Who Can Serve on My Dissertation Committee?
Final oral exam committees must have five members:
- three active (or within one year of retirement/resignation) UW-Madison faculty members in either Sociology or Community & Environmental Sociology;
- one active (or within one year of retirement/resignation) UW-Madison faculty member from outside the two departments;
- a fifth person who can be just about anyone whom you and your advisor believe will be a useful addition – e.g., another active UW-Madison professor, an emeritus UW-Madison professor, a professor at another university, a practitioner in the field who’s not affiliated with an academic institution, a member of the academic staff (i.e., basically any individual “deemed qualified” by you and your advisor)
Who can Chair my Dissertation Committee?
The departments of Sociology and Community & Environmental Sociology run a combined graduate program. Active faculty, or faculty within one year of resignation/retirement, in either of these departments may chair the dissertation committee for graduate students in the combined Soc/C&E Soc program. Active faculty, or faculty within one year of resignation/retirement, from other departments who have a joint governance appointment with Soc/C&E Soc may also chair a dissertation committee for students in the combined program. Faculty from other departments who are affiliated with Soc/C&E Soc may serve on dissertation committees but may not chair them. Likewise, Soc/C&E Soc emeritus faculty may serve on dissertation committees but may not chair them; they may, however, act as co-chairs along with a current, active faculty member.
The current list of eligible dissertation committee chairs includes:
Samer Alatout, Vilas Associate Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology
Michael Bell, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology
Max Besbris, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Marcy Carlson, Professor of Sociology
Jane L. Collins, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology, Emerita
Joseph Conti, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law
Katherine J. Curtis, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology
Jennifer Dykema, Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director, UW Survey Center
John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology
Felix Elwert, Professor of Sociology
Mustafa Emirbayer, Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology
Michal Engelman, Associate Professor of Sociology
Nan Enstad, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology
Ivan Ermakoff, Sewell-Bascom Professor of Sociology
Noah Feinstein, Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology
Myra Marx Ferree, Alice H. Cook Professor Emerita of Sociology
Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
Robert Freeland, Professor of Sociology
Lewis Friedland, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Joan Fujimura, Martindale-Bascom Professor Emerita of Sociology
Joshua Garoon, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology
Ted Gerber, Professor of Sociology
Chad Alan Goldberg, Professor of Sociology
Monica Grant, Associate Professor of Sociology
Eric Grodsky, Professor of Sociology
Katherine Jensen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies
Michael Light, Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies
Chaeyoon Lim, Professor of Sociology
John Allen Logan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Michael Massoglia, Romnes Professor of Sociology
Doug Maynard, Conway-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Sociology
James Montgomery, Professor of Sociology
Jenna Nobles, Professor of Sociology
Eunsil Oh, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages & Cultures
Pamela Oliver, Professor Emerita of Sociology
Sarah Rios, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology
Joel Rogers, Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs, & Sociology
Nora Cate Schaeffer, Sewell Bascom Professor Emerita of Sociology
Christine Schwartz, Professor of Sociology
Gay Seidman, Professor of Sociology
Randy Stoecker, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology
Sam Trejo, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Kelly Ward, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies
Monica White, Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology