Sociology at Colby College

5 faculty and 39 courses in Sociology at Colby College.

Faculty

• Damon Mayrl, Associate Professor h-index 15
• Christel Kesler, Chair, Associate Professor h-index 11
• Annie Hikido, Assistant Professor h-index 3
• Neil Gross, Professor
• Philip Fang, Visiting Assistant Professor

Courses

• Introduction to Sociology SO131fs
• Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis SO212f
• Schools and Society SO213f
• African-American Elites and Middle Classes SO214
• Classical Sociological Theory SO215f
• Sociology of Globalization SO224
• Urban Sociology SO227
• Social Movements SO228
• American Religion and Society SO236
• State, Society, and Politics SO238
• Sociology of Creativity SO241f
• College in Crisis? SO243
• Universal Health Care: Could It Work Here? SO247
• Sociology of Culture SO248s
• Life Sciences and Society SO249
• Race, Ethnicity, and Society SO252
• Comparative Perspectives on Inequality SO262
• Criminology SO265s
• Gender, Work, and Family SO266
• Social Policy and Inequality SO268f
• Introduction to Sociological Research Methods SO271s
• Sociology of Gender SO276
• Social Class and Schooling SO322s
• Elite Schooling in Global Context SO324s
• Historical Sociology SO326f
• Sociology of Hollywood SO343f
• Current Topics in Sociology SO345fs
• China and the World SO346s
• African-American Women and Social Change SO355
• Civil Rights, Black Power, and Social Change SO357
• The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois SO358
• Sociologies of Slavery and Slave Communities in the United States SO359
• Policing the American City SO364s
• American Class Structure SO366
• Art and Science of Data Analysis SO367s
• Qualitative Research Methods SO372
• Honors Project SO483
• Independent Study (Fall) SO491f
• Independent Study (Spring) SO492s

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.