Sociology at University of Chicago

24 faculty and 0 courses in Sociology at University of Chicago.

Faculty

• Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology h-index 53
  Notable: “Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”” (2002) · 2,797 citations
• James A. Evans, Max Palevsky Professor; Faculty Co-Director, Chicago Center for Computational Social Science h-index 43
  Es on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasoning to processes of agreement (and dispute), accumulation of certainty (and doubt
  Notable: “The walking interview: Methodology, mobility and place” (2010) · 1,046 citations
• Joyce Bell, Associate Professor h-index 40
  Concerned with diversity as a racial project. I am interested in how the notion of diversity works as a tool to co-opt progressive racial policy, movements, and discourse. In this area I research the role of diversity discourse in instit
  Notable: “Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Self-Rated Physical Health in an Urban Setting” (2002) · 500 citations
• Andrew Abbott, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.” (1990) · 5,665 citations
• Terry N. Clark, Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “ARE SOCIAL CLASSES DYING?” (1991) · 753 citations
• Andreas Glaeser, Professor and Chair h-index 37
  Notable: “G. H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought.” (1986) · 490 citations
• Karin Knorr Cetina, O. Borchert Distinguished Service Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Unscrewing the big Leviathan: how actors macro- structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so” (2014) · 1,159 citations
• Julian Go, Professor; Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture h-index 32
  Notable: “Global Fields and Imperial Forms: Field Theory and the British and American Empires” (2008) · 258 citations
• Elisabeth S. Clemens, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College h-index 29
  Notable: “POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONALISM: Explaining Durability and Change” (1999) · 1,411 citations
• John Levi Martin, Florence Borchert Bartling Distinguished Service Professor h-index 29
  Notable: “Life's a beach but you’re an ant, and other unwelcome news for the sociology of culture” (2009) · 210 citations
• Jenny Trinitapoli, Professor; Deputy Dean, Division of the Social Sciences h-index 25
  Notable: “Race/Ethnicity, Religious Involvement, and Domestic Violence” (2007) · 213 citations
• Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies h-index 21
  Center on sociology of gender and sexualities, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of work and occupations. A central focus of her work is finding new ways to make visible the taken-for-granted cultural assumptions about gender and
  Notable: “Religious Participation in Early Adulthood: Age and Family Life Cycle Effects on Church Membership” (1995) · 379 citations
• Kazuo Yamaguchi, Ralph Lewis Professor h-index 18
  Es on methodology (causal models for categorical data, decomposition analysis, and panel data analysis), and gender inequality and work-life balance in Japan and Korea. Recent Research / Recent Publications Selected Publications Gender Ineq
  Notable: “The Mandate of Heaven and Performance Legitimation in Historical and Contemporary China” (2009) · 360 citations
• René D. Flores, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 17
  In the fields of international migration, race and ethnicity, and social stratification. His research explores the emergence of social boundaries around immigrants and racial minorities across the world as well as how these boundaries c
  Notable: “Who are the “Illegals”? The Social Construction of Illegality in the United States” (2018) · 294 citations
• Marco Garrido, Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies h-index 12
  Notable: “Why the Poor Support Populism: The Politics of Sincerity in Metro Manila” (2017) · 78 citations
• Kimberly Kay Hoang, Professor h-index 11
  Notable: ““She’s Not a Low-Class Dirty Girl!”: Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam” (2011) · 78 citations
• Bernard Koch, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  Es on how different evaluation systems (e.g., peer review, benchmarking) guide scientific fields along different trajectories, with significant ethical, epistemic, and cultural consequences. Through historical case studies like AI's converg
• Geoffrey Wodtke, Professor; Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
• Linda Waite, George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
  Social demography, aging, the family, health, sexuality and social well-being. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the NIA-funded National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a population-based longitudinal study o
• Linda Zhao, Assistant Professor
  Es on how social contexts (such as levels of diversity or inequality in a population) can shape intergroup dynamics in social networks, how social networks and social contexts are linked to our behaviors and decisions, and how such networks
• Omar McRoberts, Associate Professor
• Robert Vargas, Professor
• Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor
• Yueran Zhang, Assistant Professor

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.