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Graduate Faculty

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

Paul Almeida Assistant Professor almeida@tamu.edu	Social Movements Political Sociology Historical and Comparative Sociology Latin America	PhD University of California-Riverside 2001

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

Samuel Cohn Professor profcohn@yahoo.com	Economic Development Sociology of the Third World Sociology of Brazil	PhD Michigan 1981

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

Ashley Currier Assistant Professor currier@tamu.edu	Social movements Gender Sexuality African studies Qualitative methods Ethnography	PhD Pittsburgh 2007

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

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

Nadia Flores 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 Assistant 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

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

Stuart Hysom Assistant Professor shysom@tamu.edu	Social Psychology Group Processes Theory Construction	PhD Emory 2003

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

Howard B. Kaplan Regents Professor, Distinguished Professor, and Mary Thomas Marshall Professor of Liberal Arts h-kaplan@tamu.edu	Social Psychology Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization Mental Health	PhD NYU 1958

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

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

Reuben A. Buford May Associate 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	Abu Ghraib Culture Race and Ethnic Studies in the Balkans	PhD Syracuse 1982

Wendy Leo Moore Assistant 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 Associate Professor murguia@tamu.edu	Latina/o Sociology Drug Use Marriage and Family	PhD Texas-Austin 1979

Hiroshi Ono Assistant Professor hono@tamu.edu	Economic sociology Stratification and Inequality Work and Labor Markets	PhD Chicago 1999

Heili Pals Post Doctoral Research Associate heili@tamu.edu	Stratification Quantitative methods Deviance Transitional societies and Youth research	PhD Stanford 2006

Nancy Plankey Videla Assistant 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

Rogelio Saenz Professor rsaenz@tamu.edu	Demography Latina/Latino sociology Race and Ethnic Relations Social Inequality	PhD Iowa State 1986

David Sciulli Professor Editor-in-Chief Comparative Sociology (Brill) pyncho@suddenlink.net	Culture (Painting Academies) Professions Law Political Theory	PhD Columbia 1983

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

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

Wenquan Zhang Assistant Professor c-zhang@tamu.edu	Secondary migration in the US Spatial assimilation and stratification Measurement of residential segregation Spatial Econometrics and GIS	PhD SUNY-Albany 2004

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

Carol Albrecht Senior Lecturer carolja@tamu.edu	Social Psychology Race and Ethnic Relations	PhD Texas A&M 1998

Katheryn Dietrich Senior Lecturer kdietrich@tamu.edu	Contemporary Sociological Theory Classical Sociological Theory Race & Ethnic Relations	PhD Texas A&M 1994

Judith Linneman Senior Lecturer J-Linneman@tamu.edu	Rural Sociology Environmental Sociology Family	PhD Iowa State 1985

Kazuko Suzuki Lecturer ks2303@tamu.edu	Sociology of Immigration (International Migration) Race and Ethnic Studies Gender Asian/Asian-American Studies	PhD Princeton University 2003
Emeritus Faculty

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

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

William Kuvlesky Emeritus Professor	Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations Socialization	PhD Pennsylvania State 1964

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

Don Albrecht Professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences albrecht@rsocsun.tamu.edu	Poverty Inequality Natural Resources Community Development	PhD Iowa State 1982

John Thomas Professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences jkthomas@tamu.edu	Agricultural Technology Transfer Natural Resources/Environment Rural Sociology	PhD Texas A&M 1979
Graduate Lecturers

Robert Carley Graduate Lecturer carley@tamu.edu

Rosalind Chou Graduate Lecturer rchou@tamu.edu

James Dean Steger Graduate Lecturer jamesdeansteger@gmail.com

Louwanda Evans Graduate Lecturer lxe0809@neo.tamu.edu

Jesse Garcia Graduate Lecturer Jaged1@tamu.edu

Brad Garrick Harden Graduate Lecturer Crotaon814@yahoo.com

Christine Guarneri Graduate Lecturer gua@neo.tamu.edu

Gabriela Guazzo Graduate Lecturer gmguazzo@tamu.edu

Jackie Jebens Graduate Lecturer Jjebens02@yahoo.com

Hilario Molina Graduate Lecturer hmolina2@gmail.com

Lorena Murga Graduate Lecturer almurga@tamu.edu

Brittany Slatton Graduate Lecturer bri_chevon@yahoo.com

George Touche Graduate Lecturer gtouche@tamu.edu

Waren Warren Graduate Lecturer wwaren@tamu.edu