Professors

Maya Beasley

Race and Ethnicity, Stratification, Social Movements, Ethnic Conflict.

SOCI 304

SOCI 205

SOCI 243

Claudio E. Benzecry

Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Ethnography, Latin America and Sociology of Music and the Arts.

Mary Bernstein
Director of Graduate Studies

Social Movements, Sexuality, Sociology of Law, Political Sociology,Sex and Gender, Inequality.

SOCI 245

Robert Broadhead

Medical Sociology, Deviance, Qualitative Methods.

Noel Cazenave

Racism Studies, Poverty and Inequality, Political Sociology, Urban Studies

SOCI 236

SOCI 249

Simon Cheng

Race and ethnicity,
education, family, political economy, and quantitative methods

SOCI 205

SOCI 288

SOCI 327

Arnold Dashefsky
Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life

Judaic Studies, Social Psychology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations.

SOCI 230

Andrew Deener

Urban Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Ethnography

SOCI 3901

SOCI 6231

Manisha Desai
Director, Women's Studies Program

Susan Eisenhandler
Waterbury Campus

Social Gerontology, Communities, Sociology of Religion, Qualitative Methodology.

SOCI 210
SOCI 230

SOCI 248

SOCI 253
SOCI 284

Mary Fischer

Stratification, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Education

SOCI 207

SOCI 255
SOCI 268

Davita Silfen Glasberg
Department Head

Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Economy, Inequality, Human Rights.

SOCI 107
SOCI 125

SOCI 215
SOCI 269

SOCI 364

SOCI 367

Lynne Goodstein
Associate Vice-Provost and Director, Honors Program

Women and crime, women's studies and higher education,
interdisciplinarity and higher education, correctional institutions, criminal sentencing

Ralph McNeal Jr.

Teaching sociology, Education, Adolescence, Social Capital

SOCI 107

SOCI 217

Nancy Naples

Gender, Inequality, Public Policy, Immigration, Globalization, Community Activism, and Disability Rights Movement

SOCI 305

Kim Price
Greater Hartford Campus

Sociology of gender, women and health, qualitative methods

Bandana Purkayastha

Gender/Race, Immigration, Ethnicity, International/comparative, Asian American, South Asia , Human Rights, Building and Sustaining Peace.

SOCI 215

SOCI 221

SOCI 222

SOCI 305

SOCI 356

Kathryn Strother Ratcliff

Sociology of Health, Women and Health, Applied Sociology.

SOCI 205
SOCI 241
SOCI 247
SOCI 296

Richard Rockwell

Associate Head

Urban Sociology, Demography

SOCI 205

Clinton Sanders

Deviance, Cultural Production, Qualitative Methods, Anthrozoology .

SOCI 217
SOCI 219
SOCI 266

Ronald Taylor
Vice-Provost for Multicultural Affairs

Social Structure and Personality, Ethnicity, Sociology of African Americans.

Gaye Tuchman

Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Mass Media, Gender.

SOCI 107
SOCI 270
SOCI 305

Michael Wallace

Political Economy, Stratification, Work & Labor Markets

SOCI 107
SOCI 274

David Weakliem

Political Sociology, Quantitative Methods, Stratification.

SOCI 207
SOCI 326
SOCI 267

Bradley Wright

Social Psychology, Criminology, Deviance, Methods.

SOCI 217
SOCI 230
SOCI 296

C. Wesley Younts

 Social Psychology, Deviance, Small Groups

SOCI 205
SOCI 218

Assistant Professors in Residence

Phoebe Godfrey

Amanda B. Moras

Racial and Ethnic Relations, Critical Race Studies, Gender, Sexualities, Labor, Feminist Theory and Methodologies.

SOCI 107

SOCI 245

SOCI 125

Ruth Simpson

Emeritus Professors

Mark Abrahamson
Director, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Theory, Urban Sociology

Josef Gugler

Contextual Analysis of Film in Africa and the Middle East

SOCI 226
SOCI 266

Wayne Villemez

Stratification, Organization, Labor Markets, Minorities, Quantitative Analysis .

Affiliated Faculty

Anita Garey
(Family Studies)

Sociology of Families; Sociology of Gender; Social Demography; Symbolic Interaction; Methodology.