FACULTY &
STAFF
faculty
The Department of Sociology looks forward to welcoming Ashley E. Mears, who will soon complete her PhD at New York University, as our new Assistant Professor, specializing in the Sociology of Culture. Her dissertation, entitled “Pricing Beauty: The Production of Value in Fashion Modeling,” it is already under contract with University of California Press. The core of her research centers on how culture is produced. Her work on fashion modeling examines how that industry creates ideas about beauty and what factors shape the social production of the resulting advertisements and popular media images. Among the new courses she will introduce in our curriculum will be a 200-level introduction to the Sociology of Popular Culture. Mears’ combination of cultural sociology with economic sociology includes attention to race, class, and gender, as well as a comparative perspective on how cultural products are created. We anticipate her arrival in early August and look forward to her work in the Department
Faculty
Nancy T. Ammerman
| Professor
Emily Barman
| Assistant Professor
Jeff Coulter
| Professor
Susan Eckstein
| Professor
Julian Go |
Assistant Professor
Alya Guseva
| Assistant Professor
Stephen Kalberg
| Associate Professor
Nazli Kibria
| Associate Professor
Daniel Monti
| Professor
Sigrun Olafsdottir
| Assistant Professor
Laurel Smith-Doerr
| Associate Professor
John Stone |
Professor
David Swartz
| Assistant Professor
Peter Yeager | Associate Professor
Part-time Faculty
Patricia Rieker | Visiting Professor
Elizabeth Markson | Adjunct Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Peter Berger
Sally Whelan Cassidy
Adelaide M. Cromwell
Mark G. Field
Murray Melbin
S.M Miller
Bernard Phillips
Paule Verdet
Eugene Walter
Senior Teaching Fellows
Amy Moff Hudec | Sexuality & Social Life
Kiri Gurd | Gender, Sexuality, & the Social World
Sonali Jain | Current Issues: Globalization
Jim McQuaid | Current Issues in Sociology
Itai Vardi | The Social Nature of Technology
Roman R. Williams | Sociology of Religion
RECENT FACULTY BOOKS
Clicking on the titles of our faculty's publications below will take you to Amazon.com for further information or to order the book.
Susan Eckstein
The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed The U.S. and Their Homeland(Taylor & Francis, Inc, 2009)
Patricia Rieker with Chloe Bird
Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices
and Social Policies (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Julian Go
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite
Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S.
Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2008)
Alya Guseva
Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in
Postcommunist Russia (Stanford University Press, 2008)
Stephen Kalberg (ed.)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with
Other Writings on the Rise of the West, 4th edition (Oxford
University Press, 2008)
Jeff Coulter & Wes Sharrock
Brain, Mind, and Human Behavior in Contemporary
Cognitive Science: Critical Assessments of the Philosophy of Psychology
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2007)
George Psathas (ed.)
The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H.
Wolff's Existential Turn (Lexington, 2007).
Emily Barman
Contesting Communities: The Transformation of
Workplace Charity (Stanford University Press, 2006)
Nancy T. Ammerman (ed.)
Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Peter Yeager and Marshall Clinard
Corporate Crime (Transaction Publishers,
2006)
David Swartz and Vera L. Zolberg (eds.)
After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration
(Springer, 2005)
Nancy T. Ammerman
Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their
Partners (University of California Press, 2005)
Laurel Smith-Doerr
Women's Work: Gender Equality vs. Hierarchy in the
Life Sciences (Lynne Rienner Publications, 2004)
Susan Eckstein and Timothy Wickham-Crowley
What Justice? Whose Justice?: Fighting for Fairness in
Latin America (University of California Press, 2003)
Julian Go and Anne L. Foster (eds.)
The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global
Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2003)
John Stone and Rutledge Dennis (eds.)
Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical
Approaches (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003)
Nazli Kibria
Becoming Asian American: Second-Generation Chinese and
Korean American Identities (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002)
James E. Teele
E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie
(University of Missouri Press, 2002)
