Said Arjomand, Distinguished Service Professor


Saïd Amir Arjomand (Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1980) has been at Stony Brook since 1978, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of "Studies on Persianate Societies".

Javier Auyero, Associate Professor


Javier is currently working on two projects: an ethnography of poisoned places and peoples based in Flammable shantytown (Dock Sud, Buenos Aires), and a quantitative/qualitative study of the December 2001 lootings in Argentina.

Diane Barthel-Bouchier, Professor and Chair


Diane's current research interests are in sociology of culture, sociology of art, symbolic communities, social theory, and gender.

Ivan Chase, Associate Professor


Ivan's current research interests are in Social Organization, Dominance Hierarchies in Animals and Humans, Vacancy Chain Systems in Animals and Humans, Coordination of Work in Animals.

Stephen Cole, Professor


Stephen Cole studied with Robert K. Merton and Paul F. Lazarsfeld at Columbia University. He has published extensively in the following areas: the sociology of science, the sociology of education, gender, and medical sociology.

Kenneth A. Feldman, Professor


Kenneth A. Feldman, who received his doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1965, has been at Stony Brook since January 1968. His teaching and scholarly interests lie in the fields of social psychology, socialization, and higher education.

John H. Gagnon, Distinguished Professor,

Emeritus


John Gagnon's Research interests include AIDS research, simulations, sexual conduct, social control, and cognition.

Norman Goodman, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Distinguished Service Professor


Norman Goodman received his Ph.D. in 1963 from New York University. He is a sociologically-oriented social psychologist who studies identity, emotions, and the nature of intimate relationships such as dating and marriage.

Michael Kimmel, Professor


Michael Kimmel's books include Changing Men (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), Men's Lives (6th edition, 2003), Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776 - 1990 (1992), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood: A Cultural History (1996), and The Gendered Society (2nd edition, 2003).

Daniel Levy, Associate Professor


Daniel Levy's interests include: Political Sociology, Comparative Immigration Studies, Sociology of Culture, Globalization, Collective Memory Studies

Catherine Marrone, Lecturer

Timothy Patrick Moran, Associate Professor


Professor Moran's current research and writing focuses primarily on subjects related to global inequality in its various dimensions and forms, including the historical distribution of income between and within countries, national and global stratification by race, class, and gender, and comparative national development.

Eileen Otis, Assistant Professor


Professor Otis was on leave for the 03-04 academic leave, having received the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. She joined the faculty for the 04-05 academic year.

Oyeronke Oyewumi, Associate Professor


In her award-winning book The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Oyeronke Oyewumi makes the case that the narrative of gendered corporeality that dominates the Western interpretation of the social world is a cultural discourse and cannot be assumed uncritically for other cultures.

Naomi Rosenthal, Visiting Professor


Naomi Rosenthal's research interests include Social Movements; Gender; Historical Sociology; Cultural Issues; Students Who Work.

Ian Roxborough, Professor


Ian Roxborough's research interests include War and the Military; Revolutions; and Organizational Sociology

James B. Rule, Professor, Emeritus


Before coming to Stony Brook, Rule carried out research and taught at MIT, Oxford University, the University of Bordeaux, and Cambridge University.

Michael Schwartz, Professor


Michael Schwartz research interests include Economic sociology; Marxist sociology; Historical sociology; Computer Methods; Political sociology; Research Methods; Ethnic Relations; Mathematical sociology; Social movements; Applied sociology.

John Shandra, Assistant Professor


Professor Shandra's research interests include environmental sociology, globalization, and quantitative methodology. John is completing a series of articles using cross-national data that shows deforestation is largely the result of multinational corporations, international financial institutions, and repressive nations.

Tammy A. Smith, Assistant Professor


Professor Smith joined the faculty in September 2007. Her research interests include political sociology, comparative/historical sociology, conflict and violence, and gender.

Judith Tanur, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emerita


Judith Tanur's research interests include Statistics; methodology; survey research; and social psychology.

Andrea Tyree, Professor, Emerita


Andrea Tyree is a social demographer with wide-ranging interests in social change, social stratification, family, and political sociology. She has researched international migration, spousal violence, the institution of the family, and many other issues.

Arnout van de Rijt, Assistant Professor


Professor van de Rijt joined the faculty in September 2007. His research interests include immigration, social networks, and marriage and family.