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Sociology at GWU

Department of Sociology

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From left to right: Steven Tuch, Cynthia Deitch, Fran Buntman, Ron Weitzer, Hiromi Ishizawa, Lisa Torres, Charis Kubrin, Bill Chambliss, Daina Eglitis, Honey Nashman, and Greg Squires.

(Not pictured: Robert Cottrol, Amitai Etzioni, Ivy Ken, and Frederic Lemieux)


Full-time Faculty

Fran Buntman (PhD 1997, The University of Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor. Power and Resistance, Criminal Justice, Corrections, Law, Race

William Chambliss (PhD 1962, Indiana University), Professor. Criminology, Sociology of Law, Theory

Robert Cottrol (PhD 1978, Yale; JD 1984, Georgetown University), Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, Professor of History & Sociology. Law and Society, Historical/Comparative Sociology, Race Relations, Criminal Justice, Latin America

Cynthia Deitch (PhD 1980, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Associate Professor of Sociology & Women's Studies. Gender, work, Social Policy

Daina Stukuls Eglitis (Phd 1998, University of Michigan), Assistant Professor. Social Change, Gender Theory, Eastern European Transitions

Amitai Etzioni (PhD 1958, University of California, Berkeley), University Professor. American Society, Organizations, Socioeconomics

Hiromi Ishizawa (PhD 2006, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Assistant Professor. Social Demography, Urban Sociology, Immigration, Sociology of Language

Ivy Ken (PhD 1999, University of Georgia), Associate Professor. Gender, Race, and Class; Theory; Labor Markets

Charis Kubrin (PhD 2000, University of Washington), Associate Professor. Criminology, Deviance, Urban Sociology

Frederic Lemieux (PhD 2002, University of Montreal), Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Police Science Program. Policing, Crime Control

Honey Nashman (MA 1957, Smith College), Associate Professor of Sociology & Human Services. Social Welfare/Social Work, Disabilities

Gregory Squires (PhD 1976, Michigan State University), Professor. Urban Sociology, Race Relations, Social Stratification

Lisa Torres (PhD 2002, University of California, Santa Barbara), Assistant Professor. Organizational Theory, Occupations, Gender and Race Discrimination, and Research Methods

Steven Tuch (PhD 1981, Pennsylvania State University), Professor and Chair. Race Relations, Social Stratification, Research Methods

Ruth Wallace (PhD 1968, University of California, Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Sociology. Sociology of Religion, Theory, Sex and Gender

Ronald Weitzer (PhD 1985, University of California, Berkeley), Professor. Criminology, Deviance, Policing

 

Part-Time Faculty

Chester Hartman (PhD 1967, Harvard University), Adjunct Professor of Sociology. Director of Research, Poverty and Race Research Action Council. Race Relations; Urban Sociology.

Lester Joseph (JD 1980, The John Marshall School of Law), Principal Deputy Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, US Department of Justice; Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology. Introduction to Criminal Law, Fieldwork in Criminal Justice.

Peter Konwerski (EdD 1997, The George Washington University), Executive Director of Activities, Events, and Operations, The George Washington University Student Activities Center and Cloyd Heck Marvin University Center; Adjunct Instructor of Human Services. Human Services and Community, Empowering for Social Change, Seminar in Human Services, Current Issues.

Mehrdad Mashayekhi (PhD 1986, The American University). Political Sociology, Sociology of Third World Development, Globalization, and Social Change.

Kevin P. Mulvey (PhD 1993, Northeastern University), Social Science Analyst at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Division of Services Improvement in the Organization of Financing Branch; Assistant Professorial Lecturer of Sociology. Research Methods, Techniques of Data Analysis, Deviance, Applied Sociology, Evaluation Research, Quantitative Methodology, Sociology of Drinking, Sociology of AIDS, Drugs and Society.

Victoria A. Sardi (PhD 2003, The George Washington University), Project Coordinator for Graduate Certificate Programs at GW in Counseling Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Persons; Lecturer of Human Services. Psychosocial Adjustment, Lifespan Development, Child and Adolescent Development, Counseling Older Adults.

Richard B. Zamoff (PhD 1968, Columbia University), Adjunct Associate Professor. Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Sports, and Program Evaluation.

 

Department Staff

Octavia Kelsey, Executive Aid, okelseyg@gwu.edu
Katie O'Byrne, soc@gwu.edu

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