Sociology at University at Buffalo (SUNY)

27 faculty and 0 courses in Sociology at University at Buffalo (SUNY).

Faculty

• Christopher Dennison, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Life Course Criminology; Social Mobility; Social Responses to Crime; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods
• Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, Associate Professor h-index 23
  Medical Sociology; Demography; Chronic Pain; Research Methods
• Ashley Barr, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 20
  Family; Family Inequality; Aging and Life Course; Health; Quantitative Methods
• Robert Adelman, Professor h-index 20
  Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Immigration
• Sampson Lee Blair, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Sociology of the Family; Child and Adolescent Development; Gender; Ethnicity
• 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
• 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
• Kristen Schultz Lee, Professor, Department Chair h-index 12
  Gender and the Life Course; Families; Aging; Education; Happiness; Japan
• Brenda L. Moore, Associate Professor h-index 11
  Race and Ethnic Relations; Military Sociology; Social Stratification
• Erin Hatton, Professor h-index 9
  Work and Labor Markets; Labor and Labor Movements: Law and Social Policy; Race, Gender, Class and Inequality
• Allison Dwyer Emory, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Crime, Law, and Deviance; Sociology of Family; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Neighborhoods; Public Policy
• Yige Dong, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Political Economy; International Development; Labor; Gender; Social Welfare; Comparative-Historical Methods
• Jordan Fox, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Environmental Sociology; Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science; Historical Sociology; Social Theory
• Veronica Horowitz, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Punishment, Crime, Law and Society, Gender, Mixed-Methods
• Lourdes Vera, Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Environmental Health and Justice; Studies of Science, Technology, and Society; Social Movements; Data Visualization and Analytics
• Victoria Piehowski, Assistant Professor h-index 3
  Punishment; Medical Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Discourse Analysis; Social Policy; Violence; Treatment Courts; Gender, Race, Class
• Quintin Gorman, Postdoctoral Associate h-index 3
  Racial Attitudes; Racial Identity; Second-Class Citizenship; Social Psychology; W.E.B. Du Bois
• Isabel Anadon, Assistant Professor h-index 2
  Criminology & Criminal Justice; Detention and Prisons; Law and Society; Migration; Punishment; Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods
• Christopher Mele, Professor
  Urban Sociology; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Urban Governance; Community Studies
• Debra Street, Professor, Director of International Programs
  Health and Income Security; Long-term Care; Families, Aging and the Life Course; Comparative Public Policies/Welfare State; Mixed-methods Research Design
• Jared Strohl, Teaching Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Misty Harris, Teaching Assistant Professor
  Social Inequalities and Health; Medicalization; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Education; Rural Sociology
• Robert Granfield, Professor
  Law and Society; Sociology of Drugs and Addiction; Crime, Deviance and Social Control; Law and Urban Justice; Occupations and Professions
• 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
• Shelley Kimelberg, Associate Professor
  Community and Urban Sociology; Sociology of Education; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility
• 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 2026-07-01.