Robert Agnew

(Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980); criminology, social psychology, theory

Current Research: causes of delinquency

Selected Publications: Pressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory (Roxbury, 2006); Why Do They Do It? A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency (Roxbury, 2005); Juvenile Delinquency: Causes and Control (Roxbury, 2005); Criminological Theory: Past to Present (Roxbury, 2005).

OFFICE: 211 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7502

E-MAIL: bagnew@emory.edu

Delores Aldridge

(Ph.D., Purdue University, 1971); Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies; African American culture, intergroup relations, race, gender, families, stratification. A past president of national organizations on four separate occasions and one of the leading

Current Research: Africana theory, black male-female relations; women in the labor market; cultural democracy and engendering in higher education.

Selected Publications: Africana Theory: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms, forthcoming , Washington State University Press, 2007; "Race, Gender, and Africana Theorizing," Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research, 2006; "African American Women Since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race," A Companion to African American History, Blackwell Publishing, 2005; Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies, (Co-Editor) Lexington Books, 2000; Focusing: Black Male-Female Relationships, Third World Press, 1995; "On Matters of Race and Culture," Sociological Focus, 2001; "Black Women and the New World Order: Toward a Fit in the Economic Marketplace," in Latinas and African American Women at Work, 1999.

OFFICE: 228 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-0534

E-MAIL: daldri2@emory.edu

Matthew Archibald

(Ph.D., University of Washington, 2002); organizations, social movements and medical sociology

Current Research: institutional ecology; legitimation and authority in health care movements; voluntary associations; motivational enhancement in cocaine addiction

Selected Publications:

Archibald, Matthew E. 2007. The Evolution of Self-Help. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.

Archibald, Matthew E. Forthcoming, 2008. "Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Substance Abuse Treatment Provision, Treatment Needs and Utilization" In: Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs (Ed), Research in the Sociology of Health Care, vol. 25.

Archibald, Matthew E. Forthcoming, 2008. "The Impact of Density Dependence, Sociopolitical Legitimation and Competitive Intensity on Self-Help/Mutual-Aid Formation." Organization Studies

Archibald, Matthew E and Kendralin J. Freeman. Forthcoming, 2008. "Professional and Political Alliances, Legitimating Authority and the Longevity of Health Movement Organizations." Research in Social Movements Conflict and Change.

Archibald, Matthew E. Forthcoming, 2008. "Institutional Environments, Sociopolitical Processes, and Health Movement Organizations: The Growth of Self-Help/Mutual-Aid," Sociological Forum

OFFICE: 213 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-5488

E-MAIL: marchib@emory.edu

John Boli

(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976); world culture and international organizations since 1850; Christendom and the origins of transnational culture and organization since 1100; structure and process in the world polity; global civil society and world citizenship

Current Research: World Culture: Origins and Consequences (co-author), Blackwell, 2005; The Globalization Reader, 3rd ed. (co-editor), Blackwell, 2007; Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875 (co-editor), Stanford University Press, 1999; “Globalization” (co-author) in The International Handbook of Social Problems, 2003; “Globalization” in Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia, 2002; "World Society and the Nation-State" (co-author), American Journal of Sociology, 1997.

Selected Publications: "Religious Organizations" (co-author) in Globalization, Religion, and Culture, 2007

OFFICE: 211 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7509

E-MAIL: jboli@emory.edu

Irene Browne

(Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1991); stratification, gender, work and occupations, poverty

Current Research: gender, race/ethnicity and inequality in urban labor markets.

Selected Publications: Browne, Irene and Rachel Askew. 2006. "Latinas at Work: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity and Class," in Gender, Ethnicity and Race in the Workplace Volume I. Browne, Irene and Joya Misra. 2003. "The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market." Annual Review of Sociology. Opportunities Lost? Race, Industrial Restructuring and Employment among Young Women Heading Households," Social Forces 2000; Latinas and African American Women at Work, (editor), Russell Sage Foundation, 1999; "Explaining the Black-White Gap in Labor Force Participation among Women Heading Households"American Sociological Review, 1997;

OFFICE: 208 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7508

E-MAIL: ibrown@emory.edu

Sam Cherribi

(Ph.D.,University of Amsterdam., 2000); European Politics & Public Policy, Islam in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Development in Low Income Countries, European Union Governance.

Current Research: ethnicity and political engagement in Europe; media and contested issues in the public space; political elites; European Islam.

Selected Publications: "From Baghdad to Paris: Al-Jazeera and the Veil" The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 11(2006), 121-138. "Olanda (s)velata: intolleranza, populismo e media." Comunicazione politica, IV/2 (2003), pp. 141-165. Translated from my manuscript entitled Outing the Dutch: Intolerance, populism and the media. This is the leading Italian journal for research on political communication. "Politicians' Perceptions of the Muslim Problem: The Dutch Example in European Context" Thomas Banchoff [ed] Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. "The Council of Europe's Human Rights Perspective on the Media." Diana Papademas [ed] Studies in Communications Volume 6, Human Rights and Media, New York: Elsevier Science Publishers. Forthcoming.

OFFICE: 112A Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7909

E-MAIL: scherri@emory.edu

Dennis J. Condron

(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2005); Stratification, sociology of education, race and ethnic relations, poverty.

Current Research: Class and racial disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes.

Selected Publications:

Condron, Dennis J. 2008. "An Early Start: Skill Grouping and Unequal Reading Gains in the Elementary Years." The Sociological Quarterly 49:363-94.

Condron, Dennis J. 2007. "Stratification and Educational Sorting: Explaining Ascriptive Inequalities in Early Childhood Reading Group Placement." Social Problems 54:139-60.

Condron, Dennis J. and Vincent J. Roscigno. 2003. "Disparities Within: Unequal Spending and Achievement in an Urban School District." Sociology of Education 76:18-36.

OFFICE: 232 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-6272

E-MAIL: dennis.condron@emory.edu

Timothy J. Dowd

(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996); music, complex organizations, culture, mass media, economic sociology.

Current Research: organizational and musical change in the US recording industry; media careers; the construction of the orchestral canon; public policy and US railroading; CEO succession in the US hospital industry.

Selected Publications: "Legitimacy as a Social Process" (co-author), Annual Review of Sociology, 2006; "Concentration and Diversity Revisited: Production Logics and the U.S. Mainstream Recording Market, 1940 to 1990," Social Forces, 2004; "The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825 to 1922" (co-author), American Sociological Review, 2000.

OFFICE: 231 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-6259

E-MAIL: tdowd@emory.edu

Roberto Franzosi

(PhD., Johns Hopkins University, 1981); political sociology, media, culture, sociology of science, historical sociology, methodology

Current Research: rhetorical foundations of social science quantitative work; the rise of Italian fascism; ways of quantifying text beyond narrative and content analysis

Selected Publications: From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science, Cambridge University Press, 2004; "The Return of the Actor. Networks of Interactions Among Social Actors During Periods of High Mobilization (Italy, 1919-22)," Mobilization, 1999; The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1995; "From Words to Numbers: A Set Theory Framework for the Collection, Organization and Analysis of Narrative Data," Sociological Methodology, 1994; "Strike Data in Search of a Theory: The Italian Case in the Postwar Period," Politics and Society, 1989.

OFFICE: 212 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7533

E-MAIL: rfranzo@emory.edu

Elizabeth Griffiths

(Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2007); criminology, urban sociology, work and occupations.

Current Research: social ecology of homicide; family structure and victimization risk; mobility triangles.

Selected Publications: "Traveling to Violence" (co-author), The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2005; "Communities, Street Guns, and Homicide Trajectories in Chicago, 1980-1995" (co-author), Criminology, 2004.

OFFICE: 217C Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7031

E-MAIL: elizabeth.griffiths@emory.edu

Karen Hegtvedt

(Ph.D., University of Washington, 1984); Social psychology, socialization, emotions, literature.

Current Research: Legitimacy and justice; perceptions of justice for others.

Selected Publications: "Justice Frameworks" (2006) in Contemporary Social Psychological Theories (ed. Peter Burke); "Doing justice to the group: Examining the roles of the group in justice research" (2005) in Annual Review of Sociology; "Justice beyond the individual: A future with legitimation" with Cathryn Johnson (2000) in Social Psychology Quarterly.

OFFICE: 227 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7517

E-MAIL: khegtv@emory.edu

Alexander M. Hicks

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979); Winship Distinguished Research Professor; political sociology and economy of industrial societies, comparative political economy and development, methodology, culture.

Current Research: relations between class formation, political organization, social policy, and cultural forms.

Selected Publications: Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism, Cornell University Press, 1999; "Cooperative Institutions and Political Economic Performance," (co-author), American Journal of Sociology, 1998; "The Programmatic Emergence of the Welfare State," (co-author), American Sociological Review, 1995.

OFFICE: 215 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-0832

E-MAIL: ahicks@emory.edu

Cathryn Johnson

(Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1990); Social psychology, status and power, work and formal organizations, emotions.

Current Research: relationships between organizational structure, leader legitimacy, and formal group interaction; legitimacy and dependency in conflict situations.

Selected Publications: "Legitimacy as a Social Process," (co-author), Annual Review of Sociology, 2006; "Emotional Reactions to Conflict: Do Dependence and Legitimacy Matter?", (co-author), Social Forces, 2000; "Justice Beyond the Individual: A Future with Legitimation," (co-author), Social Psychology Quarterly, 2000; "Gender, Legitimate Authority, and Leader-Subordinate Conversations, " American Sociological Review, 1994.

OFFICE: 226 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7520

E-MAIL: cjohns@emory.edu

Corey Lee M. Keyes

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1995); mental health, aging, social psychology.

Current Research: complete mental health; subjective change - particularly the ambivalence of making improvements in one's life; positive social relationships and generativity throughout the life course.

Selected Publications: "The Structure of Psychological Well-Being Revisited," (co-author), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995; "Social Well-Being," Social Psychology Quarterly, 1998; "Psychological Well-Being in Midlife," (co-author), in Life in the Middle, 1999; "Subjective Change and Mental Health: A Self-Concept Theory," (co-author), Social Psychology Quarterly, forthcoming.

OFFICE: 203 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7894

E-MAIL: ckeyes@emory.edu

Frank J. Lechner

(Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1985); global change, culture, religion, theory.

Current Research: national identity in globalization

Selected Publications: World Culture: Origins and Consequences (with John Boli), Blackwell 2005; The Globalization Reader (edited with John Boli), Blackwell 2007, third edition; "Religious Rejections of Globalization" in Religion and Global Civil Society, Oxford 2005.

OFFICE: 214 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7530

E-MAIL: flechn@emory.edu

Jeff Mullis

(Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995); sociology of law, medical sociology, social control, research methods.

Current Research: conflict management in doctor-patient relationships under managed care; the social structure of legal defenses and other counterarguments.

Selected Publications: "The Social Control of Adult-Child Sex," (co-author with Dawn Baunach), in Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (2003); "Individualism and Its Discontents: The Response to the Seriously Mentally Ill in Late Twentieth Century America," (co-author with Allan Horwitz), Sociological Focus, 1998; "Medical Malpractice, Social Structure, and Social Control," Sociological Forum, 1995.

OFFICE: 212 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-0181

E-MAIL: jmullis@emory.edu

Richard Rubinson

(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974); political economy of development, political sociology, sociology of education, organizations.

Current Research: comparative studies of industrial regulation; schooling, state, and economy in East Asia

Selected Publications: "The Sociology of Educational Expansion," Sociology of Education, 1999; "Education and the Economy," (co-author), in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, 1995; The Political Construction of Education, (editor), Praeger 1991; "Class Formation, Political Organization, and Institutions," American Journal of Sociology, 1986.

OFFICE: 207 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7531

E-MAIL: rrubin@emory.edu

Tracy L. Scott

(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1999); culture, health and healthcare organizations, religion, gender

Current Research: spiritual narratives in everyday life; organizational culture in the hospital; nurse and physician perceptions of teamwork.

Selected Publications: "Choices, Constraints, and Calling: Protestant Conservative Women and the Meaning of Work in the U.S.," International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2002; "Health Literacy and Preventive Health Care Use among Medicare Enrollees in a Managed Care Organization" (co-author), Medical Care, 2002.

OFFICE: 230 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7515

E-MAIL: tscott@emory.edu

Regina Werum

(Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995); race and gender stratification in education; comparative international educational inequality; social movements

Current Research: race and gender stratification in vocational education; comparative international educational inequality; gay rights mobilization

Selected Publications:

Simon Cheng, Leslie Martin, and Regina Werum. Forthcoming (2007). "Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany." American Journal of Education.

Werum, Regina and Lauren Rauscher. 2006. "How Status Competition Complicates Institutional Explanations of Higher Educational Expansion: A Caribbean Case Study." Pp. 239-280 in Alexander Wiseman and David P. Baker (eds.). The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory. New York: Elsevier Press.

Werum, Regina and Bill Winders. 2001. "Who's 'In' and Who's 'Out': State Fragmentation and the Struggle Over Gay Rights, 1974-1999." Social Problems 48:3:386-410

OFFICE: 205 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-7514

E-MAIL: rwerum@emory.edu

Kathryn Yount

(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1999); social demography, public health, research methods

Current Research: International social demography; public health research; gender; sociology of the family; life course studies; research methods

Selected Publications: Yount, K.M. and J.S. Carrera. (September, 2006). Domestic violence among married women in Cambodia. Social Forces; Yount, K.M. and E.M. Agree. (2005). Differences in disability among older women and men in Egypt and Tunisia. Demography 42(1):169–187; Yount, K.M. (2005). Women’s family power and gender preference in Minya, Egypt. Journal of Marriage and Family. 67(2):410-28; Yount, K.M. (2004). Symbolic gender politics, religious group identity, and the decline in female genital cutting in Minia, Egypt. Social Forces, 82(3): 1063-1090; Yount, K.M. (2001). Excess mortality of girls in the Middle East in the 1970s and 1980s: Patterns, correlates, and gaps in research. Population Studies 55(3):291–308.

OFFICE: 202 Tarbutton Hall

PHONE: 404-727-8511

E-MAIL: kyount@emory.edu