FACULTY
&
STAFF
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
PRIMARY
RESEARCH CLUSTERS
Community/Urban
Monti, Melbin, Barman
Comparative/Historical
Greenfeld, Kalberg, Go,
Eckstein, White
Crime/Law/Deviance
Teele, Yeager
Economic
Sociology
Guseva, Smith-Doerr, Barman
Education
Smith-Doerr, Swartz
International
Migration
Kibria, Eckstein
Sex, Gender &
the Family
White, Kibria, Rieker,
Smith-Doerr, Markson
Medical
Sociology
Markson, Rieker
Organizations
Smith-Doerr, Barman,
Ammerman, Gordon
Political
Sociology
Eckstein, Greenfeld,
Stone, Kalberg, Go
Race
&
Ethnicity
Kibria, Stone, Teele,
Eckstein, Monti, Go
Religion
Ammerman, Kalberg, Berger,
Swartz
Theory
Coulter, Kalberg, Swartz,
Psathas, Stone
department
of sociology
boston university
96 cummington street
boston, MA 02215
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