Administrative Staff
Nancy Ammerman, Professor
Department Chair
nta@bu.edu

Daniel Monti, Professor
Associate Chair
monti@bu.edu

Nazli Kibria, Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
nkibria@bu.edu

David Swartz, Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
dswartz@bu.edu

Full Time Faculty
Nancy Ammerman
(Ph.D., Yale University), sociology of religion; religious organizations, especially congregations, denominations, and social service agencies; identity formation; neighborhood change and the ecology of religious organizations; conservative religious movements.

Emily Barman
 (Ph.D. University of Chicago): The nonprofit sector, including charitable giving and voluntary associations; formal organizations; community; sociology of religion.

Jeff Coulter
(Ph.D. Victoria University of Manchester, England): Cognition, critical history of the mind/body problem in philosophy and the behavioral sciences; perceptual activities: the relevance of Wittgenstein for the Social Sciences, and the sociological reconstruction of topics in human cognition.

Susan Eckstein
(Ph.D. Columbia University): Political economy of developing countries (particularly Latin America), urban sociology, political sociology, women in developing countries, sociology of revolutions and social movements, ethnicity.

Julian Go
 (Ph.D. University of Chicago): cultural sociology, historical and comparative sociology; race theory colonialism and post-colonialism; empire; globalization.

Alya Guseva
(Ph.D. University of California): Economic sociology, in particular, issues of rationality, uncertainty, risk and trust; rational underpinnings of markets, specifically markets for credit and insurance. Post-communist and state-socialist economies. Medical sociology.

Stephen Kalberg
(Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook): Sociological Theory; Max Weber; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Political Culture & Citizenship.

Nazli Kibria
(Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania): Globalization, transnationalism and family change, with a focus on South Asia and the Asian American experience.

Daniel Monti
(Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Social and cultural history of United States cities, youth gangs, community studies, policies relating to inner-city issues, race and ethnic relations.

Sigrun Olafsdottir
(Ph.D. Indiana University): Medical sociology, sociology of mental health, comparative research, political sociology, sociology of culture, gender, and research methods.

Laurel Smith-Doerr
 (Ph.D. University of Arizona): Formal organizations, scientific/technological work and social networks in the economy. Focusing on the organization of professions: how a new career becomes legitimate, and how the emergence of the biotechnology industry has affected stratification among life science careers.

John Stone
(Ph.D. University of Oxford): racial & ethnic conflict, migration, nationalism, classical and contemporary social theory.

David Swartz
(Ph.D. Boston University): The study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory.

Peter Yeager
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) Organizations and Social Control with focus on the legal regulation of business in the United States; the institutional and organizational features of large businesses that shape managers' perceptions and handling of ethical dilemmas at work, in collaboration with the BU School of Management.

 

Affiliated and Cross-Appointed Faculty

Peter L. Berger

Walter D. Connor

Liah Greenfeld

Elizabeth Markson

George Psathas

Patricia Rieker

Merry White

Research Fellows

Emeritus Faculty
Murray Melbin
James Teele

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