Full-time faculty members have earned their doctorates from major universities and are active researchers in their fields of study. Part-time lecturers include advanced doctoral students and professional instructors who bring special perspectives to the classroom. Our lecturers are active in urban affairs, in policing and criminal justice administration, and community-based internships.
Full-time Faculty | Part-time Lecturers | Retired and Emeritus Faculty
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Susan Gore, Department Chair and Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Medical Sociology, Sociology and Social Psychology of Public Health |
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Stephanie Hartwell, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director Ph.D., Yale University Drugs and Society, Mental Health, Criminality, Applied Sociology, Environmental Justice and Disasters |
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Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sociology of Mental Health, Medical Sociology, Public Policy |
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Keith Bentele, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona Stratification, Inequality, Political Sociology, Public Policy |
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Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Associate Professor Ph.D., New School for Social Research Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Media Studies, Latino Studies |
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Xiaogang Deng, Associate Professor Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo Research Methods, Deviance, Criminological Theory, Comparative Criminology |
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Ph.D., Tufts University Gender, Human Services, Multicultural Studies, Clinical Sociology |
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Laura Hansen, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Riverside Large-scale Organizations, Social Network Analysis: Corporate Governance, White-collar Crime, Sociology of Work |
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Glenn Jacobs, Associate Professor Ph.D., Temple University Urban Sociology, Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Problems, Sociology of Music and Art, Field Methods |
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Philip A. Kretsedemas, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota Immigration, Critical Race Theory, Globalization and Social Change, Social Welfare Policy, Poststructuralist Theory, Pragmatist Theory |
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Andrea Leverentz, Assistant Professor and Forensic Services Certificate Program Director Ph.D., University of Chicago |
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Melissa Schaefer Morabito, Assistant Professor Ph.D., American Univeristy |
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Ph.D., Washington State University Social Psychology, Social Psychiatry, Research Methods and Statistics |
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Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago Research Methods, Sociology of Organizations, Homelessness and Mental Health Services, Sociology of Law |
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Lakshmi Srinivas, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Media and Popular Culture, Media Reception, Spectatorship, Public Culture, Consumption, Globalization, Ethnography, Bollywood Cinema |
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Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Associate Professor Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton Social Theory: Sociological Imaginations, Self and Society, World-Historical Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Social Movements, Utopias |
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Reef Youngreen, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Iowa Social Psychology, Status Processes, Deviance |
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Anna Beckwith, Lecturer M.A., SUNY Binghamton |
Charles Drebing, Lecturer Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary Evaluation Research, Psychology, Gerontology |
Robin Gomolin, Lecturer Psya.D., Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis |
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Gerard Horgan, Lecturer J.D., Suffolk University |
Reza Kefayati, Lecturer Ph.D., Boston University |
Jackie Lageson, Lecturer M.A.,
Minnesota State University, Mankato |
Mary Ann Marusich-Smith, Lecturer M.A., University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
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Emmett Schaefer, Senior Lecturer Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton |
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Stephen Soldz, Lecturer Ph.D., Boston University |
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J.D., Boston University |
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Joanne M. Struzziery, Lecturer Ed.D., Boston University |
Robin Tyler, Lecturer L.L.M., University of London |
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James Blackwell, Professor Ph.D., Washington State University |
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Ann Cordilia, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago |
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Ph.D., University of Chicago |
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Gerald Garrett, Emeritus Professor Ph.D., Washington State University |
Richard Kronish, Associate Professor Ph.D., Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison |
Calvin J. Larson, Professor Ph.D., University of Oregon |
Richard Robbins, Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois |
Sharon Stichter, Professor Ph.D., Columbia University |