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József Böröcz,
Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Hungarian Studies,
teaches courses in economic sociology, global structures, classical
sociological theory, and comparative-historical methods. His scholarly
interests include the sociology of large-scale structural change, the
European Union as a global actor, and intersections of political
economy, geopolitics and representational power.
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Ethel Brooks,
Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology,
teaches courses in comparative and historical sociology, globalization
and postcolonial social formations. Her research interests
include the sociology of gender and labor, critical political economy,
globalization, social movements, feminist theory, gender and
development, consumption, comparative sociology, Central American
studies, South Asian studies, nationalism, post-coloniality and
critical race theory. She is currently finishing a book on
transnational organizing in the garment industry with a focus on Dhaka
, San Salvador and New York City .
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Deborah Carr,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in social psychology,
sociology of the life course, social structure and personality, social
demography, and advanced research methods. Her research interests are
in the areas of aging and the life course, gender, and psychological
and physical health. She is currently involved in projects exploring:
widowhood and end-of-life issues; psychological consequences of work
and family roles; and interpersonal and social consequences of obesity.
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Patrick Carr,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, does research on youth violence,
crime and informal social control, and on the transition to adulthood.
His current work focuses on youth growing up in three high crime
Philadelphia neighborhoods, and at-risk youth entering adulthood. He
has also just completed a narrative study of coming of age among young
adults originally from a rural Iowa town.
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Karen Cerulo,
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, teaches courses in culture, media, social
deviance, and statistics. Her research interests are in the areas
of culture and cognition (with a special emphasis on
conceptualization), media, technology and social change, symbol
systems, and measurement techniques. She has just completed a
book on conceptualizing the worst and is currently involved in several
projects that re-examine definitions of a social actor.
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Lee Clarke,Lee Clarke, Associate Professor, writes about social organization, failure, disaster, and risk communication. His latest book, <http://worstcases.com/> Worst Case , was published by the University of Chicago Press, in Fall 2005. He teaches courses on organizations, epistemologies, writing, teaching, risk, disaster, and business.
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Ira Cohen,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches Sociology in the Graduate
Program and teaches his undergraduate courses on the faculty in
Sociology at Rutgers in Newark. His Graduate Program courses
include classical and contemporary social theory. His research interests include the sociology of everyday life, contemporary and classical social theory, the sociology of modernity, and the history of social thought. He currently is writing a book (under contract with Polity Press) with the working title: On the Sociology of Solitary Action.
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Jeanette Covington,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in criminology and
the sociology of drug use. She has recently had a number of articles on
fear of crime and neighborhood change and crime appear in various
journals including Social Problems, Sociological Quarterly, Urban Affairs Quarterly, and Criminology.
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Phaedra Daipha, Assistant Professor of Sociology, works and teaches in the areas of science, knowledge, and technology; cultural sociology; social theory; and qualitative methods. She is currently writing a book that draws on fieldwork with National Weather Service forecasters to examine the process of complexity distillation in diagnosis and prognosis.
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Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Assistant Professor in Latino and Hispanic Caribbean
Studies and Sociology, teaches courses on urbanism, urban policy and
planning, race and ethnicity, and research methods. Her research interests
include urbanism, space and place, the built environment, race and
ethnicity, social inequality, mixed-method research, criminal justice,
Latin America and Caribbean Studies, and African Diaspora. She is
currently working on a book that examines the social impacts of gates in
public and private housing in Puerto Rico.
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Judith J. Friedman,
Associate Professor, teaches courses in urban/community sociology, the
sociology of art, and research methods. She also teaches the sociology
department's Honors Seminar for seniors. Her research interests are in
the areas of suburbanization, racial integration, and visual sociology.
She is using images of a small city as she interviews residents about
racial integration over many decades.
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Judith Gerson,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in the sociology of
gender and feminist theories. Her primary areas of interest include the
sociology of gender, work, identities, and contemporary social theory.
Stemming in part from her interests in feminist theories of identity,
recently she has initiated an interdisciplinary study of German Jewish
immigrant identities, which focuses on identity practices among German
Jews who settled in New York City between 1933 and 1945.
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Stephen Hansell,
Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program, teaches
courses on the sociology of medicine and health care, research methods,
and statistics. He is interested in medical sociology, social
networks, globalization, and the sociology of science. His
current research is about the effects of managed care on adolescent
mental and physical health.
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Paul Hirschfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and an affiliated member of the
Program in Criminal Justice. He teaches courses in criminology,
punishment and social control, and juvenile justice. His theoretical
and empirical work focuses on the social control of youth in the
contexts of schools and the justice system, which includes research on
the consequences of social intervention. His current research centers
on the reintegration of youth from correctional facilities into schools.
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Allan V. Horwitz,
Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in mental health and illness
and the sociology of deviance. His research interests are in the areas
of social definitions of mental illness, medicalization, and the impact
of social roles on mental health. He is currently working on a book
that examines that transformation of normal sadness into depressive
mental disorder.
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Ellen Idler,
Ellen Idler, Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in social gerontology, health and illness, social science writing, and research methods. Her research interests are in the areas of aging, sociology of religion, health and health perceptions, and disability, and she is currently involved in a study of social factors in recovery from heart surgery.
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Joanna Kempner, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is currently teaching
courses on social problems and sociology of the body. Her research
interests include the sociology of science, medicine, culture, gender and
the body. She is writing a book that examines the failure of headache disorders to be taken seriously as a social problem and a series of articles that explore
the circumstances under which knowledge is not produced.
Catherine Lee,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in race and
ethnicity, gender, politics, and health and medicine. Her research
interests include race and ethnicity, gender, immigration, political
sociology, law and society, and sociology of science and medicine. She
is currently finishing a book on the politics of immigrant exclusion at
the turn of the last century and examining the construction of
race and ethnicity in biomedicine and health policy.
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Paul McLean,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in political sociology, economic sociology, network analysis, sociological theory, and the sociology of culture. His primary research explores the connections between multiple kinds of social networks—marriages, commerce, and political clientage chiefly—and documents the cultural practices actors adopt to achieve mobility in and across those networks. His book, The Art of the Network (Duke University Press, 2007), treats these topics by examining political patronage and letter-writing in Renaissance Florence. In addition, he has ongoing research interests in various notions of chance and honor, the persistence of patrimonialism in the modern world, politics in 18th century Poland, the development of the modern self, the social theory of Adam Smith, and the culture of videogaming.
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David Mechanic is the René Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and
Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging
Research at Rutgers University. His research and writing deal with
social aspects of health and health care.
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Ann Mische,
Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate
Program, teaches courses in political sociology, social
movements, contemporary sociological theory, and temporality in social
science research. Her research interests include political
culture, civic and political associations, social movements, and
complex social networks, with a substantive focus on Brazilian youth
politics. She is starting a new project on the role of future
projections in social action.
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Julie Phillips, Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in
criminology, statistics, research methods, and population studies. Her
research interests, in the areas of violent crime, marital disruption,
migration, and health-related outcomes, focus on the causes and
consequences of various forms of social inequality in the United States.
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Robyn Rodriguez,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, is interested in
the following research areas: globalization, the nation-state and
development in the Third World; labor and international migration;
immigration, race, diaspora and trans/nationalisms; and gender. She is
currently completing her book manuscript entitled, "Global Workers,
Migrant Citizens: Philippine Labor and the Brokerage State."
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Patricia A. Roos, Professor of Sociology, and Labor Studies & Employment Relations, teaches courses in the sociology of work; inequalities; work, family, and politics; sociological writing; research methods; and graduate advanced methods/statistics. Three research projects currently occupy her time: gender equity in higher education; race, class, and gender differences in work/family behavior and attitudes; and a collaborative book project with Rutgers colleagues on how to move toward real gender equality among women and men.
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Sarah Rosenfield, Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in the self, gender, mental health, and in writing. In her own research, she is particularly interested in the role of self in mental health and how race/ethnicity, class, and gender shape the self and mental health problems. She is also involved in research on services, stigma, and quality of life of people with chronic mentally illness.
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Thomas Rudel,
Professor of Sociology and Human Ecology, teaches courses in the
sociology of economic development, and human ecology. Dr. Rudel's major
research interests are in the fields of environmental sociology and
economic sociology, especially in Latin America . He has recently
published the book, Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press).
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Zakia Salime, Assistant Professor in Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, teaches courses in comparative feminism(s), gender, globalization, social movements, international inequalities and postcoloniality. Her research interests include, race, empire, the political economy of the "war on terror", development policies, Islamic societies and movements, Middle East and US relations. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the interactions among the feminist and the Islamist women's movements in Morocco.
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D. Randall Smith,
Associate Professor, has taught a variety of statistics courses and
sociology of sport at the graduate level. Over the years his
research interests have also included labor markets, social networks,
criminal careers and criminal sentencing, and bias and inequality in
performance evaluations. He is currently involved in a number of
projects on the sociology of sport and intercollegiate athletics.
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Kristen W. Springer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, conducts research on gender, health, families, and aging. She is currently examining the
gendered health impact of spousal employment as well as exploring life
course processes connecting childhood abuse with adult health. Professor Springer is currently teaching advanced research methods and
sociology of the family.
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Arlene Stein,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses on the sociology of gender, sexuality, and culture. She is currently writing about how therapeutic culture and feminism has influenced the collective memory of the Holocaust.
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Helene Raskin White,
Professor in the Sociology Department and the Center of Alcohol
Studies, teaches a course on alcohol problems. Her research
focuses on the comorbidity of substance use, crime, violence, and
mental health problems in community and high-risk samples. Currently,
she is also developing and evaluating drug prevention interventions for
college students.
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Richard Williams,
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in the sociology of
identity and race and the sociology of symbolic boundaries. One area of
interest for Dr. Williams is the development of "racial" and "national"
identities within the context of macro and mid-range social structures.
Another area of interest is around contemporary cultural forms of
social system legitimation. He is currently at work on, "Scanning the
Horizon: Local TV News in the Reproduction of Social Inequality," a
book which argues that local TV news serves a significant role in the
legitimation of existing social inequality.
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Benjamin Zablocki,
Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in social
psychology, classical theory, and religion. His research interests
include the sociology of new religious movements, the social psychology
of influence and charisma, and the sociology of the life course. His
books include: The Joyful Community, Alienation and Charisma, and Misunderstanding Cults .
He is principal investigator of the Urban Communes Project, which has
been funded at various times over a 25 year period by the National
Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Templeton Foundation.
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Eviatar Zerubavel,
Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in cognitive sociology, sociology of time,
social memory, and sociological theory. His latest two books explored
the sociomental shape of the past and the social organization of
silence and denial. He is currently writing a book on the social
organization of ancestry and descent.
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