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Nancy T. Ammerman | Professor

Emily Barman | Associate Professor

Jeff Coulter | Professor

Susan Eckstein | Professor

Julian Go | Associate Professor

Liah Greenfeld | Professor

Alya Guseva | Associate Professor

Stephen Kalberg | Associate Professor

Nazli Kibria | Associate Professor

Ashley Mears | Assistant Professor

Sigrun Olafsdottir | Assistant Professor

Laurel Smith-Doerr | Associate Professor

John Stone | Professor

David Swartz | Assistant Professor

Peter Yeager | Associate Professor

 

Part-time Faculty

Susan Holsapple | Adjunct Professor

Patricia Rieker | Visiting Professor

 

Emeritus Faculty

Brigitte Berger

Peter Berger

Sally Whelan Cassidy

Adelaide M. Cromwell

Mark G. Field

Murray Melbin

S.M Miller

Bernard Phillips

George Psathas

James Teele

Paule Verdet

Eugene Walter

 

Senior Teaching Fellows

Cara Bowman | Economic Sociology

Courtney Feldscher | The Workplace

Don Gillis | Boston's People

Itai Vardi | Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations

 

 

RECENT FACULTY BOOKS

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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)

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