Meet Our Faculty

Research Interests: Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Immigration

Research Interests: Criminology & Criminal Justice; Detention and Prisons; Law and Society; Migration; Punishment; Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods

Research Interests: Family; Family Inequality; Aging and Life Course; Health; Quantitative Methods

Research Interests: Sociology of the Family; Child and Adolescent Development; Gender; Ethnicity

Research Interests: Life Course Criminology; Social Mobility; Social Responses to Crime; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods

Research Interests: Political Economy; International Development; Labor; Gender; Social Welfare; Comparative-Historical Methods

Research Interests: Crime, Law, and Deviance; Sociology of Family; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Neighborhoods; Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests: Social media; Social psychology; Inequalities; Student engagement & outcomes

Research Interests: Environmental Sociology; Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science; Historical Sociology; Social Theory

Research Interests: Racial Attitudes; Racial Identity; Second-Class Citizenship; Social Psychology; W.E.B. Du Bois

Research Interests: Law and Society; Sociology of Drugs and Addiction; Crime, Deviance and Social Control; Law and Urban Justice; Occupations and Professions

Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Demography; Chronic Pain; Criminal Justice; Research Methods

Research Interests: Social Inequalities and Health; Medicalization; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Education; Rural Sociology

Research Interests: Work and Labor Markets; Labor and Labor Movements: Law and Social Policy; Race, Gender, Class and Inequality

Research Interests: Punishment, Crime, Law and Society, Gender, Mixed-Methods

Research Interests: Community and Urban Sociology; Sociology of Education; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility

Research Interests: Gender and the Life Course; Families; Aging; Education; Happiness; Japan

Research Interests: Life Course Criminology; Social Change; Comparative Study; Social Responses to Crime; Sentencing; Quantitative Methods

Research Interests: Urban Sociology; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Urban Governance; Community Studies

Research Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations; Military Sociology; Social Stratification

Research Interests: Punishment; Medical Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Discourse Analysis; Social Policy; Violence; Treatment Courts; Gender, Race, Class

Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Social Determinants of Health; Disability and Mortality; Chronic Pain & Opioid; Aging & Health; Work, Family & Health

Research Interests: Health and Income Security; Long-term Care; Families, Aging and the Life Course; Comparative Public Policies/Welfare State; Mixed-methods Research Design

Teaching Interests: Race; Social Justice; Criminology; Social Theory; Food & Environmental Studies; Urban & Community Studies

Research Interests: Sociology of Law; Gender, Sexuality, and the Body; Criminology; Work and Organizations

Research Interests: Environmental Health and Justice; Studies of Science, Technology, and Society; Critical Race Theory; Social Movements; Data Visualization and Analytics