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Faculty List

Professors

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Ronald J. Angel

Professor

rangel@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6315  |  BUR 460

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Javier Auyero

Professor

auyero@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-8073  |  BUR 524

Education   

Ph.D., The New School for Social Research
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John S. Butler

Professor

john.butler@mccombs.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4788 (CBA)  |  CBA 6.424A, BUR 518

Education   

Ph. D. 1974, Northwestern University
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Robert Crosnoe

Professor of Sociology; Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts

crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6340 (BUR), 512-471-8329 (MAI)  |  BUR 576, MAI 1916

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford

Interests

  Human Development, Education, Family, Health, Immigration

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Sheldon Ekland-Olson

Professor

seo@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-5224 (BUR), 512-232-5879 (GEA)  |  BUR 556, GEA 115

Education   

Ph.D., University of Washington
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Jennifer Glass

Professor

jennifer-glass@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8855 (MAI), 512-232-8074 (BUR)  |  MAI 2708, BUR 544

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
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Mark D. Hayward

Director, PRC; Professor of Sociology & Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts

mhayward@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8382  |  MAI 2710

Education   

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

Interests

  Life course origins of health disparities, morbidity and mortality, biodemography

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John Higley

Research Professor

jhigley@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-7236  |  BAT 4.154

Education   

Ph.D., University of Connecticut
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Robert A. Hummer

Professor

rhummer@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8391  |  MAI 2714

Education   

Ph.D., Florida State University
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William R Kelly

Professor

wkelly@mail.la.utexas.edu  |  512-232-4142  |  BUR 528

Education   

Ph.D., Indiana University Bloominton
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Susan E Marshall

Professor

sem@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6318  |  BUR 514

Education   

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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John Mirowsky

Professor

mirowsky@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-7064  |  BUR 530

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University
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Chandra L. Muller

Professor

cmuller@soc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8377 (MAI), 512-232-6322 (BUR)  |  MAI 2320, BUR 584

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Marc A. Musick

Professor

musick@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4271 (GEB), 512-232-6326 (BUR)  |  GEB 2.200, BUR 548

Education   

Ph.D., Duke University
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Pamela Paxton

Professor

ppaxton@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6323  |  BUR 522

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Joseph E. Potter

Professor

joe@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8341 (MAI), 512-232-6339 (BUR)  |  MAI 1918, BUR 520

Education   

Ph.D., Princeton University
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Daniel A. Powers

Professor

dpowers@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6335  |  BUR 502

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Interests

  Demography, Infant Mortality, Fertility, Statistics and Methods

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Kelly Raley

Professor

kelly.raley@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8357 (MAI), 512-232-6333 (BUR)  |  MAI 2318, BUR 586

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Interests

  Demography, Family, Race and Ethnic Relations, Education, Work Occupations and Organizations, Gender

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Bryan R. Roberts

C.B.Smith Sr. Chair in US-Mexico Relations, Professor

brr@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6329  |  BUR 560

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Néstor P. Rodríguez

Professor

nrodriguez@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-5514 (MAI), 512-232-8072 (BUR)  |  MAI 1802, BUR 580

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
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Catherine E. Ross

Professor

cross@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8339 (MAI), 512-232-7064 (BUR)  |  MAI 1816, BUR 533

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University
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Arthur Sakamoto

Professor

asakamoto@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6338  |  BUR 458

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Debra J. Umberson

Professor

umberson@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8923 (MAI), 512-232-6330 (BUR)  |  MAI 2702, BUR 516

Education   

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Interests

  Gender, Relationships, Mental Health, Health Behavior, Social Determinants of Health, Stress

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Peter Ward

Professor, Dept of Sociology, C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations

peter.ward@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6319 (BUR), 512-471-6302 (SRH)  |  BUR 532, SRH 3.228

Education   

Ph.D., University of Liverpool

Interests

  Academic: Housing and Governance in Mexico and Latin America. Non academic: Opera & Longhorn Football.

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E. Mark Warr

Professor

mwarr@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6317  |  BUR 512

Education   

Ph.D., University of Arizona
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Christine L Williams

Department Chair, Professor

cwilliams@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6321  |  BUR 536B

Education   

Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley

Associate Professors

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Ari Adut

Associate Professor

ariadut@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-4284  |  BUR 468

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Cynthia Buckley

Associate Professor

cbuckley@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6337  |  Calhoun 411

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan
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Ben Carrington

Associate Professor

bcarrington@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6341  |  BUR 570

Education   

Ph.D., Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Interests

  Cultural Sociology; Sociology of Race; Sociology of Sport and Popular Culture; Masculinity and Gender; Cultural Studies; Post/colonial Theory; Qualitative Methodology

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Shannon E. Cavanagh

Associate Professor

scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8319 (MAI), 512-232-6327 (BUR)  |  MAI 2314, BUR 582

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Mounira Charrad

Associate Professor

charrad@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6311  |  BUR 504

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard

Interests

  Political Sociology; Social Theory; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Globalization and Development; Gender and Women's Rights; Middle East and North Africa.

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Gloria González-López

Associate Professor

gloria@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6343  |  BUR 464

Education   

Ph.D., University of Southern California
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David Kirk

Associate Professor

dkirk@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-0141  |  MAI 1912

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Mark Regnerus

Associate Professor

regnerus@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6307  |  BUR 572

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Mary Rose

Associate Professor

mrose@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6336  |  BUR 568

Education   

Ph.D., Duke University

Interests

  Juries and Jury Decision Making, Empirical Analysis of the Law, Social Psychology

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Sharmila Rudrappa

Associate Professor

rudrappa@mail.la.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6310  |  BUR 526

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Andres Villarreal

Associate Professor

avilla@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6309 (BUR), 512-471-8309 (MAI)  |  BUR 466, MAI 2414

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Alexander Weinreb

Associate Professor

aweinreb@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-0269 (BUR), 512-471-0437 (MAI)  |  BUR 476, MAI 2410

Education   

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests

  Africa, Judaism, historical sociology

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Michael P Young

Associate Professor

myoung@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6331  |  BUR 462

Education   

Ph.D., New York University
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Wei-Hsin Yu

Associate Professor

whyu@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-9204 (BUR), 512-471-8339 (MAI)  |  BUR 566, MAI 2412

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Assistant Professors

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Simone A. Browne

Assistant Professor

sbrowne@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-5975  |  BUR 506

Education   

Ph.D., Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto
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Leticia Marteleto

Assistant Professor

marteleto@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8302 (MAI), 512-232-6316 (BUR)  |  MAI 2416, BUR 562

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan
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Keith Robinson

Assistant Professor

keith@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-475-8641 (MAI), 512-471-8399 (BUR)  |  MAI 2310, BUR 472

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan
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Robert D. Woodberry

Assistant Professor

bobwood@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6308  |  BUR 578

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Senior Lecturers

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Penny A Green

Senior Lecturer

pennygreen@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6306  |  BUR 540

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Classical Sociological and Modern Evolutionary Theory, Globalization, Widening Income Inequality

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Hossein Haghshenas

Senior Lecturer

mehdiha@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-8064  |  BUR 539

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Lecturers

Matthew Flynn

Lecturer

mbf239@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-6337  |  BUR 510

Kelly Fulton

Lecturer

kgfulton@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4825  |  BUR 486

Education   

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
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Kristine Hopkins

Research Assistant Professor (Affiliated)

khopkins@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8313  |  MAI 1920

Education   

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Janice R Hullum

Lecturer

jrhullum@gmail.com  |  512-471-4825  |  BUR 486

Education   

Ph.D. in sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Jiwon Jeon

Lecturer

JiwonJeon@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4825  |  BUR 486

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Scott Swearingen

Lecturer

swear@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4825  |  BUR 486

Anthony J Vigorito

Lecturer

anthony.vigorito@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4825  |  BUR 486

Other faculty

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Wenhong Chen

Assistant Professor, Radio-Televion-Film, College of Communication (Affiliated)

wenhong_chen@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4952  |  CMA 6.136

Education   

Ph.D., University of Toronto
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Toni Falbo

Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education (Affiliated)

toni@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-0603  |  MAI 1910

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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Kristine Hopkins

Research Assistant Professor (Affiliated)

khopkins@prc.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8313  |  MAI 1920

Education   

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
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Catherine Riegle-Crumb

Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education (Affiliated)

riegle@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-475-8642  |  MAI 2312

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Professors Emeriti

Harley L Browning

Professor Emeritus

harleybwaldib@yahoo.com

Education   

Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley

Walter I Firey Jr

Professor Emeritus

fireyma@aol.com

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard
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W. Parker Frisbie

Professor Emeritus

frisbie@prc.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Omer R. Galle

Professor Emeritus

org@prc.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Samuel D Mclemore

Professor Emeritus

Education   

Ph.D., Yale
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Thomas Pullum

Professor Emeritus; Director of Research, MEASURE DHS Project, ICF Macro

tpullum@icfi.com  |  301-572-0220 (Office), 301-572-0999 (Fax), 512-751-1176 (Cell)  |  11785 Beltsville Drive, Calverton, MD 20705

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago
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Gideon A Sjoberg

Professor Emeritus

gsjoberg@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Washington State
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Teresa A Sullivan

Professor Emeritus

tas6n@virginia.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Antonio Ugalde

Professor Emeritus

augalde@mail.la.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford
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