Indiana University Department of Sociology

Sociology Faculty

Arthur S. Alderson
Phone: 812-856-5883

aralders@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch WWW site
Professor. Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1997.
Comparative and Historical Sociology, Social Stratification, Economic and Political Sociology, International Development

Timothy Bartley

Phone:

bartleyt@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita WWW Site
Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2003.
Politics, Organizations, Economic Sociology, Globalization, Labor, Environment

Stephen Benard

Phone: 812-856-7418

sbenard@indiana.edu WWW Site
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008.
Social Psychology, Intergroup Conflict & Cooperation, Gender, Collective Action, Inequality, Theory, and Social Networks

Clem Brooks

Phone: 812-855-8939

cbrooks@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Rudy Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
Electoral Politics, Public Opinion, Social Change, Quantitative Methods, Welfare States

Laurel Cornell

Phone: 812-855-3221

cornell@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch
Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1981.
Demography, Urban Planning, Gender, Japan

William Corsaro

Phone: 812-855-3988

corsaro@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Robert H. Shaffer Professor. Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1974.
Sociology of Childhood, Ethnography, Sociology of Education

Donna Eder

Phone: 812-855-4895

eder@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979.
Sociology of Education, Gender, Race, Language

Thomas Gieryn

Phone: 812-855-2569

gieryn@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Rudy Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1979.
Place, Science, Culture

Timothy Hallett

Phone: 812-856-1426

hallett9@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2003.
Inhabited Institutionalism, Social Psychology, Organizations, Culture, Theory, Ethnography

Ho-fung Hung

Phone: 812-856-0282

hofung@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2004.
Politics, Globalization, Nationalism, Social Theory, Comparative-Historical Methods, East Asia

Pamela Braboy Jackson

Phone: 812-855-2540

pjackson@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita WWW Site
Professor. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1993.
Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Race and Ethnic Relations

Jennifer C. Lee

Phone: 812-856-2522

lee484@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007.
Sociology of Education, Stratification and Asian American Studies

Paulette Lloyd

Phone: 812-856-5499

palloyd@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.
Globalization of Law, Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Social Network Methodology, Human Rights, Social Movements

J. Scott Long

Phone: 812-855-7617

jslong@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch WWW Site
Chancellor's Professor. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977.
Sociology of Science, Research Methods, Statistics, Health & Aging

Jane McLeod

Phone: 812-856-4583

jmcleod@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987.
Mental Health, Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Stratification, Life Course

Patricia McManus

Phone: 812-855- 8970

pmcmanus@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Associate Professor. Duke University, 1996.
Stratification and Mobility, Entrepreneurship, Work, Welfare State, Quantitative Methods

Ethan Michelson

Phone: 812-856-1521

emichels@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch WWW Site
Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003.
China, Law and Society, Work and Occupations, Development

Eliza Pavalko

Phone: 812-855-7629

epavalko@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor and Department Chair. Ph.D., Florida State University, 1987.
Aging and the Life Course, Medical Sociology, Family and Work

Bernice A. Pescosolido

Phone: 812-855-3841

pescosol@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Chancellor's Professor. Ph.D., Yale University, 1982.
Medical Sociology, Suicide, Social Networks, Mental Health/Illness

Brian Powell

Phone: 812-855- 7624

powell@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
James H. Rudy Professor. Ph.D., Emory University, 1984.
Sociology of Family, Sociology of Education, Gender, Social Psychology

Robert Robinson

Phone: 812-855-3987

robinsor@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita WWW Site
Chancellor's Professor. Ph.D., Yale University, 1979.
Sociology of Religion, Inequality, Political Sociology, Historical/Comparative Sociology

Fabio Rojas

Phone: 812-856-1491

frojas@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita WWW Site
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003.
Organizational Analysis, Political Sociology of Social Movements, Sociology of Education, Mathematical Sociology

Brian Steensland

Phone: 812-856-0447

bsteens@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University, 2002.
Politics, Religion, Culture, Inequality

Quincy Thomas Stewart

Phone: 812-856-0470

qstewart@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch
Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Race and Ethnicity, The Labor Force, Inequality, Quantitative Methodology, Demography, Health & Mortality

Peggy A. Thoits

Phone: 812-856-2243

pthoits@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita

Virginia L. Roberts Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978.
Social Psychology, Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Illness, Sociology of Emotions, Self and Identity, Stress and Coping

Christine M. Von Der Haar

Phone: 812856-4198

cmvonder@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch WWW Site
Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., Indiana University, 1985.
Social Psychology, Media and Society, Public Opinion.

Pamela B. Walters

Phone: 812-855- 6969

walters@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Rudy Professor. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1984.
Sociology of Education, Stratification/Inequality, Comparative/Historical Sociology

Martin S. Weinberg

Phone: 812-855- 7208

weinberm@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch Vita
Professor. Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965.
Human Sexuality, The Body, Interpretative Sociology, Deviance

David Zaret

Phone: 812-855- 2074

zaret@indiana.edu Biographical Sketch WWW Site
Professor. D.Phil., Oxford University, 1977.
Historical Sociology, Social History, Social Theory