Faculty

Mark Austin, PhD
Professor

123 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-3569
email 

community sociology,
urban sociology, fear
of crime, edge work 

James K. Beggan, PhD
Professor

128 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-6069
email

gender and sexuality;
decision-making; and
leadership and heroism

Robert M. Carini, PhD
Associate Professor

129 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8030 
email

leisure, sport, education

Karen Christopher, PhD
Professor
Director, Graduate Studies

110 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8022
email

gender, family, work,
motherhood, race, class

Kushan Dasgupta, PhD

Assistant Professor

108 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8026
email

medical sociology,
sociology of science,
race and ethnicity,
sociology of knowledge

Melanie J. Gast, PhD
Associate Professor

105 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8042
email

sociology of education,
soc of race, ethnicity, racism;
racial, class, gender inequality;
immigrant students/families;
community/school programs;
qualitative methods 

Lauren Heberle, PhD
Professor
Department Chair

125 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8043
email 

urban sociology,
environmental sociology 

Michal Kofman, PhD
Associate Professor

127 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8029
email

comparative sociology/historical
sociology, law and society,
political sociology,
Marxist sociology/theory

Gul Marshall, PhD
Professor 
Director, Undergrad Studies

  126 Lutz Hall 
(502) 852-8027
email

gender, politics,
social movements,
social policy,
theory 

Deborah Potter, PhD
Associate Professor 

104 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-7983
email

medical sociology,
sociology of mental health,
social policy, and
qualitative methods

David Roelfs, PhD
Professor 

130 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8038
email

statistics,
organizations,
economic sociology,
social epidemiology

Hiromi Taniguchi, PhD
Associate Professor

109 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8005
email

  work/family interface;
personal and social
relationships;
life course

Jasmine L. Whiteside, PhD
Assistant Professor

112 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8014
email

sociology of education,
race and ethnicity and class, 
rural sociology,
sociology of poverty,
qualitative methods