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Guilherme Baratho

Doctoral Student (2023)

Interests:

Culture, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology

Loren Beard

Doctoral Candidate (2018)

beardl@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Poverty and Inequality, Governance and the State, Children and Family, Health and Well-being

Dissertation Title: The Transition Shock: Emancipating into State-Defined AdulthoodCommittee: Kristen Schilt (Chair), Robert Vargas, Anna Mueller (Ind...

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...

Enzo Bessega

Doctoral Student (2024)

enzobessega@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Health and Medicine, Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Theory, Social Networks, Aging

My research examines the historical processes and network mechanisms that shape health outcomes, with a focus on cognitive decline in old age. I explo...

Camille Biron-Boileau

Doctoral Student (2023); Neubauer Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar

cbironboileau@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Demography, Economic Sociology, Family, Gender, Stratification

My research interests lie at the intersection of stratification studies, economic sociology, and gender studies. My research aims to challenge the way...

Maurice Bokanga

Doctoral Candidate (2017)

mbokanga@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Social Psychology, Economic Sociology, Social Networks, Quantitative Methods, Mathematical Sociology, Social Theory, Prosocial Behavior, Morality

Dissertation Title: Essays on Economic and Prosocial BehaviorMy dissertation addresses the relationship between economic exchange and the social psych...

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...

Jake Burchard

Doctoral Candidate (2018)

jburchard@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Stratification, Networks

Dissertation Title: Financialization and Class Politics in the Long DownturnCommittee: Geoffrey Wodtke (chair), John Levi Martin, Gary Herrigel (Polit...

Sofia Butnaru

Doctoral Student (2022); Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

sbutnaru@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Economic Sociology, Gender, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Theory, Urban Sociology