Sociology at Bryn Mawr College

10 faculty and 21 courses in Sociology at Bryn Mawr College.

Faculty

• Wendy A Cadge, President and Professor of Sociology h-index 34
  President Cadge's current research focuses on religious innovation and ensures that scholars, educators and religious leaders are prepared to lead in the midst of changes transforming religious and spiritual institutions in the United State
  Notable: “Religion and Public Opinion about Same‐Sex Marriage*” (2006) · 425 citations
• David Karen, Emeritus Professor of Sociology h-index 14
  Notable: “Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age.” (1994) · 409 citations
• Nathan Daniel Wright, Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology h-index 8
  Es on three main areas: religion, culture, and public opinion, with special attention paid to the relationship between cultural change and cultural persistence. He has studied historical changes to religious belief and practice within the C
  Notable: “Reading and the Reading Class in the Twenty-First Century” (2005) · 135 citations
• Mary J. Osirim, Professor Emeritus of Sociology h-index 8
  Have focused on gender and development, race and ethnic relations, immigration, the family and economic sociology in Sub-Saharan Africa, the English-Speaking Caribbean and the U.S. During the past 20 years, she has conducted fieldwork
  Notable: “Women’s and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa” (2004) · 137 citations
• Amanda Barrett Cox, Assistant Professor of Sociology h-index 8
  Notable: “Parental Challenges to Organizational Authority in an Elite School District: The Role of Cultural, Social, and Symbolic Capital” (2018) · 65 citations
• Veronica Montes, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies h-index 6
  Notable: “The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Masculinity” (2013) · 103 citations
• Nora E. Taplin-Kaguru, Associate Professor of Sociology h-index 2
  Notable: “Mobile but Stuck: Multigenerational Neighborhood Decline and Housing Search Strategies for African Americans” (2018) · 4 citations
• David C. Sorge, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
• Tyler G. Baldor, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
• Xiaogao Zhou, Assistant Professor of Sociology

Courses

• Society, Culture, and the Individual SOCL B102
• The Study of Gender in Society SOCL B201
• Social Dynamics of Violence SOCL B216
• Social Perspectives on Health SOCL B220
• The Social Life of Emotions SOCL B221
• Women in Society SOCL B225
• Punishment and Social Order SOCL B231
• A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in Philly SOCL B232
• Mexican-American Communities SOCL B235
• Public Opinion SOCL B262
• Sociology of Deviance SOCL B269
• Social Problems, Community Conversations SOCL B275
• Social Theory SOCL B302
• Junior Conference: Discipline-Based Intensive Writing SOCL B303
• Transnational Queer Politics SOCL B307
• Sociology of Popular Culture SOCL B332
• Dilemmas of Nonviolence in a Violent World SOCL B334
• Modernizing China SOCL B336
• Digital Sociology: Technology, Culture, and Community SOCL B365
• Senior Conference SOCL B398
• Supervised Work SOCL B403

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.