Faculty of the Sociology Department

Christie D. Batson, PhD
· Assistant Professor of Sociology
· Social Demography, Immigration, Immigrant Assimilation, Race & Ethnicity, Marriage & Intermarriage

Bo Bernhard, PhD
· Assistant Professor of Sociology
· History and Sociology of Gambling, Clinical Sociology

Barb Brents, PhD
· Associate Professor of Sociology, Graduate Program Coordinator
· Political Sociology, Social Policy, Gender, Comparative Historical, the Sex Industry & Sexuality

Donald Carns, PhD (Emeritus 2006)
· Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
· Religion & Magic, Sociology of Medicine, Gambling Behavior

David Dickens, PhD
· Professor of Sociology
· Theory, Development, Cultural Studies

Andrea Fontana, PhD
· Department Chairperson, Professor of Sociology
· Qualitative Research, Social Psychology, Medicine, Symbolic Interaction.

Robert Futrell, PhD
· Associate Professor of Sociology
· Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Sport

Simon Gottschalk, PhD
· Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Sociology
· Mental Illness, Postmodern Theory, Qualitative Methods, Youth Cultures, Environment, Social Psychology, Cultural Studies

Nahide Konak, PhD
· Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
· Methodology (Quantitative and Qualitative), Environmental Sociology, Social Movements and Globalization

Kate Hausbeck, PhD
· Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Sociology
· Theory (classical, critical, postmodern, cultural, feminist); Gender, Sexuality, & the Body; Visual Sociology & Media; Globalization; Symbolic Interactionism and Qualitative Research

Keene, Jennifer, PhD
· Associate Professor of Sociology, Undergraduate Program Coordinator
· Sociology of Aging & the Life Course, Work and Family, Gender, Stratification, and Organizations

Robert Parker, PhD
· Professor of Sociology
· Social Problems, Social Inequality, Globalization

Hyung Sam Park, PhD
· Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
· Social Networks, Organizations, Environment/Health, Research Methods, and Statistics

Fred Preston, PhD
· Graduate Coordinator, Professor of Sociology
· Theory, Gambling, Drug Use & Abuse, Deviance, Men's Issues

Dmitri Shalin, PhD
· Professor of Sociology
· Pragmatist Sociology, Social Theory, Emotional Intelligence, Democratic Culture, and Russian Society

Ron Smith, PhD
· Dean of the Graduate College, Interim Vice President for Research, Professor of Sociology
· Architectural Sociology, Urban and Community Sociology, and Social Psychology

Matt Wray, PhD
· Assistant Professor of Sociology (On Leave until 2008)
· Social Inequalities, Health Disparities, Social & Cultural Theory, and Suicide