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Department of Sociology

Faculty & Staff


Regular Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, Affiliated Faculty, Staff

Regular Faculty

Associate Professor
Theory, culture, identity
Ph.D., Rutgers

334 Middlebush Hall

(573) 884-3989
brekhusw@missouri.edu
Professor
Methodology, statistics, computing
Ph.D., Minnesota

303 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-9172
brente@missouri.edu
Eric S. Brown David Brunsma
Assistant Professor
Race and ethnicity, urban sociology,
and social stratification
Ph.D., California-Berkeley
330 Middlebush Hall
(573) 882-8217
browneric@missouri.edu
Associate Professor
Racial identity, race and ethnic relations, sociology of culture, sociology of education
Ph.D., Notre Dame
340A Middlebush Hall
(573) 882-1067
brunsmad@missouri.edu
Brian Colwell John F. Galliher

Assistant Professor
Social psychology, social control,
research methods
Ph.D., Stanford
333 Middlebush Hall

(573) 884-7648
colwellb@missouri.edu

Professor
Criminology, law, professional ethics
Ph.D., Indiana

335 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-3441
galliherj@missouri.edu

Jaber F. Gubrium Joan Hermsen

Professor and Chair
Social interaction, identity
construction, aging,
qualitative methods

Ph.D., Wayne State
312B Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-8331
gubriumj@missouri.edu

Associate Professor
Social inequality, work and labor markets, gender, quantitative methods
Ph.D., Maryland
303A Middlebush Hall
(573)
884-1420
hermsenj@missouri.edu
Victoria Johnson Byung-Soo Kim
Associate Professor
Social movements and collective behavior, historical methods, political, cultural, theory
Ph.D., California-Davis

329 Middlebush Hall
(573)
884-9765
johnsonvi@missouri.edu

Assistant Professor
Economic sociology, formal organizations, political sociology, family and marriage, and social networks
Ph.D., Stanford
321 Middlebush Hall
(573) 884-6175
kimby@missouri.edu

Clarence Y. H. Lo Tola Olu Pearce

Associate Professor
Political, social movements, urban,
qualitative and historical methods
Ph.D., California-Berkeley
326 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-1736
loc@missouri.edu

Professor
Medical, gender, race/ethnicity,
and development/globalization
Ph.D., Brown

337 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-7265
pearcei@missouri.edu
Amit Prasad Srirupa Prasad
Assistant Professor
Sociology of Science
Ph.D., Illinois
332 Middlebush Hall
(573) 882-8218
prasada@missouri.edu

Joint Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
Gender Family, globalization, and social theory
Ph.D., Illinois
319 Middlebush Hall
(573) 882-8215
prasads@missouri.edu

Rebecca R. Scott Takeshi Wada
Assistant Professor
Gender, race and class, environmental inequality, feminist ethnography
Ph.D.,California-Santa Cruz
318 Middlebush Hall

(573) 884-7644
scottrr@missouri.edu

Assistant Professor
Economic and social development,
social movements, democratization,
and research methods
Ph.D., Columbia
340B Middlebush Hall
(573) 884-6173

wadat@missouri.edu


Emeritus Faculty

Barbara J. Bank J. Kenneth Benson

Professor
Social psychology, gender, education
Ph.D., Iowa

bankb@missouri.edu

Professor
Theory, organizations, work
Ph.D., Texas
bensonjk@missouri.edu
Bruce J. Biddle Donald O. Granberg

Professor
Social psychology, role theory,
social psychology of education
Ph.D., Michigan

biddleb@missouri.edu

Professor
Social psychology, intergroup relations
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
granbergd@missouri.edu
Robert W. Habenstein Peter M. Hall

Professor
Social th
eory, qualitative methodology,
occupations and professions, death and dying
Ph.D., Chicago

Professor
Symbolic interaction, education,
political, policy
Ph.D., Minnesota

hallpm@missouri.edu
Richard Hessler James L. McCartney

Professor
Medical, methodology, gerontology
Ph.D.,
Pittsburgh

335 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-3441
hesslerr@missouri.edu

Professor
Social organization, science policy, East Asia
Ph.D., Minnesota

mccartneyj@missouri.edu
Andrew C. Twaddle C. Edwin Vaughan
Professor
Health and sickness,
comparative health care systems
Ph.D., Brown
ansar@gwi.net
Professor
Organization, aging, welfare state
Ph.D., Minnesota

Affiliated Faculty

Jackie Litt Mary Jo Neitz

Women's & Gender Studies

Women's & Gender Studies  

Staff

Debbie Friedrich Mary Oakes 

Administrative Associate
312D Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-7711
friedrichd@missouri.edu

Administrative Assistant
312 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-7163
oakesm@missouri.edu
Brittany Kniess  
Office Support Staff III
312 Middlebush Hall
(573)
882-8331
kniessb@missouri.edu
 

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312 Middlebush Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211-6100

(573) 882-8331
Fax: (573) 884-6430