Faculty and Staff

Professors

	Jenifer Bratter Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin Interests: Race, Demography, Marriage, and Family		Michael Emerson Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations, Religion, Urban Sociology
	Bridget Gorman Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Undergraduate Advisor Interests: Racial and Gender disparities in physical and mental health		Holly Heard Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interests: Families and children, social demography, life course studies, adolescent development
	Rachel Tolbert Kimbro Ph.D., Princeton University Interests: Demography, Medical Sociology, Family, and Poverty		Stephen L. Klineberg Ph.D., Harvard University Interests: Contemporary social change, survey research methodologies, urban and environmental sociology
	D. Michael Lindsay Ph.D., Princeton University Interests: Elites, Social Class, and Society Religion Culture		Elizabeth Long Ph.D., Brandeis University Department Chair Interests: Sociology of culture, study of women and gender, social theory, and qualitative research methods
	Steve H. Murdock Ph.D., University of Kentucky Interests: Demography, social and applied demography, migration, rural sociology, and socioeconomic impact assessment

Emeritus Faculty

	Chandler Davidson Ph.D., Princeton University Interests: Racial and ethnic politics; minority voting rights; social inequality
	William Martin Ph.D., Harvard University Interests: Religion (fundamentalism, religion and politics), criminology, drug policy and the rise of the modern Religious Right in the U.S.

Adjunct Faculty

Roland B. Smith, Jr.

Ed.D. Harvard University

Interests: Ethnographic research methods, Sociology of education, Cultural diversity of higher educations, School-university collaborative relationships, Urban studies

Postdoctoral Fellows

	Marcus Britton Ph.D., Northwestern University Interests: Urban & Economic Sociology, Organization Theory, Sociology of Race, Ethnicity & Immigration		Melanie Heath Ph.D., University of Southern California Interests: Gender and sexuality, Marriage and family, Inequalities, Culture, Religion, and Qualitative research methods
	Kristin Schilt Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Social Organization		Jason Shelton Ph.D., University of Miami Interests: Black Racial Attitudes, Immigration/Acculturation Processes, Debate Over Race vs. Social Class

Staff

Patsy Garcia

Department Administrator

Patsy serves alternately--and sometimes simultaneously--as accounting clerk, receptionist, equipment troubleshooter, purchasing agent, and information source for callers, visitors, students, and professors, department liaison to other university entities, student assistant coordinator, and more.