Department Chair

Afshan Jafar, May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology Department

Afshan Jafar

May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology Department

Gender • The body and embodiment • Media • Globalization • Nationalist and fundamentalist movements • Muslim immigrants in the U.S. • Transnational women's movements


Faculty

Ana Lilia Campos Manzo, Associate Professor of Sociology

Ana Lilia Campos Manzo

Associate Professor of Sociology

Law and Society • Critical Childhood • Sociology of Health


Julia A. Flagg, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Director of Environmental Studies Program

Julia A. Flagg

Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Director of Environmental Studies Program

Environmental sociology • Climate change • Costa Rica • Disasters • Human ecology


Ronald Flores, Professor of Sociology

Ronald Flores

Professor of Sociology

Immigration studies • Urban sociology • Racial and ethnic groups • Family sociology • Latino studies • Community-based learning/engagement • Sociology of education


Robert Gay, Professor of Sociology

Robert Gay

Professor of Sociology

Democracy • Civil society • Organized crime • Violence • Brazil


Cherise A. Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Africana Studies

Cherise A. Harris

Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Africana Studies

Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology


Jennifer L. Rudolph, Associate Professor of Sociology

Jennifer L. Rudolph

Associate Professor of Sociology

Latino cultural studies • Critical race theory • Masculinity theory


Abbey Willis

Adjunct Instructor in Sociology


Staff

Nancy Lewandowski

Academic Department Assistant

Norman Fainstein, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban Studies, President Emeritus

Norman Fainstein

Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban Studies, President Emeritus


Frances L. Hoffmann

Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies

Gender and higher education • Feminist pedagogy • Assessment • Student development

In Memoriam

Frances Boudreau

Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Arthur Ferrari

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

J. Alan Winter

Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of Sociology