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 of the Journal of Persianate Studies and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies.

Diane Barthel-Bouchier, Professor


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

Rebekah Burroway, Assistant Professor

Ivan Chase, Professor, Emeritus


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, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus


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.

Crystal M. Fleming, Assistant Professor

Crystal's research interests include: Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Sociology, Collective Memory, Qualitative Methods, Sociological Theory and Comparative Sociology

Melissa Forbis, Assistant Professor of Womens Studies and Sociology


Professor Forbis' research interests include transnational gender theories and politics, race/ethnicity, social movements, indigenous rights, anthropology of the state and nationalism, Mexico and Latin America, ethnography and collaborative research methodologies.

John H. Gagnon, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus


John Gagnon's Research interests include Sexuality, AIDS Research, Sociology of the Self, Sociology of Technology, and Social Theory.

Erich Goode, Professor, Emeritus


Erich Goode retired from Stony Brook in 2000. He continues to write and publish in the areas of deviance, drug use, moral panics and is currently writing on the sociology of memoir.

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, Distinguished 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 is Associate Professor of Sociology. As a political sociologist he is interested in issues of globalization, collective memory studies, and comparative-historical sociology.

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.

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.

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 Intimate Relations.