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Department ofSociology

Faculty and Staff

Department Chair

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    Professor and Chair
    Laura Nichols

    Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First-Generation College Student

Academic Department Manager

Faculty

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    Teaching Professor and Department Internship Coordinator
    Cara Chiaraluce

    Gender, Family and Carework, Childhood and Youth, Health/Illness, Globalization, Social Inequalities

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    Assistant Professor
    Di Di

    Gender, Religion, Immigration, Ethnicity, Globalization, and Mixed-Methodology

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    Professor and Strategic Advisor to the Dean for Faculty DEI Initiatives
    Margaret Hunter

    Race, gender, education, hip-hop, sociology

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    Assistant Professor
    Molly M. King

    Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Science, Inequality, Gender, Computational Social Science

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    Associate Professor
    Patrick Lopez-Aguado

    Race and Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Youth and Street Cultures, Urban Ethnography

  • Enrique Pumar
    Fay Boyle Professor
    Enrique Pumar

    Economic Sociology, International Migration, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Development, Comparative Historical Sociology, and Hispanic Societies

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    Professor and Miller Center Lewis Family Fellowship Chair
    Laura Robinson

    Digital Sociology, Digital Inequality, Media, Culture, Brazil, and France

Emeriti Faculty

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    Professor Emerita
    Marilyn Fernandez

    Asian American Families and Communities, Domestic Violence, Programs and Evaluation, Assessment of Multicultural Education, Sociology of Development

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    Professor Emerita
    Alma Garcia

    Mexican American Communities, Political Economy of Latin American Development, Oral History Research

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    Professor Emeritus
    Charles Powers

    Theory, Organizations, Applied Sociology


Faculty Affiliates

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    Sr. Director of Academics, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
    Jennifer Merritt Faria

    Social enterprise research


Visiting Research Scholars

Previous Visiting Scholars:

Michael Agliardo, S.J. Ph.D. (2018-2021)
Lisa Nunn, Ph.D. (Spring 2020)
Sandra Hanson, Ph.D. (Spring 2019)
Cid Martinez, Ph.D. (Spring 2018)
Gabe Ignatow, Ph.D. (Spring 2017)
Cecilia MacDowell Santos, Ph.D. (Spring 2016)

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