Sociology | Faculty Research Interests

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Kim Blankenship
Race, class, gender and health; social determinants of health and structural interventions, with a focus on HIV/AIDS; community mobilization as a strategy for health promotion; drug policy, criminal justice, and race disparities in HIV/AIDS

 

Andrea Malkin Brenner
Education, teaching introductory sociology, race and the politics of identity, and diverse family structures, with a special interest in families created by adoption

 

Esther Chow
Citizenship, identity, and empowerment of women workers in circular migration in rural China across times and places

 

Bette Dickerson
Black feminist/womanist theoretical perspectives and research methods, socio-historical construction of race/ethnic identities in the African Diaspora, collective memory and public history in the United States, elder Black women and sexuality

 

John Drysdale
Sociological theory and the history of sociology in the context of the history of ideas

 

Ibtisam Ibrahim
Women emigration from the Arab world, democracy and Islam in the Arab world, and Arab-Israeli conflict

 

Susan McDonic
Contemporary religious movements, international development, Africa and globalization

 

Michelle Newton-Francis
Deviance (with emphasis on stigma), sociology of culture, gender, cultural criminology

 

Celine-Marie Pascale
Language and representation; race, gender, class, and sexuality; qualitative methods; social theory; feminist theory

 

Natalia Ruiz Junco
Social theory, social movements, emotions, self and society, ethnography, Latino migration, Spain 

 

Russell Stone
Development, public opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, and environmental sociology

 

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Racialization, sexuality, gender, religion, body/embodiment, autoethnography, Latino studies, migration, community-based participatory research, public sociology 

 

Chenyang Xiao
Environmental beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, public opinions over environmental issues, applied social statistics and quantitative research methodology

 

Gay Young
Nature and consequences of women’s labor force participation in post-colonial societies and strategies for measuring gender inequality at the macro-social level


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