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Andrew Swift

Doctoral Student (2017)

Interests:

Risk and Disaster, Organizations, Science and Knowledge, Governance, Climate Change

I’m broadly interested in the social organization of risk and disaster. More specifically, I’m interested in how modernity’s “trustee institutions” co...

Nicolás Torres-Echeverry

Doctoral Candidate (2018); Neubauer Distinguished Doctoral Fellow

nte@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Political Sociology, Organizations, Urban Sociology, Culture, War and Post-conflict, Law and Society, Internet and Society, Latin America

Dissertation Title: Between War and Peace: Political Organizing in Twenty-First Century Colombia in the Face of Party DeclineCommittee: Elisabeth Clem...

Jenny Trinitapoli

Professor; Director, Committee for International Social Science Research

Office Hours:

Office: SS 414

Office Number: 834-0334

Office hours starting 4/16, Wednesdays 2:00-4:00

Office: Social Sciences 414

Phone: 773-834-0334

jennytrini@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Demography, sociology of religion

My training is in two areas: social demography & the sociology of religion. Bridging these two fields, my work features the demographer’s characterist...

Robert Vargas

Professor

Office Hours:

Office: SS 410

Office Number: 834-2586

LOA

Office: Social Sciences 410

Phone: 773-834-2586

robvargas@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Professor Vargas is a social scientist interested in research on cities, law, and race. His writing and teaching focus on identifying the political-ec...

Linda Waite

George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor

Office Hours:

Office: NORC 249A

Office Number: 256-6333

Email for appointment.

Office: NORC 249A

Phone: 773-256-6333

l-waite@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Linda Waite is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her resear...

Zikui Wei

Doctoral Student (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

Professor; Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility

Office Hours:

Office: SS 425

Office Number: 834-0335

Mondays 5:30-6:30 or by appointment

Office: Social Sciences 425

Phone: 773-834-0335

wodtke@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Geoff Wodtke’s research is in the areas of urban poverty and neighborhood effects, group conflict and racial attitudes, class structure and income ine...

Yang Xiang

Doctoral Student (2016)

xiangalan@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Economic Sociology, Education, Political Sociology, Social Organizations, Social Theory

Kazuo Yamaguchi

Ralph Lewis Professor

Office Hours:

Office Number: 256-6324

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

Kazuo Yamaguchi is the Ralph Lewis Professor. He was department chair in 2008-2011, and was Hanna Holborn Gray Professor in 2005-2013. Yamaguchi is in...

Ziyuan Yang

Doctoral Student (2023)

zyyang@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Demography, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory

Yueran Zhang

Assistant Professor

Office Hours:

SS 415

Thursdays 1:30-3:00 sign up via https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/fliuw

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

A political and comparative-historical sociologist, I specialize in the comparative studies of capitalism(s), socialism(s), and transitions in between...