Graduate Faculty

Sociology Core Faculty

Aaron Arredondo, PhD

University of Missouri

  • Latina/o/e/x Sociology
  • Immigration
  • Organizations
  • Community-Based Research
  • Qualitative Methods

Gabrielle Ciciurkaite, PhD

University of Kentucky

  • Medical Sociology
  • Research Methods
  • Aging and the Life Course
  • Mental Health

Jennifer Givens, PhD

University of Utah

  • Environmental Sociology
  • Comparative International Sociology
  • Political Economy

Christy Glass, PhD

Yale University

  • Work and Inequality
  • Organizations
  • Gender
  • Race/Ethnicity

Erin Hoffman, PhD

University of Texas-Austin

  • Demography
  • Migration
  • Gender
  • Russia and Eurasia

Jason Leiker, PhD

Southern Illinois University

  • Criminology and Deviance
  • Teaching

Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, PhD

Texas A&M University

  • Population Health
  • Race/Ethnicity
  • Intersectionality
  • Social Demography

Hyojun Park, PhD

University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Life Course
  • Demography
  • Adolescence

Eric Reither, PhD

University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Demography
  • Determinants and Consequences of Obesity
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Research Methods and Statistics

Stacia Ryder, PhD

Colorado State University

  • Environmental Justice
  • Disaster and Climate Displacement
  • Social Movements

Mehmet Soyer, PhD

Texas Women’s University

  • Social Stratification
  • Social Movements
  • Social Theory
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Teaching

Jason Twede, PhD

University of North Dakota

  • Criminal Justice
  • Law Enforcement
  • Prosecution

Jessica Ulrich-Schad, PhD

University of New Hampshire

  • Rural and Environmental Sociology
  • Community
  • Agriculture

Stephen Van Geem, PhD

University of South Florida

  • Mental Health
  • Criminology
  • Teaching

Kirsten Vinyeta, PhD

University of Oregon

  • Environmental Sociology
  • Environmental and Climate Justice
  • Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies
  • Visual Sociology

Emily (Beth) Wilson, PhD

Utah State University

  • Demography
  • Aging
  • Health
  • Teaching

Affiliated Faculty

Courtney Flint, PhD

(Department of Environment and Society)

Pennsylvania State University

  • Natural Resource
  • Community and Rural Sociology
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Mixed-Methods Research