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Mabel Berezin

Associate Professor,
Department Chair

  • Comparative and Historical Sociology
  • Culture
  • Political Institutions and Ideologies
  • Theory
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Economy and Society

Kendra Bischoff

Assistant Professor

  • Social Stratification and Inequality
  • Sociology of Education
  • Urban Sociology

Matthew Brashears

Assistant Professor

  • Social Network Analysis
  • Social Psychology
  • Gender
  • Political Sociology

Benjamin Cornwell

Assistant Professor

  • Sociology of Health
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Organizations
  • Sociological Theory
  • Economic Sociology
  • Social Stratification

Douglas Heckathorn

Professor,
Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • Formal Theory
  • Economic Sociology
  • AIDS Prevention Research
  • Collective Action
  • Social Psychology
  • Quantitative Methods

Edward J. Lawler

Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Sociology

  • Group Processes
  • Social Psychology
  • Organizations
  • Social Exchange
  • Negotiations

Daniel T. Lichter

Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology

  • Family Sociology
  • Demography
  • Poverty and Inequality
  • Immigration
  • Race and Ethnicity

Michael Macy

Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology,
Faculty of Computing and Information Science,
Director, Social Dynamics Laboratory

  • Human behavior
  • Social interaction

Stephen L. Morgan

Jan Rock Zubrow '77 Professor,
Director of Graduate Studies,
Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality

  • Labor Markets
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Sociology of Education
  • Quantitative Methodology

Victor Nee

Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor,
Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society

  • Theory
  • Economic Sociology
  • Stratification/Inequality
  • Immigration and Race
  • Transitions from State Socialism

Paromita Sanyal

Assistant Professor and PARK Sesquicentennial Fellow

  • Economic Sociology
  • Gender
  • Poverty and Inequality

David Strang

Professor

  • Political Sociology
  • Organizations
  • Models and Methods for Dynamic Processes

Richard Swedberg

Professor

  • Economic Sociology
  • Law and Economy
  • Sociological Theory
  • Classical Sociological Theories

Kim Weeden

Professor
Robert S. Harrison Director, Institute for the Social Sciences
Interim Director, Center for the Study of Inequality

  • Social Inequality and Poverty
  • Labor Markets
  • Gender Inequality
  • Work and Occupations

Elaine Wethington

Professor of Human Development and Sociology

  • Medical Sociology
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Gender and Life Course

Erin York Cornwell

Assistant Professor and Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow

  • Urban Sociology
  • Sociology of Law
  • Health, aging, and social networks
  • Social inequality

Courtesy Appointments

Diane Burton

Associate Professor

  • Organizations
  • Employment Systems
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Stratification

Trevor Pinch

Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Sociology

  • Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
  • Sociology of Technology
  • Sociology of Markets
  • Sociology of Music and Musical Instruments

Postdoc, Visiting, and Adjunct Appointments

Laura Aufderheide Brashears

Visiting Scholar

  • Social Psychology
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Sociology of Education
  • Inequality

Todd Arthur Bridges

Research Fellow

  • Economic Sociology
  • Sociological Theory
  • New Institutional Economic Sociology
  • Sociology of Law and Economy
  • Mixed Methods Research

Roman V. Galperin

Postdoctoral Associate

  • Economic Sociology
  • Professional Work
  • Organization Theory

Namie Nagamatsu

Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University

  • Inequality of working conditions
  • Social class
  • Active labor market policy

Rafael Santana

Postdoctoral Associate

Sydney Van Morgan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Associate Director of the Institute for European Studies

  • Political sociology
  • Nationalism
  • European politics
  • Social movements

Hector Velez

Adjunct Associate Professor

Additional Members of the Field of Sociology

Francine Blau

Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics

Rachel Dunifon

Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Eli Friedman

Assistant Professor

Matthew Hall

Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Jon Kleinberg

Professor of Computer Science

Michael Lynch

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies of Science & Technology Studies

Kelly Musick

Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Karl Pillemer

Professor of Human Develpment,
Director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research

Brian Rubineau

Assistant Professor (Industrial and Labor Relations)

Sharon L. Sassler

Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Laura Tach

Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Pamela Tolbert

Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior

Maureen Waller

Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Retired

Steven Caldwell

Associate Professor

  • Large-scale Models
  • Microsimulation
  • Life Course Choices
  • Evaluation and Policy Research

Donald P. Hayes (1927-2006)

Professor Emeritus

  • Social interaction
  • Sociological Factors in the Realization of Human "Ability"
  • Machine Analysis of Tests