Sociology Faculty

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	Name: Maria Akchurin, PhD Title: Assistant Professor Specialty Area: Environmental sociology, political sociology, urban sociology, environmental justice, global and comparative sociology, sociology of knowledge Office: Coffey 433 Phone: 773.508.3451 Email: makchurin@luc.edu
	Name: Savina Balasubramanian, PhD Title: Assistant Professor Specialty Area: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction; Science, Technology, Health, and Medicine; Political and Historical Sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Law and Society; Sociology of Social Knowledge; Asia and Asian America Office: Coffey 431 Phone: 773.508.3467 Email: sbalasubramanian@luc.edu
	Name: Emily Barman, PhD Title: Dean of The Graduate School & Vice Provost of Graduate Education Specialty Area: Social Organization of Philanthropy; Altruism Office: Granada Center, Room 442 Phone: 773.508.3396 Email: ebarman@luc.edu
	Name: Jason L. Cummings, PhD Title: Assistant Professor Specialty Area: Medical Sociology; Health Disparities; Quality of Life; Gender, Race/Ethnicity; Racism; Whiteness; Social Stratification and Inequality; Critical Race Theory; Intersectionality; Quantitative Methods; Afro-Centric Research Methods Office: Coffey 432 Phone: 773.508.3439 Email: jcummings7@luc.edu
	Name: Judson G. Everitt, PhD Title: Associate Professor Undergraduate Program Director Specialty Area: Sociology of Education; Social Psychology; Inhabited Institutionalism; Cultural Sociology; Youth, Aging, & the Life Course; Organizations, Occupations, & Work; Gender, Race, Class; Healthcare Professions & Public Health; Ethnography; Teaching & Learning. Office: Coffey 427 Phone: 773.508.3427 Email: jeveritt@luc.edu
	Name: Anne Figert, PhD Title: Professor Specialty Area: Health, Medicine, Sociology of Science, Gender Office: Coffey 423 Phone: 773.508.3431 Email: afigert@luc.edu
	Name: Dana Garbarski, PhD Title: Associate Professor Specialty Area: Social determinants of health and society; health across the life course; medical sociology; social stratification & inequality; social problems; quantitative methods; research methods; survey methodology; demography. Office: Coffey 440 Phone: 773.508.3786 Email: dgarbarski@luc.edu
	Name: Fr. Patrick Gilger, SJ, PhD Title: Assistant Professor Specialty Area: Sociology of Religion; Secularism and the Secular; Social Theory; Practice Theory; Religion in the Public Sphere. Office: Coffey 429 Phone: 773.508.3463 Email: pgilger@luc.edu
	Name: Teresa Gonzales, PhD Title: Assistant Professor Specialty Area: Urban Sociology, Racial and Gender Inequality (with a focus on Black and Latina/o/x populations); Civic Engagement; Economic Development; Playfulness, Leisure, & Joy Office: Coffey 439 Phone: 773.508.3488 Email: tgonzales3@luc.edu
	Name: Minwoo Jung, PhD Title: Assistant Professor Specialty Area: Gender and Sexuality; Global and Transnational Sociology; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Economic Sociology; Urban Sociology; Qualitative Methods; East and Southeast Asia Office: Coffey 412 Phone: 773.508.3742 Email: mjung@luc.edu
‌	Name: Marilyn Krogh, PhD Title: Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director Specialty Area: Urban Sociology, Poverty, Quantitative Methods. Office: Coffey 428 Phone: 773.508.3471 Email: mkrogh@luc.edu
‌	Name: Elise Martel Cohen, PhD Title: Lecturer Specialty Area: Work and Occupations; Economic Sociology; Religion; Identity; Race, Ethnicity and Gender; Minorities in Turkey. Office: Coffey 451 Phone: 773.508.3349 Email: emartel@luc.edu
	Name: Cristian L. Paredes, PhD Title: Associate Professor, Director of the Interdisciplinary Race and Ethnicity Program Specialty Area: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Inequality, Latin America Office: Coffey 430 Phone: 773.508.3460 Email: cparedes@luc.edu
	Name: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD Title: Associate Professor, Department Chair Specialty Area: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education, Research Methods. Office: Coffey 423 Phone: 773.508.3422 Email: prosenblatt@luc.edu
‌	Name: Elfriede Wedam, PhD Title: Senior Lecturer, Research Associate-McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion Specialty Area: Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology, Community, Sociology of Violence, Life Course Sociology. Office: Coffey 436 Phone: 773.508.3669 Email: ewedam@luc.edu
‌	Name: Matthew Williams, PhD Title: Lecturer Specialty Area: Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Labor and Labor Movements, Political Economy and Political Sociology, Social Inequality, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Globalization/Transnationalism. Office: Coffey 437 Phone: 773.508.3298 Email: mwilliams26@luc.edu