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Department Chair

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    Professor and Chair
    Laura Nichols

    Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First-Generation and Transfer College Students

Academic Department Manager

Faculty

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    Teaching Professor and Department Internship Coordinator
    Cara Chiaraluce

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

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    Associate Professor
    Di Di

    Science, Technology, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Globalization, and Mixed-Methodology

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

    Race, gender, education, hip-hop, sociology

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    Associate 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

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    Professor and Miller Center Lewis Family Fellowship Chair
    Laura Robinson

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

Emeriti Faculty

Faculty Affiliates

Visiting Scholars

  • Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D. (2026 with the Black Justice Studies Collaborative and the Silicon Valley Studies Initiative)
  • Jeffrey Chin, Ph.D. (2026)
  • Brittany Friedman, Ph.D. (2025)
  • Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D. and Denise Daniels Hudson, Ph.D. (2025)

Previous Visiting Scholars:

  • Michael Johnston, Ph.D. & Noah McClain, Ph.D. & Grant Blank, Ph.D. (Summer 2024)
  • Jeffrey W. Lockhart (Winter 2023)
  • 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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