Sean J. Drake
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2017
Areas of Expertise
Ethnographic methods
Areas of Expertise
Health and illness, gender and sexuality, sustainability, disability studies, food and food politics
Areas of Expertise
Medical sociology, aging and the life course, racial/ethnic disparities, minority and immigrant health
Cecilia A. Green
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
Areas of Expertise
Race, class, gender, Caribbean studies
Prema Kurien
Professor, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center
Senior Research Associate, Sovereignty, Order and Conflict Working Group
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Immigrants and immigration, religion, ethnicity, immigrant politics, India
Scott Landes
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sociology Department
Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2014
Areas of Expertise
Sociology of disability, medical sociology, aging and the life course, military veterans
Andrew S. London
Professor, Sociology Department
Associate Dean for Research and Administration, Maxwell School
Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar
Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Medical sociology; HIV/AIDS; demography; aging and the life course; families, poverty, welfare and low-wage work; carework; veterans; LGBT/sexuality studies
Amy Lutz
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Race and ethnicity, immigration, bilingualism, educational inequality
Yingyi Ma
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Director, Asian/Asian American Studies
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Advisory Board Member, East Asia Program
Areas of Expertise
Education, migration, Asian/Asian American studies
Madonna Harrington Meyer
University Professor, Sociology Department
Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence
Faculty Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy, aging and the life course, family policies
Shannon Monnat
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion and Director, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Co-Director, Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Research Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute
Areas of Expertise
Rural demography, social and structural determinants of health and health disparities, spatial differences in morbidity and mortality
Jennifer Karas Montez
University Professor, Sociology Department
Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies
Director, Center for Aging and Policy Studies
Co-Director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab
Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Areas of Expertise
Demography, political economy and population health, life course and aging
Jackie Orr
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Areas of Expertise
Cultural politics and performance; contemporary theory, science, technology and psychiatry; critical body studies; history and politics of psychopharmaceuticals
Arthur Paris
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Areas of Expertise
Urban society and policy, race and ethnic relations, science and technology, non-white popular culture
Gretchen Purser
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Research Director, Advocacy and Activism
Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
Areas of Expertise
Work and labor, urban poverty, law and punishment, housing and homelessness, precarity, social theory, ethnography, community-based action research
Rebecca Schewe
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Environmental and natural resource sociology
Merril Silverstein
Professor, Sociology Department
Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Falk College
Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professor in Aging
Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, family, intergenerational relationships, demographic, policy and cultural contexts, quantitative methods
Janet M. Wilmoth
Professor and Chair, Sociology Department
Director, Aging Studies Institute
Research Affiliate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Areas of Expertise
Sociology of aging and the life course, demography, health