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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
Assistant Professor (PhD 2006 Case Western Reserve University)
Research Interests: medical sociology, sociology of aging

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 940-565-2190

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