Faculty
The Ph.D. program in Sociology has about 70 participating faculty, who are either appointed full-time at the Graduate Center, or act as consortial faculty with primary appointments at other CUNY institutions.
All Faculty Faculty by Specialization Emeritus Faculty
Our faculty are experts across a range of sociology specializations and provide mentorship to students who share their areas of focus.
- We are strong in urban sociology, studies of race, ethnicity, and immigration, research on urban institutions, including schools, and on neighborhoods and urban spaces. We also have faculty members who study white collar crime, drug use, and how changes in police practices affect crime rates.
- New York is the preeminent center of cultural production in America, and several of our faculty members are noted for specialization in cultural studies. They analyze mass media, art, film, and other forms of popular and elite culture.
- We are one of the leading programs in the country in the study of international migration, with many faculty working on aspects of the immigrant experience, both in the US and in Europe.
- The Program also has long-standing strength in feminist theory. Faculty members study the sociology of gender from feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytical and other perspectives.
- Several faculty members pursue interests in the sociology of the state, political economy, and social stratification. Some specialize in the study of development, including, particularly, the economic, political, and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Technology, work, and occupations are also areas that draw faculty and students into research. Topics include theories of the labor process, studies of work places undergoing technological change, unions and organizing, professions, and the relationship between work and family life.
Faculty by Specialization
- Culture, Mass Media and the Arts
- Deviance/Criminology
- Education
- Ethnography
- Families
- Gender and Sexuality
- Globalization, Development and Environment
- Labor, Work, Professions and Organizations
- Medical Sociology/Public Health
- Quantitative Methods/Demography
- Race, Ethnicity and Migration
- Religion
- Social and Critical Theory
- State, Social Class and Political Sociology
- Urban Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Culture, Mass Media and the Arts

Mike Benediktsson
Faculty
- Sociology
Lynn Chancer
Executive Officer and Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Erica Chito Childs
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- Africana Studies

Jessie Daniels
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology

Thomas DeGloma
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Susan Dumais
Professor
- Sociology

David Halle
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- International Migration Studies
Faculty
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Faculty by Specialization
Deviance/Criminology

Amy Adamczyk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

David Brotherton
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies
Lynn Chancer
Executive Officer and Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Lior Gideon
Faculty
- Sociology

Jayne Mooney
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Peter C. Moskos
Faculty
- Sociology

Lucia Trimbur
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- American Studies

Alex Vitale
Professor
- Sociology

Elin Waring
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Education

Paul Attewell
Distinguished Professor
- Urban Education
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Juan Battle
Executive Officer and Presidential Professor
- Nursing
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Urban Education
Presidential Professor
- Liberal Studies
Presidential Professor
- Social Welfare
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Christopher Bonastia
Faculty
- Sociology

Margaret M. Chin
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- International Migration Studies

Susan Dumais
Professor
- Sociology

Jessica Hardie
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Wendy Luttrell
Executive Officer and Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Julia Wrigley
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Faculty by Specialization
Ethnography

David Brotherton
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Criminal Justice
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies

Jean Halley
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Wendy Luttrell
Executive Officer and Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Tamara Mose
Faculty
- Sociology

Peter C. Moskos
Faculty
- Sociology

Shehzad Nadeem
Faculty
- Sociology

Richard Ocejo
Director
- International Migration Studies
Professor
- Sociology

Robert Smith
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Social Welfare

Gregory Smithsimon
Professor
- Sociology

Lucia Trimbur
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- American Studies
Faculty by Specialization
Families

Neil Bennett
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Coordinator
- Demography

Margaret M. Chin
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- International Migration Studies

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies

Jessica Hardie
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Pyong Gap Min
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

Tamara Mose
Faculty
- Sociology

Barbara Katz Rothman
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Pamela Stone
Faculty
- Sociology

Miachel Yarbrough
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Gender and Sexuality

Juan Battle
Executive Officer and Presidential Professor
- Nursing
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Urban Education
Presidential Professor
- Liberal Studies
Presidential Professor
- Social Welfare
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies
Lynn Chancer
Executive Officer and Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Jessie Daniels
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology

Rafael de la Dehesa
Faculty
- Sociology

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies

Janet Gornick
Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Political Science
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Jean Halley
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Jessica Hardie
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Wendy Luttrell
Executive Officer and Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Susan Markens
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Leslie McCall
Associate Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Presidential Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Ruth Milkman
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

Pyong Gap Min
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

Barbara Katz Rothman
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Lucia Trimbur
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- American Studies

Anahi Viladrich
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Julia Wrigley
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Faculty by Specialization
Globalization, Development and Environment

Deborah Balk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Economics
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Demography

Rafael de la Dehesa
Faculty
- Sociology

Kenneth A. Gould
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- Sociology

Tammy L. Lewis
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- Sociology

Howard Lune
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Carolina Bank Muñoz
Faculty
- Sociology

Shehzad Nadeem
Faculty
- Sociology

Jeremy Porter
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization
Director and Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Anahi Viladrich
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies
Faculty by Specialization
Labor, Work, Professions and Organizations

Paul Attewell
Distinguished Professor
- Urban Education
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Margaret M. Chin
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- International Migration Studies

Hector Cordero-Guzman
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Urban Education

Janet Gornick
Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Political Science
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Stephanie Luce
Professor
- Sociology

Howard Lune
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Susan Markens
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Ruth Milkman
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

Pyong Gap Min
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

Carolina Bank Muñoz
Faculty
- Sociology

Shehzad Nadeem
Faculty
- Sociology

Richard Ocejo
Director
- International Migration Studies
Professor
- Sociology

Yung-Yi Diana Pan
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Charles Post
Faculty
- Sociology

Barbara Katz Rothman
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Ryan Smith
Professor
- Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Medical Sociology/Public Health

Amy Adamczyk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Jessica Hardie
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Susan Markens
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Jeremy Porter
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization
Director and Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Holly Reed
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Barbara Katz Rothman
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Dana Weinberg
Faculty
- Sociology

Esther Wilder
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Quantitative Methods/Demography

Deborah Balk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Economics
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Demography

Juan Battle
Executive Officer and Presidential Professor
- Nursing
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Urban Education
Presidential Professor
- Liberal Studies
Presidential Professor
- Social Welfare
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Neil Bennett
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Coordinator
- Demography

Jessie Daniels
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology

Lior Gideon
Faculty
- Sociology

Jessica Hardie
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Jeremy Porter
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization
Director and Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Holly Reed
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Liza G. Steele
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Van C. Tran
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies

Elin Waring
Faculty
- Sociology

Esther Wilder
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Race, Ethnicity and Migration

Deborah Balk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Economics
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Demography

Juan Battle
Executive Officer and Presidential Professor
- Nursing
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Urban Education
Presidential Professor
- Liberal Studies
Presidential Professor
- Social Welfare
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Mucahit Bilici
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Associate Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies

Christopher Bonastia
Faculty
- Sociology

Erica Chito Childs
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- Africana Studies

Margaret M. Chin
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- International Migration Studies

Hector Cordero-Guzman
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Urban Education

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Wendy Luttrell
Executive Officer and Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Leslie McCall
Associate Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Presidential Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Pyong Gap Min
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Tamara Mose
Faculty
- Sociology

Carolina Bank Muñoz
Faculty
- Sociology

Richard Ocejo
Director
- International Migration Studies
Professor
- Sociology

Yung-Yi Diana Pan
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Holly Reed
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Robert Smith
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Social Welfare

Ryan Smith
Professor
- Sociology

Liza G. Steele
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Van C. Tran
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies

Lucia Trimbur
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- American Studies

Anahi Viladrich
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies
Faculty by Specialization
Religion

Amy Adamczyk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Mucahit Bilici
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Associate Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies

Pyong Gap Min
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

John Torpey
Director
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Director
- European Union Studies Center
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- History
Faculty by Specialization
Social and Critical Theory

Mucahit Bilici
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Associate Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies

Roslyn Bologh
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Lynn Chancer
Executive Officer and Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Thomas DeGloma
Associate Professor
- Sociology

Marnia Lazreg
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Professor
- French

Charles Post
Faculty
- Sociology

John Torpey
Director
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Director
- European Union Studies Center
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- History

Lucia Trimbur
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- American Studies
Faculty by Specialization
State, Social Class and Political Sociology

Paul Attewell
Distinguished Professor
- Urban Education
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Roslyn Bologh
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Christopher Bonastia
Faculty
- Sociology

Leslie McCall
Associate Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Presidential Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Charles Post
Faculty
- Sociology

Holly Reed
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

Liza G. Steele
Associate Professor
- Sociology

John Torpey
Director
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Director
- European Union Studies Center
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- History

Van C. Tran
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies

Elin Waring
Faculty
- Sociology

Julia Wrigley
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Miachel Yarbrough
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Faculty by Specialization
Urban Sociology

Deborah Balk
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Economics
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Demography

Mike Benediktsson
Faculty
- Sociology

Christopher Bonastia
Faculty
- Sociology

David Halle
Faculty
- Sociology
Faculty
- International Migration Studies
Faculty
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Tamara Mose
Faculty
- Sociology

Richard Ocejo
Director
- International Migration Studies
Professor
- Sociology

Gregory Smithsimon
Professor
- Sociology

Van C. Tran
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Emeritus Faculty

Richard Alba
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Africana Studies

Sophia Catsambis
Professor Emerita
- Educational Psychology
Professor Emerita
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor Emerita
- Sociology

Patricia Clough
Professor Emerita
- Women's and Gender Studies
Professor Emerita
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Professor Emerita
- Sociology

Hester Eisenstein
Professor Emerita
- Sociology

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Distinguished Professor Emerita
- Sociology

Samuel Heilman
Emeritus Faculty
- Sociology
Emeritus Faculty
- Middle Eastern Studies

William Kornblum
Professor Emeritus
- Psychology
Professor Emeritus
- Sociology

Mary Clare Lennon
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Social Welfare
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Judith Lorber
Professor Emerita
- Women's and Gender Studies
Professor Emerita
- Sociology

Frances Fox Piven
Distinguished Professor Emerita
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor Emerita
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor Emerita
- Women's and Gender Studies

Catherine Silver
Professor Emerita
- Women's and Gender Studies
Professor Emerita
- Sociology

Stephen Steinberg
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Africana Studies

Bryan Turner
Presidential Professor Emeritus
- Sociology
Professor Emeritus
- Middle Eastern Studies

Sharon Zukin
Professor Emerita
- Sociology
Professor Emerita
- Earth and Environmental Sciences