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Faculty and Staff

Melissa Alcaraz

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Family
Migration
Education

Curtis Child

Department Chair
Professor

Research Areas
Economic Sociology
Organizations
Nonprofit Studies

Michael R. Cope

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Community
Rurality
Social change

Eric Dahlin

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Organizations
Innovation
Institutions

Mikaela Dufur

Professor

Research Areas
Social Capital
Cross-Cultural Family
Sport

Lance Erickson

Professor

Research Areas
Life Course
Aging
Later-Life Cognitive Functioning

Ryan Gabriel

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Urban Sociology
Race and Racism
Legacies of Racial Violence

Ben Gibbs

Professor

Research Areas
Social Stratification
Education
Family

John Hoffmann

Professor

Research Areas
Substance Use
Delinquent Behavior
Sociology of Religion

Jonathan Jarvis

Graduate Program Coordinator
Associate Professor

Research Areas
Global Education
Cross-National Family
Asian Immigration
Contemporary Korean Society

Melissa Jones

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Development/Life Course Criminology
Health & Crime
Gender, Deviance, & Crime

Jane Lopez

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Citizenship
Immigration
Law & Social Policy

Hayley Pierce

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Family
Health
Gender

Jacob Rugh

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Race & Ethnicity
Urban Sociology
Housing Segregation
Immigration

Scott Sanders

Associate Professor

Research Areas
Rural Inequalities
Poverty
Healthcare Access
Globalization
Labor Standards

Carol Ward

Professor

Research Areas
Stratification
Race and Ethnic Relations
Sociology of Education
American Indian Schooling Issues

Michael Wood

Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Culture and Cognition
Religion
Theory
Computational Methods

Greg Wurm

Visiting Assistant Professor

Research Areas
Family and Religion
Theory
Political Polarization