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
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
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
Michaela Soyer
Associate Professor
- 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
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
Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies
Wendy Luttrell
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
Michaela Soyer
Associate 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
Michael 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
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
- Political Science
Professor
- Sociology
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
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
- Political Science
Professor
- Sociology
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
Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies
Wendy Luttrell
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
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
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
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
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
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
Michael 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
Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies
John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
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 Emerita
- Sociology
Professor Emerita
- Social Welfare
Professor Emerita
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor Emerita
- 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
