Faculty

Walter F. Willcox
(1861 – 1964)

• Cornell Professor from 1891-1964
• Early Cornell Sociologist
• co-Director of 1900 U.S. Census
• Only known Cornell attendee of the first meeting of the American Sociological Society in Providence, Rhode Island (1906)
• President of the America Economic Association (1915)
• President of the American Statistical Association (1911-12)
• "Father of American Demography"
• Obituary

(Edward) Dwight Sanderson
(1878 – 1944)

• Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology (1918-1944)
• First president of the Rural Sociological Society (1938)
• 31st president of the American Sociological Society (1942)
• Presidential Address
• Biography from Odum's American Sociology

Leonard S. Cottrell
(1899 – 1985)

• First chairman of Cornell?s Sociology and Anthropology Department (1939-1948)
• Chief Sociologist in the Research Branch of Information and Education of the U.S. War Department (1942-1945)
• Contributor to The American Soldier
• Dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences (1948-1951)
• 40th president of the American Sociological Society (1950)
• Presidential Address
• Biography from Odum's American Sociology
• Obituary

Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman
(1916 – 1987)

• Cornell Sociology Professor, 1941-1947
• Developer of "Guttman Scaling," recognized as one of the 62 major advances in social science between 1900 and 1965 by Science in 1971
• Founder of the Israel Institute for Applied Social Research (renamed the "Guttman Institute" in 1987)
• Obituaries: New York Times, Public Opinion Quarterly

William Foote Whyte
(1914 – 2000)

• Cornell Sociology Professor, 1948-2000
• Author of Street Corner Society (1943)
• 72nd president of the American Sociological Association (1981)
• ASA Presidential Address
• Posthumously awarded the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (2001)
• Obituary

Robin M. Williams Jr.
(1914 – 2006)

• Cornell Sociology Professor, 1946-2006
• 48th president of the American Sociological Society (1958)
• ASA Presidential Address
• Was the second youngest president of the ASA (age 44), and youngest since WWII
• President of Eastern Sociological Society (1965-66)
• Contributor to The American Soldier
• Author of American Society: A Sociological Interpretation (1st ed., 1951)
• Recipient of American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (1990)
• Biographical Summary Robin Williams
• His speech on the History of the Cornell Sociology Department (December 1999)
• 1996 Symposium Bio: Page 1, Page 2
• Syllabus for Altruism and Cooperation, his final class (2004-05) at UC Irvine
• Vitae
• Obituary

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Alumni

Eugene Kinkle Jones, M.A. 1908, Cornell University
(1884? – 1954)

• Co-Founder of Alpha Phi Alpha (first African-American fraternity in the U.S.)
• First Executive Secretary of the National Urban League
• Received B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Cornell

Michael Schwerner, B.A. 1961, Cornell University
(1939 – 1964)

• Schwerner earned a degree in sociology from Cornell and later studied social work at Columbia University
• Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were shot and killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney were in Mississippi as a part of "Freedom Summer," an effort by Civil Rights activists to register African-Americans to vote.
• Biographies of Schwerner: [1, 2]
• FBI's Missing Poster, Waiting for word on Schwerner
• Picture of Martin Luther King at a memorial for Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.
• Additional Articles: Cornell Chronicle, The Clarion-Ledger [1, 2], A Webpage on the Murders and Trial, A Speech by James Chaney's brother

Melvin L. Kohn, Ph.D. 1952, Cornell University

• 77th President of the American Sociological Association (1987)
• Presidential Address
• Author of Class and Conformity
• Recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award for lifetime research achievements in social psychology (1992)
• Profile

Harry Edwards, Ph.D. 1969, Cornell University

• Sociology Professor (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley
• A founder of the field of "Sociology of Sport"
• Organizer of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics black power protest [IMAGE]
• Former consultant to Major League Baseball, the Golden State Warriors, and the San Francisco 49ers

Cecilia Ridgeway, Ph.D. 1972, Cornell University

• Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Stanford University
• Recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award for lifetime research achievements in social psychology (2005)
• Former Chair of the Stanford Sociology Department
• Former Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly
• Former President of the Pacific Sociological Associaion

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Places

Morrill Hall

Home of the Cornell Sociology and Anthropology Department (1939-1961) and Cornell Sociology Department (1961-1964)

McGraw Hall

Home of the Cornell Sociology Department (1964-1972)

Uris Hall

Home of the Cornell Sociology Department (1972-present)

Page constructed by Robb Willer (2006), with editorial assistance from Don Hayes and technical assistance from Marty White and Michael Genkin. Some images from the ASA.