Faculty
Faculty
Andrew Abbott, Professor
Interests: professions and work, urban sociology, historical sociology, methodology, and general social theory.
Gary Becker, Professor (Jointly Appointed in Economics)
Interests: the interactions among investments in human capital, economic growth, intergenerational mobility, and population growth. He is also studying addictive behavior and the market for drugs.
Kathleen Cagney, Associate Professor
Interests: health and medicine, population, urban sociology, aging and the life course
Terry N. Clark, Professor
Interests: using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena.
Elisabeth S. Clemens, Professor
Interests: organizational theory, political sociology, the role of social movements and voluntary organizations in processes of institutional change.
John L. Comaroff, Professor (Jointly Appointed in Anthropology)
Interests: comparative systems of politics and law, with special reference to the relationship between their cultural and social dimensions; in sociological and anthropological theory; in the cross-cultural study of kinship and marriage; in ideology and historical consciousness; in colonialism and postcoloniality; and in global capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism.
James A. Davis, Visiting Professor
Interests: change with the NORC General Social Survey, national differences with the ISSP, simple methods of survey analysis and fomenting quantitative thinking in the undergraduate
Michal Engelman, Assistant Professor
Interests: population, health and medicine, methods and models, aging and the life course
James Evans, Assistant Professor
Interests:knowledge and science, social networks and organizations, content analysis, economic sociology and the sociology of work.
Andreas Glaeser, Associate Professor
Interests: cultural change, ways of knowing and understanding, identity, emotions, social ontology and historical and ethnographic methods.
Hans Joas, Visiting Professor (Jointly Appointed in Social Thought)
Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor (Jointly Appointed in Anthropology)Interests:economic sociology, sociology of science, consumption, globalization, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, contemporary theory.
Ryon Lancaster, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair
Interests: organizational sociology, sociology of law, economic sociology and historical sociology.
Edward O. Laumann, Professor
Interests: organizational and economic sociology, human sexuality, political sociology and social stratification.
Cheol-Sung Lee, Assistant Professor
Interests: comparative international development, organizations, social movements
John Levi Martin, Professor
Interests: social structures, political fields and the quantitative study of qualities.
Omar McRoberts, Associate Professor
Interests: the sociology of religion, urban sociology, urban poverty, race, and collective action.
Stephen Raudenbush
Kristen Schilt, Assistant Professor
Interests: Gender, sexualities, culture, workplace studies.
Mario Small, Professor & Chair of the Department
Interests: Urban poverty, inequality and culture, migration, higher education, and the sociology of knowledge.
Ross M. Stolzenberg, Professor
Interests: employment and its connections to other social institutions and structures, including formal organizations, the family, schools, and ethnic, race and gender stratification patterns.
Richard Taub, Professor (Jointly Appointed in Comparative Human Development)
Interests: urban, rural and community economic development, the nature of entrepreneurship, public policy with particular concern about implementation and organization of policy
Linda Waite, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Interests: the family, especially working families, cohabitation, marriage and divorce, aging, and the labor force.
Kazuo Yamaguchi, Professor
Interests: models (statistical models for social data and mathematical models for social phenomena), life course, rational choice, exchange networks, stratification and mobility, demography of family and employment, process of drug use progression, and Japanese society.
Dingxin Zhao, Professor
Interests: political sociology broadly defined. His research covers the areas of social movements, nationalism, comparative historical sociology, social change and economic development.
Emeriti (in residence)
Charles E. Bidwell, Professor EmeritusInterests: the structural analysis of change in formal organizations and in the social organization of education.
Donald J. Bogue, Professor Emeritus
Interests: family planning made him a major force in the worldwide movement for population control. He continues to do active research on topics in human ecology.
Donald N. Levine, Professor Emeritus
Interests: classical social theory, Ethiopian studies, conflict theory and aikido, and philosophies of liberal education.
Emeriti (out of residence)
Leo A. Goodman - Berkeley, CA - lgoodman@socrates.berkeley.edu
William L. Parish - Berkeley, CA - pari@uchicago.edu
Gerald D. Suttles - Bloomington, IN - gsuttles@indiana.edu
Martin Riesebrodt - mriesebr@midway.uchicago.edu
Associated Faculty
Ronald S. Burt, Graduate School of Business
Bernard E. Harcourt, Law School
Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Sociology
Susan E. Mayer, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
John F. Padgett, Political Science
