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Sociology Department faculty, University of Colorado, Boulder

Sociology Department faculty, University of Colorado, Boulder

Richard Rogers
Rank: Professor and Chair


Ketchum 217, IBS 3 Room 210
Phone: (303) 492-2147


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


Patti Adler
Rank: Professor

Ketchum Hall 207
Phone: (303) 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

Jennifer Bair
Rank: Assistant Professor


Ketchum Hall 214
Phone: (303) 735-2389


Interests:
Political Economy, Economic Sociology, Sex and Gender, Comparative and Global Sociology, Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Joanne Belknap
Rank: Professor

Ketchum 210 / IBS 1 Room 2,
Phone: (303) 492-6924 / (303) 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

Jason Boardman
Rank: Associate Professor


Ketchum Hall 117/ IBS 3 Room 215 A
Phone: (303) 492-2146


Specialty Area: Population Studies

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

Dr. Boardman's Personal Website
Liam Downey
Rank: Associate Professor

Ketchum Hall 217 / Institute of Behavioral Science 5 Room N142
Phone: (303) 492-8626


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)
Lori Hunter
Rank: Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Program

Ketchum Hall 207A, Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 5
Phone: (303)492-1006


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

Lori's Personal Website
Leslie Irvine
Rank: Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies


Ketchum Hall 223
Phone: (303) 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.
Janet Jacobs
Rank: Professor
Director - Farrand, Residential Academic Program


Ketchum 215A / Women's Studies Cottage 200
Phone: (303) 492-3202


Specialty Area: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Sociology of Gender
Interests:
qualitative sociology, gender, social psychology and religion
Jane Menken
Rank: Distinguished Professor
Director, Institute of Behavioral Science


Ketchum Hall 210 / Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Phone: (303) 492-8148 / (303) 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
Sanyu Mojola
Rank: Assistant Professor


Ketchum 208
Phone: (303) 492-7080


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


Ketchum 210 / IBS 1 Room 116
Phone: (303) 495-3796


Specialty areas: Population Studies, Sociology of Gender

Interests: social stratification, social psychology, and quantitative methods
Joyce Nielsen
Rank: Professor
Associate Dean - College of Arts & Sciences

Ketchum Hall 310
Phone: (303) 492-3203


Specialty Area: Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology; Gender; Environmental Sociology
Interests: sex and gender, social psychology, research methods, environmental sociology
Fred Pampel
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
Hillary Potter
Rank: Assistant Professor

Ketchum Hall 211
Phone: (303) 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.
Michael Radelet

Michael Radelet
Rank: Professor

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

Isaac Reed
Isaac Reed
Rank: Assistant Professor


Ketchum 207A
Phone: (303) 735-4090


Interests: Sociological Theory, Culture, Historical Sociology, Sex & Gender.

Dr. Reed's Website
Robert Regoli
Rank: Professor


Ketchum Hall 206
Phone: (303) 492-7088


Specialty Area: Criminology & Deviance
Interests:
delinquency, crime, sport
Sara Steen
Rank: Associate Professor

Ketchum Hall 205
Phone: (303) 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
Christina Sue
Rank: Assistant Professor


Ketchum 217
Phone: (303) 492-3538


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
Kathleen Tierney
Rank: Professor
Director of The Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center


Ketchum Hall 215A / IBS 6
Phone: (303) 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
Tim Wadsworth
Rank: Assistant Professor


Ketchum 206A
Phone: (303) 735-0172


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

Dr. Wadsworth's Vitae
Amy Wilkins
Rank: Assistant Professor


Ketchum 208
Phone: (303) 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
Martha E. Gimenez
Rank: Professor Emeritus
Ketchum Hall 205A, 492-7080

Specialty Areas: 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: 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
Thomas Mayer
Rank: Professor

Institute of Behavioral Science, Building 2
Phone: (303) 492-2138


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



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