Social Science Disciplines >> Sociology >> Faculty

Brechin, Steven R.

  • Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1989)
  • Interests: Organizational, political, and environmental sociology
  • Office: 437 Crouse Hinds Hall, Telephone: 443-4303
  • Email: sbrechin@maxwell.syr.edu

DeVault, Marjorie

  • Professor (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1984)
  • Interests: Gender, qualitative and feminist methods, social interaction
  • Office: 317 Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-4030
  • Email: mdevault@mailbox.syr.edu

Green, Cecilia

  • Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1998)
  • Interests: Globalization, race, class, gender, colonial and postcolonial development, disciplinary regimes
  • Office: 307 Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-3079
  • Email: cagree01@syr.edu

Harrington Meyer, Madonna

  • Professor (Ph.D. Florida State University, 1991)
  • Interests: Aging, life course, health care, gender, social policy
  • Office: 416 Eggers Hall, Telephone: 443-9440
  • Email: mhm@maxwell.syr.edu

Himes, Chris

  • Professor (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1989)
  • Interests: Demography, aging/social gerontology, life course, family
  • Office: 426 Eggers Hall, Telephone: 443-9064
  • Email: clhimes@maxwell.syr.edu

Kurien, Prema

  • Associate Professor (Ph.D. Brown University, 1993)
  • Interests: Race, ethnicity, sociology of religion, international migration and immigration
  • Office: 302 Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-1152
  • Email: pkurien@maxwell.syr.edu

London, Andrew S.

  • Professor and Department Chair, (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1993)
  • Interests: Sociology of medicine, demography, HIV/AIDS, mental health, health services and policy research, welfare reform
  • Office: 302 Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-3252
  • Email: anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu

Lutz, Amy

  • Assistant Professor (Ph.D. SUNY Albany, 2002)
  • Interests: Race and ethnicity, international migration, sociology of education, sociology of language, inequality, political sociology
  • Office: 426 Eggers Hall, Telephone: 443-3842
  • Email: aclutz@maxwell.syr.edu

Ma, Yingyi

  • Assistant Professor
  • Interests: Social stratification and social inequality, sociology of education, immigration, quantitative methods
  • Office: 319 Maxwell Hall
  • Email: yma03@maxwell.syr.edu

Orr, Jackie

  • Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley, 1998)
  • Interests: Contemporary theory, gender, sociology of science, technology and medicine
  • Office: 310C Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-5758
  • Email: jtorr@maxwell.syr.edu

Paris, Arthur

  • Associate Professor (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1974)
  • Interests: Race and ethnic relations, science and technology, urban society and policy, non-white popular culture
  • Office: 409 Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-2279
  • Email: aeparis@maxwell.syr.edu

Pooler, William

  • Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1971)
  • Interests: Research methodology, organizations, family, criminal justice, evaluation
  • Office: 310A Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-3945
  • Email: reloop@mailbox.syr.edu

Usdansky, Margaret

  • Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Princeton University, 2004)
  • Interests: Demography, single-parent families, sex and gender
  • Office: 426 Eggers Hall, Telephone: 443-5765
  • Email: mlusdans@maxwell.syr.edu

Wilmoth, Janet

  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1995)
  • Interests: Sociology of aging, migration and living arrangements, social support, health status
  • Office: 426 Eggers Hall, Telephone: 443-5053
  • Email: jwilmoth@maxwell.syr.edu



Biklen, Sari Knopp

  • Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education (Ph.D. Massachusetts – Amherst, 1973)
  • Interests: Qualitative methods, gender, youth, schooling, and popular culture
  • Office: 350 Huntington Hall, Telephone: 443-9075
  • Email: skbiklen@syr.edu

Bogdan, Robert

  • Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1971)
  • Interests: Qualitative methods, special education, disability studies, sociology of difference, visual sociology
  • Email: rcbogdan@maxwell.syr.edu

Borker, Susan

  • Professor Emerita (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1971)
  • Interests: Quantitative methods, sex and gender, work and labor force issues, health care
  • Office: 230 Euclid, Telephone: 443-4595
  • Email: borker@mailbox.syr.edu

Carty, Linda

  • Professor African American Studies (Ph.D. Toronto, 1988)
  • Interests: Race, class and gender, comparative sociology, international development, postcolonial discourse, third world feminisms
  • Office: 200 Sims Hall, Telephone: 443-9344
  • Email: lcarty@syr.edu

Kriesberg, Louis

  • Professor Emeritus, Sociology (Ph.D. Chicago, 1953)
  • Interests: Peace and war, conflict resolution, race/minority/gender
  • Office: 230 Euclid, Telephone: 443-3170
  • Email: lkriesbe@maxwell.syr.edu

Loder, Richard

  • Part-Time Professor, Sociology (Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1978)
  • Interests: Race and ethnic relations, process and change, social movements, Native American studies
  • Office: 404A Maxwell Hall, Telephone: 443-4580
  • Email: rrloder@maxwell.syr.edu

Loughlin, Julia

  • Professor Emerita (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1971)
  • Interests: Race, class and gender, science and technology
  • Email: jloughli@maxwell.syr.edu

Ratcliff, Richard

  • Professor Emeritus, Sociology (Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Interests: Political economy, stratification/mobility, conflict resolution, social theory, research methods
  • Email: ratcliff@syr.edu

Spencer, Gary

  • Professor Emeritus, Sociology (Ph.D. Boston)
  • Interests: Dramaturgy, prejudice and discrimination, ethnicity
  • Email: socprof@bellsouth.net

 

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