Faculty
Faculty 2007: Interests and Contact Information
Andrew
Abbott, Professor
Interests: professions and work, urban sociology, historical
sociology, methodology, and general social theory.
Office: Social Sciences 313
Phone: 773-702-4545
Email: a-abbott@uchicago.edu
Gary S.
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.
Office: Rosenwald 305
Phone: 773-702-8168
Email: gbecker@midway.uchicago.edu
Karin
Knorr Cetina, Professor (Jointly Appointed in Anthropology):
Interests:economic sociology, sociology of science, consumption,
globalization, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, contemporary
theory.
Office: Social Sciences 424
Phone: 773-834-3312
Email: knorr@uchicago.edu
Terry N. Clark,
Professor
Interests: using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and
other social phenomena.
Office: Social Sciences 322
Phone: 773-702-8686
Email: t-clark@uchicago.edu
Elisabeth S.
Clemens, Associate Professor
Interests: organizational theory, political sociology, the role of
social movements and voluntary organizations in processes of institutional
change.
Office: Social Sciences 323
Phone: 773-834-4746
Email: clemens@uchicago.edu
John L.
Comaroff, Professor (Jointly Appinted 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.
Office: Haskell 327
Phone: 773-702-7768
Email: jcomarof@midway.uchicago.edu
James A.
Evans, Assistant Professor
Interests: James Evans has interests in the sociology of science and
of knowledge, social networks and organizations, economic sociology and the
sociology of work.
Office: Social Sciences 420
Phone: 773-834-3612
Email: jevans@uchicago.edu
Andreas
Glaeser, Associate Professor
Interests: cultural change, ways of knowing and understanding,
identity, emotions, social ontology, and historical and ethnographic
methods.
Office: Social Sciences 401E
Phone: 773-702-8679
Email: a-glaeser@uchicago.edu
Hans
Joas, Visiting Professor (Jointly Appointed in Social
Thought
Office: Foster 317
Phone: 773-702-8413
Email: hjoas@uchicago.edu
Ryon
Lancaster, Assistant Professor
Interests: organizational sociology, sociology of law, economic
sociology, and historical sociology.
Office: Social Sciences 317
Phone: 773-702-6515
Email: rlancast@uchicago.edu.
Edward O.
Laumann, Professor
Interests: organizational and economic sociology, human sexuality,
political sociology and social stratification.
Office: Social Sciences 410
Phone: 773-702-8691
Email: e-laumann@uchicago.edu
Omar M.
McRoberts, Associate Professor
Interests: the sociology of religion, urban sociology, urban poverty,
race, and collective action.
Office: Social Sciences 427
Phone: 773 834-8970
Email: omcrober@uchicago.edu
William L.
Parish, Professor & Chair of the Department
Interests: labor markets, gender inequality, sexual behavior, and
government – business relations.
Office: Social Sciences 312
Phone: 773-702-8682
Email: w-parish@uchicago.edu
Stephen
Raudenbush, Professor
Interests: sociology of education and quantitative methods.
Office: Social Sciences 418
Phone: 773-834-1904
Email: sraudenb@uchicago.edu
Martin
Riesebrodt, Professor (Jointly Appointed in Divinity)
Interests: social theory and in the sociology of religion.
Office: Swift 227
Phone: 773-702-8227
Email: mriesebr@midway.uchicago.edu
Mario Small,
Associate Professor
Interests: Urban poverty, inequality and culture, migration, higher
education, and the sociology of knowledge.
Office: Social Sciences 408
Phone: (773) 834-5313
Email: mariosmall@uchicago.edu
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.
Office: Social Sciences 325
Phone: 773-702-8685
Email: r-stolzenberg@uchicago.edu
Richard P.
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 initiatives, evaluation of social programs and the
sociology of India.
Office: HD 205
Phone: 773-702-7927
Email: rpt2@uchicago.edu
Linda
Waite, Professor
Interests: the family, especially working families, cohabitation,
marriage and divorce, aging, and the labor force.
Office: NORC 363
Phone: 773-256-6333
Email: l-waite@uchicago.edu
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.
Office: NORC 349
Phone: 773-256-6324
Email: kyamagu@uchicago.edu
Yang Yang,
Assistant Professor
Interests: Population, Sociology of Health and Medicine, Methods and
Models, and Social Stratification
Office: Social Sciences 407
Phone: 773-834-1113
Email: yangy@uchicago.edu
Dingxin
Zhao, Associate Professor
Interests: political sociology broadly defined. His research covers
the areas of social movements, nationalism, comparative historical sociology,
social change and economic development.
Office: Social Sciences 405
Phone: 773-702-4088
Email: dzhao@uchicago.edu
Other personnel
James A. Davis,
Senior Lecturer
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 sociology curriculum.
Office: Social Sciences 320
Phone: 773-955-2050
Email: davis-james@norc.org
Barbara
Schneider, Research Associate (Professor), Professor at Michigan
State University
Interests: How social contexts, primarily schools and families,
influence individuals' interests and actions.
Office: NORC 383
Phone: 773-256-6361
Email: b-schneider@uchicago.edu
Emeriti (in residence)
Charles E.
Bidwell, Professor Emeritus
Interests:the structural analysis of change in formal organizations
and in the social organization of education.
Office: Social Sciences 426
Phone: 773-702-0388
Email: c-bidwell@uchicago.edu
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.
Office: NORC 381
Phone: 773-256-6358
Email: dbogue@uchicago.edu
Donald N.
Levine, Professor Emeritus
Interests: classical social theory, Ethiopian studies, conflict theory
and aikido, and philosophies of liberal education.
Office: Gates-Blake 509
Phone: 773-702-7917
Email: dlok@midway.uchicago.edu
Emeriti (out of residence)
Leo A. Goodman
Gerald D. Suttles
Associated Faculty
Ronald S. Burt, Graduate School of Business
Andrew Greeley, Research Associate, NORC
Susan E. Mayer, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
