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
Hassan Abdel Salam Assistant Professor	960 Social Sci Bldg asalamha@umn.edu	Law; Religion; Culture; Global Sociology; Comparative and Historical Sociology.
Cawo Abdi Associate Professor	1033 Social Sci Bldg cabdi@umn.edu	Migration; Gender, Race, and Class; Family; Islam; Education; Development Studies; Human Rights; Globalization; Africa; Middle East.
Yanjie Bian Professor	967 Social Sci Bldg bianx001@umn.edu	Economic Sociology; Social Networks; Social Stratification; Chinese Society.
Elizabeth Heger Boyle Professor	1123 Social Sci Bldg boyle014@umn.edu	Sociology of Law; Globalization; Children’s and Women’s Rights.
Penny Edgell Professor Offsite Fall 2023 & Spring 2024	1039 Social Sci Bldg edgell@umn.edu	Culture; Religion; Gender & Family; Symbolic Boundaries & Inequality.
Michael Esposito Assistant Professor	1078 Social Sci Bldg mesposit@umn.edu	Demography; Statistics; Structural Racism; Policing; Neighborhoods; Health.
Gabrielle Ferrales Assistant Professor	1152 Social Sci Bldg ferrales@umn.edu	Law and Society; Gender; Criminology and Criminal Justice; International Criminal Law; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis.
Laura Garbes Assistant Professor	925 Social Sci Bldg garbes@umn.edu	Racial Theory; Organizations; Media Theory; Cultural Studies; Sound Studies; Economic Sociology.
Joseph Gerteis Professor Sabbatical Fall 2023 & Spring 2024	948 Social Sci Bldg gerte004@umn.edu	Politics and Political Culture; Historical Sociology; Social Theory; Inclusion and Exclusion in American Society.
Michael Goldman Associate Professor	1070 Social Sci Bldg mgoldman@umn.edu	Transnational, Political Economic, and Urban Sociology; Transnational Institutions of Finance, Development, and Expertise.
Douglas Hartmann Professor Sabbatical Spring 2024	1014B Social Sci Bldg hartm021@umn.edu	Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Sociology of Culture; Sport Studies; Social Movements and Political Sociology; American Society; Field Methods; Contemporary Theory; Public Engagement.
Kathleen Hull Professor & Chair	909A Social Sci Bldg hull@umn.edu	Culture; Law; Family; Gender and Sexuality; Social Movements.
Claire Kamp Dush Professor	1031 Social Sci Bldg kampdush@umn.edu	Family & the Life Course; Population Health; Human Development & Family Studies; Intimacy/Sexuality; Gender & Work; Sexual & Gender Minorities & Health
David Knoke Professor	939 Social Sci Bldg knoke001@umn.edu	Social Networks; Political Sociology; Economic Sociology; Organizations.
Carolyn Liebler Associate Professor	1135 Social Sci Bldg 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 Sci Bldg elogan@umn.edu	Blackness in the Americas; Race & the Body; Race & Electoral Politics; Race & Parenting; Blacks and Social Class; Afro-Latin America.
Ann Meier Professor Associate Dean	1127 Social Sci Bldg meierann@umn.edu	Family and Life Course; Adolescent and Young Adult Development; Gender.
Joshua Page Professor Associate Chair	1133 Social Sci Bldg page@umn.edu	Crime, Law, Deviance, and Punishment; Labor and Unionization; Political Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Theory.
Michelle Phelps Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	1035 Social Sci Bldg phelps@umn.edu	Crime, Law, and Deviance; Inequality; Mixed Methods.
Joachim Savelsberg Professor Arsham & Charlotte Ohanessian Chair Offsite Fall 2023	1144 Social Sci Bldg savel001@umn.edu	Knowledge, Memory & Representations; Law, Crime & Punishment; Human Rights; Comparative; Theory.
Rachel Schurman Professor	schurman@umn.edu	Agri-food Studies; Transnational Sociology; Social Movements; Global Political Economy; Political Sociology; Development/Post-Development Studies.
Teresa Swartz Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	1125 Social Sci Bldg tswartz@umn.edu	Families; Intergenerational Relations; Social Inequality; Asian American Studies; Gender; Welfare State; Children, Youth and Young Adulthood.
Christopher Uggen Regents Professor Sabbatical Fall 2023	1014A Social Sci Bldg 612-624-4016 uggen001@umn.edu	Crime, Law, Justice; Life Course; Inequality; Methods; Policy.
Jane VanHeuvelen Assistant Professor Single Sem Leave Spring 2024	1178 Social Sci Bldg jvanheuv@umn.edu	Medical Sociology; Organizations; Mental Health & Illness: Health Disparities; Work & Occupations.
Tom VanHeuvelen Associate Professor	1131 Social Sci Bldg tvanheuv@umn.edu	Stratification & Inequality; Comparative & Historical Sociology; Quantitative Methodology; Sociology of Development.
Michael L. Walker Associate Professor	952 Social Sci Bldg walkerml@umn.edu	Social Control; Stratification; Inequality; Criminal Justice.
Rob Warren Professor	1167 Social Sci Bldg warre046@umn.edu	Social Inequality; Education; Health Disparities; Demography.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Associate Professor Sabbatical Spring 2024	935 Social Sci Bldg ewf@umn.edu	Formal Demography; Social Demography; Race; Health; Inequality.

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact
Ryan Allen Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	295B Humphrey School allen650@umn.edu
Valerie Belair-Gagnon Assistant Professor Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication	329 Murphy Hall vbg@umn.edu
Rose Brewer Professor African American & African Studies	810 Social Sciences brewe001@umn.edu
Kathleen Call Professor School of Public Health	15-223 Phillips Wangensteen Building callx001@umn.edu
Brooke Cunningham Assistant Professor Department of Family Medicine and Community Health	717 Delaware St SE, Rm 420 bcunning@umn.edu
Christina Ewig Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	301 – 19th Avenue South cewig@umn.edu
Karen Ho Associate Professor Anthropology	395 HHH Center karenho@umn.edu
Donna McAlpine Associate Professor School of Public Health	D362 Mayo mcalp004@umn.edu
Carrie Oelberger Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	249 Humphrey School coelberg@umn.edu
Jennifer Pierce Professor American Studies	204 Scott Hall pierc012@umn.edu
Christopher Roberts Associate Professor Law School	450 Mondale Hall cnr@umn.edu
Evan Roberts Assistant Professor Medical School, History of Medicine	505 Diehl Hall eroberts@umn.edu
Steven Ruggles Professor History & Founder of ISRDI & the MN Population Center	945 Heller Hall ruggl001@umn.edu
Karen Seashore Regents Professor Emerita CEHD, Org. Leadership, Policy & Development	330 Burton Hall klouis@umn.edu
Tetyana Shippee Professor School of Public Health	tshippee@umn.edu
Mark Snyder Professor Psychology	N218 Elliott Hall msnyder@umn.edu
Joe Soss Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	261 Humphrey School jbsoss@umn.edu

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact
Ron Aminzade Professor Emeritus	aminzade@umn.edu
Jeffrey Broadbent Professor Emeritus	broad001@umn.edu
Teresa Gowan Professor Emeritus	tgowan@umn.edu
Phyllis Moen Professor Emeritus	1168 Social Sci Bldg phylmoen@umn.edu
Jeylan Mortimer Professor Emeritus	morti002@umn.edu
Joel Nelson Professor Emeritus	nelso004@umn.edu
Ira Reiss Professor Emeritus	irareiss@comcast.net
Joel Samaha Professor Emeritus	jbs@umn.edu
David Ward Professor Emeritus	dward1144@aol.com