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	1033 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Migration; Gender, Race, and Class; Family; Islam; Education; Development Studies; Human Rights; Globalization; Africa; Middle East.
Yanjie Bian Professor Sabbatical Fa24	967 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Economic Sociology; Social Networks; Social Stratification; Chinese Society.
Elizabeth Heger Boyle Professor Sabbatical Sp25	1123 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Sociology of Law; Globalization; Children’s and Women’s Rights.
Penny Edgell Professor	1039 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Culture; Religion; Gender & Family; Symbolic Boundaries & Inequality.
Michael Esposito Assistant Professor	1078 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Demography; Statistics; Structural Racism; Policing; Neighborhoods; Health.
Laura Garbes Assistant Professor	925 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Racial Theory; Organizations; Media Theory; Cultural Studies; Sound Studies; Economic Sociology.
Joseph Gerteis Professor	948 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Politics and Political Culture; Historical Sociology; Social Theory; Inclusion and Exclusion in American Society.
Michael Goldman Associate Professor	1070 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Transnational, Political Economic, and Urban Sociology; Transnational Institutions of Finance, Development, and Expertise.
Nick Graetz Assistant Professor	1172 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Social Demography; Housing; Population Health; Race; Climate; Inequality; Policy.
Douglas Hartmann Professor	1014B Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Culture; Law; Family; Gender and Sexuality; Social Movements.
Claire Kamp Dush Professor Sabbatical Fa24 & Sp25	1031 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Social Networks; Political Sociology; Economic Sociology; Organizations.
Carolyn Liebler Professor Sabbatical Fa24 & Sp25	1135 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Race and Ethnicity; Social Demography; Indigenous Peoples; Social Stratification; Sociology of the Family and Life Course; Social Support.
Enid Logan Associate Professor	1074 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Family and Life Course; Adolescent and Young Adult Development; Gender.
Natalia Otto Assistant Professor	1178 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	International Criminology; Gender & Violence; Narrative Methods.
Joshua Page Professor Associate Chair	1133 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Crime, Law, Deviance, and Punishment; Labor and Unionization; Political Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Theory.
Michelle Phelps Professor Director of Graduate Studies	1035 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Crime, Law, and Deviance; Inequality; Mixed Methods.
Joachim Savelsberg Professor Arsham & Charlotte Ohanessian Chair Offsite Fa24	1144 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Knowledge, Memory & Representations; Law, Crime & Punishment; Human Rights; Comparative; Theory.
Teresa Swartz Professor Sabbatical Fa24 & Sp25	1125 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Families; Intergenerational Relations; Social Inequality; Asian American Studies; Gender; Welfare State; Children, Youth and Young Adulthood.
Christopher Uggen Regents Professor	1014A Social Sci Bldg 612-624-4016 [email protected]	Crime, Law, Justice; Life Course; Inequality; Methods; Policy.
Jane VanHeuvelen Assistant Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	1178 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Medical Sociology; Organizations; Mental Health & Illness: Health Disparities; Work & Occupations.
Tom VanHeuvelen Associate Professor	1131 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Stratification & Inequality; Comparative & Historical Sociology; Quantitative Methodology; Sociology of Development.
Michael L. Walker Associate Professor	952 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Social Control; Stratification; Inequality; Criminal Justice.
Rob Warren Professor	1167 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Social Inequality; Education; Health Disparities; Demography.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Associate Professor	935 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Formal Demography; Social Demography; Race; Health; Inequality.

Associate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Ed Cornelius Instructor	960 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Law & Society; Punishment; Globalization; Sociological Theory.
Gabrielle Ferrales Sr Lecturer	1152 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Law and Society; Gender; Criminology and Criminal Justice; International Criminal Law; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis.
Austin Luzbetak Lecturer	1156 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]	Environmental Justice; Critical Criminology & Green Criminology; Human Dimensions of Climate Change; Punishment & Society.

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact
Ryan Allen Associate Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	295B Humphrey School [email protected]
Valerie Belair-Gagnon Assistant Professor Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication	329 Murphy Hall [email protected]
Rose Brewer Professor African American & African Studies	810 Social Sciences [email protected]
Kathleen Call Professor School of Public Health	15-223 Phillips Wangensteen Building [email protected]
Brooke Cunningham Assistant Professor Department of Family Medicine and Community Health	717 Delaware St SE, Rm 420 [email protected]
Christina Ewig Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	301 – 19th Avenue South [email protected]
Sarah Flood Research Manager Institute for Social Research & Data Innovation	50 Willey Hall [email protected]
Karen Ho Associate Professor Anthropology	395 HHH Center [email protected]
Donna McAlpine Associate Professor School of Public Health	D362 Mayo [email protected]
Carrie Oelberger Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	249 Humphrey School [email protected]
Jennifer Pierce Professor American Studies	204 Scott Hall [email protected]
Christopher Roberts Associate Professor Law School	450 Mondale Hall [email protected]
Evan Roberts Assistant Professor Medical School, History of Medicine	505 Diehl Hall [email protected]
Steven Ruggles Professor History & Founder of ISRDI & the MN Population Center	945 Heller Hall [email protected]
Karen Seashore Regents Professor Emerita CEHD, Org. Leadership, Policy & Development	330 Burton Hall [email protected]
Tetyana Shippee Professor School of Public Health	[email protected]
Mark Snyder Professor Psychology	N218 Elliott Hall [email protected]
Joe Soss Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	261 Humphrey School [email protected]

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact
Ron Aminzade Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Jeffrey Broadbent Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Teresa Gowan Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Phyllis Moen Professor Emeritus	1168 Social Sci Bldg [email protected]
Jeylan Mortimer Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Joel Nelson Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
David Ward Professor Emeritus	[email protected]