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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, historical methods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter Bearman:
Cole Professor of Social Science, Ph.D., Harvard, 1985
Interests: Social networks, comparative historical sociology, theory, adolescent health
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: International migration, social stratification, labor markets
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: Urban sociology, community, latina/o sociology
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: Causal inference, social statistics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Seymour Spilerman:
Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1968
Interests: Stratification, social violence, mathematical sociology
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Diane Vaughan:
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Ph.D, Ohio State, 1979
Interests: Sociology of organizations, sociology of culture, deviance and social control, field methods, research design, and 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
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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