Faculty

Mark Austin, PhD

Professor

Research/Expertise: community sociology, urban sociology, fear of crime, edge work

email  |  (502) 852-3569  |  123 Lutz Hall

James K. Beggan, PhD

Professor

Research/Expertise: gender and sexuality

email  |  (502) 852-6069  |  128 Lutz Hall

Robert M. Carini, PhD

Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies

Research/Expertise: leisure, sport, education

email  |  (502) 852-8030  |  129 Lutz Hall 

Karen Christopher, PhD

Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

Research/Expertise: gender, family, work, motherhood, race, class

email  |  (502) 852-8022  |  110 Lutz Hall

Kushan Dasgupta, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research/Expertise: medical sociology, sociology of science, race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge.

email   |   (502) 852-8026   |   108 Lutz Hall

Melanie J. Gast, PhD

Associate Professor

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

email  |  (502) 852-8042  |  105 Lutz Hall 

Lauren Heberle, PhD

Professor & Department Chair

Research/Expertise: urban sociology, environmental sociology

email    (502) 852-8043  |  125 Lutz Hall 

Michal Kofman, PhD

Associate Professor

Research/Expertise: the relationship between law, society and identity in contemporary Cuba

email  |  (502) 852-8029 |  127 Lutz Hall 

Gul Marshall, PhD

Professor

Research/Expertise:  gender, politics, social movements, social policy, and the media

email  |  (502) 852-8027  |  126 Lutz Hall

Roberto Fernández Morales, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research/Expertise: far-right ideology, social movements, race and ethnic relations, sociological theory, sociology of culture

email | (502) 852-8015 | 117 Lutz Hall

Deborah Potter, PhD

Associate Professor 

Research/Expertise:  medical sociology, mental health, social policy, qualitative methods

email  |  (502) 852-7983  |  104 Lutz Hall

David Roelfs, PhD

Professor 

Research/Expertise: statistics, organizations, economic sociology, social epidemiology

email  |  (502) 852-8038 |  130 Lutz Hall 

Hiromi Taniguchi, PhD

Associate Professor

Research/Expertise:  sociology of work and family, voluntary sector research

email  |  (502) 852-8005  |  109 Lutz Hall 

Jasmine L. Whiteside, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research/Expertise: sociology of education, race and ethnicity and class,  rural sociology, sociology of poverty, qualitative methods

email  |  (502) 852-8014  |  112 Lutz Hall