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Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2016

Areas of Expertise

Political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, Latin-American studies, social theory
Sean J. Drake

Sean J. Drake

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2017

Areas of Expertise

Race and ethnicity, schools and education, neighborhood organization and inequality, refugee youth, immigrant incorporation, poverty and homelessness, ethnographic methods
Selina Gallo-Cruz

Selina Gallo-Cruz

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

O’Hanley Faculty Scholar

Research Co-Director, Advocacy and Activism

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Affiliate, Women’s and Gender Studies

Ph.D., Emory University, 2012
Gabriela Kirk
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Gabriela Kirk-Werner

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2022
Prema Kurien

Prema Kurien

Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., Brown University, 1993

Areas of Expertise

International migration, Immigrant politics, Sociology of Religion, Race and Ethnicity-- US and Global, Religion and Society in India, Qualitative Methods
Shannon Monnat

Shannon Monnat

Professor, Sociology Department

Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Co-Director, Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

Research Affiliate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 2008

Areas of Expertise

Rural demography, social and structural determinants of health and health disparities, spatial differences in morbidity and mortality
William Oliver
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William Oliver

Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology Department

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2020
Arthur Paris

Arthur Paris

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member and Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Areas of Expertise

Urban society and policy, race and ethnic relations, science and technology, non-white popular culture
Gretchen Purser

Gretchen Purser

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Director of the Law, Society and Policy Integrated Learning Major

Research Co-Director, Advocacy and Activism

Senior Research Associate, Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Work and labor, urban poverty, law and punishment, housing and homelessness, precarity, social theory, ethnography, community-based action research
Rebecca Schewe

Rebecca Schewe

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2011

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and natural resource sociology
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