practice,   Ph.D., Sociology, University of New Hampshire, 1973. Areas of interest: education; child welfare and public policy; child welfare agencies and law enforcement; decision making in child welfare; violence and abuse protection and prevention; the social welfare system. Author of The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives; Intimate Violence in Families; Sociology: An introduction (6th Edition).

David Gibson - Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University 1999. Areas of interest: Social Networks, Organizations, Micro-Interaction, Computational Modeling,
Theory.

David Grazian - Associate Professor; Unidergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. University of Chicago 2000. Areas of interest: Sociology of Culture, Mass Media and Popular Culture, Urban Sociology, Social Interaction, Ethnographic Methods, and Theory. Author of The Fashion of Their Dreams: Chicago Blues Clubs and the Search for Authenticity.

Emily Hannum - Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Michigan 1998. Areas of interest: Education, Stratification/Mobility, Chinese Society. Author of Ethnic Differences in Basic Education in Reform-Era Rural China.

Kristen Harknett - Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Princeton University. Areas of interest: Social demography;Economic underpinnings of marriage decisions; Racial and ethnic patterns of family formation; Assortative mating; Family structure and child well-being; Social policies, social networks, and poverty

Jerry A. Jacobs - Professor. Ph.D. Harvard 1983. Areas of interest: Stratification; Education; Gender; Gender and Inequality, Work-Family Issues, Gender and Education, Gender Segregation, Career Mobility, Interdisciplinary Research and the Diffusion of Labor Markets.

Grace Kao - Associate Professor. Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Ph.D. Chicago 1997. Areas of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Education, Adolescence, Asian Americans.

Hans Peter Kohler - Professor, Sociology, Research Associate, Population Studies Center. Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1997. Areas of interest: Population/Demography, Social/Sexual Networks, AIDS, Fertility, Health.

Ross Koppel - Lecturer/Adjunct Professor. Ph.D., Temple University, 1981. Areas of interest: Sociological and Demographic Research.

Demie Kurz - Co-Director, Women’s Studies, Co-Director, The Alice Paul Center for the Study of Women & Gender, Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Northwestern 1976. Areas of interest: Sociology of Gender; Qualitative Methods; Sociology of the Family; Feminist Theory. Author of For Richer, For Poorer.

Teresa Labov - Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Columbia 1980 Areas of interest: Society and Language; Moral Order; Race and Social Structure; Social Interaction.

Eileen Lake - Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Department of Sociology
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999. Areas of interest: contributions of the nurse’s work environment and clinical nursing expertise to patient outcomes.

Annette Lareau - Professor. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1984. Social Stratification, Family, Education, Ethnographic methods, Childhood. Author: Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life.

Robin Leidner - Associate Professor. Department of Sociology. Ph.D. Northwestern 1988. Areas of interest: Gender, Work, Culture. Author of Fast Food, Fast Talk.

Janice Madden - Robert C. Daniels Term Professor of Urban Studies, Regional Science, Sociology, and Real Estate; Graduate Group Chair, Demography. Ph.D. Duke 1972. Areas of interest: Effects of race, gender, and Urban location on labor market outcomes; inter and intra- metropolitan variations in income distribution.

Marshall M. Meyer - Professor. Ph.D. Chicago 1967. Primary Appointment: Wharton - Management. Area of interest: Organizational Sociology. Author of Permanently Failing Organizations.

Hyunjoon Park - Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005. Areas of interest: Social Stratification, Sociology of Education, Family, Health, Social Demography, Methodology (Quantitative Methods), East Asian Studies.

Emilio Parrado -

Samuel H. Preston - Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography. Ph.D. Princeton 1962. Areas of interest: Formal Demography and Population Health.

Jason Schnittker - Associate Professor. Ph.D. Indiana University 2001. Areas of interest: Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Stratification, Methods. Author of Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor?: Black-White Differences in Beliefs About the Causes and Appropriate Treatment of Mental Illness.

Lawrence Sherman - Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations. Ph.D. Yale 1976. Areas of interest: Crime, Law and Deviance; Public Policy for Cities; Violence Prevention and Public Health. Author of Crime, Punishment and Stake in Conformity: Legal and Informal Control of Domestic Violence.

Herbert L. Smith - Professor. Ph.D. Michigan 1982. Areas of interest: Quantitative Methodology, Demography.

Thomas Sugrue - Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology; 20th century America. Ph.D. Harvard University 1982. Areas of interest include: De-industrialization; Race and Labor; Liberalism and Grassroots Conservatism; American History in the 1950s; Poverty and Public Policy; and Affirmative Action. He is co-editor with Michael Katz of W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City.

Michael Useem - Professor. Ph.D. Harvard 1970. Primary Appointment: Wharton. Areas of interest: Organizations; Social Stratification; Political Sociology; Development. Co-author of Turbulence in The American Workplace and Co-editor of Transforming Organizations.

Melissa Wilde - Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley 2002. Areas of interest: Religion, Culture, Social Movements, Comparative-Historical Methods.

Paul Root Wolpe - Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Yale 1987. Areas of interest: Sociology of Bioethics, Medical Sociology, Knowledge and Culture, Sociology of
Professions, Sociology of Religion. Author of Sexuality and Gender in Society.

Tukufu Zuberi - Professor and Department Chair, Sociology; The Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations; Director, Center for Africana Studies Professor; Sociology. Ph.D. Chicago 1989. Areas of interest: Sociology, population studies, and Africana studies. Author of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century.

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