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faculty
Rina Agarwala
Professor & DGS
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- Mergenthaler 527
Research Interests: International development, gender, labor, migration, globalization, India
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Emily M. Agree
Research Professor
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- Mergenthaler 558
- 410-516-5832
Research Interests: Gerontology, demography, sociology of health and illness
Education: PhD, Duke University
Joel Andreas
Professor
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- Mergenthaler 554
Research Interests: Political contention, social inequality, and social change in contemporary China
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Bader
Associate Professor
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- Mergenthaler 540
Research Interests: Urban sociology, gentrification and neighborhood change, health inequality, demography
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Ilil Benjamin
Sr Lecturer
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- Mergenthaler 541B
Research Interests: Israel, Palestine, humanitarianism, refugees
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Amy Binder
Professor
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Research Interests: Education, Politics, Culture, and Organizations
Education: PhD, Northwestern University
Julia Burdick-Will
Associate Professor & DUS
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- Mergenthaler 437
Research Interests: Urban sociology, education, stratification
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Ryan M. Calder
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 435
Research Interests: Research Interests: markets and their moral logics, globalization and global capitalism, consumption, finance and financialization, religion (especially Islam) and religious law, loyalty rewards programs (such as airline mileage programs)
Education: PhD, UC Berkeley
Feinian Chen
Professor
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- Mergenthaler 532
Research Interests: Demography, family and life course, aging, research methods and statistics, gender and inequality
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stefanie A. DeLuca
James Coleman Professor of Sociology & Social Policy
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- PIRL/Abel-Wolman, 3213 N Charles St
- 410-516-7629
Research Interests: Sociology of education, sociology of neighborhoods, life course studies
Education: PhD, Northwestern University
Zophia Edwards
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 560
Research Interests: Development, Global & Transnational, Labor & Labor Movements, Postcolonial, Political, Race & Ethnicity, Comparative & Historical, Quantitative Methods
Education: PhD, Boston University
Meredith Greif
Associate Research Professor
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- Mergenthaler 530
Research Interests: Homelessness, Housing Policy, Urban Inequality, Racial Stratification, Mental Health
Education: PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Lingxin Hao
Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor in Public Policy
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- Mergenthaler 509
- 410-516-4022
Research Interests: Social Inequality, Migration, Family Demography, Sociology of Education, Quantitative and Computational Methods
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Ho-fung Hung
Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy
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- Mergenthaler 523
- 410-516-7051
Research Interests: Global political economy, contentious politics, nationalism, and social theory
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Huei-Ying Kuo
Associate Research Professor
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- Mergenthaler 262
- 410-516-6493
Research Interests: Historical sociology, overseas Chinese, nationalism, colonialism, business networks, China-Southeast Asian connections
Education: PhD, SUNY-Binghamton
Michael Levien
Associate Professor
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- Mergenthaler 433
- 410-516-7637
Research Interests: Development sociology, agrarian political economy, political sociology, social theory, ethnography, India
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Stephen L. Morgan
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
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- Mergenthaler 529
Research Interests: Education, inequality, demography, and methodology
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Andrew Perrin
Professor & Chair
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- Mergenthaler 556 & Wyman Park 302
- 410-516-2370 & 410-516-2006
Research Interests: Cultural & Political Sociology
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Monica Prasad
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economic and Political Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 260
Research Interests: Comparative Historical Sociology; Economic Sociology; Political Sociology
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Allison Pugh
Research Professor
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Research Interests: Personal Relationships; Work and Occupations; Qualitative methods; Gender
Education: PhD, University of California Berkeley
Beverly J. Silver
Professor
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- Mergenthaler 513
- 410-516-7635
Research Interests: Historical capitalism, comparative and world-historical research methods, global inequality and development, labor and social movements
Education: PhD, SUNY, Binghamton
Christy Thornton
Associate Professor
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- Mergenthaler 521
Research Interests: Comparative-historical sociology, global inequality and development, labor and social movements, political economy of Mexico and Latin America
Education: PhD, New York University
Vesla Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 272
- 410-516-2843
Research Interests: Racial inequality and politics, policing and incarceration, democratic citizenship, political sociology, social policy
Education: PhD, Harvard
Alexandre White
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 541B
- 410-516-0650
Research Interests: Comparative Historical Sociology; Medical Sociology; Post-Colonial Theory; Global and Transnational Sociology; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Global Health
Education: PhD, Boston University
staff
Jessie Albee
Academic Program Coordinator
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- Mergenthaler 533
- 410-516-7626
Ricardo Sanchez
LAN Administrator
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- Mergenthaler 275
- 667-208-7169
Bryoni Worsley
Administrative Manager
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- Mergenthaler 533
- 410-516-7627
Associated Faculty
Andrew Anastasi
Postdoctoral Fellow, The History & Political Economy Project
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Research Interests: Social Movements; Theory; Political Sociology; Historical Sociology
Education: PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Joyce Epstein
Professor, Center for Social Organization of Schools, School of Education
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- 2701 N. Charles St., Suite 300
- 410-516-8807
Research Interests: Sociology of education, evaluation research, social psychology
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Kelly Gebo
Vice Provost for Education
Professor, School of Medicine
Director, Public Health Studies, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- 265 Garland Hall
- 410-516-5985
Research Interests: HIV, infectious diseases, health care utilization and costs, disparities in access to care, HIV and aging
Education: MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University
Gail Geller
Professor, School of Medicine
Director of Education, Berman Institute of Bioethics
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- 1809 Ashland Avenue, Room 202
- 410-614-5556
Research Interests: Bioethics and social and behavioral sciences
Education: ScD, Johns Hopkins University
Leigh Graham
Fellow By Courtesy
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Research Interests: Urban Studies & Planning
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Wenxuan Huang
Assistant Research Scientist
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- 3505 N Charles St, Room 110
Research Interests: Life course research, social inequality, population aging
Education: PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Mike Reese
Associate Teaching Professor
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- CTEI, MSEL, Garrett Room
- 410-516-4192
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Stuart Schrader
Associate Research Professor, Center for Africana Studies, Associate Director, Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship
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- Mergenthaler 231
Research Interests: Racial inequality in criminal justice, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Katherine Clegg Smith
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- Hampton House 726
- 410-502-0025
Research Interests: Cancer prevention and survivorship, tobacco, media, media advocacy, textual analysis, qualitative methods, diet and food, agenda setting
Education: PhD, University of Nottingham
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr.
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- 624 N. Broadway, Hampton House 708
- 410-502-8977
Research Interests: Health Disparities, Race, SES, Poverty Status, Functional Decline, Functional Status, Lower Extremity Functioning, Hypertension, Mobility Limitation, Older Adults, Life Course, Men's Health Disparities Across the Life Course, Men's Health
Education: PhD, Purdue University
Sydney Van Morgan
Senior Lecturer; Director of International Studies
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- Mergenthaler 264
- 410-516-5607
Research Interests: Political sociology, nationalism, european politics, social movements
Education: PhD, Cornell University
professors emeriti
Karl L. Alexander
John Dewey Professor Emeritus Sociology Academy Professor
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Research Interests: Sociology of education, social stratification
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew J. Cherlin
Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
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Research Interests: Sociology of the family, demography, social policy
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles