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Full-time Faculty | Part-time Lecturers | Emeritus Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

gore  

Susan Gore, Department Chair and Professor

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Medical Sociology, Sociology and Social Psychology of Public Health

 

hartwell  

Stephanie Hartwell, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

Ph.D., Yale University

Drugs and Society, Mental Health, Criminality, Applied Sociology, Environmental Justice and Disasters

 

benson  

Paul Benson, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sociology of Mental Health, Medical Sociology, Public Policy

 

butts  

Milton L. Butts, Jr., Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Juvenile Delinquency, Urban Sociology, Race & Ethnic Relations, Criminology

 

capetillo  

Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., New School for Social Research

Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Media Studies, Latino Studies

 

deng  

Xiaogang Deng

Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo

Research Methods, Deviance, Criminological Theory,

Comparative Criminology

 

disch  

Estelle Disch, Professor

Ph.D., Tufts University

Gender, Human Services, Multicultural Studies, Clinical Sociology

 

hansen  

Laura Hansen, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of California Riverside

Large-scale organizations; social network analysis: corporate governance, white-collar crime, sociology of work

 

jacobs  

Glenn Jacobs, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Temple University

Urban Sociology, Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations,
Social Problems, Sociology of Music & Art, Field Methods

 

kretsedemas  

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

 

kronish  

Richard Kronish, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Social Policy, Social Stratification, Labor

 

leverentz  

Andrea Leverentz, Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Chicago
Criminology, Social Control, Ex-prisoner Reentry, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods

 

movahedi  

Siamak Movahedi, Professor

Ph.D., Washington State University

Social Psychology, Social psychiatry, Research Methods & Statistics

 

schutt  

Russell K. Schutt, Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

Research Methods, Sociology of Organizations, Homelessness and Mental Health Services, Sociology of Law

 

tamgidi  

Lakshmi Srinivas, Assistant Professor

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Media and Popular Culture, Media Reception, Spectatorship, Public Culture, Consumption, Globalization, Ethnography, Bollywood Cinema

 

tamgidi  

Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Assistant Professor

PhD, SUNY Binghamton

Social Theory: Sociological Imaginations, Self and Society, World-Historical Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Social Movements, Utopias

 

youngreen  

Reef Youngreen, Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Iowa

Social Psychology, Status Processes, Deviance

 

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Part-Time Lecturers

beckwith  

Anna Beckwith

MA, SUNY-Binghamton
Family, Youth, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Work

anna.beckwith@umb.edu



cordilia  

Ann Cordilla

PhD, University of Chicago
Immigration and Ethnic Identity, Women and Work, China and Japan

ann.cordilia@umb.edu

 

   

Robin Gomolin

Psya.D
Social Psychology, Gender
rgomolin@aol.com

 

   

Tracey Holland

PhD Candidate, New School University
Sociology of Education, Social Psychology, Social Policy
tracey.holland@umb.edu

 

   

Charles Drebing

PhD

Evaluation Research, Psychology, Gerontology
charles.drebing@med.va.gov

 

   

Reza Kefayati

PhD, Boston University
Youth and Society, Social Psychology, Social Theory
reza.kefayati@umb.edu

 

   

Jackie Lageson

MA Sociology, BS Corrections, BS Race and Ethnic Studies
Criminology, Delinquency, Policing, Drugs and Society
jackie.lageson@gmail.com

 

   

Mary Ann Marusich-Smith

PhD Candidate
Drugs and Society, Alcoholism, Family Violence
zandma@msn.com

 

schaefer  

Emmett Schaefer

PhD, SUNY-Binghamton
Race and Ethnic Relations, Gender Studies
emmett.schaefer@umb.edu

 

soldz  

Stephen Soldz

PhD
Methods of Research
ssoldz@bgsp.edu

 

stern  

Edward Stern

JD, Boston University
Sociology of Law, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice
ed.stern@umb.edu

 

struzziery  

Joanne M. Struzziery

EdD, Boston University
Research Methods, Drugs and Society, Social Psychology
jjsjms@comcast.net

 

tyler  

Robin Tyler

LLM
Sociology of Law, Sociology of Religion, Public International Law
robin.tyler@umb.edu

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EMERITUS FACULTY

blackwell  

James Blackwell, Professor

PhD, Washington State University
Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Problems
james.blackwell@umb.edu

 

dentler  

Robert A. Dentler, Professor

PhD, University of Chicago
Education, Program Evaluation, Race and Ethnicity
robertd917@aol.com

 

garrett  

Gerald Garrett, Professor

PhD, Washington State University
Alcohol Addiction, Criminology, Deviance
gerald.garrett@umb.edu

 

   

Calvin J. Larson, Professor

PhD, University of Oregon
Criminology/Corrections, Social Theory
calvin.larson@umb.edu

 

   

Richard Robbins, Professor

PhD, University of Illinois
Urban Sociology, Social Theory
richard.robbins@umb.edu

 

   

Sharon Stichter, Professor

PhD, Columbia University
Comparative/Historical Sociology, Development, Demography
sharon.stichter@umb.edu

 

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