Lecturers/visiting faculty teaching in 2008-2009
Sociology Faculty
Jason Beckfield Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Stratification, health and social policy in the context of economic and political globalization.
Lawrence D. Bobo W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences. Race, ethnicity, politics, and social inequality.
Mary C. Brinton Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology. Gender stratification, labor market organization, education, economic sociology, and Japanese society. (On leave 2008-2009)
Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS), and Professor of Medical Sociology (HMS). Sociology of health, illness, and mortality; demography; quantitative methodology.
Frank Dobbin Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies. Comparative/historical sociology; organizational theory; economic sociology; public policy; stratification.
Filiz Garip Assistant Professor of Sociology. Migration, economic sociology, statistical methodology, social networks, development inequality.
Tamara Kay Assistant Professor of Sociology. Interests: Political sociology, particularly law and social movements; globalization and regional economic integration, transnationalism and global governance; economic development; international human and labor rights. (On leave 2008-2009)
Michèle Lamont Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies. Cultural sociology, inequality, race and immigration, comparative sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and contemporary sociological theory.
Stanley Lieberson Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology. Social determinants of tastes; logic of social research.
Peter V. Marsden Professor of Sociology and Harvard College Professor. Social networks; formal organizations; social stratification; methods. (On leave, fall 2008)
Orlando Patterson John Cowles Professor of Sociology. Sociology of economic development with special reference to the Caribbean; historical sociology of slavery and freedom; sociology of slavery; Caribbean and Afro-American culture and social structure; ethnicity from a critical and social-philosophical perspective.
Robert J. Sampson Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and Department Chair. Crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course. (On leave, fall 2008)
Theda Skocpol Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. American politics; Political sociology; social revolutions; modern welfare states; comparative historical sociology.
Jocelyn Viterna Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Social Studies. Social movements, civil society, democratization, revolution, comparative politics, gender, and qualitative methods.
Mary C. Waters M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology. Social demography; race and ethnic relations; social stratification.
Bruce Western Professor of Sociology. Political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology.
Martin K. Whyte Professor of Sociology. Comparative sociology; comparative family systems and family change; the American family; gender roles in comparative context; inequality and stratification; bureaucracy; sociology of China; development.
William Julius Wilson Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor. Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Policy.
Christopher Winship Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and Acting Department Chair. Analysis of quantitative data; changes in social and economic status of African Americans; transition to adulthood; family formation process. (On leave, spring 2009)
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Faculty Afiliates
MaryJo DelVecchio Good Professor of Social Medicine (Medical School). Medical Sociology; Health Policy; Comparative Studies: Indonesia, Middle East.
Kathryn Edin Professor of Public Policy and Management (Kennedy School of Government). Poverty/Social Inequality; Urban and Community Sociology; Family/Gender; Public Policy; Qualitative Methods.
Christopher Jencks Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy (Kennedy School of Government). Stratification/Mobility/Inequality
David R. Williams Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health (Harvard School of Public Health) and Professor of African and African American Studies. Race/ethnicity; health and society.
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Lecturers/visiting faculty teaching in 2008-2009
Laura Adams Lecturer on Sociology. Ethnic and national identity; globalization of culture; democratization and civil society; migration; former Soviet Union and the Muslim World.
David Ager Lecturer on Sociology and Co-director of Undergraduate Studies. Micro-Sociology, Social Identity Processes, Emotions in Organizations, Social Support Networks, Post-Merger Integration, Micro Transmission of Culture.
Gérard Bouchard William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi).
Vani Kulkarni Lecturer on Sociology. (Fall 2008), health, gender, political sociology, ethnography, qualitative methods, South Asia.
Timothy J. Nelson Lecturer on Sociology. Sociology of religion; fatherhood; sociology of culture; urban work and poverty; qualitative social analysis.
Claude Rosental Visiting Professor of Sociology (École des Hautes Études, Paris). (Spring 2009) sociology of science and technology, communication, theory, social cognition, political sociology, networks and quantitative methods.
Mary Ruggie Adjunct Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School of Government). Comparative health policy, comparative social policy, gender.
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Department Chair
Robert J. Sampson
Acting Department Chair, fall 2008
Christopher Winship
Director of Graduate Studies
Frank Dobbin
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Jason Beckfield
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
David Ager