Faculty

  • Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology

    B.A., Saint Michael’s College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

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  • Class of 1919 – 50th Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University

    Contemporary Reproduction, Families and Social Inequalities, New Family Forms, Feminist Methodologies and Internet Use for Social Learning and Connectivity.

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  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology

    B.A., Barnard College; M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Oxford

    Research interests include debt and indebtedness in contemporary society, market governance, and histories and geographies of liberalism.

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  • Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology

    B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

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  • Lecturer in Sociology

    B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Harvard University

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  • Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology

    B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cultural and intellectual inequality, museums, decentered knowledge production and pedagogy, sociology of art and literature, migration, transnational social protection.

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  • Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas; Professor of Sociology

    A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    A feminist qualitative sociologist interested in finance, development and globalization in India, the U.S. and South Africa.

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  • Associate Professor of Sociology

    B.A., Mississippi College; M.A., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Virginia

    More about Markella B. Rutherford

  • Senior Lecturer in Sociology

    B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

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Sociology Faculty Emeriti

  • Professor Emeritus of Sociology

    B.S., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

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  • Professor Emerita of Africana Studies and Sociology

    B.A., M.A., Howard University; Ph.D., Brandeis University

    Sociologist with a focus on social psychology; women’s studies; and the intersection of gender, race and class.

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