Andrew Abbott
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor
Office: Social Sciences 314
Phone: 773-702-4545
Interests: professions and work, urban sociology, historical sociology, methodology, and general social theory.
Luc Anselin
Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College
Director, Center for Spatial Data Science
Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Senior Fellow, NORC
Office: Social Sciences 421
Phone: 773-834-3320
Interests: spatial data science, spatial econometrics, computational social science, regional science, urban studies, crime, public health
Joyce Bell
Associate Professor
Office: Social Sciences 415
Phone: 773-702-8962
Interests: Race, Social Movements, Work, Professions, Organizations, Diversity in Higher Education
Neil Brenner
Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology
Office: Social Sciences 422
Phone: 773-702-8677
Interests: critical urban theory and capitalist urbanization; cities, hinterlands and global political ecology; economic sociology and comparative-historical geopolitical economy; fossil capitalism and energy geographies; critical infrastructure studies; capitalism and social theory; Marxism.
Terry N. Clark
Professor
Office: Social Sciences 321
Phone: 773-702-8686
Interests: using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena. Sociology of culture, transnational processes, urban sociology, social theory.
Elisabeth S. Clemens
William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College
Office: Social Sciences 323
Phone: 773-834-4746
Interests: organizational theory, political sociology, the role of social movements and voluntary organizations in processes of institutional change.
James A. Evans
Max Palevsky Professor; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Office: Social Sciences 420
Phone: 773-834-3612
Interests: knowing, computational social science, collective intelligence, science of science, skills and learning, machine learning & AI, human-machine intelligence, human and machine languages, fields and networks, text and image analysis, the science of data.
René D. Flores
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Office: Social Sciences 424
Phone: 773-702-9217
Interests: immigration, race and ethnicity, identity, public policy, public opinion, quantitative methods
Marco Garrido
Associate Professor
Office: Social Sciences 405
Phone: 773-344-8017
Interests: political sociology, urban sociology, social theory, transnational processes, and inequality.
Andreas Glaeser
Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department
Office: Social Sciences 401 D-E
Phone: 773-702-8679
Interests: cultural change, ways of knowing and understanding, identity, emotions, social ontology and historical and ethnographic methods.
Julian Go
Professor; Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture; The Committee on International Relations; Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows, the College
Office: Social Sciences 319
Interests: empire, colonialism and postcolonial thought, historical sociology, social theory, global and transnational sociology, politics and culture, race and ethnicity
Kimberly Kay Hoang
Associate Professor
Director of Global Studies
Office: Social Sciences 413
Phone: 773-834-0579
Interests: Global and Transnational Sociology, Sociology of Gender and Sexualities, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods
Hans Joas
Visiting Professor (jointly appointed in Social Thought)
Office: Foster 309
Phone: 773-834-1090
Interests: Social Theory
Karin Knorr Cetina
O. Borchert Distinguished Service Professor
Office: Social Sciences 426
Phone: 773-834-3312
Interests: economic sociology, sociology of science, consumption, globalization, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, contemporary theory.
John Levi Martin
Florence Borchert Bartling Professor
Office: Social Sciences 312
Phone: 773-702-7098
Fax: 773-702-4849
Interests: social structures, political fields and the quantitative study of qualities.
Omar McRoberts
Associate Professor
Office: Social Sciences 427
Phone: 773-834-8970
Interests: religion, urban sociology, urban poverty, race, and collective action.
Stephen Raudenbush
Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, the College, and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies; Chair, Committee on Education
Office: Social Sciences 417
Phone: 773-834-1904
Interests: sociology of education and quantitative methods
Kristen Schilt
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Office: Social Sciences 320
Phone: 773-702-7753
Interests: gender, sexualities, culture, workplace studies.
Ross M. Stolzenberg
Professor
Office: Social Sciences 325
Phone: 773-702-8685
Interests: Employment and its connections to other social institutions and structures, including formal organizations, the family, schools, and ethnic, race and gender stratification patterns.
Jenny Trinitapoli
Associate Professor
Office: Social Sciences 414
Phone: 773-834-0334
Interests: demography, sociology of religion, sub-Saharan Africa
Robert Vargas
Associate Professor
Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences
Office: Social Sciences 410
Phone: 773-834-2586
Interests: political economy of policing, urban studies, law, race, and mixed methods
Linda Waite
George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
Office: NORC 249A
Phone: 773-256-6333
Interests: the family, especially working families, cohabitation, marriage and divorce, aging, and the labor force
Geoffrey Wodtke
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
Office: Social Sciences 425
Phone: 773-834-0335
Interests: social stratification, social psychology, quantitative methods, causal inference
Kazuo Yamaguchi
Ralph Lewis Professor
Office: NORC 249
Phone: 773-256-6324
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
Linda Zhao
Assistant Professor
Interests: social networks, intergroup dynamics, immigrant integration, policing, race and ethnicity, demography, neighborhoods, computational social science