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.

Administrative Assistant: AnnaLee Miller
Academic Advisor: Susan Standish
Administrative Staff: Ann Browning

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.		 Richard R. MacDonald (Univ. of Missouri )
 Theory, social psychology.
Charles E. Crawford (Florida State Univ.)
Criminology, police use of force, corrections.		 Angela M. Moe (Arizona State Univ.)
 Criminology, women & violence, gender & justice, feminist epistemology, gender; gender performance & construction.
Douglas Davidson (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Sociology of education, ethnic relations, African studies, theory.		 Zoann K. Snyder (Arizona State Univ.)
 Criminology; gender and justice; race, ethnicity, and justice; and sociology of law.
Elena Gapova (Minsk State Linguistic Univ.)
Nation, gender and class in post communist societies.		 Robert F. Wait (Indiana Univ.)
 Social psychology, symbolic interaction, socialization, emotions.
Barry Goetz (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Policing & society, drugs & society, organizations, political sociology, white collar crime.		 Yuan-kang Wang (Univ. of Chicago)
International Relations; security studies; methods; China; East Asia
Chien-Juh Gu (Michigan State Univ.)
social psychology, gender, social inequality, medical sociology, and international migration.		  
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 sociology of religion; religion, values and tolerance; comparative sociology of education