Faculty and Staff

Welcome to the Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University. Through this Faculty page you can find email addresses, telephone numbers, office numbers, as well as areas of research for each faculty member. Click on a person's name for more information about them.
 

Susan Caringella (Western Michigan Univ.)
Criminology, social problems, women and violence, methodology.		 Ronald C. Kramer ( Ohio State Univ.)
 Criminology, social problems, deviance, theory.
Susan M. Carlson ( Florida State Univ.)
Criminology, political economy, social inequality, quantitative methods.		 Elena Lisovskaya (Ohio State University)
Comparative, sociology of education, methods
Paul Ciccantell (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Comparative, economic development, sociology of organizations, environmental sociology, Latin America, Japan, China.		 Georgois Loizides (Western Michigan Univ.)
 Comparative/Historical Sociology, Social Inequality (race, class, gender
Charles E. Crawford ( Florida State Univ.)
Criminology, police use of force, corrections.		 Richard R. MacDonald ( Univ. of Missouri )
 Theory, social psychology.
Douglas Davidson ( Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Sociology of education, ethnic relations, African studies, theory.		 Gerald E. Markle ( Florida State Univ.)
 Knowledge and science, social movements, social problems.
Elena Gapova (Minsk State Linguistic Univ.)
Nation, gender and class in post communist societies.		 Angela M. Moe ( Arizona State Univ.)
 Criminology, women & violence, gender & justice, feminist epistemology, gender; gender performance & construction.
Barry Goetz ( Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Policing & society, drugs & society, organizations, political
sociology, white collar crime.		 Zoann K. Snyder (Arizona State Univ.)
 Criminology; gender and justice; race, ethnicity, and justice; and sociology of law.
Chien-Juh Gu (Michigan State Univ.)
social psychology, gender, social inequality, medical sociology, and international migration.		 Robert F. Wait (Indiana Univ.)
 Social psychology, symbolic interaction, socialization, emotions.
David J. Hartmann ( Univ. of Chicago)
 Applied, urban, ethnic relations, methods.		  
Gregory Howard ( SUNY Albany)
 Criminology, social problems, environment.		  
Vyacheslav G. Karpov ( Ohio State University)
 Comparative, social problems, sociology of education.