Faculty

Donna Barnes

Professor and Department Chair (PhD 1982 University of Texas at Austin)

Research Interests: Social Movements; Social Stratification & Social Change

Cynthia Cready

Associate Professor (PhD 2002 Texas A&M)

Research Interests: quantitative methods, health and aging, inequality, family

Karen Monique Gregg

Lecturer (PhD 2012 University of Notre Dame)

Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Social Psychology, Gender Studies

Phoebe Ho

Assistant Professor (PhD 2019 University of Pennsylvania)

Office: Sycamore Hall 288

Research interests: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Sociology of Education, Social Stratification

Gabe Ignatow

Professor, Graduate Director, Graduate Advisor (PhD 2003 Stanford)

Research Interests: sociological theory, digital research methods, philosophy of social science, cognitive social science

Ronald Kwon

Assistant Professor (PhD 2018 University of California, Riverside)

Research Interests: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Inequality and stratification, Political economy/World systems, Quantitative methods

Kevin McCaffree

Assistant Professor (PhD 2014 University of California, Riverside)

Research Interests: sociological theory, criminology, social psychology, sociology of religion, sociology of morality, quantitative methods

Matthew Painter

Associate Professor (PhD 2010 The Ohio State University)

Office: Sycamore 288

Research Interests: Immigration, Social Stratification, Race & Ethnicity, Wealth Inequality

Helen Potts

Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies (PhD 2007 University of North Texas)

Research Interests: social capital, organizations and the workplace, alternative dispute resolution/mediation

William “Buddy” Scarborough

Assistant Professor (PhD 2019 University of Illinois at Chicago)

Research Interests: Gender, Race, Stratification, Culture, Quantitative Methods and Data Science

Gul Seckin

Associate Professor (PhD 2006 Case Western Reserve University)

Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Social Gerontology, Gerontechnology, Digital Health Literacy, Information & Communication Technologies, Psychosocial Oncology, and Digital Sociology

Katherine Sobering

Assistant Professor (PhD 2018 University of Texas at Austin)

Research Interests: Inequality; Work and Organizations; Social Change; Political Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Ethnography

Dale Yeatts

Professor (PhD 1984 University of Virginia)

Research Interests: sustainable community development, social gerontology, self-managed work teams

Milan Zafirovski

Professor (PhD 1999 Florida International)

Research Interests: theory, economic sociology, social stratification and change, political sociology/economy, comparative-historical sociology

Department of Sociology