Faculty
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Lee Cuba
Professor of SociologyB.S., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Research in the sociology of education with a particular interest in academic and social engagement of college students.
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Thomas Orton Cushman
Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of SociologyB.A., Saint Michael’s College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Interested in the study of human rights, social theory and modernity, and cultural economics; founder, the Journal of Human Rights.
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Rosanna Hertz
Class of 1919 – 50th Reunion Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and SociologyB.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Researches families in a changing economy and how social inequality at home and in the workplace shape the experiences of women and men.
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Jonathan B. Imber
Jean Glasscock Professor of SociologyB.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Medicine, its historical and religious dimensions; edit journal on social thought and social policy. Focus on American society.
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Peggy Levitt
Professor of SociologyB.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Studies international migration, transnational studies, development, religion, globalization, global arts and culture.
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Smitha Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor of SociologyA.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interested in globalization, gender, and nationalism; and in interdisciplinary, interactive learning in the classroom.
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Markella B. Rutherford
Associate Professor of SociologyB.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Cultural sociology with research interests in childhood, family, emotions, social inequality, & consumer culture.
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Joseph Swingle
Lecturer in SociologyB.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Studies quantitative sociological data on the American family.
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