Faculty Research Specializations
Faculty Research Specialty Groups are faculty members with common areas of expertise. See our Faculty Profiles for more details about each professor’s research areas.
We pride ourselves on being methodologically diverse and covering a wide breadth of sociological topics. Students will find multiple faculty working in the following areas:
Social Theory
- Branaman, Hough, Koppelman, Lewin, Seeley
Qualitative Methods
- Backstrom, Hough, Kim, Koppelman, Lewin, Seeley
Gender and Sexuality
- Backstrom, Kim, Koppelman, Seeley
Political Economy, Development and Global Social Change
- Hough, Kim, Koppelman, Lewin, Widener
Aging, Youth, and Lifecourse Studies
- Backstrom, Branaman, Kim, Lewin, Lichtenstein, McConnell
Communities/Urban Sociology
- Koppelman, Lewin, Widener
Culture and Social Institutions
- Backstrom, Kim, Lewin, Lichtenstein, McConnell
Microsociology/Social Psychology
- Backstrom, Branaman, Koppelman, Seeley
Food, Health, and Environmental Sustainability
- Hough, Koppelman, McConnell, Lewin, Widener