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Michael Radelet


Professor and Chair

Ketchum Hall 218
Phone: (303) 735-5811

Specialty Area: Criminology and Deviance
Interests:
criminology, deviance, capital punishment, societal reactions to crime, deviance,
and crime victims



Rank: Professor

Ketchum Hall 207, 492-1177

Specialty Area: Qualitative / Interpretive Sociology, Gender, Criminology / Deviance

Interests: interpretive sociology, qualitative research methods, deviant behavior, drugs, sociology of children, sociology of sport

Dr. Adler's Personal Website

Rank: Professor


Associate Chair for Undergraduate Program
Ketchum 210, 492-6924/ IBS 1 Room 2, 735-2182

Specialty Areas: Sociology of Gender; Criminology & Deviance
Interests
: Intimate partner abuse, sexual victimization, incarceration of women and girls, criminal legal policy, and feminist criminology

 


Rank: Assistant Professor

 


Rank: Assistant Professor

Ketchum Hall 117/ IBS 3 Room 215 A, 492-2146

Specialty Area: Population Studies

Interests: stratification, race/ethnicity, social epidemiology, and quantitative methods

Dr. Boardman's Personal Website

Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum Hall 217, 492-8626/ Institute of Behavioral Science 5 Room N142

Specialty Area: Environmental Sociology; Population Studies
Interests
: environmental sociology, environmental inequality, race and ethnic relations, urban sociology, stratification/inequality, political sociology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)


Rank: Professor
Ketchum Hall 205A, 492-7080

Specialty Area: Marxist Theory and Feminist Theory
Interests:
Marxist theory, population theory, family and economic structure, political economy, stratification, feminist theory

Dr. Gimenez's Personal Website

Rank: Associate Professor
Ketchum Hall 207A, Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 5, 492-1006

Specialty Area: Environmental Sociology; Population Studies
Interests:
environmental sociology, environmental hazards, demography, migration, population-environment relationships.

Lori's Personal Website

Rank: Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Ketchum Hall 223, 492-7039

Specialty Area: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Sociology of Gender
Interests:
Animals and Society, Social Psychology, Interpretive Sociology, Sociology of Emotions, Gender, and Qualitative Methods. 

Rank: Professor
Director - Farrand, Residential Academic Program
Ketchum 215A, Women's Studies Cottage 200 492-3202

Specialty Area: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Sociology of Gender
Interests:
qualitative sociology, gender, social psychology and religion
Ying Lu
Rank: Assistant Professor
Director of Ketchum Lab
Ketchum 3D, 492-7030

Specialty Areas:
Demography, Public Policy

Rank: Professor
Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 2, 492-2138

Specialty Area: Population Studies
Interests:
social conflict, social change, political economy, class analysis, mathematical sociology


Rank: Distinguished Professor
Director, Institute of Behavioral Science
Ketchum Hall 210, 492-8148/Director, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, 492-6406

Specialty Area: Population Studies
Interests:
demography, fertility, women and development, aging in developing countries, mathematical demography, social science methods

Dr. Menken's Personal Website
Mojola
Rank:
Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: Population Studies
Interests: Sociology of Health, Gender, Love and Money, The Life Course and African/Asian Demography

Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum 210, 495-3796, IBS 1 Room 116

Specialty areas: Population Studies, Sociology of Gender

Interests: social stratification, social psychology, and quantitative
methods

Rank: Professor
Associate Dean - College of Arts & Sciences
Ketchum Hall 310, 492-3203

Specialty Area: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Gender; Environmental Sociology
Interests: sex and gender, social psychology, research methods, environmental sociology

Rank: Professor
102A Institute of Behavioral Science Building #3
Phone: 303-492-5620 Fax: 303-492-6924 / 494-5777

Specialty Area: Population Studies
Interests:
demography, stratification, aging, methods


Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum Hall 211, 492-8864

Specialty Area: Criminology & Deviance, Gender, Qualitative / Interpretive Sociology
Interests: intersection of race, gender, class, and crime; intimate partner violence; and correctional sanctions and programs for convicted offenders.

Dr. Potter's Vitae

Isaac Reed
Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum 207A, 735 - 4090

Interests: Sociological Theory, Culture, Historical Sociology, Sex & Gender,
Qualitative Methods


Rank: Professor
Ketchum Hall 206, 492-7088

Specialty Area: Criminology & Deviance
Interests:
delinquency, crime, sport

Rank: Professor
Ketchum 217, IBS 3 Room 210, 492-2147

Specialty Area: Population Studies
Interests:
demography, medical sociology, sociology of aging, methods

Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum 214, 734 - 2389

Specialty Area:
Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Gender; Criminology & Deviance

Interests:
sociocultural studies of crime and law; feminist and critical race jurisprudence; international human rights; policing in emergent democracies; gender studies; social theory; hate crime in US

Rank: Associate Professor
Ketchum Hall 205, 735-6658

Specialty Areas: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Criminology & Deviance

Interests:
inequalities in social control, sentencing guidelines and reforms, criminal justice responses to drug offenders, criminology, medicalization of deviance

Dr. Steen's Personal Website
Christina Sue
Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty areas: Sociology of Race/Ethnicity and Qualitative Methods.
Interests: Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methodology, the Sociology of Latin America
Terry Thornberry
Rank: Professor
Director, Research Program on Problem Behavior
Ketchum 215A, Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 11, 735-3065

Specialty Area: Criminology & Deviance

Interests
: Delinquency, Life-Course Criminology, Research Methods

Dr. Thornberry's IBS webpage


Rank: Professor
Director of The Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
Ketchum Hall 215A, IBS 6, 492 - 6818

Specialty Areas: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Environmental Sociology

Interests:
social dimensions of hazards and disasters, including natural, technological, and human-induced extreme events
Tim Wadsworth
Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum 206A, 735 - 0172

Interests: Crime and Deviance, Suicide, Immigration, and Stratification.

Dr. Wadsworth's Vitae

Rank: Assistant Professor
Ketchum 208, 492 -7681

Specialty Areas:
Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Culture and Identity, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Social Class Inequality, Sexuality, Families

SOCIOLOGY INSTRUCTORS / LECTURERS

Matthew Brown
Rank: Instructor
Ketchum Hall 12, 492-5217

Interests: sexuality (public sex cultures), gay and  lesbian/queer studies and theory, gender, ethnography
Mike Haffey
Rank: Instructor
Ketchum Hall 11A, 492 - 8838

Interests:
social movements, deep ecology, political sociology
Glenda Walden
Rank: Instructor
Ketchum Hall 12, 492-5217

Interests: social psychology, sexuality and gender

Glenda's Vitae
jay watterworth
Rank: Lecturer
Ketchum Hall 11A, 492 - 8838

Rank: Lecturer
Ketchum Hall 11A, 492 - 5601

Interests:
-medical sociology, sociology of law and quantitative methods/ statistics

SOCIOLOGY ADJUNCT PROFESSORS

peter park Peter Park
Rank: Adjunct Professor
Ketchum Hall 215 A

Rank: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 3 ( B02), 492-2218

Specialty Area: Population Studies
Interests:
Gender and Globalization, Transnational Feminism, LGBT Studies and Sexuality, Interdisciplinary Research Methods, Demography, Fertility, Statistics

SOCIOLOGY EMERITI FACULTY


Rank: Professor Emeritus

Interests: computer methods, theory, statistics, social conflict, sociology of the future

Dr. Bartos' Vitae



Rank: Professor Emeritus

Ketchum Hall 10, 492 6733

Interests: social movements, social change, leadership, human development, creativity

Dr. Downton's Personal Website

Rank: Senior Instructor Emerita

Ketchum Hall 10, 492 - 8838

Interests
: interpretative sociology, qualitative research methods, sex and gender, diversity

Eleanor's Consulting Firm

Rank: Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Director, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 11, 492-1032

Specialty Area: Criminology & Deviance
Interests: criminology, problem behavior, research methods
Rolf Kjolseth

Rank: Associate Professor Emeritus

Ketchum Hall 10, 492 6733

Interests: sociology of language and knowledge, ethnography, sociolinguistics, cultural politics, visual sociology, international stratification

Dr. Kjolseth's Personal Website





Specialty Area: Environmental Sociology
Interests:
environmental sociolgy, complex organizations, research methods, collective behavior

 
Rank: Associate Professor Emeritus

Interests:
sociology of religion, social psychology, social problems, education




Rank: Senior Instructor Emerita

Ketchum Hall 10, 492-673

Dr. Platter's Vitae


Rank: Professor Emeritus

Ketchum Hall K-10, 492-6733

Interests: social psychology, methods, popular culture, symbolic interaction


Rank: Associate Professor Emeritus
Ketchum Hall 10, 492 6733

Interests:
intergroup and international conflict, social movements, environments

Dr. Wehr's Personal Website