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  Donald Levine Donald Levine 
Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus in Sociology and the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Ethiopia
  • Social theory: Classical Social Theory
  • Conflict Theory


  Bernard Harcourt Bernard Harcourt 
Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
Areas of expertise:
  • Punishment, Sentencing, Criminology, and Criminal Law
  • Race and the Law, and Racial Profiling
  • Policing: Broken Windows Theory, Criminal Profiling


  William Sewell William Sewell 
Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor emeritus of History and Political Science, and in the College
Areas of expertise:
  • History: Modern French
  • History: Social
  • History: Labor


  not available Oren Izenberg 
Assistant Professor in English
Areas of expertise:
  • Poetry: History and Theory
  • Poetics: History and Theory
  • Literature: American Novel


  Froma Walsh Froma Walsh 
Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita of Clinical Social Work in the Social Service Administration and the Department of Psychiatry; Co-Director, Center for Family Health
Areas of expertise:
  • Aging: End of life issues, death, dying, and bereavement
  • Family: Family resilience, contemporary family diversity and challenges, family and couples therapy, systemic and family developmental theory, death in the family, death, dying, and bereavement
  • Gender: Changing gender roles


  John Comaroff John Comaroff 
Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology, Sociology and the Committee on African and African American Studies; Fellow, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Areas of expertise:
  • Colonialism
  • Africa: colonialism
  • Africa: postcoloniality


  Richard McAdams Richard McAdams 
Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law
Areas of expertise:
  • Criminal Law and Procedure
  • Social Norms
  • Inequality


  Andrew Abbott Andrew Abbott 
Gustavas F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Work and professions
  • Sociology: Urban
  • Social theory


  Moishe Postone Moishe Postone 
Professor of History; Committee on Jewish Studies
Areas of expertise:
  • Modern European Intellectual History
  • Social Theory
  • Critical Theories of Modernity


  Duncan Snidal Duncan Snidal 
Associate Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy, Political Science and the College; Chair, Committee on International Relations
Areas of expertise:
  • Economics: Globalization, International Economics, Political Economics
  • International Policy: International Cooperation
  • Social Theory: theory of Choice and Judgment


  Robert Pippin Robert Pippin 
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy and the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Philosophy: Modern
  • Philosophy: Social and political theory
  • Humanities


  Gary Herrigel Gary Herrigel 
Professor in the Department of Political Science
Areas of expertise:
  • Political Science: Comparative politics
  • Social Theory
  • Economics: Economic sociology and geography


  W.J.T. Mitchell W.J.T. Mitchell 
Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language & Literature, Art History, and the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Literature
  • Mass media
  • Visual culture


  not available Candace Vogler 
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of expertise:
  • Philosophy: Social and political
  • Gender Studies
  • Creative writing


  not available Ross Stolzenberg 
Professor of Sociology and in the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Employment
  • Social stratification


  Don Browning Don Browning 
Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences in the Divinity School
Areas of expertise:
  • Religion and psychology
  • Theological ethics
  • Religion and American families


  Dipesh Chakrabarty Dipesh Chakrabarty 
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College
Areas of expertise:
  • South Asia: India
  • South Asia: Modern Bengal
  • South Asia: Modern Indian social and politial history


  Susan Lambert Susan Lambert 
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
Areas of expertise:
  • Employment: Work-life integration, work-life benefits, lower-skilled jobs, low-wage workers
  • Family: Work-life integration, work connections
  • Organizations: Organizational stratification, work-life integration, organizational theory and management


  Lauren Berlant Lauren Berlant 
George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English; Director, Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the Center for Gender Studies
Areas of expertise:
  • American Literature
  • American Cinema
  • Popular Culture


  not available Loren Kruger 
Professor in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, Theater & Performance Studies and African Studies
Areas of expertise:
  • Theater: US, African, European (especially German, English and French)
  • Africa: South Africa, especially culture, history, contemporary social life
  • Film: African, especially South African


  not available Larry Norman 
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures; Deputy Provost for the Arts
Areas of expertise:
  • Literature: French
  • Theater
  • Humanities


  James Redfield James Redfield 
Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in Classical Languages & Literatures, the Committee on Social Thought and the College
Areas of expertise:
  • Ancient Greece
  • Humanities

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