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Mabel Berezin

Associate Professor

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

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

David Harris

Vice Provost for Social Sciences,
Executive Director, The Institute for the Social Sciences,
Professor

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social Inequality
  • Identity
  • Social Demography

Douglas Heckathorn

Professor

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

Elizabeth Hirsh

Assistant Professor

  • Inequality
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Organizations
  • Law and Society
  • 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

Michael Macy

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

  • Collective Action
  • Emergence of Norms
  • Dynamic Networks
  • Agent Based Modeling

Stephen L. Morgan

Professor,
Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality

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

Victor Nee

Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology,
Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society

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

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

Sidney Tarrow

Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology

  • Comparative Politics: Western Europe
  • Social Movements
  • Political Parties and Collective Action
  • Political Sociology

Kim Weeden

Associate Professor,

Department Chair

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

Elaine Wethington

Associate Professor of Human Development and Sociology

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

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 Auf der Heide

Postdoctoral Associate

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

Erin York Cornwell

Postdoctoral Associate

  • Sociology of Health and Aging
  • Sociology of Law
  • Social Capital
  • Stratification

Martin de Santos

Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Cultural Sociology
  • Economic Sociology
  • Media Sociology
  • Civil Society
  • Sociological Theory
  • Internet and Society
  • Social Studies of Science
  • Latin American Studies

Choon-Ho Nahm

Visiting Scholar, Professor of Sociology, Chonbuk National University

  • Organizations
  • Labor Markets
  • Gender Inequality
  • Quantitative Methods

Sydney Van Morgan

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

  • Political sociology
  • Nationalism
  • European politics
  • Social movements

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

Robert Frank

Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management,
Professor of Economics

Douglas Gurak

Professor of Development Sociology

Jon Kleinberg

Professor of Computer Science

Michael Lynch

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies of Science & Technology Studies

Philip McMichael

Professor of Development Sociology

Karl Pillemer

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

Sharon L. Sassler

Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management

Steven Strogatz

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics

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