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 |
956 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.
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| Natalia Otto Instructor Tenure Track |
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] |
| Ira Reiss Professor Emeritus |
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| Joel Samaha Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |
| David Ward Professor Emeritus |
[email protected] |