Faculty
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.
Name | Title | Office # | Phone/E-mail |
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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 |
Name | Title | Office # | Phone/E-mail |
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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) |
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Judith Wittner, PhD | Professor Emerita | ||
J. Talmadge Wright, PhD | Professor Emeritus of Sociology |