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Department of Sociology


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: David Stark, Ph.D.
424 Fayerweather
Tel: 212-854-3972


Director of Graduate Studies: Gil Eyal, Ph.D.
405 Fayerweather
Tel: 212-854-4272


Dissertation Sponsors

Karen Barkey:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1988
Interests: Comparative historical sociology; political sociology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter Bearman:
Cole Professor of Social Science, Ph.D., Harvard, 1985
Interests: Comparative and historical sociology, social networks, social theory. Is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Bernstein:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2001
Interests: Sexuality, gender, and late-capitalist transformations of intimacy; feminist theories of the state
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yinon Cohen:
Yosef Hayim Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies, Ph.D., Stony Brook, 1983
Interests: Labor markets, Israel, international immigration, social stratification
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jonathan R. Cole:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Sociology of knowledge and science
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Thomas DiPrete:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Social stratification and mobility, work and labor markets, organizations, economic sociology, family, demography, quantitative methodology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gil Eyal:
Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 1997
Interests: Comparative historical sociology; knowledge theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Priscilla P. Ferguson:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Cultural sociology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dana Fisher:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2001
Interests: Political sociology; environmental sociology; collective behavior and social movements
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicole Marwell:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 2000
Interests: Latino studies, the Caribbean
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Debra C. Minkoff:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Harvard, 1991
Interests: Social movements, political sociology, organizational theory and research
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Saskia Sassen:
Robert Lynd Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1974
Interests: Globalization, urban sociology, sociology of transnational processes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carla Shedd:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006
Interests: Crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society; social inequality; urban sociology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Allan Silver:
Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1964
Interests: Historical sociology; political sociology; trust and moral order
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael E. Sobel:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1980
Interests: Sociological analysis, covariance structure analysis; logistic regression and probit models
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Seymour Spilerman:
Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1968
Interests: Structure of work careers in corporate settings, focusing on the ways that educational attainment, labor market experience, race and gender influence work career features
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Stark:
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Harvard, 1982
Interests: Economic sociology; sociology of innovation; democratization and organizational change in post socialist Eastern Europe; organizational innovation; co-evolution of collaborative organization and interactive technologies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Diane Vaughan:
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Ohio State, 1979
Interests: Deviance and social control; organizational analysis; science, knowledge, and technology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh:
William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Chicago, 1997
Interests: Urban sociology; cultural sociology; criminology/delinquency
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Duncan J. Watts:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1997
Interests: Social networks; mathematical sociology; collective behavior/social movements
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Harrison White:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1960
Interests: Theory; cultural models
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joshua Whitford:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2003
Interests: Economic sociology, organizations, theory, political economy, comparative capitalisms, work and occupations, economic geography, local and regional economic development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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