Department of Sociology (GRAD)
The Department of Sociology offers the master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in sociology. Students receive training that equips them for careers in both teaching and research. All sociology students take basic coursework in sociological theory, research methods and statistics, and substantive areas. The program emphasizes balanced training and the integration of theory, method, and substantive knowledge. Detailed information on graduate degree procedures is available online at the department's website. For further information, including information about financial aid for students, contact the graduate student services manager.
The department's main concentrations of faculty research interest and graduate training are in demography and population, migration, health, stratification and social inequality, political sociology, research methods and social statistics, and labor force and complex organizations.
Graduate students making adequate progress receive financial assistance during the first five years of the program. Sources of aid include teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and nonservice fellowships.
Department faculty work closely with the Carolina Population Center, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, and other research centers and institutes on campus. The department also sponsors and edits Social Forces, one of the leading sociology journals in the world.
Courses
Numbered 400-999:
Professors
Kenneth A. Bollen, Comparative Political Structures, Statistics, International Development
Neal Caren, Social Movements/Collective Action
David Cook-Martin, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Law, Labor, Immigration and Migration, International Sociology, Citizenship
Barbara Entwisle, Social Demography, Methods, Community, Environment
Elizabeth Frankenberg, Demography, Health, Illness, Medical Sociology
Guang Guo, Biosocial Interactions, Social Statistics, Demography
Karen Guzzo, Fertility, Family Demography; Measurement
Taylor Hargrove, Sociology of Health, Racial/Ethnic, Gender, and Skin Tone Stratification, Aging and the Life Course
Robert Hummer, Demography, Population Health, Aging and the Life Course
Arne L. Kalleberg, Work, Organizations, Occupations, Social Stratification, Economic Sociology
Charles Kurzman, Political Sociology, Social Movements, International Development, Comparative and Historical, Social Theory, Islamic Studies
Ted Mouw, Social Stratification, Demography, Economic Sociology
Lisa D. Pearce, Family, Demography, Religion
Associate Professors
Regina Baker, Poverty, Stratification and Inequality, Family, Race, Policy
Yong Cai, Social Demography, Fertility, Sociology of Health, Chinese Society, Comparative Historical Sociology, Research Methodology
Scott Duxbury, Crime, Law and Deviance, Computational Social Science, Social Networks, Race, Political Sociology, Media, Quantitative Methods
Lauren Gaydosh, Life Course, Biosocial Perspectives, Health Disparities, Race, Population
Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Crime, Law and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Family
Carmen Gutierrez, Stratification, Policy, Health, Crime, Law, and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity, Migration
Tania Jenkins, Medical Sociology, Health and Illness; Work, Occupations, Labor Markets; Stratification, Gender, Ethnography
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Urban Sociology, Race, Stratification, Environment, Neighborhoods, Qualitative Methods
Alexandrea Ravenelle, Work, Organizations and Occupations, Social Stratification, Economy and Society, Qualitative Research, Entrepreneurship
Jessica Su, Family, Children and Youth, Fertility, Stratification, Public Policy
Assistant Professors
Rui Jie Peng, Ethnography, Migration, Gender, Labor, Development, Transnational and Global Sociology
Kerilyn Schewel, Migration, Rural Sociology, Sociology of Development
Justin Sola, Inequality, Gun Ownership, Crime, Law, and Deviance, Sociology of Law, Experimental and Computational Methods
Lauren Valentino, Cultural Sociology, Stratification, Discrimination, Poverty, Mixed Methods, Gender
Teaching Professors
Kathleen Fitzgerald, Race, Gender, Sexuality, Social Movements, Food Justice, and Pedagogy
Matthew Lammers
Research Professor
Kathleen M. Harris, Social Demography, Family and Child Well-Being, Poverty, Public Policy
Joint Appointments/Adjunct Faculty
Thurston Domina, School of Education
Gail Henderson, Social Medicine
James H. Johnson Jr., Kenan–Flagler Business School
John D. Kasarda, Kenan–Flagler Business School
Douglas Lauen, Public Policy
Tressie McMillan Cottom, School of Information and Library Sciences
John D. Stephens, Political Science
Francesca Tripodi, School of Information and Library Sciences
Chris Wiesen, Odum Institute
Professors Emeriti
Howard E. Aldrich
Kenneth T. Andrews
Judith R. Blau
M. Richard Cramer
Glen H. Elder Jr
Jacqueline Hagan
Sherryl Kleinman
S. Philip Morgan
Anthony R. Oberschall
John Shelton Reed
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Peter R. Uhlenberg
Department of Sociology
