27 faculty and 0 courses in Sociology at University at Buffalo (SUNY).
- Debra Street, Professor, Director of International Programs h-index 27
Health and Income Security; Long-term Care; Families, Aging and the Life Course; Comparative Public Policies/Welfare State; Mixed-methods Research Design
Notable: “National Outcomes of Cataract Extraction” (1994) · 370 citations
- Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, Associate Professor h-index 23
Medical Sociology; Demography; Chronic Pain; Research Methods
Notable: “A global study of pain prevalence across 52 countries: examining the role of country-level contextual factors” (2021) · 345 citations
- Robert Adelman, Professor h-index 21
Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Immigration
Notable: “The immigration–crime relationship: Evidence across US metropolitan areas” (2005) · 327 citations
- Robert Granfield, Professor h-index 20
Law and Society; Sociology of Drugs and Addiction; Crime, Deviance and Social Control; Law and Urban Justice; Occupations and Professions
Notable: “Conceptualizing Recovery Capital: Expansion of a Theoretical Construct” (2008) · 631 citations
- Ashley Barr, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 20
Family; Family Inequality; Aging and Life Course; Health; Quantitative Methods
Notable: “Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women” (2015) · 222 citations
- Sampson Lee Blair, Associate Professor h-index 19
Sociology of the Family; Child and Adolescent Development; Gender; Ethnicity
Notable: “Measuring the Division of Household Labor” (1991) · 488 citations
- Christopher Mele, Professor h-index 15
Urban Sociology; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Urban Governance; Community Studies
Notable: “Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City” (2002) · 315 citations
- Yunmei (Iris) Lu, Assistant Professor, Director of Criminology MS Program h-index 14
Life Course Criminology; Social Change; Comparative Study; Social Responses to Crime; Sentencing; Quantitative Methods
Notable: “Effect of salicylic acid on the antioxidant system in the pulp of ‘Cara cara’ navel orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) at different storage temperatures” (2007) · 153 citations
- Mary Nell Trautner, Associate Professor, Director of UB College in Prison Program h-index 13
Sociology of Law; Gender, Sexuality, and the Body; Criminology; Work and Organizations
Notable: “Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone” (2011) · 199 citations
- Kristen Schultz Lee, Professor, Department Chair h-index 12
Gender and the Life Course; Families; Aging; Education; Happiness; Japan
Notable: “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Happiness: A Cross‐National Analysis of 27 Countries” (2012) · 128 citations
- Brenda L. Moore, Associate Professor h-index 11
Race and Ethnic Relations; Military Sociology; Social Stratification
Notable: “And justice for all: How organizational justice climate deters sexual harassment” (2018) · 63 citations
- Christopher Dennison, Associate Professor h-index 11
Life Course Criminology; Social Mobility; Social Responses to Crime; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods
Notable: “Self‐reported experiences and consequences of unfair treatment by police*” (2021) · 49 citations
- Erin Hatton, Professor h-index 9
Work and Labor Markets; Labor and Labor Movements: Law and Social Policy; Race, Gender, Class and Inequality
Notable: “Mechanisms of invisibility: rethinking the concept of invisible work” (2017) · 272 citations
- Shelley Kimelberg, Associate Professor h-index 9
Community and Urban Sociology; Sociology of Education; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility
Notable: “Attitudes Toward Diversity and the School Choice Process” (2012) · 145 citations
- Allison Dwyer Emory, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Crime, Law, and Deviance; Sociology of Family; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Neighborhoods; Public Policy
Notable: “Public Housing Redevelopment, Neighborhood Change, and the Restructuring of Urban Inequality” (2017) · 70 citations
- Yige Dong, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Political Economy; International Development; Labor; Gender; Social Welfare; Comparative-Historical Methods
Notable: “What is made-in-China feminism(s)? Gender discontent and class friction in post-socialist China” (2019) · 214 citations
- Jordan Fox, Associate Professor h-index 8
Environmental Sociology; Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science; Historical Sociology; Social Theory
Notable: “The impacts of technology: a re-evaluation of the STIRPAT model” (2015) · 51 citations
- Veronica Horowitz, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Punishment, Crime, Law and Society, Gender, Mixed-Methods
Notable: “Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions” (2022) · 22 citations
- Victoria Piehowski, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Punishment; Medical Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Discourse Analysis; Social Policy; Violence; Treatment Courts; Gender, Race, Class
Notable: “A Debt of Care: Commercial Bail and the Gendered Logic of Criminal Justice Predation” (2019) · 63 citations
- Quintin Gorman, Postdoctoral Associate h-index 3
Racial Attitudes; Racial Identity; Second-Class Citizenship; Social Psychology; W.E.B. Du Bois
Notable: ““Who Cares?”: Investigating Consistency in Expressions of Racial Apathy among Whites” (2019) · 16 citations
- Isabel Anadon, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Criminology & Criminal Justice; Detention and Prisons; Law and Society; Migration; Punishment; Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods
Notable: “The Prison Bust: Declining carceral capacity in an era of mass incarceration” (2023) · 11 citations
- Jared Strohl, Teaching Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Lourdes Vera, Assistant Professor
Environmental Health and Justice; Studies of Science, Technology, and Society; Social Movements; Data Visualization and Analytics
- Misty Harris, Teaching Assistant Professor
Social Inequalities and Health; Medicalization; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Education; Rural Sociology
- Sara DiPasquale Carter, Teaching Assistant Professor
Center around gender, crime, and language. She questions the perceptions and understanding of gender inclusive language in higher education. She is also interested in gender based crimes, such as domestic and sexual violence. Education PhD
- Sarah Ford, Teaching Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Sojung Lim, Associate Professor, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies
South Korea, East Asia, Asian American, Family and Work, Health, Social Inequality, Demography, Quantitative methods
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.