Sociology/Criminology Faculty Specializations

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Our Department specializes in five areas of research and teaching:

• Crime, Law, and Social Control (Lyons, Broidy, Vélez, Roberts A.)
• Sociology of Health and Medicine (Barker, Whooley, Huyser)
• Race and Ethnicity (López, Vélez, Ibarra, Gonzales, Huyser, Lyons)
• Social Movements (Nepstad, Wood, Santoro, Gonzales, Whooley)
• Comparative Sociology - usually with a focus on Latin America (Nepstad, Tiano, Schrank, Fiala, Wood, Ibarra)

Additional Areas (available for graduate student comprehensive exams):

• Education (López, Fiala, Ibarra)
• Gender (Tiano, López, Broidy, Barker)
• Political (Nepstad, Wood, Schrank, Gonzales, Santoro)
• Religion (Nepstad, Wood)
• Organizations (Roberts, Fiala)

Other:

• John Roberts (quantitative methods, networks)
• Aki Roberts (quantitative methods)
• Andrew Schrank (economic sociology)
• Owen Whooley (sociology of science and knowledge)
• Kristin Barker (sociology of science and knowledge)