Faculty
Faculty 2009: 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 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, Professor and Master of SSCD
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 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.
Office: Haskell 327
Phone: 773-702-7768
Email: jcomarof@midway.uchicago.edu
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 sociology curriculum.
Office: Social Sciences 326
Email: davis-james@norc.org
James 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 and Undergraduate Program Chair
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
Cheol-Sung Lee, Assistant Professor
Interests: comparative international development, organizations, social movements
Office: Social Sciences 422
Phone: 773-702-8640
Email: chslee@uchicago.edu
John Levi Martin, Professor
Interests: social structures, political fields and the quantitative study of qualities.
Office: Social Sciences 319
Phone: 773-702-7098
Email: jlmartin@uchicago.edu
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
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
Kristen Schilt, Assistant Professor
Interests: Gender, sexualities, culture, workplace studies.
Office: Social Sciences 320
Phone: 773-702-7753
Email: kschilt@uchicago.edu
Mario Small, Professor
Interests: Urban poverty, inequality and culture, migration, higher education, and the sociology of knowledge.
Office: Social Sciences 312
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 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 & Chair of the Department
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
Dingxing Zhao, 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
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 - Berkeley, CA - lgoodman@socrates.berkeley.edu
William L. Parish - Berkeley, CA - pari@uchicago.edu
Gerald D. Suttles - Bloomington, IN - gsuttles@indiana.edu
Associated Faculty
Ronald S. Burt, Graduate School of Business
Kathleen A. Cagney, Health Studies; Director, Population Research Center
Andrew Greeley, Research Associate, NORC
Bernard E. Harcourt, Law School
Susan E. Mayer, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
Damon Phillips, Graduate School of Business
