Faculty

University of Louisville, Department of Sociology, Faculty

 

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Mark Austin, PhD
Professor


123 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-3569
 

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

James K. Beggan, PhD
Professor


128 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-6069

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

Robert M. Carini, PhD
Associate Professor


129 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8030 

leisure, sport, education

Karen Christopher, PhD
Professor
Director, Graduate Studies

110 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8022

gender, family, work,
motherhood, race, class

Kushan Dasgupta, PhD

Assistant Professor

108 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8026

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

 

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Melanie J. Gast, PhD
Associate Professor


105 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8042

ace, 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
 

urban sociology,
environmental sociology 

Michal Kofman, PhD
Associate Professor


127 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8029

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

gender, politics,
social movements,
social policy,
theory 

Deborah Potter, PhD
Associate Professor 

104 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-7983

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

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David Roelfs, PhD
Professor 

130 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8038

statistics,
organizations,
economic sociology,
social epidemiology

Hiromi Taniguchi, PhD
Associate Professor

109 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8005

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

Jasmine L. Whiteside, PhD
Assistant Professor

112 Lutz Hall
(502) 852-8014
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sociology of education,
race and ethnicity and class, 
rural sociology,
sociology of poverty,
qualitative methods