Faculty

Laura J. Miller

Department Chair

Professor of Sociology

781-736-2643 lamiller@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 103

Office Hours: M 11-12 and by appointment (see below)

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Expertise: Sociology of culture, mass media, consumption and marketing, urban and suburban studies, food studies.

Karen V. Hansen

Professor of Sociology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

781-736-2651 khansen@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 209

Office Hours: On Sabbatical Spring 2021

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Expertise: Gender, feminist theory, sociology of families, historical sociology, networks and communities.

Sara Shostak

Undergraduate Advising Head

Associate Professor of Sociology

781-736-2213 sshostak@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 207

Office Hours: W 1-3 and by appointment (see below)

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Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, body and society, sociology and bioethics, environmental health and justice, qualitative research methods.

Wendy Cadge

Professor of Sociology / Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies / Study Abroad Liaison

Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanistic Social Sciences

781-736-2641 wcadge@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 109

Office Hours: W 1-2 (see below)

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Expertise: Sociology of religion, culture, health and medicine, immigration, gender, sexuality, organizations, research methods

Gordon Fellman

Professor of Sociology

617-642-5186 fellman@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 110

Expertise: Peace, conflict, and coexistence studies; empowerment, social class, Marx and Freud, psychoanalytic sociology, masculinities, Israeli-Palestinian confrontation.

Sarah Mayorga

Associate Professor of Sociology

mayorga@brandeis.edu

Office Hours: TTh 5-6, W 1-2 (see below)

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Expertise: Sociology of race and racism, urban sociology, Latinx sociology, whiteness studies, qualitative methods.

Chandler Rosenberger

Associate Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology

781-736-2683 crosen@brandeis.edu Mandel Center for Humanities 107

Office Hours: Th 10-12 (see below)

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Expertise: Nationalism, ethnicity, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, political dissent, terrorism, modern European politics.

Michael Strand

Assistant Professor of Sociology

781-736-2138 mstrand@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 107

Office Hours: (see below)

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Expertise: Social theory, philosophy of social science, culture, morality, knowledge, historical methods, economic sociology.

Siri Suh

Assistant Professor of Sociology

781-736-2635 jssuh@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 102

Office Hours: T 3-30-5, W 10-12 (see below)

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Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, sociology of reproduction, critical studies of global health, science and technology studies (STS), research methods, sub-Saharan Africa.

Gowri Vijayakumar

Assistant Professor of Sociology

781-736-2633 gowri@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 211

Office Hours: Th 1-2 and by appointment (see below)

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*office hours just for my class will be held on MW 1:30-2pm
Expertise: Gender, sexuality, transnational social movements, development, labor and labor movements, feminist theory, HIV/AIDS, ethnographic and interview methods, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Derron Wallace

Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology

781-736-2088 dwallace@brandeis.edu ASA Complex 214

Office Hours: T 10-12 and by appointment (see below)

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Expertise: Sociology of education, comparative education, multicultural and multiethnic education, social inequality, critical theories of race, transnational migration, Caribbean diaspora studies.

Affiliated Faculty

Kristen Lucken

Lecturer in International & Global Studies and Religious Studies

781-736-2743 klucken@brandeis.edu Golding Judaica Center, 18

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m.

Expertise: Immigration, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism, sociology of religion.

Thomas Shapiro

The Heller School

Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy

tshapiro@brandeis.edu

Expertise: Stratification, race, political sociology.

Emeriti

Peter Conrad

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

conrad@brandeis.edu

Expertise: Medical sociology, deviance, qualitative research methods

Janet Zollinger Giele

Professor Emerita of Sociology

giele1@brandeis.edu

Expertise: Women's changing roles, sociology of the life course, social movements

Gila Hayim

Professor Emerita of Sociology

hayim@brandeis.edu

Expertise: Classical and critical social theory, contemporary social theory, law and society, existential sociology

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss

The Heller School

John Stein Professor of Disability Research, Emerita

krauss@brandeis.edu

Expertise: Disability policy, family caregiving, mental retardation, human services

Shulamit Reinharz

Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Emerita

reinharz@brandeis.edu

Expertise: Qualitative research methods, feminist research, Jewish women's studies, social psychology, group dynamics.

George W. Ross

Professor Emeritus of Labor and Social Thought

gross@brandeis.edu

Expertise: European integration, European politics and social policy, comparative industrial relations, and sociology of advanced capitalist societies.