Faculty & Staff
Department Chairman
Director of the Master's Program
Director of the PhD Program
Cinzia Solari
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: Cinzia.Solari@umb.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Elizabeth Brown
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: Elizabeth.Brown@umb.edu
Expertise: Law and society, moral politics, determinants of public views, punishment...
Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: Jorge.Capetillo@umb.edu
Expertise: Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Media Studies, Latino Studies
Christopher Contreras
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: C.Contreras@umb.edu
Expertise: Communities and Crime, Criminological Theory, Drug Abuse, Drug Markets, Quantitative...
Daniel Luis Gascón
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: Daniel.Gascon@umb.edu
Expertise: Police & Policing, Juvenile Delinquency, Civil & Human Rights...
Miguel Montalva Barba
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Phone: 617.287.6348
Email: Miguel.MontalvaBarba@umb.edu
Expertise: Race and Racism, Critical Race Theory, Urban Sociology 
Danielle Morales
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: Danielle.Morales@umb.edu
Expertise: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Education, Disabilities, Mentoring Relationship in Higher...
Evan Stewart
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Email: Evan.Stewart@umb.edu
Expertise: Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Quantitative, Computational...Lecturers
Anna Beckwith
Title: Senior Lecturer III
Department: Sociology
Email: Anna.Beckwith@umb.edu
Expertise: Family, Youth, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Work
Elizabeth Clemens
Title: Senior Lecturer II
Department: Sociology
Email: Beth.Clemens@umb.edu
Expertise: Best practices with consumers at risk in human services, Case...
Paul DeFazio
Title: Associate Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: Paul.DeFazio@umb.edu
Expertise: Corrections, Policing, Criminal Justice Systems
Courtney Feldscher
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: Courtney.Feldscher@umb.edu
Expertise: Organizations, Methods of Research, Media & Popular Culture, Teaching &...
Daniel Finn
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: Daniel.Finn@umb.edu
Expertise: Science and Knowledge, Culture, Mass Media, Organizations
Gerard Horgan
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: Gerard.Horgan@umb.edu
Expertise: Corrections, Law and Criminal Justice
Jacqueline Lageson
Title: Senior Lecturer III
Department: Sociology
Email: Jacqueline.Lageson@umb.edu
Linda Liu
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: Linda.Liu@umb.edu
Expertise: Cinema and media studies, cultural studies, feminism and gender, discourse...
William McNicholas
Title: Associate Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: W.McNicholas001@umb.edu
Expertise: Probation, community corrections, criminal court, drug court policy and implementation...
Diann Simmons
Title: Assistant Dean
Department: College of Liberal Arts
Email: Diann.Simmons@umb.edu
Lydia Todd
Title: Associate Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: Lydia.Todd@umb.edu
Expertise: Leading, strategic planning, organizational change and development, writing, grants and...Staff
- Alison Moll, Internship Coordinator, Sociology
- Danielle Foley, Administrative Assistant II, Sociology
- Ellen Noone, Administrative Assistant I, Sociology
- Joy Chrysyl Solon, Graduate Program Manager, Sociology
Affiliated Faculty
Christina Bobel
Title: Professor
Department: Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies
Email: Chris.Bobel@umb.edu
Expertise: Critical Menstruation Studies; activism and social movements; feminist theories; Body...
Jeffrey Burr
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Department: Gerontology
Email: Jeffrey.Burr@umb.edu
Expertise: Social demography of aging, household composition and living arrangements, race...
J Hargraves
Title: Hourly Research Fellow
Department: Center for Survey Research
Email: Lee.Hargraves@umb.edu
Meghan Kallman
Title: Associate Professor
Department: School for Global Inclusion & Social Development
Email: Meghan.Kallman@umb.edu
Expertise: Organizations, institutional theory, international development, political sociology, nonprofits...
Heather MacIndoe
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Public Policy & Public Affairs
Email: Heather.MacIndoe@umb.edu
Expertise: Organizational Theory, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Advocacy, Organizational Collaborations...
Jeffrey Stokes
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Gerontology
Email: Jeffrey.Stokes@umb.edu
Expertise: Marriage and family, aging and life course, health and well-being...
Mark Warren
Title: Professor
Department: Public Policy & Public Affairs
Email: Mark.Warren@umb.edu
Expertise: Community organizing, educational justice, racial equity, liberatory education