Faculty
Our faculty members serve on advisory boards, travel the globe to speak at conferences, appear in the media, and publish the books and articles that drive the direction of the discipline. We share the University's commitment to value a diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and to strive to provide a productive work environment for all University of Minnesota scholars from varying racial, ethnic, religious, social class, sexual identity, and national backgrounds.
You can also review our recent Faculty Publications and our Faculty Research Brochure to learn more about faculty members and their areas of interest.
Regular Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Cawo Abdi Associate Professor |
1146 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3714 cabdi@umn.edu |
Migration; Gender, Race, and Class; Family; Islam; Development Studies; Human Rights; Globalization; Africa; Middle East |
| Zack Almquist Assistant Professor of Sociology & Statistics |
1168 Social Sciences Building (Soc) & 372 Ford Hall (Stats) 612-624-1895 (Soc) & 612-625-1024 (Stats) almquist@umn.edu |
Social Network Analysis, Mathematical and Computational Sociology, Spatial Analysis, Demography, Public Health, Methodology, and Human Judgement and Decision Making |
| Ron Aminzade Professor |
1031 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9570 aminzade@umn.edu |
Historical and Comparative, Political Sociology, Sociology of Development, Nationalism, Race Relations, Social Movements, Democratic Theory |
| Alejandro Baer Associate Professor & Director, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies |
1133 Social Sciences Building (Soc) & 252 Social Sciences Building (CHGS) 612-624-7548 & 612-624-5014 abaer@umn.edu |
Social Memory Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Antisemitism, Sociology of Judaism, Sociology of Media and Communication, Qualitative Methods, Visual Sociology. |
| Joyce Bell Don A. Martindale Associate Professor of Sociology |
1172 Social Sciences Building 612-624-0228 jmbell@umn.edu |
American Race Relations; Social Movements; Work, Professions & Organizations |
| Yanjie Bian Professor |
967 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9554 bianx001@umn.edu |
Economic sociology, Social networks, Social stratification, Chinese society |
| Elizabeth Heger Boyle Professor & Chair |
909 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3343 boyle014@umn.edu |
Sociology of Law, Globalization, Children's and Women's Rights |
| Jeffrey Broadbent Professor |
1026 Social Sciences Building 612-624-1828 broad001@umn.edu |
Political Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Social Movements; Network Analysis; Discourse Analysis, Institutions and Culture; Cross-national Comparative Methods; Climate Change; Japan; East Asia; Ethnography, Global, and Comparative/Historical Sociology. |
| Jack DeWaard Assistant Professor |
1148 Social Science Building 612-624-9522 jdewaard@umn.edu |
International and Internal Migration, Assimilation and Integration, Demography and Ecology, Quantitative Methods. |
| Penny Edgell Professor & Associate Dean for Social Sciences |
212 Johnston Hall & 909 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9839 (Assoc. Dean's office) & 612-624-9828 (Soc) edgell@umn.edu |
Culture, Religion, Gender and Family, Symbolic Boundaries and Inequality |
| Gabrielle Ferrales Assistant Professor |
1152 Social Sciences Building 612-624-5021 ferrales@umn.edu |
Law and Society, Gender, Criminology and Criminal Justice, International Criminal Law, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis |
| Joseph Gerteis Associate Professor |
1125 Social Sciences Building 612-624-1615 gerte004@umn.edu |
Historical Sociology, Politics and Social Movements, Social Theory, Diversity and Solidarity in American Society |
| Michael Goldman Associate Professor |
1070 Social Sciences Building 612-624-0051 mgoldman@umn.edu |
Transnational, Political, and Environmental Sociology; Global Urbanization; Transnational Institutions of Finance, Development, and Expert Networks. |
| Teresa Gowan Associate Professor |
1080 Social Sciences Building 612-626-1863 tgowan@umn.edu |
Urban Sociology, Ethnography, Poverty and Inequality, Consumption, Alternative Economies |
| Douglas Hartmann Professor & Associate Chair |
835 Social Sciences Building 612-624-0835 hartm021@umn.edu |
Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Culture, Sport Studies, Social Movements and Social Change, American Society, Field Methods, Contemporary Theory |
| Kathleen Hull Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies |
1131 Social Sciences Building 612-624-4339 hull@umn.edu |
Culture, Law, Social Movements, Family, Gender and Sexuality |
| David Knoke Professor |
939 Social Sciences Building 612-624-6816 knoke001@umn.edu |
Social Network, Economic Sociology, Organizations and Work |
| Carolyn Liebler Associate Professor |
1135 Social Sciences Building 612-626-5506 liebler@umn.edu |
Race and Ethnicity, Social Demography, Indigenous Peoples, Social Stratification, Sociology of the Family and Life Course, Social Support |
| Enid Logan Associate Professor |
956 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3598 elogan@umn.edu |
Blackness in the Americas, Contemporary U.S. Race Relations, Race and the Body, Race and Electoral Politics, Blacks and Social Class, Afro-Latin America |
| Carl Malmquist Professor |
1174 Social Sciences Building 612-624-4147 malmq001@umn.edu |
Juvenile Justice, Homicide, Adolescence, Law and Society, Law and the Mental Health System |
| Ann Meier Associate Professor |
1127 Social Sciences Building 612-626-7230 meierann@umn.edu |
Family and Life Course, Adolescent and Young Adult Development, Gender |
| Phyllis Moen Professor |
1123 Social Sciences Building 612-625-5483 phylmoen@umn.edu |
Work, Family, Health, Policy, Age and the Gendered Life Course |
| Jeylan Mortimer Professor & Director of Graduate Studies |
1014B Social Sciences Building 612-624-4064 morti002@umn.edu |
The Life Course, Social Psychology, Work |
| Joshua Page Associate Professor |
935 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9333 page@umn.edu |
Crime, Law, Deviance, and Punishment; Labor and Unionization; Political Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Theory |
| Michelle Phelps Assistant Professor |
1035 Social Sciences Building 612-626-0863 phelps@umn.edu |
Crime, Law, and Deviance; Inequality; Mixed Methods |
| Joel Samaha Professor |
1033 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3529 jbs@umn.edu |
Criminal Law and Procedure in US Society, History of Criminal Justice |
| Joachim Savelsberg Professor |
1144 Social Sciences Building 612-624-0273 savel001@umn.edu |
Knowledge; Law, Crime & Punishment; Human Rights; Comparative; Theory |
| Rachel Schurman Professor |
1074 Social Sciences Building 612-624-1039 schurman@umn.edu |
Agri-food Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Global Political Economy, Development/Post-Development Studies |
| Teresa Swartz Associate Professor |
933 Social Sciences Building 612-626-1862 tswartz@umn.edu |
Families; Intergenerational Relations; Social Inequality; Asian American Studies; Gender; Welfare State; Children, Youth and Young Adulthood |
| Christopher Uggen Regents Professor & Don A. Martindale Professor of Sociology |
1014A Social Sciences Building 612-624-4016 uggen001@umn.edu |
Crime, Law, and Deviance; Life Course; Inequality; Methods |
| Rob Warren Professor |
1167 Social Sciences Building 612-624-2310 warre046@umn.edu |
Social Inequality, Education, Health Disparities, Demography |
| Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Assistant Professor |
1156 Social Sciences Building 612-624-7602 ewf@umn.edu |
Formal Demography, Social Demography, Race, Health, and Inequality |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| John Arthur Professor Sociology & Anthropology UMD |
218-726-6358 jarthur@d.umn.edu |
| Rose Brewer Professor African American & African Studies |
810 Social Sciences 612-624-9305 brewe001@umn.edu |
| Kathleen Call Professor School of Public Health |
15-223 Phillips Wangensteen Building 612-624-3922 callx001@umn.edu |
| Karen Ho Associate Professor Anthropology |
612-625-3400 karenho@umn.edu |
| Jeffrey Maahs Associate Professor Sociology & Anthropology UMD |
218-726-7395 jmaahs@d.umn.edu |
| Donna McAlpine Associate Professor School of Public Health |
612-625-9919 mcalp004@umn.edu |
| J Michael Oakes Associate Professor School of Public Health |
300 West Bank Office Building 612-624-6855 oakes007@umn.edu |
| Carrie Oelberger Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
612-625-5947 coelberg@umn.edu |
| Jennifer Pierce Professor American Studies |
204 Scott Hall 612-624-0852 pierc012@umn.edu |
| Evan Roberts Contract Assistant Professor Sociology |
1078 Social Sciences eroberts@umn.edu |
| Christopher Roberts Associate Professor Law School |
450 Mondale Hall 612-624-2947 cnr@umn.edu |
| Steven Ruggles Professor History Director MN Population Center |
50 Willey Hall 612-624-4081 ruggl001@umn.edu |
| Karen Seashore Professor CEHD Org. Leadership, Policy & Development |
310D Wulling Hall 612-626-8971 klouis@umn.edu |
| Tetyana Shippee Assistant Professor School of Public Health |
612-626-3065 tshippee@umn.edu |
| Rossella Selmini Contract Associate Professor Sociology |
1078 Social Sciences rselmini@umn.edu |
| Mark Snyder Professor Psychology |
N218 Elliott Hall 612-625-1507 msnyder@umn.edu |
| Joe Soss Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs |
261 Humphrey School 612-626-9865 jbsoss@umn.edu |
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Ronald Anderson Professor Emeritus |
rea@umn.edu |
| Joel Nelson Professor Emeritus |
nelso004@umn.edu |
| Ira Reiss Professor Emeritus |
irareiss@comcast.net |
| David Ward Professor Emeritus |
dward1144@aol.com |