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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