Research Interests: Social networks; neighborhoods; intergroup relations; inequality; health; quantitative methods; computational sociology... Read more about Linda Zhao
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Emerita
Research Interests: Global health, global mental health, culture and political economy of biomedicine, biotechnology and bioethics, humanitarianism, postcolonial disorders, conflict and post-conflict studies, USA, Southeast Asia, Middle East.
John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus Asia Scholar, University of Melbourne, 2017-2019
Research Interests: Comparative sociology; comparative family systems and family change; the American family; gender roles in comparative context; inequality and stratification; bureaucracy; sociology of China; development.... Read more about Martin K. Whyte
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Sociology Department Chair
Research Interests: Crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course. ... Read more about Robert J. Sampson
Research Interests: The culture and practice of freedom; the comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relations; the sociology of underdevelopment with special reference to the Caribbean; the problems of gender and familial relations in the black societies of the Americas; the ways that cultural processes relate to poverty and other social outcomes. ... Read more about Orlando Patterson