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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 ...

Ivan Aleksandrov

Doctoral Student (2024); Neubauer Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar

ialeksandrov@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Change, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Work/Occupations

Heba Alex

Doctoral Candidate (2018); ABF/University of Chicago Doctoral Fellow in Law and Social Science

halex@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Political and Organizational Sociology, Sociology of Law, Social Theory, Stratification, American Politics, Work and Occupations, Morality

Committee: Elisabeth Clemens (Chair), John Martin, Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern), Myra Ferree (UW Madison)My research engages with the fields of com...

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...

Jacy Reese Anthis

Doctoral Student (2020)

jacy@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Computational Methods, Culture, Economic Sociology, Mathematical Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Work/Occupations, Human-Computer Interaction

Jacy Reese Anthis is a joint doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and the Econometrics & Statistics group at the Booth School of Business a...

Guilherme Baratho

Doctoral Student (2023)

gbaratho@uchicago.edu

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...