Faculty
The faculty includes 13 active full-time sociologists. Current research project topics include: racial, ethnic and economic diversity in urban communities; flexible employment for professionals; the non-profit sector; violent crime; population changes in non-metropolitan regions; the changing commitment of women to work and family roles; the role of experts in advanced industrial societies; religion and social change; community-centered models of public policy development; women and family violence; the geographical development of evangelicalism; and women and unemployment. In the last five years the department has received over $3 million in external research funding.
It is indicative of the esteem in which the faculty members of the department are held by their peers outside Loyola that a large proportion have held or are holding office in professional associations. The department counts among its numbers past presidents of the Society for Study of Social Problems, the Midwest Sociological Society, the Illinois sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Religious Research Association. The combined faculty have published more than twenty-five books. They have published articles in The American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Social Forces, Contemporary Sociology, Human Organization, Qualitative Sociology, and Sociological Quarterly, and in many specialized journals such as Criminology, American Demographics, Rural Sociology, The Journal of Marriage and the Family, Politics and Society, Theory and Society, and Science, Technology & Human Values.
Michael Agliardo, SJ
Assistant Professor
Sociology of Religion, Environmental Sociology, Civil Society, Cultural Sociology and Qualitative Methods, Classical Social Theory, area focus on China
Coffey Hall 430
773.508.3460
Email: magliardo@luc.edu
Jordan Brown
Instructor
Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Political Sociology, Sociology of Emotions
Coffey Hall 451
773.508.3667
E-mail: jbrown11@luc.edu
David G. Embrick
Associate Professor
Race and Ethnic Relations, Racial Attitudes, Stratification/Diversity in the workplace, Social Inequalities
Coffey Hall 434
773.508.3424
E-mail: dembric@luc.edu
Judson Everitt
Instructor
Sociology of Education, Sociology of Teaching
Coffey Hall 427
773.508.3427
E-mail: jeveritt@luc.edu
Anne Figert
Associate Professor
Health, Medicine, Sociology of Science, Gender
Coffey Hall 421
773.508.3431
E-mail: afigert@luc.edu
Edward Flores
Assistant Professor
Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Religion, Gender, Urban Sociology
Coffey Hall 432
773.508.3439
E-mail: eflores2@luc.edu
Marcel Fredericks
Professor
Health Care, Medical Sociology, Theory, Stratification, Family
Coffey Hall 435
773.508.3467
E-mail: mfreder@luc.edu
Marilyn Krogh
Associate Professor
Urban Sociology, Poverty, Quantitative Methods
Coffey Hall 428
773.508.3471
E-mail: mkrogh@luc.edu
Lauren Langman
Professor
Social Psychology, Critical Theory
Coffey Hall 429
773.508.3463
E-mail: llangma@luc.edu
Kelly Moore
Associate Professor
Sociology of Science, Social Movements, Sociology of Food, Environmental Sociology
Coffey Hall 431
773-508-3488
Email: kmoore11@luc.edu
Philip Nyden
Professor
Director of Center for Urban Research and Learning
Urban Sociology, Applied Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Cuneo Hall 413
773.508.8532
E-mail: pnyden@luc.edu
Peter Rosenblatt
Assistant Professor
Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education, Research Methods
Coffey Hall 438
773-508-3422
Email: prosenblatt@luc.edu
Elfriede Wedam
Instructor
Urban and Community, Religion, American Culture, Race and Ethnicity, German Sociology
Coffey Hall 436
773.508.3669
E-mail: Ewedam@luc.edu
Rhys H. Williams
Professor
Department Chair
Sociology of Religion, Social Movements, Culture
Coffey Hall 423
773.508.3459
E-mail: rwilliams7@luc.edu
Judith Wittner
Professor
Families, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Popular Culture, Social Theory
Coffey Hall 412
773.508.3473
E-mail: jwittne@luc.edu
J. Talmadge Wright
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Homelessness, Social Inequality, Critical Social, Cultural Theory, Social-Physical Space, Gender, Mass Media and Popular Culture
Coffey Hall 433
773.508.3451
E-mail: twright@luc.edu
AFFILIATED, PART-TIME, EMERITUS FACULTY
Kathleen M. Adams
Professor Affiliated
(Ph.D. Washington 1988)
Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Change, Art/Music
E-mail: kadams@luc.edu
Richard Block
Professor Affiliated
Criminology, violence and victimization, geographic information systems
E-mail: rblock@luc.edu
Paul Breidenbach
Associate Professor Affiliated
(Ph.D. Northwestern 1973)
Anthropology, History of Sociology/Social Thought, Mass Communication/Public Opinion, Religion
E-mail: pbreide@luc.edu
Christine George
Associate Research Professor
E-mail: cgeorg@luc.edu
Kenneth Johnson
Affiliate Research Professor
Demography, urban sociology, statistics.
E-mail: kjohnso@luc.edu
Ayana Karanja
Associate Professor Affiliated
(Ph.D. Union 1981)
Race/Performance/Ethnicity and Public Representation.
E-mail: akaranj@luc.edu
Fred Kniss
Affiliate Research Professor
Religion/Culture, social movements, social change, comparative historical methods
E-mail: fkniss@luc.edu
Kathleen R. Maas Weigert
Carolyn Farrell, BVM, Professorship in Women and Leadership, Asst.to Provost for Social Justice Initiatives
Social justice, sociology of peace and war, Catholic social tradition
E-Mail: kmaasweigert@luc.edu
Kathleen McCourt
Professor Emerita
(Ph.D. Chicago 1975)
Urban Sociology, Race/Class/Gender, Policy Analysis/Public Policy
E-mail: kmccour@luc.edu
Mary Sparks
Professor Emerita
(Ph.D. Northwestern 1984)
Applied Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender