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    FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION AND TEACHING INTERESTS

                OF CURRENT SOCIOLOGY FACULTY*

                            Academic Year 2009-2010

 

Robyn Autry, Assistant Professor of Sociology

  Race and Ethnicity

  Culture

  Comparative Historical Sociology

  Urban Sociology

 

Mary Ann Clawson, Professor of Sociology

(on sabbatical, Spring 2010)

   Social Movements

   Work, Leisure and Popular Culture

   The Family

   Sociology of Gender

  

Jonathan Cutler, Associate Professor of Sociology

  Social Theory

  Political Sociology

  Political Economy

  Labor

 

Alex Dupuy, Professor of Sociology

(on sabbatical, Fall 2009)

   Globalization

   Sociology of Development/World System

   Migration

   Race and Ethnicity

   Caribbean

 

Charles Lemert, Professor of Sociology 

(on sabbatical, Spring 2010)

   History and Structure of Globalization

   American Society and Culture

   Political Demography

   Social Theory

   Social Ethics and Philosophy

 

Daniel Long, Assistant Professor of Sociology

(on sabbatical, Fall 2009)

   Sociology of Education

   Educational and Economic Inequality

   Quantitative Methods

   Economic Sociology

 

Rob Rosenthal, Professor of Sociology

   Urban Sociology

   Housing and Homelessness

   Music and Social Movements

   Community Research

   Service-Learning

 

Paromita Sanyal, Assistant Professor of Sociology

   Sociology of Gender - U.S. and Global

   Economic Sociology - Interactions of culture and economy

   Sociology of Development

   Non-profit Organizations and Civil Society

   Democracy and Governance

   Qualitative Analysis (Interviews and Ethnography)

 

Laura Stark,  Assistant Professor, Science in Society Program

and Sociology

  Science and Medicine (especially the human sciences)

  Ethics and Morality

  Law, regulation, and politics

  Healthcare

  Social Theory

  Ethnographic and Archival Methods

 

*Note that all Sociology faculty teach Introductory Sociology on a yearly basis.

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