Sociology at Princeton University

22 faculty and 0 courses in Sociology at Princeton University.

Faculty

• Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Emeritus; Senior Scholar h-index 102
  Notable: “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology” (1998) · 11,935 citations
• Paul DiMaggio, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Emeritus h-index 60
  Notable: “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields” (1983) · 36,052 citations
• Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology; Interim Director, Office of Population Research h-index 52
  Notable: “Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals” (2018) · 2,848 citations
• Kathryn Edin, William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director, Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing h-index 45
  Notable: “Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work.” (1998) · 591 citations
• Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology h-index 40
  Notable: “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty” (2012) · 700 citations
• Thomas J. Espenshade, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus; Senior Scholar h-index 36
  Notable: “Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Academic Success in College” (2005) · 1,001 citations
• Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs h-index 30
  Notable: “Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America” (2003) · 662 citations
• Shamus Rahman Khan, Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology h-index 23
  Notable: “Talk Is Cheap” (2014) · 774 citations
• Filiz Garip, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs h-index 21
  Notable: “Network Effects and Social Inequality” (2012) · 623 citations
• Sanyu A. Mojola, Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs h-index 21
  Notable: “Sexual Behavior in China: Trends and Comparisons” (2007) · 122 citations
• Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Professor of Sociology; Acting Chair, Effron Center for the Study of America h-index 19
  Notable: “Segmented assimilation on the ground: The new second generation in early adulthood” (2005) · 621 citations
• Mitchell Duneier, Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology h-index 14
  Notable: “How Not to Lie with Ethnography” (2011) · 185 citations
• Tod G. Hamilton, Professor of Sociology h-index 14
  Notable: “Immigration and the health of U.S. black adults: Does country of origin matter?” (2011) · 146 citations
• John N. Robinson III, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Richard Allen Lester University Preceptor h-index 12
  Notable: “Cultural Change in Family Firms: Anticipating and Managing Business and Family Transitions.” (1987) · 544 citations
• Benjamin H. Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs h-index 9
  Notable: “Housing, institutions, money: the failures and promise of human settlements policy and practice in South Africa” (2011) · 62 citations
• Adam Goldstein, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology
  Economic sociology, organizations, and social stratification. His current research examines the social consequences of financial capitalism for institutions, households, organizations, and inequality in the United States. Selected P
• Alondra Nelson, Visiting Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Sociology
• Doug Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Emeritus
• Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
  Public health, the history and sociology of medicine, risk in obstetrics, and medical ethics. She is currently conducting research on diseases and agenda-setting, and on fetal personhood and the evolution of obstetrical practice and
• Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
  Northeast Asia—China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea—including modernization, national identities, mutual perceptions, regionalism, and strategic thinking. Much of his work has involved comparisons—of socialism and the transition away fr
• Jennifer L. Jennings, Class of 1988 Professor in Domestic Policy; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
• Kimberly Kracman, Associate Research Scholar

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.