Faculty - WSU Sociology Department

FACULTY

Our faculty pursue research into a variety of timely social issues. Faculty members bring to this research a mix of theoretical and analytic perspectives and maintain strength in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Among the areas of faculty strength are gender studies; social inequality; crime, law, and deviance; political sociology; work and labor markets; social movements; sociology of the family and life course; environmental sociology; and sociology of communities.

Graduate Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Emeritus Faculty

Graduate Faculty
Name	Areas of Interest	Email
Michael Allen	Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Organizational Sociology	allenm@wsu.edu
Irenee Beattie	Education, Racial/Ethnic and Gender Inequality, Adolescence, Law	ibeattie@wsu.edu
Steve Burkett	Deviant Behavior, Criminology and Delinquency, Alcohol and Drugs	sburkett@wsu.edu
Lisa Catanzarite	Social Inequality, Labor Markets & Work, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration	lcatanzarite@wsu.edu
Don Dillman	Survey Methodology, Community, Rural Sociology and the Diffusion of Technologies	dillman@wsu.edu
Scott Frickel	Sociology of Knowledge, Environmental Sociology, Science and Technology, Social Movements, Organizations	frickel@wsu.edu
Elizabeth Fussell	International Migration, Demography, Sociology of Youth, Sociology of Families, and Statistics/Methodology	fussell@wsu.edu
Greg Hooks	Economy and Society, Political Sociology, Social Organization	ghooks@wsu.edu
Christine Horne	Social Norms, Theory, Group Processes	chorne@wsu.edu
Daniel Jaffee	Environmental Sociology, Globalization; Development; Food and Agriculture; Rural Sociology; Political Economy; Social Movements	jaffee@wsu.edu
Monica Johnson	Work and Family, Education, Life Course, Social Psychology, Gender	monicakj@wsu.edu
Julie Kmec	Gender & Race/Ethnic Labor Market Inequality, Work Organizations, Workplace Diversity, Social Stratification	jkmec@wsu.edu
Kim Lloyd	Race/Ethnicity, Inequality, Family Formation/the Life Course, Education, Social Demography	kimlloyd@wsu.edu
Alair MacLean	Aging, Life Course, Military, Social Stratification	maclean@vancouver.wsu.edu
Lisa McIntyre	Law, Qualitative Methods, Teaching Sociology	ljmcint@wsu.edu
Clay Mosher	Criminology and Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, Law and Society	cmosher@wsu.edu
Christine Oakley	Communities, Medical Sociology, Applied Sociology	coakley@wsu.edu
Hiromi Ono	Family Demography, Social Stratification, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Crossnational Comparisons	ono@wsu.edu
Eugene Rosa	Environmental Sociology, Risk, Technology	rosa@wsu.edu
Thomas Rotolo	Quantitative Methods, Organizations, Voluntary Associations	rotolo@wsu.edu
Jennifer Schwartz	Criminology, Stratification, Communities/Urban Sociology	schwartj@wsu.edu
Nella Van Dyke	Political Sociology/Social Movements, Hate Crime, Gender and Sexuality	nvandyke@wsu.edu
Amy Wharton	Gender, Stratification and Work, Organizations	wharton@wsu.edu

Affiliated Faculty
Name	Areas of Interest	Email
Jessica Goldberger	Sociology of Agriculture, Rural Sociology, Communities, International Development	jgoldberger@wsu.edu
Ray Jussaume	International Development, Communities, Political Sociology	rajussaume@wsu.edu
Annabel Kirschner	Demography, Communities, Rural Sociology	kirschner@wsu.edu
Travis Pratt	Criminological Theory, Correctional Policy	tcpratt@wsu.edu
David Sonnenfeld	Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Development (SE Asia), Political Sociology	sonn@wsu.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Name	Areas of Interest	Email
Lee Freese	Human Ecology, Theory, Social Psychology
Louis Gray	Social Psychology, Small Groups, Quantitative Methods	grayln@wsu.edu
Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman	Family, Sex and Gender, Socialization	marilynit@comcast.net
Armand Mauss	Sociology of Religion, Social Movements, Social Problems	almauss@cox.net
Jim Short	Criminology and Delinquency, Sociology of Risk	short@wsu.edu
Irving Tallman	Small Groups, Political Sociology, Social Psychology, Social Theory	itallman@comcast.net

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