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Andrew Swift



Doctoral Student (2017)
aswift@uchicago.edu
Interests:

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

Nicolás Torres-Echeverry

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

Jenny Trinitapoli

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

    Robert Vargas

    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

    Linda Waite

    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

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    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

    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

    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

    Ziyuan Yang

    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

    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