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Jenny Trinitapoli

Jenny Trinitapoli



Professor; Director, Committee for International Social Science Research
Office Hours: Email for appointment
Office: Social Sciences 414
Phone: 773-834-0334
jennytrini@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Demography, sociology of religion

Robert Vargas

Robert Vargas



Professor
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30-12:50
Office: Social Sciences 410
Phone: 773-834-2586
robvargas@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Political economy of policing, urban studies, law, race, and mixed methods

Linda Waite

Linda Waite



George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00-3:00 and by appointment
Office: NORC 249A
Phone: 773-256-6333
l-waite@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Health & society, aging, family, social demography, sexuality

Portrait taken in the SSD quad

Matthew T. Weflen

Pronouns:he/him

Departmental Administrator
Office: 1130 E. 59th Street Foster 313
Phone: 2-8427
mweflen@uchicago.edu
Photograph of Zikui Wei

Zikui Wei



Doctoral Candidate (2020)
zikuiwei@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Development/Modernization, Political Sociology, Social Change, Social Theory

Tytus Wilam



Doctoral Student (2021)
tytuswilam@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Culture, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Work/Organizations

Geoffrey Wodtke

Geoffrey Wodtke



Professor; Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
Office Hours: on leave Fall of 2025
Office: Social Sciences 425
Phone: 773-834-0335
wodtke@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Inequality, poverty, and social mobility; social psychology; urban sociology; causal inference

Kazuo Yamaguchi



Ralph Lewis Professor
Office Hours: Email for appointment
Office: NORC 249
Phone: 773-256-6324
kyamagu@uchicago.edu
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

Ziyuan Yang

Ziyuan Yang



Doctoral Student (2023)
zyyang@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Demography, Development/Modernization, Globalization, Health and Medicine

Yueran Zhang

Yueran Zhang



Assistant Professor
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30-4:30, Sign up with link at bottom of page
Office: Social Sciences 415
yueranzhang@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Political economy, political sociology, comparative-historical methods, (de)mobilizations, production and social reproduction, development, global and transnational sociology, theory

Dingxin Zhao



Professor Emeritus
dzhao@uchicago.edu
Linda Zhao

Linda Zhao



Assistant Professor
Office Hours: LOA
Office: Social Science 408
lindazhao@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Social networks, intergroup dynamics, immigrant integration, policing, race and ethnicity, demography, neighborhoods, computational social science