People Type: Faculty

Mark, Nicholas

More information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., New York University (2023) Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology; Social Stratification; Family; Methods and Statistics; Education; Aging and the Life Course Other Campus Affiliations: Center for Demography and Ecology Interdisciplinary Training Program Research Interest Statement: My primary research agenda is focused on understanding how social policy …

Massoglia, Michael

Biography Research Interest Statement: Mike’s work focuses on the social consequences of the expansion of the penal system, the relationship between the use of legal controls and demographic change in the United States, and patterns and consequences of criminal behavior over the life course. Mike’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National …

Oh, Eunsil

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am a sociologist of gender, work, and family interested in inequality, culture, and demographic change. My research asks how gender inequality persists and changes form as women’s lives transform, and I pursue that question through contemporary South Korea and East Asia. Empirically, I study maternal employment …

Rauf, Tamkinat

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being. I am interested in both how these inequalities are influenced by macrosocial forces (including economic and political institutions), as well as how they are generated in proximate contexts via the interplay of biological …

Rich, Peter

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My core research focuses on the relationship between residential attainment and access to educational opportunity in the US, where I investigate connections between structural inequalities and individual choices: Education: Ph.D., New York University (2016) Departmental Areas of Interest: Communities and Urban Sociology; …

Rogers, Joel

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternative Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Joel Rogers is the Noam Chomsky Professor of Law, Public Affairs, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he also directs Havens Wright Center for Social Justice and High Road Strategy Center, a national resource and strategy center on high-road development …

Santos, Maria-Fátima

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Broadly, I am interested in different dimensions of legal and penal state power–their relationship to how societies are organized, the forms of social exclusion that compose them, and the people and mechanisms that influence their transformations. My current research examines public defenders who counsel poor people in Brazil’s …

Schwartz, Christine

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. Much of my work examines the causes and consequences of assortative mating to gain insight into the links between family change and inequality in the United States. Another line …

Seidman, Gay

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1990 Departmental Areas of Interest: Political Sociology, Economic Change and Development, Class Analysis and Historical Change, Demography and Ecology, Social Movements and Collective Behavior Classes: Soc 210 Survey of Sociology Soc 630 Sociology of Developing Societies Soc 940 Rethinking the Developmental State Other Campus Affiliations Development Studies African Studies …

Simmons, Michaela

Biography Research Interest Statement: Michaela’s research addresses the enduring consequences of racial inequality in the American welfare state through an examination of social citizenship, family, and childhood. She is currently working on a book titled, Mothering with the State, a study of the racial politics of foster care development in the early twentieth century. Education: Ph.D. Sociology, …