25 faculty and 31 courses in Sociology at Tulane University.
- Kevin Fox Gotham, Professor h-index 35
Forensic sociology, environmental criminology, security and crime prevention, real estate and housing policy, and the political economy of tourism. He is board certified in security management as a Certified Protection Professional
Notable: “Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans' Vieux Carre (French Quarter)” (2005) · 617 citations
- Carl L. Bankston III, Professor h-index 33
Immigration, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Religion, Historical Sociology Current Research Projects Ideologies of Equality in American Society, Contemporary Migration to New Orleans Selected Publications 2009. Public Education – Amer
Notable: “Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States.” (1999) · 715 citations
- Edward V. Morse, Professor Emeritus h-index 31
Notable: “Size, Centralization and Organizational Adoption of Innovations” (1977) · 411 citations
- Katherine Johnson, Professor h-index 19
Sociology of Reproduction; Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healthcare; Family Sociology; Sociology of Gender; Feminist Theory My primary research interests are in sociology of reproduction, which lies at the intersections of the sociology
Notable: “Race-Ethnicity and Medical Services for Infertility” (2011) · 137 citations
- Joel A. Devine, Professor Emeritus h-index 19
Es on the role of mass entertainment and the construction of "place"; my concern being commercial cinematic representation and cities, particularly as it relates to the inter-connected processes of place-making and place-identity. Using New
Notable: “Macroeconomic and Social-Control Policy Influences on Crime Rate Changes” (1988) · 169 citations
- David A. Smilde, Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations h-index 16
Notable: “De-Centering and Re-Centering: Rethinking Concepts and Methods in the Sociological Study of Religion” (2011) · 104 citations
- Lisa Wade, Associate Professor h-index 15
Dr. Wade's publication record includes work on college hookup culture, the sociology of the body, and U.S. discourse about female genital cutting, all of which reflect her theoretical interest in gender and its intersections, sexuality, cul
Notable: “Hook-Up Culture: Setting a New Research Agenda” (2010) · 183 citations
- Michele Adams, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Work–Family Imagery and Gender Stereotypes: Television and the Reproduction of Difference” (1997) · 112 citations
- Patrick Rafail, Professor h-index 14
Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Applied Statistics, Political Sociology, Social Control, Complex Organizations, Urban Policing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing Current Research Projects My current research projects e
Notable: “The Structure of Material Hardship in U.S. Households: An Examination of the Coherence behind Common Measures of Well-Being” (2009) · 127 citations
- Martha K. Huggins, Professor Emerita h-index 13
Labor Control and Repression, State-Related Vigilantism, U.S. International Policing as Political Control in Latin America, Marginalization of Brazilian 'Others', Torture and Assassination. Current Research Projects Working within a qualita
Notable: “Urban Violence and Police Privatization in Brazil: Blended Invisibility” (2000) · 74 citations
- Stephen Ostertag, Associate Professor h-index 12
Es on social media use in the wake of disaster. Using the months and years following hurricane Katrina in New Orleans as a case study, he investigated the shared problems, frustrations, and norms that motivated and guided how people rebuilt
Notable: “Trust and other Characteristics Associated with Health Care Utilization by Injection Drug Users” (2006) · 63 citations
- Mimi Schippers, Professor h-index 11
Sexuality, Gender, Social Theory, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Culture, Polyamory, Non-Monogamies Current Research Project My current research focuses on the affective and emotional dimensions of consensual non-monogamies and polyamory an
Notable: “Recovering the feminine other: masculinity, femininity, and gender hegemony” (2007) · 1,318 citations
- Corey Miles, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Situated at the nexus of Black performativity and carcerality, with a regional focus on the U.S. south. He investigates how surveillance and policing are technologies that fuel the structure of the U.S. south, and the ways Black aesthet
Notable: “Toward best practice in cancer mutation detection with whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing” (2021) · 213 citations
- Mariana Craciun, Associate Professor h-index 5
I am a cultural sociologist who studies expertise, professions, science, and technology. At its broadest, my research investigates what it means to be an expert in conditions of uncertainty. Empirically, I focus on the field of mental healt
Notable: “Emotions and Knowledge in Expert Work: A Comparison of Two Psychotherapies” (2017) · 41 citations
- Andrea S. Boyles, Associate Professor h-index 4
Black citizen-police interactions; neighborhood disorder and disadvantage; community development and engagement; and resilience and collective action. Publications Boyles, Andrea S. 2019. You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder an
Notable: “War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind” (2006) · 24 citations
- Camilo Arturo Leslie, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Territoriality, map-mindedness, and the politics of place” (2016) · 21 citations
- Mohamed Mohamed, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 2
Notable: “Phytochemical Screening and Hypoglycemic Property of Globimetula braunii (Loranthaceae) Leaf Extracts” (2018) · 3 citations
- Amalia Leguizamón, Associate Professor
Dr. Leguizamón’s research work encompasses the political economy of the environment, with a regional focus on Latin America. She investigates the power dynamics that fuel development projects in the region and their uneven impact on society
- Amanda Bertana, Assistant Professor
- Cameron Leahy, Visiting Assistant Professor
Es on disasters and marginalized populations, including how vulnerable groups cultivate preparedness and resilience. Courses taught include Social Problems and Foundations of Sociology. Publications Cannon, C. E. B., Leahy, C., Buttell, F.
- Christopher Oliver, Senior Professor of Practice, Sociology and Environmental Studies
In the areas of urban political ecology, urban and environmental sociology, and issues regarding urban development, urban policies, and state regulatory mechanisms. My past research focuses on issues of environmental pollution and clean
- Fred Koeing, Professor Emeritus
- Laura McKinney, Associate Professor
Environmental Sociology; Global Political Economy; Climate Change; Global and Local Sustainability; Rural and Urban Community Development. Current Research Projects I am currently working on research projects in the following areas: Macro-C
- Xiaojin Chen, Professor
Migration and Children's Development in China, Life Course/Developmental Criminology, Victimization, Research Methods, and Social Statistics Current Research Projects My research interests focus on life course criminology, victimizatio
- Xin Jiang, Associate Professor
Es on identifying how one’s position in the social stratifications hierarchies (e.g., race/ethnicity, immigrant status) interacts with structural features of school, family, and community to engender different likelihoods and levels of crim
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.