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Andrew Abbott

Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor

Office Hours:

Office: SS 313

Office Number: 702-4545

Fridays, email for an appointment

Office: Social Sciences 313

Phone: 773-702-4545

aabbott@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Professions and work, urban sociology, historical sociology, methodology, and general social theory

Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of ...

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 Science; Senior Fellow, NORC

Office Hours:

Office: SS 421

Office Number: 834-3320

Email for appointment

Office: Social Sciences 421

Phone: 773-834-3320

anselin@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Spatial data science, spatial econometrics, computational social science, regional science, urban studies

Luc Anselin is a native of Belgium, where he did undergraduate work and a master's degree in economics and econometrics at the Free University of Brus...

Joyce Bell

Associate Professor

Office Hours:

Office: SS 415

Office Number: 702-8962

Email for appointment

Phone: 773-702-8962

jmbell@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Race, social movements, work, professions, organizations, diversity in higher education

My research agenda deals with race, work & organizations, and social movements. My first line of work—in the area of race, social movements, and the p...

Neil Brenner

Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology

Office Hours:

Office: SS 422

Office Number: 702-6877

Email for appointment.

Office: Social Sciences 422

Phone: 773-702-8677

neilbrenner@uchicago.edu

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

Neil Brenner is a critical urban theorist, sociologist and geographer who is interested in all aspects of research on cities and urbanization within t...

Terry N. Clark

Professor

Office Hours:

Office: SS 332

Email for appointment

Office: Social Sciences 332

Phone: 773-702-8686

t-clark@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena, sociology of culture, transnational processes, urban sociology, social theory

Terry Clark is interested in using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena. Clark is international Coordinator...

Elisabeth S. Clemens

William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College

Office Hours:

Office: SS 323

Office Number: 834-4746

LOA

Office: Social Sciences 323

Phone: 773-834-4746

clemens@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Political sociology, organizational analysis, historical sociology

Elisabeth S. Clemens (A.M. 1985, Ph.D 1990) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago as well as a former Master of the Social Sciences...

James A. Evans

Max Palevsky Professor, Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Office Hours:

Office: SS 420

Office Number: 834-3612

Email for appointment

Office: Social Science 420

Phone: 773-834-3616

jevans@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Knowing, computational social science, collective intelligence, science of science, skills and learning, machine learning & AI, human-machine intelligence, human and machine languages, field and networks, text and image analysis, the science of data

My research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas an...

René D. Flores

Associate Professor

Office Hours:

Office: SS 424

Office Number: 702-9217

https://calendar.app.google/ifxZXobKs6nkCmn1A Email for appointment

Office: Social Sciences 424

Phone: 773-702-9217

renedf@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Immigration, race and ethnicity, identity, public policy, public opinion, quantitative methods

Flores’s primary research interests are in the fields of international migration, race and ethnicity, and social stratification. His research explores...

Marco Garrido

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office Hours:

Office: SS 317

Office Number: 702-6515

Thursdays 4:00-6:00 by appointment

Office: Social Sciences 405

Phone: 773-344-8017

garrido@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Political sociology, urban sociology, social theory, transnational processes, and inequality

My research is on democracy, corruption, and politics mainly in the Philippines, although I’ve also written about Singapore, Cambodia, and the United ...

Andreas Glaeser

Professor and Chair (on leave 2024-2025)

Office Hours:

Office: SS 401E

Office Number: 702-8679

LOA

Office: Social Sciences 401 D-E

Phone: 773-702-8679

a-glaeser@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Cultural change, ways of knowing and understanding, identity, emotions, social ontology and historical and ethnographic methods

Andreas Glaeser is a sociologist of culture with a particular interest in the construction of identities and knowledges. His work interlaces substanti...

Julian Go

Professor and Interim Chair (2024-2025); Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture and the Committee on International Relations

Office Hours:

Office: SS 319

Office Number: 702-8677

Email for appointment

Office: Social Sciences 319

jgo34@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Empire, colonialism and postcolonial thought, historical sociology, social theory, global and transnational sociology, politics and culture, race and ethnicity

Visit Julian Go's website Julian Go’s research explores the social logics, forms and impact of empires and colonialism; postcolonial/decolonial tho...

Kimberly Kay Hoang

Professor

Office Hours:

Office: SS 413

Office Number: 834-0579

Wednesday 12:30-2:00pm

Office: Social Sciences 413

Phone: 773-834-0579

kayhoang@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Economic sociology, law, global sociology, gender, qualitative research methods, theory

Kimberly Kay Hoang is Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research examines deal making in frontier and emerging ...