Department Chair
- Professor and ChairLaura Nichols
Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First-Generation and Transfer College Students
Academic Department Manager
- Department ManagerJasmine Anthony
Faculty
- LecturerMelissa Abad
- Teaching Professor and Department Internship CoordinatorCara Chiaraluce
Carework, Gender, and Family, Childhood and Youth, Health/Illness, Globalization, Social Inequalities
- Associate ProfessorDi Di
Science, Technology, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Globalization, and Mixed-Methodology
- Professor and Strategic Advisor to the Dean for Faculty DEI InitiativesMargaret Hunter
Race, gender, education, hip-hop, sociology
- Associate ProfessorMolly M. King
Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Science, Inequality, Gender, Computational Social Science
- Associate ProfessorPatrick Lopez-Aguado
Race and Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Youth and Street Cultures, Urban Ethnography
- Professor and Miller Center Lewis Family Fellowship ChairLaura Robinson
Digital Sociology, Media Sociology, Digital Inequality, Brazil, and France
Emeriti Faculty
Faculty Affiliates
- LecturerSheila Yuter
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)








