Research Interests:The role of institutions in reproducing inequality; how neighborhood environments shape health outcomes; inequalities in exposure to the criminal justice system.
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
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
Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Research Interests: Cultural sociology; inequality; race and immigration; comparative sociology; the sociology of knowledge; contemporary sociological theory.
