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Listed below are tenure-track and multi-year faculty members of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences by department affiliation. Links on an individual’s name will bring you to a recent profile or news item. Also, see the faculty archives, for additional stories, or use the search function built into this site, above.

Anthropology | Communication | Economics | Journalism | Labor Studies
Legal Studies | Neuroscience and Behavior | Political Science | Psychology
Public Policy and Administration
| Social Thought and Political Economy | Sociology

Anthropology

Elizabeth S. Chilton, Associate Professor and Chair of Department
B.A., SUNY Albany, 1985; M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1991; Ph.D., 1996

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Assistant Professor
B.A., Virginia State, 1994; MA, William and Mary, 2001; Ph.D., Texas Austin, 2004

Seamus A Decker, Assistant Professor
B.A., Missouri, 1991; M.A., 1993; Ph.D., Emory, 2001

Ralph Faulkingham, Professor
B.A., Wheaton, 1965; M.A., Michigan State, 1969; Ph.D., 1970

Jean S. Forward, Lecturer
B.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1971; M.A.T., 1974; Ph.D., 1986

Laurie R. Godfrey, Professor
B.A., Tufts, 1967; M.A., Harvard, 1969; Ph.D., 1977

Krista M. Harper, Assistant Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley, 1992; M.A., UC Santa Cruz, 1994; Ph.D., 1999

Julie Hemment, Associate Professor
B.A., Cambridge, England, 1990; M.A., Cornell, 1997; Ph.D., 2000

Brigitte Holt, Assistant Professor
B.A., Southern Illinois Carbondale, 1984; M.A., 1987; PhD, Missouri Columbia, 1999

Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor
B.A., Grinnell, 1998, M.A. Texas Austin, 2000; Ph.D., 2004

Eric S. Johnson, Visiting Lecturer
B.A., Duke, 1978; M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1981; Ph.D. 1993

Arthur S. Keene, Terrance Murray Commonwealth College Honors Professor
B.A., Wisconsin Madison, 1973; M.A., Michigan, 1974; Ph.D., 1979

Elizabeth Krause, Associate Professor
B.J., Missouri Columbia, 1984; M.A., Oregon State, 1992; Ph.D., Arizona, 1999

Mitchell T. Mulholland, Principal Investigator, Archaeology
B.A., Connecticut , 1972; M.A., and Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 1984

Enoch H. Page, Associate Professor
B.A., Washington St. Louis, 1973; M.A., 1975; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1984

Robert W. Paynter, Professor
B.A., Brown, 1971; M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1975; Ph.D., 1981

Ventura Perez, Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Iowa, 1997; M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 2000; Ph.D., 2005

Oriol Pi-Sunyer, Professor
B.Sc., London, 1951; B.A., Mexico City College, 1954; M.A., Harvard, 1957; Ph.D., 1962

David Samuels, Associate Professor
B.A., Wesleyan, 1979; M.A., NYU, 1984; M.A., Texas Austin, 1992; Ph.D., 1998

Lynnette Leidy-Sievert, Associate Professor
B.S.N., Bloomsburg, 1983; M.A., SUNY Albany, 1987; Ph.D., 1991

Michael O. Sugerman, Assistant Professor
B.A., Brown, 1987; Ph.D., Harvard, 2000

Jacqueline Urla, Associate Professor
B.A., Michigan, 1978; M.A., UC Berkeley, 1980; Ph.D., 1987

Richard Wikander, Lecturer and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Advising
B.A., CUNY Queens, 1978; B.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1982; M.A., 1984; Ph.D., 1991

H. Martin Wobst, Professor
B.A., Michigan, 1966; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1971

Communication

Jan Servaes, Professor and Chair of the Department
B.A., Louvain, Belgium, 1973; M.A., 1975; Ph.D., 1987

Benamin H. Bailey, Associate Professor
B.A., Brown, 1987; M.A., UCLA, 1996; Ph.D., 1999

Donal Carbaugh, Professor
B.S., Manchester, 1977; M.A., Montana, 1980; Ph.D., Washington, 1984

Mari Castañeda, Associate Professor
B.A., UCLA, 1993; Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2000

Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor
B.A., McGill, 1991; M.A., Wisconsin Madison, 1995; Ph.D., 1999

Briankle G. Chang, Associate Professor
B.A., Fu Jen Catholic University; M.A., Alabama, 1978; M.A., Illinois, 1981; Ph.D., 1990

Anne T. Ciecko, Associate Professor
B.A., LaSalle, 1986; M.A., Pennsylvania State, 1988; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1997

Leda M. Cooks, Professor
B.S., Miami, 1986; M.A., Ohio, 1990; Ph.D., 1993

Vernon E. Cronen, Professor
B.A., Ripon, 1963; M.A., Illinois, 1968; Ph.D., 1970

Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Assistant Professor
B.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1992; M.A., SUNY-Buffalo, 2000; Ph.D., Texas, 2007

Henry Geddes, Associate Professor
B.A., Oberlin, 1978; Ph.D., Texas Austin, 1989

Bruce Geisler, Senior Lecturer
B.A., Pomona, 1978; M.F.A., USC, 1983

Jarice Hanson, Professor
B.A., Northeastern, 1976; M.A., Northwestern, 1977; Ph.D., 1979

Lisa Henderson, Associate Professor
B.A., Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 1980; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1983; Ph.D., 1990

Sut Jhally, Professor
B.A., York, 1977; M.A., 1978; M.A., Victoria, 1980; Ph.D., Simon Fraser, 1984

Claudio Moreira, Assistant Professor
B.S., Universidade Estadual de Campinas-Brazil; M.S., Illinois, 2002; Ph.D., 2007

Michael J. Morgan, Professor
B.A., New College, 1974; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1977; Ph.D., 1980

Martin F. Norden, Professor
B.J., Missouri, 1973; M.A., 1974; Ph.D., 1977

Stephen Olbrys Gencarella, Assistant Professor
B.A., Providence, 1993; M.A., Tufts, 1995; Ph.D., Indiana, 2003

Erica L. Scharrer, Associate Professor
B.A., SUNY Geneseo, 1992; M.A., Syracuse, 1995; Ph.D., 1998

Demetria Shabazz, Assistant Professor
B.A., Houston, 1995; M.A., Alabama, 2000; Ph.D., 2005

Shawn C. Shimpach, Assistant Professor
B.A., Brandeis, 1993; M.A., NYU, 1996; Ph.D., 2004

Emily West, Assistant Professor
B.A.Sc., McMaster, 1997; M.A., Pennsylvania, 2000; Ph.D., 2004

Economics

Diane P. Flaherty, Professor and Chair of Department
B.A., Barnard, 1968; M.A., New York, 1974; Ph.D., 1978

Michael Ash, Assistant Professor
A.B., Princeton, 1991; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1999

M.V. Lee Badgett, Professor
B.A., Chicago, 1982; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1990

Randall S. Bausor, Professor
B.A., Centre College of Kentucky, 1972; M.A., Duke, 1975; Ph.D., 1978

James K. Boyce, Professor
B.A., Yale, 1973; Ph.D., Oxford, 1985

Andrew F. Brimmer, Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Economics
B.A., Washington, 1950; M.A., 1951; Ph.D., Harvard, 1957

James R. Crotty, Professor Emiritus and Sheridan Scholar
B.S., Fordham, 1961; M.S., Carnegie-Mellon, 1963; Ph.D., 1973

Gerald Epstein, Professor
B.A., Swarthmore, 1973; M.P.P., Princeton: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1975; Ph.D., Princeton, 1981

Nancy Folbre, Professor
B.A., Texas, 1971; M.A., 1973; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 1979

Gerald Friedman, Professor
B.A., Columbia, 1977; M.A., Harvard, 1983; Ph.D., 1985

Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, Assistant Professor
B.A., City College of New York, 1989; M.A., UC Riverside, 1991; Ph.D., 1997

Carol E. Heim, Professor
B.A., Yale, 1976; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., 1982

Donald W. Katzner, Professor
B.A., Oberlin, 1959; M.A., Minnesota, 1962; Ph.D., 1965

David M. Kotz, Professor
A.B., Harvard, 1965; M.A., Yale, 1966; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1975

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Assistant Professor
A.B., Chicago, 2000; Ph.D., Cornell, 2008

Woojin Lee, Associate Professor
B.A., Seoul National University, Korea, 1987; Ph.D., UC Davis, 1997

Robert Pollin, Professor
B.A., Wisconsin Madison, 1972; M.A., New School for Social Research, 1979; Ph.D., 1982

J. Mohan Rao, Professor
B.Com., Bombay, 1972; M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, 1974; Ph.D., Harvard, 1982

Arslan Razmi, Assistant Professor
B.S., University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, 1995; M.S., Texas Austin, 1997; Ph.D., American, 2004

Stephen A. Resnick, Professor
B.S., Pennsylvania, 1960; Ph.D., MIT, 1964

Lisa Saunders, Associate Professor
B.S., Old Dominion, 1979; Ph.D., California Berkeley, 1987

Peter Skott, Professor
Aarhus, Denmark, Cand. Scient. Oecon, 1981

Richard D. Wolff, Professor
B.A., Harvard, 1963; M.A., Stanford, 1964; M.A., Yale, 1967; Ph.D., 1969

Journalism

Karen K. List, Professor and Program Director
B.A., Missouri, 1970; M.A., Pennsylvania State, 1973, 1974; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1980

Madeleine H. Blais, Professor
B.A., New Rochelle, 1969; M.S., Columbia, 1970

Stephen J. Fox, Lecturer
B.A., Arizona State; M.A., American University, 1998

Nicholas McBride, Associate Professor
B.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1976; M.S., Columbia, 1986; M.A., Harvard, 1989

David Perkins, Lecturer
M.A., Oxford University, 1979

Barbara J. Roche, Lecturer
B.A., University of Massachusetts, 1978

Norman H. Sims, Professor
B.S., Illinois, 1971; M.A., 1974; Ph.D., 1979

Ralph W. Whitehead, Jr., Professor
B.A., Lawrence, 1965; M.A., Wisconsin, 1967

Labor Studies

Eve S. Weinbaum, Associate Professor and Director
B.A., Yale, 1985; M.P.A., Princeton, 1988; M.A., Yale, 1990; M.Phil., 1992; Ph.D., 1997

Harris Freeman, Assistant Visiting Professor
B.A., Florida, 1974; J.D., Western New England College, 1993

Tom Juravich, Professor
B.A., SUNY Albany, 1975; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., UMass Amherst 1984

Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor
B.A., UC Davis, 1988; M.S., Wisconsin, 1992; Ph.D., 1999

Legal Studies

Janet M. Rifkin, Acting Chair, Professor and Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
B.A., Sarah Lawrence, 1969; J.D., NYU, 1972

Stephen Arons, Professor
B.A., Pennsylvania, 1965; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1969

Judd Carhart, Lecturer
B.A., Massachusetts Amherst; 1971; J.D., Suffolk, 1974

Alan C. Gaitenby, Lecturer
B.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1987; M.B.A., 1989; Ph.D., 2000

Christine Harrington, Lecturer
B.A., Mexico-Albuquerque, 1974; M.A. Wisconsin-Madison, 1976 Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1982

Judith Holmes, Lecturer
B.A., Chicago, 1972; J.D., Catholic, 1976; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 1996

Iza Hussin, Assistant Professor
A.B., A.M., Harvard, 2000; Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007.

Ethan Katsh, Professor
B.A., NYU, 1967; J.D., Yale, 1970

Jerrold S. Levinsky, Lecturer
B.A., Rutgers, 1978; M.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1982; J.D., Western New England, 1985

David Mednicoff
A.B., Princeton, 1982; A.M., Harvard, 1988; J.D., Harvard, 1989; Ph.D., Harvard, 2007

Monica Perez, Lecturer
B.A., American International, 1981; J.D., Western New England, 1988

Nina Siulc, Assistant Professor
B.A. Bard; MA, M.Phil, Ph.D., NYU (expected in 2008)

Diana Yoon, Assistant Professor
B.A. UC, Berkeley, 1999; Ph.D., NYU (expected in September 2008)

Leah Wing, Lecturer
B.A., Oberlin, 1984; M.Ed., Massachusetts Amherst, 1991; Ed.D., 2002

Neuroscience and Behavior

Nancy G. Forger, Professor of Psychology and Acting Program Director

Political Science

John A. Hird, Professor and Chair of Department
B.A., Dickinson, 1980; M.A., Virginia, 1982; M.P.P., 1986; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1988

Sonia Alvarez, Professor and Director of Latin American Studies
Ph.D., Yale University, 1986

John Brigham, Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley, 1967; M.A., Wisconsin, 1970; Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 1974

Brenda K. Bushouse, Assistant Professor
B.A., Kalamazoo, 1988; M.P.A., Syracuse: Maxwell School of Citizenship, 1992; Ph.D., Indiana, 1998

Barbara R. Cruikshank, Associate Professor
B.S., UC Berkeley, 1984; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1993

Carlene Edie, Professor,
B.A., UCLA, 1977; M.A., 1979; Ph.D., 1984.

Eric S. Einhorn, Professor
B.A., Pennsylvania, 1965; M.A., Harvard, 1968; Ph.D., 1972

Jane Fountain, Professor
BMus, Boston Conservatory of Music; Ed.M., Harvard, 1982; M.A., Yale, 1986, 1987;  M.Phil., 1988; Ph.D., 1990

Sheldon Goldman, Professor
B.A., NYU, 1961; M.A., Harvard, 1964; Ph.D., 1965

Peter M. Haas, Professor
B.A., Michigan, 1977; Ph.D., MIT, 1986

Laura S. Jensen, Associate Professor
B.A., Wellesley, 1977; M.F.A., Princeton, 1979; M.P.A., Connecticut, 1991; Ph.D., 1996

Raymond J. La Raja, Assistant Professor
A.B., Harvard, 1987; M.P.P., 1992; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2001

Vincent G. Moscardelli, Assistant Professor
A.B., Georgia, 1991; M.A., Emory, 1997; Ph.D., 1999

M.J. Peterson, Professor
B.A., Upsala, 1971; M.A., Columbia, 1973; Ph.D., 1976

Roberto Alejandro Rivera, Professor
B.A., Puerto Rico, 1977; M.A., Princeton, 1986; Ph.D., 1989

Dean Robinson, Associate Professor
A.B., Stanford, 1988; M.A., M. Phil., Yale, 1991; Ph.D., 1995

Srirupa Roy, Assistant Professor
B.A., Dartmouth, 1992; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1999

Jeffrey L. Sedgwick, Associate Professor
A.B., Kenyon, 1973; M.A.P.A., Virginia, 1975; Ph.D., 1978

Stephen B. Watts, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Cornell 2006

Nicholas Xenos, Professor
B.A., NYU, 1972; M.A., Michigan, 1974; Ph.D., Princeton, 1984

Psychology

Melinda A. Novak, Professor and Chair of Department
B.A., Connecticut, 1967; M.A., Wisconsin, 1971; Ph.D., 1973

Icek Ajzen, Professor
B.A., Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1967; M.A., Illinois, 1967; Ph.D., 1969

Daniel Anderson, Professor
B.S., Wisconsin, 1966; M.A., Brown, 1968; Ph.D., 1971

David Arnold, Professor
B.A., Dartmouth, 1987; M.A., SUNY Stony Brook; Ph.D., 1993

Neil Berthier, Professor
B.S., Virginia Tech, 1975; M.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1978; Ph.D., 1981

John Bickford, Lecturer   
B.A., Salem State, 1996; M.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1999; Ph.D., 2003

Elliott M. Blass, Professor
B.S., Brooklyn, 1963; M.S., Connecticut, 1964; Ph.D., Virginia, 1964

Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Professor
B.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1973; M.S., 1975; Ph.D., 1977

Richard S. Bogartz, Professor
B.A., UCLA, 1957; Ph.D., 1961

David Butz, Lecturer
B.A., Pennsylvania State University 2002; M.S. Florida State University, 2004; Ph.D., Florida State University, 2007

Carolyn Cave, Lecturer  
B.A., Missouri, 1981; Ph.D., Harvard

Kyle R. Cave, Professor
B.A., Harvard, 1983; Ph.D., MIT, 1989

Erik Cheries, Assistant Professor
B.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1998; M.Phil, Yale, 2004; M.S., 2005; Ph.D., 2007

Andrew L. Cohen, Assistant Professor
B.A., Stanford, 1993; M.Sc., Texas A&M, 1996; Ph.D., Indiana, 2002

Michael J. Constantino, Assistant Professor,
B.A., SUNY Buffalo, 1995; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 2002.

Nilanjana Dasgupta, Professor
A.B., Smith, 1992; M.S., Yale, 1994; M.Phil., 1996; Ph.D., 1998

Matthew C. Davidson, Assistant Professor
B.Sc, University of Lethbridge, 1991; Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1998

Geert J. De Vries, Professor
Kandidaats, Free University Amsterdam, 1976; Doktoraal, 1980; Ph.D., 1985

Robert S. Feldman, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
B.A., Wesleyan, 1970; M.S., Wisconsin, 1972; Ph.D., 1974

Nancy Forger, Professor
B.A., Dartmouth, 1981; M.A., UC Berkeley, 1984; Ph.D., 1986

Lucille F. Halgin, Lecturer
B.A., Bellarmine, 1970; M.A., Fordham, 1972; Ph.D., 1975

Richard Halgin, Professor
B.A., Mt. St. Paul, 1970; M.A., Fordham, 1972; Ph.D., 1975

Elizabeth A. Harvey, Associate Professor
B.A., Dartmouth, 1990; M.A., SUNY at Stonybrook, 1993; Ph.D., 1995

Unja L. Hayes, Assistant Professor
B.A., Dartmouth; Ph.D., USC, Los Angeles, 2002

Linda Isbell, Associate Professor
B.A., SUNY Stonybrook, 1993; Ph.D., Illinois, 1999

Elizabeth Jakob, Professor
B.S., Cornell, 1983; Ph.D., UC Davis, 1989

Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Professor
B.A., Smith, 1973; M.A., Northwestern, 1976; Ph.D., 1977

Elizabeth Kohler, Lecturer
B.S., Virginia Tech, 1974; M.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1976; Ph.D., 1979

Agnès Lacreuse, Assistant Professor   
M.A., Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 1994; Ph.D., 1994

Brian Lickel, Assistant Professor 
B.A., Beloit , 1990; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 2000

Marian MacDonald, Professor
B.A., Auburn, 1969; M.A., Illinois Urbana, 1972; Ph.D., 1974

Jerrold S. Meyer, Professor
B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968; M.S., Wisconsin, 1971; Ph.D., 1974

Christopher E. Overtree, Lecturer and Director of the Psychological Services Center
A.B., Princeton, 1996; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2003

Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Professor
B.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 1981; M.S., Pennsylvania State, 1986; Ph.D., 1988

Paula Pietromonaco, Professor
B.A., UCLA, 1975; Ph.D., Michigan, 1983

Sally Powers, Professor
B.A., Occidental, 1975; M.Ed., Harvard, 1976; Ed.D., 1982

Tamara A. Rahhal, Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor
B.A., Oklahoma, 1989; M.A., Southern Methodist, 1992; M.A., Duke, 1996; Ph.D., 1998

Rebecca E. Ready, Assistant Professor
B.A., Northwestern, 1995; Ph.D., Iowa, 2001

Heather Richardson, Assistant Professor 
B.A., Western Maryland/McDaniel , 1992; M.S., Villanova, 1996;  Ph.D., Purdue, 2002

Caren Rotello, Professor
B.S., Michigan, 1989; Ph.D., Stanford, 1993

Lisa D. Sanders, Assistant Professor
B.A., Rice, 1995; M.S., Oregon, 1997; PhD with certificate in Neuroscience, Oregon, 2001

Aline G. Sayer, Lecturer
B.A., Temple, 1970; Ed.D., Harvard, 1992

David Scherer, Professor
B.S., Pennsylvania State, 1977; M.Ed., Virginia, 1987; Ph.D., 1989

Lisa Scott,  Assistant Professor
B.A., Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1999; Ph.D.,  2004

Rebecca Spencer, Assistant Professor 
B.A., Hope, 1997; Ph.D., Purdue, 2002

Adrian Staub, Assistant Professor 
B.A., Harvard, 1992; M.A., Pittsburgh, 2002; M.S., Massachusetts Amherst, 2006; Ph.D., 2008

Linda Tropp, Associate Professor
B.A., Wellesley, 1992; M.Sc., California, Santa Cruz, 1996; Ph.D., 2000

George N. Wade, Professor
B.A., Pennsylvania State, 1967; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1970

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Professor
B.A., SUNY Buffalo, 1970; Ph.D., Columbia, 1974

Public Policy and Administration

M.V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics and Program Director

Social Thought and Political Economy

Sara Lennox, Professor and Director of the Program
B.A., DePauw, 1965; MA, Wisconsin, Madison, 1966; PhD, 1973

The interdisciplinary faculty for STPEC, which varies from semester to semester, is drawn mostly from the Five Colleges.

Sociology

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Professor and Chair of Department
B.A., Fordham, 1979; Ph.D., Boston, 1984

Douglas L. Anderton, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
B.S., Utah, 1973; M.S., 1975; Ph.D., 1983

Enobong H. Branch, Assistant Professor
B.S., Howard, 2002; Ph.D, SUNY Albany, 2007

Michelle J. Budig, Associate Professor
B.A., Augsburg, 1993; M.A., Arizona, 1996; Ph.D., 2001

Roland J. Chilton, Professor Emeritus
B.A., Monmouth, 1951; M.S., Wisconsin, 1958; Ph.D., Indiana, 1962

Dan Clawson, Professor
B.A., Washington, 1970; M.A., SUNY Stony Brook, 1975; Ph.D., 1978

David. A. Cort, Assistant Professor
B.S., Oakwood, 1999; M.A., George Washington, 2001; Ph.D., UCLA , 2007

N. J. Demerath III, Professor Emeritus
B.A., Harvard, 1958; M.A., UC Berkeley, 1962; Ph.D., 1964

Emily A. Erikson, Assistant Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley, 1996; M.A., Columbia, 2002; M.Phil, 2003; Ph,D., Columbia, 2006

Robert R. Faulkner, Professor
B.A., UCLA, 1963; M.A., 1965; Ph.D., 1968

Naomi Gerstel, Professor
B.A., NYU, 1970; M.A., Columbia, 1975; Ph.D., 1978

Christin Glodek, Chief Undergraduate Advisor and Lecturer
B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana, 1996; MPP University of Chicago, 2005

Sanjiv Gupta, Assistant Professor
B.A., Brandeis, 1989; M.S., Michigan Ann Arbor, 1992; Ph.D., 1999

Janice M. Irvine, Professor
B.A., Pennsylvania State; M.Ed., 1975; M.A., Brandeis, 1981; Ph.D., 1984; M.P.H., Boston University, 1992

Dan Lainer-Vos, Assistant Professor
B.A., Ben Gurion University, 1999; M.A., Columbia, 2004; M.Phil, 2006; Ph,D., Columbia, 2008 (expected)

Agustin Lao-Montes, Assistant Professor
B.A., Catholic University of Puerto Rico, 1976; M.A., SUNY Binghamton, 1997; Ph.D., 2002

Jennifer Lundquist, Assistant Professor
B.A., Washington and Lee, 1995; A.M., Pennsylvania, 2000; Ph.D., 2004

Joya Misra, Associate Professor
B.A., Centenary, 1988; M.A., Emory, 1991; Ph.D., 1994

Suzanne W. Model, Professor Emeritus
A.B., Vassar, 1962; S.M., Simmons School of Social Work, 1964; A.M., Michigan, 1979; Ph.D., 1985

Andrew V. Papchristos, Assistant Professor
B.A., Loyola Chicago, 1998; M.A., Chicago, 2001; Ph.D., 2007

Gerald M. Platt, Professor
B.A., Brooklyn, 1955; M.A., 1957; Ph.D., UCLA, 1964

Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Assistant Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley, 1996; MA, Chicago, 1999; Ph.D., Northwestern, 2007

Amy Schalet, Assistant Professor
B.A., Harvard University, 1992; UC Berkeley , Ph.D., 2003

Randall G. Stokes, Professor Emeritus
B.A., California State San Diego, 1965; M.A., Duke, 1967; Ph.D., 1971

Richard C. Tessler, Professor
B.A., Wisconsin, 1968; M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1972

Millicent S. Thayer, Assistant Professor
M.A.T., Reed, 1978; M.A., UC Berkeley, 1993; Ph.D., 2004

Melissa Wooten, Assistant Professor
B.S., Kettering, 1999; Ph.D, Michigan, 2006

Robert Zussman, Professor
B.A., Columbia, 1970; M.Phil., 1974; Ph.D., 1982

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