Department of Sociology

Western Michigan University

 

Faculty

Paula S. Brush,
University of Chicago
Theory, methods, sociology of culture, sociology of education.

Susan Caringella-MacDonald,
Western Michigan University
Criminology, social problems, women and violence, methodology.

Susan M. Carlson,
Florida State University
Criminology, political economy, social inequality, quantitative methods.

Susan L. Caulfield,
SUNY Albany
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Violence, Statistics

Paul S. Ciccantell,
University of Wisconsin
Comparative, economic development, sociology of organizations, environmental
sociology, Latin America, Japan, China.

Laura B. Citrin,
University of Michigan
Sociology of gender; moralizing emotions; the body; the intersection
of race, class, and gender.

Charles E. Crawford,
Florida State University
Criminology, police use of force, corrections.

Douglas V. Davidson,
University of California, Berkeley
Sociology of education, ethnic relations, African studies, theory.

Thomas E. Ford,
University of Maryland
Social psychology, methods, race and ethnicity.

Barry Goetz,
University of California, Berkeley
Policing & society, drugs & society, organizations, political
sociology, white collar crime.

David J. Hartmann,
University 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.

Ronald C. Kramer,
Ohio State University
Criminology, social problems, deviance, theory.

Richard R. MacDonald,
University of Missouri
Theory, social psychology.

Gerald E. Markle,
Florida State University
Knowledge and science, social movements, social problems.

Angela M. Moe,
Arizona State University
Criminology, women and violence, gender and justice, feminist epistemology.

William (Wally) Post,
Western Michigan University
Methods, statistics, computers, and programming.

Victoria Ross,
Brandeis University
Medical sociology, mental health, disaster, the non-profit sector
evaluation research, and military sociology.

Zoann K. Snyder,
Arizona State University
Criminology; gender and justice; race, ethnicity, and justice; and sociology
of law.

Subhash R. Sonnad,
University of Wisconsin
Applied, law, urban housing

Thomas L. Van Valey,
University of North Carolina
Computers and society, applied, teaching, population.

Robert F. Wait,
Indiana University
Social psychology, symbolic interaction, socialization, emotions.

Rachel Bridges Whaley,
SUNY Albany
Criminology, gender, quantitative research methods.

Paul L. Wienir,
University of North Carolina
Social psychology, methodology.

 

 

 

 

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.