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Graduate Faculty

Jeffrey Ackerman Assistant Professor jma2@tamu.edu	Crime and Deviance Quantitative Methods Social Psychology	PhD Penn State 2003

James Burk Professor jsburk@tamu.edu	Social Theory and Political Sociology	PhD Chicago 1982

Mary Campbell Assistant Professor m-campbell@tamu.edu		University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004

Samuel Cohn Professor s-cohn@neo.tamu.edu	Economic Development Sociology of the Third World Sociology of Brazil	PhD Michigan 1981

Joe Feagin Professor feagin@tamu.edu	Racial and Ethnic Studies Gender Relations Urban Political Economy	PhD Harvard 1966

Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal Assistant Professor floresn@tamu.edu	Demography Mexico-US Migration Migration and Immigration Latino/a Sociology Economic Sociology and Social Networks	PhD University of Pennsylvania 2005

Mark Fossett Professor m-fossett@tamu.edu	Racial and Ethnic Relations Social Inequality Social Demography Urban Sociology	PhD Texas-Austin 1983

Holly Foster Associate Professor hfoster@tamu.edu	Crime Deviance Life Course Social Inequality Quantitative Methods	PhD Toronto 2001

Sarah Gatson Associate Professor gatson@tamu.edu	Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations Law and Society Cultural Sociology Gender Qualitative Methods Communication & Information Technology Community & Citizenship	PhD Northwestern 1999

Pat Goldsmith Associate Professor pgoldsmith@tamu.edu	Race and Ethnic Relations School/Neighborhood Segregation Quantitative Methods Latina/os Immigration	University of Arizona 1999

Kathryn Henderson Associate Professor hendrsn@tamu.edu	Science and Technology Cultural Sociology Qualitative Methodology	PhD California-San Diego 1991

Joseph O. Jewell Associate Professor jjewell@tamu.edu	Race & Ethnicity Intersections of Race/Class/Gender African American Experiences in the U. S. Historical Sociology Sociology of Education	PhD UCLA 1998

Verna M. Keith Professor keithvm@tamu.edu	Mental Health Medical Race/Ethnicity	University of Kentucky, 1982

Dongxiao Liu Assistant Professor dliu8@neo.tamu.edu	Comparative historical sociology Social movements Gender Social policy China & India	PhD Harvard 2007

Reuben A. Buford May Professor rmay@tamu.edu	Race and Culture Sociology of Sport Sociology of the Everyday Urban Ethnography	PhD Chicago 1996

William McIntosh Professor w-mcintosh@tamu.edu	Sociology of Food & Nutrition Culture Social Change Survey Research Methods	PhD Iowa State 1975

Stjepan Mestrovic Professor mestrovic@neo.tamu.edu	Social theory Durkheim war crimes	PhD Syracuse 1982

Wendy Leo Moore Associate Professor wlmoore@tamu.edu	Race & Ethnicity Critical Race Theory Sociology of Law Race/Class/Gender Ethnographic Methods	PhD University of Minnesota 2005 J.D. U of MN Law School 2000

Edward Murguia Professor murguia@tamu.edu	Latina/o Sociology Drug Use Marriage and Family	PhD Texas-Austin 1978

Hiroshi Ono Ray A. Rothrock '77 Fellow, Associate Professor hono@tamu.edu	Economic Sociology Stratification and Inequality Work and Labor Markets International Business	PhD Chicago 1999

Nancy Plankey Videla Associate Professor plankeyvidela@tamu.edu	Sociology of Work Gender Globalization & Development Latin America Qualitative Methods	PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison 2004

Dudley Poston Professor; Abell Professor of Liberal Arts d-poston@tamu.edu	Demography Human Ecology Quantitative Methods China & Korea Sex & Gender	PhD Oregon 1968

Harland Prechel Professor hprechel@tamu.edu	Economic Sociology Political Sociology Class Comparative & Historical Theory	PhD Kansas 1986

Jane Sell Professor j-sell@tamu.edu	Small Groups Social Psychology	PhD Washington State 1979

Kazuko Suzuki Assistant Professor ks2303@neo.tamu.edu	International Migration Race and Ethnic Relations Gender Asian/Asian-American Studies	PhD Princeton University 2003

Zulema Valdez Associate Professor zvaldez@libarts.tamu.edu	Racial & Ethnic Relations International Migration Economic Sociology Latino/a Sociology	PhD UCLA 2002
Other Faculty

Katheryn Dietrich Instructional Assistant Professor and Director, Sociology Internship Program kdietrich@tamu.edu	Contemporary Sociological Theory Classical Sociological Theory Race & Ethnic Relations	PhD Texas A&M 1994

Judith Linneman Instructional Assistant Professor J-Linneman@tamu.edu	Rural Sociology Environmental Sociology Family	PhD Iowa State 1985

Robert Mackin Instructional Assistant Professor mackin@tamu.edu	Political Sociology Sociology of Religion Comparative and Historical Qualitative Methods Latin America	PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison 2005

John Thomas Lecturer jkthomas@tamu.edu	Agricultural Technology Transfer Natural Resources/Environment Rural Sociology	PhD Texas A&M 1979
Emeritus Faculty

Jon Alston Emeritus Professor j-alston@tamu.edu	Religion Formal and Complex Social Organization	PhD Texas-Austin 1971

Ben Crouch Professor / Associate Dean bcrouch@libarts.tamu.edu	Criminology Delinquency Deviant Behavior Social Disorganization	PhD Southern Illinois-Carbondale 1971

Barbara Finlay Professor b-finlay@tamu.edu	Theory Gender Religion	PhD Florida 1976

Jerry Gaston Emeritus Professor j-gaston@tamu.edu	Science and Technology Education	PhD Yale 1969

Albert Schaffer Emeritus Professor	Urban Sociology Community Theory	PhD North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1957
Adjunct Faculty

Lu Zheng Assistant Professor zhenglu@tamu.edu	Institutions and Organizations Economic Sociology Stratification and Mobility	PhD: Stanford University 2007
Graduate Lecturers

Robert Carley Graduate Lecturer carley@tamu.edu

James Chouinard Graduate Lecturer jbchouina@neo.tamu.edu

Todd Couch Graduate Lecturer tc20-05@tamu.edu

Jenny Davis Graduate Lecturer jdavis4@neo.tamu.edu

Nicole Farris Graduate Lecturer df1104@gmail.com

Rachel Feinstein Graduate Lecturer rfein15@tamu.edu

San Juanita Garcia Graduate Lecturer sanjuanita@tamu.edu

Bryce Hannibal Graduate Lecturer bryce.hannibal@tamu.edu

Jenny Le Graduate Lecturer jennyle@tamu.edu

Jennifer Mueller Graduate Lecturer jcmuelle@tamu.edu

April Plemons Graduate Lecturer plemons@tamu.edu

Rachel Romero Graduate Lecturer rachelrome@gmail.com

Marisa Sanchez Graduate Lecturer mesanchez5@neo.tamu.edu