The faculty includes 17 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, the Religious Research Association and the current president of the Society of Scientific Study of Religion. 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, Sociological Quarterly, Sociology of Religion, Symbolic Interaction 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.

Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Jason L. Cummings, PhD	Assistant Professor	Coffey 443	773.508.3439
Minwoo Jung, PhD	Assistant Professor	Coffey 439	773.508.3742
Patrick Gilger, S.J., PhD	Assistant Professor	Coffey 429	773.508.3463
Teresa Gonzales, PhD	Assistant Professor	Coffey 439	773.508.3488
Savina Balasubramanian, PhD	Assistant Professor	Coffey 431	773.508.3467
Judson G. Everitt, PhD	Assistant Professor Undergraduate Program Director	Coffey 427	773.508.3427
Anne Figert, PhD	Professor	Coffey 423	773.508.3431
Dana Garbarski, PhD	Associate Professor	Coffey 440	773.508.3786
Ayana Karanja, PhD	Professor Emeritus
Marilyn Krogh, PhD	Associate Professor Graduate Program Director	Coffey 428	773.508.3471
Lauren Langman, PhD	Professor Emeritus
Elise Martel Cohen, PhD	Lecturer	Coffey 434	773.508.3349
Cristian Paredes, PhD	Assistant Professor	Coffey 430	773.508.3460
Peter Rosenblatt, PhD	Associate Professor Director of the Urban Studies program at Loyola	Coffey 438	773.508.3422
Elfriede Wedam, PhD	Advanced Lecturer Research Associate-McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion	Coffey 436	773.508.3669
Matthew Williams, PhD	Lecturer	Coffey Hall 437	773.508.3298
Rhys H. Williams, PhD	Professor Department Chair Director-McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion	Coffey 421	773.508.3459
Kathleen Maas Weigert, PhD	Professor Emerita

Affiliated, Part-Time, Emeritus Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Kathleen Adams, PhD	Professor Affiliated	Coffey 235	773.508.3458
Richard Block, PhD	Professor Emeritus
Marcel Fredericks, PhD	Professor Emeritus
Christine George, PhD	Associate Research Professor	Cuneo 414	773.508.8533
James Johnson, PhD	Associate Director, Career Development Center; Director, Pre-Health Professions Program; Part-time Instructor	Sullivan 268	773.508.3636
Kenneth Johnson, PhD	Affiliate Research Professor
Fred Kniss, PhD	Affiliate Research Professor
Kathleen McCourt, PhD	Professor Emerita
Philip Nyden, PhD	Professor Emeritus of Sociology and CURL's Founding Director		847.328.9279 (home)
Judith Wittner, PhD	Professor Emerita
J. Talmadge Wright, PhD	Professor Emeritus of Sociology