Core Faculty
Ari Adut
Associate Professor
ariadut@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4284 |
RLP 3.518
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Javier Auyero
Professor, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professorship #3
auyero@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8073 |
RLP 3.624
Education: Ph.D., The New School for Social Research
Interests: Political ethnography, urban politics, environmental sociology
Sarah Brayne, PhD
Assistant Professor
sbrayne@utexas.edu |
512-475-8641 |
RLP 2.408J
Education: PhD, Princeton University
John S. Butler, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology; Faculty Director, Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs
john.butler@mccombs.utexas.edu |
512-232-6328 |
RLP 3.606
Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University
Shannon E. Cavanagh
Professor
scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8319 |
RLP 2.708A
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mounira M. Charrad
Associate Professor
charrad@utexas.edu |
512-232-6311 |
RLP 3.526
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Gender & Women's Rights; Political Sociology; Social Theory; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Globalization; Middle East and North Africa.
Jacob Cheadle
Professor
j.e.cheadle@utmail.utexas.edu |
512-232-7064 |
RLP 2.622F
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Ambulatory Research, Social Networks, Biosociology/Biodemography, Race/Ethnic Health Disparities, Quantitative Methods, Social Neuroscience
Diane Coffey
Assistant Professor
coffey@utexas.edu |
512-232-6915 |
RLP 2.620D
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Jordan Conwell
Assistant Professor
jconwell@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.408F
Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University
Interests: Education; Income and Wealth; Inequality; Race, Class, and Gender
Robert Crosnoe
Associate Dean of Research, College of Liberal Arts; Rapoport Centennial Professor, Department of Sociology
crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7202 (COLA), 512-471-8329 (PRC) |
GEB 3.212 (COLA), RLP 2.406F (PRC)
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Human Development, Education, Family, Health, Immigration
Daniel Fridman
Associate Professor
dfridman@utexas.edu |
512-232-4811 |
RLP 3.634
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Economic Sociology; Ethnography; Sociology of Finance; Neoliberalism; Markets and Consumption; Sociology of Money; Latin America.
Lauren Gaydosh
Assistant Professor
lauren.gaydosh@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Health Disparities, Biosociology/Biodemography, Inequality/Stratification, Family, Life Course
Jennifer Glass
Professor, Centennial Commission Professorship in the Liberal Arts #4
jennifer-glass@utexas.edu |
512-471-8355 |
RLP 2.702F
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: work and family issues, gender stratification, telecommuting and new labor practices, diversity issues in the STEM labor force, religious ideology and women's economic attainment
Gloria González-López, PhD
Professor, C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations
gloria@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6343 |
RLP 3.504
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Bridget Goosby
Professor
bgoosby@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-9863 |
RLP 2.622H
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Health Disparities, Race and Ethnicity, Biosociology/Biodemography, Poverty/Inequality, Life Course
Chantal Hailey
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: race and ethnicity, stratification, urban sociology, education, and criminology
Mark D. Hayward
Professor, Centennial Commission Professorship in Liberal Arts #1
mhayward@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8382 |
RLP 2.622E
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Interests: Life course origins of health disparities, morbidity and mortality, biodemography
William R Kelly, PhD
Professor
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4142 |
RLP 3.512
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Interests: Criminal Justice Reform
Ken-Hou Lin
Associate Professor
lin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9412 |
RLP 2.408C
Education: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
Interests: Inequality, Economy and Society, Finance, Organization, Race, and Methods.
Leticia Marteleto
Professor
marteleto@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8302 |
RLP 2.406C
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: social demography
Chandra L. Muller
Professor, Alma Cowden Madden Centennial Professorship, Ashbel Smith Professorship
cmuller@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8377 |
RLP 2.408G
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Marc A. Musick
Professor, Director
musick@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3458 |
RLP 2.104
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Pamela Paxton
Professor, Department Chair, Linda K. George and John Wilson Professorship
ppaxton@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-3255 (Chair's Office), 512-232-6323 |
RLP 3.722 (Chair's Office), RLP 3.738
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Becky Pettit
Professor, Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professorship of Liberal Arts
bpettit@utexas.edu |
512-471-9850 |
RLP 2.622C
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Labor Markets, Research Methods
Daniel A. Powers
Professor
dpowers@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6335 |
RLP 2.622J
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: Demography, Infant Mortality, Fertility, Statistics and Methods
Tetyana Pudrovska
Associate Professor
tpudrovs@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 2.622D
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: Population Health Disparities, Gender and Health, Work and Health, Biopsychosocial Stress, Biodemography, Aging
Kelly Raley
Professor, Christie and Stanley E. Adams, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Liberal Arts
kelly.raley@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-6333 |
RLP 2.702E
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: Demography, Family, Race and Ethnic Relations, Education, Work Occupations and Organizations, Gender
Robert L. Reece
Assistant Professor
robert.l.reece@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.736
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Interests: race; colorism; slavery; fatness and weight stigma
Mark Regnerus
Professor
regnerus@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-6307 |
RLP 3.524
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Néstor P. Rodríguez
Professor
nrodriguez@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8072 |
RLP 3.528
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Mary Rose
Professor
mrose@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6336 |
RLP 3.630
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Interests: Juries and Jury Decision Making, Empirical Analysis of the Law, Social Psychology
Sharmila Rudrappa
Director, South Asia Institute
rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6310 |
RLP 3.614
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Harel Shapira
Associate Professor
hshapira@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8075 |
RLP 3.636
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Assistant Professor
msa@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.306
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Policing, Culture, Violence, Firearms, Violence Prevention
Debra J. Umberson
Professor, Centennial Commission Professorship in Liberal Arts #1
umberson@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-6330 |
RLP 2.708B
Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Interests: Health Disparities, Aging & the Life Course, Gender and Sexuality, Social Relationships and Loss, Blended Methods
Alexander Weinreb
Professor
aweinreb@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-6319 |
RLP 3.730
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Social and political demography, data collection methods
Abigail Weitzman
Assistant Professor
aweitzman@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.622G
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Kari White
Associate Professor
klwhite@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-1791 |
SSW 3.106D
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Christine L. Williams
Professor, Elsie & Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr., Centennial Professorship in Liberal Arts
cwilliams@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6321 |
RLP 3.608
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: gender, sexuality, workplace inequality, qualitative research methods, theory
Michael P Young, PhD
Professor
myoung@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6331 |
RLP 3.514
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Associate Professors of Instruction
Mehdi Haghshenas
Associate Professor of Instruction
mehdiha@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8064 |
RLP 3.604
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professors of Instruction and Lecturers
Christina Caramanis
Lecturer
christina.caramanis@utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Jamie M. Carroll
Lecturer
jmcarroll@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.408K
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Kelly Fulton, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
kgfulton@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP 3.612
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Stephanie Osbakken, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
osbakken@utexas.edu |
512-232-6338 |
RLP 3.506
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Lynette Osborne, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
LOsborne@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.628
Education: Ph.D., Purdue University
Interests: Gender, Education, Women/Minorities in STEM, Deviance, Research Methods/Statistics, Evaluation Research
Nina Palmo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
npalmo@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.626B
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Scott Swearingen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
swear@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1533 |
RLP 3.516
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Erica Salinas Thomas
Postdoctoral Fellow
esthomas@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.626B
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Affiliated Faculty
Jacqueline L. Angel
Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs (Affiliated)
jangel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-2956 |
SRH 3.217
Education: Ph.D., Rutgers University
Simone Browne
(on leave)
Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (Affiliated)
Education: Ph.D., Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Wenhong Chen
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication (Affiliated)
wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4952 |
CMA 5.142
Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto
Toni Falbo
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education (Affiliated)
toni@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8020 |
RLP 2.622F, SZB 506Q
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Gershoff
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences; PRC Director (Affiliated)
liz.gershoff@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0018 |
SEA 2.456; RLP 2.406E
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Yasmiyn Irizarry
Assistant Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (Affiliated)
Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dhiraj Murthy
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication (Affiliated)
dhiraj.murthy@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1845 |
DMC 3.338
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Catherine Riegle-Crumb
Associate 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
Stephen Russell
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences (Affiliated)
stephen.russell@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.444
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Lauren Schudde
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy, College of Education (Affiliated)
Education: Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eric Tang, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (Affiliated)
erictang@utexas.edu |
BLS 3.136
Education: Ph.D., American Studies, New York University
Kevin J.A. Thomas
Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (Affiliated)
kjthomas@austin.utexas.edu |
GWB 3.116
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Paul von Hippel
Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs (Affiliated)
paulvonhippel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-537-8112 |
SRH 3.251
Education: Ph.D., Ohio State University
S. Craig Watkins, PhD
Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication; Director, Institute for Digital Media Innovation; Director, IC2 (Affiliated)
craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6676 |
CMA 6.118
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Emeritus Faculty
Ronald J. Angel
Professor Emeritus
rangel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6315 |
RLP 3.530
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sheldon Ekland-Olson, PhD
Professor Emeritus
seo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5879 (GEA), 512-232-6341 (RLP) |
GEA 115, RLP 3.734
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
John Mirowsky
Professor Emeritus
mirowsky@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-7064 |
RLP 2.622G
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Joseph E. Potter
Professor Emeritus
joe@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8341 |
RLP 2.620C
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Thomas Pullum, PhD
Professor Emeritus; Director of Research, The Demographic and Health Surveys Program, ICF International
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Catherine E. Ross
Professor Emeritus
cross@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-7064 |
RLP 2.622G
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Peter Ward
Professor Emeritus, C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations
peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6302 |
SRH 3.229
Education: Ph.D., University of Liverpool
Interests: Academic: Housing and Governance in Mexico and Latin America. Non academic: Opera & Longhorn Football.
E. Mark Warr, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Crime, Delinquency, Deviance.
