Sociology at Wake Forest University

17 faculty and 38 courses in Sociology at Wake Forest University.

Faculty

• Catherine Harnois, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia” (2017) · 151 citations
• Catherine T. Harris, Professor Emerita / Research Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Rethinking standards from green to sustainable” (2004) · 228 citations
• Robin W. Simon, Professor Emerita h-index 19
• David Yamane, Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “Secularization on Trial: In Defense of a Neosecularization Paradigm” (1997) · 252 citations
• Hana Brown, Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Race, Legality, and the Social Policy Consequences of Anti-Immigration Mobilization” (2013) · 159 citations
• Joseph Soares, Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Who Goes to Graduate School? Social and Academic Correlates of Educational Continuation after College” (2003) · 300 citations
• Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation” (2018) · 178 citations
• Amanda Gengler, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Notable: ““I Want You to Save My Kid!”” (2014) · 69 citations
• Steve Gunkel, Teaching Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America” (2001) · 382 citations
• Brittany P. Battle, Associate Professor h-index 6
  Notable: ““They Look at You like You're Nothing”: Stigma and Shame in the Child Support System” (2019) · 43 citations
• Ana-Maria Wahl, Associate Professor h-index 5
  Es on several dimensions of social stratification and the politics of inequality. This work includes research on labor relations and race relations. In the area of labor relations, I have studied the politics of health and safety legislatio
  Notable: “Gender, Acculturation and Alcohol Use among Latina/o Adolescents: A Multi-Ethnic Comparison” (2008) · 90 citations
• Michael Ramirez, Department Chair and Associate Professor h-index 5
  Notable: “Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!” (2009) · 71 citations
• Rianka Roy, Assistant Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐191” (2023) · 22 citations
• Cal Garrett, Assistant Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Disease surveillance infrastructure and the economisation of public health” (2022) · 16 citations
• Ian Taplin, Professor
  Ed on work relations in the US coal industry and my initial publications examined how the evolution of post-World War II industrial relations was shaped by intra-union struggles as well as a legal environment progressively hostile to worker
• Ken Bechtel, Associate Professor
• Saylor Breckenridge, Associate Professor

Courses

• Analyzing the Social World SOC 150
• Principles of Sociology SOC 151
• Social Problems SOC 152
• Contemporary Families SOC 153
• Social Deviance SOC 154
• Public Engagement in USA and Other Post-industrial Societies SOC 155
• Sociological Theory SOC 270
• Social Statistics SOC 271
• Research Methods in Sociology SOC 272
• Sociology of Religion SOC 301
• Business and Society SOC 303
• Gender in Society SOC 305
• Sexuality and Society SOC 309
• Conflict Management in Organizations SOC 316
• Sociology of Sports and Art Worlds SOC 320
• Sociology of Contested Past SOC 321
• The Individual and Society SOC 325
• Sociology of Care Work SOC 326
• Sociology of Emotion SOC 327
• The Sociology of Food SOC 328
• Health Inequalities SOC 329
• Gender, Social Relationships, and Well-Being SOC 330
• Sociology of Birth and Death SOC 332
• Sociology of Education SOC 334
• Sociology of Health and Illness SOC 335
• Courts and Criminal Procedure in the Era of Mass Incarceration SOC 338
• Family Violence SOC 339
• Corrections SOC 340
• Criminology SOC 341
• Juvenile Delinquency SOC 342
• Law and Society SOC 343
• Social Justice in Theory, Method, and Practice SOC 344
• Advanced Seminar on Criminal Homicide SOC 345
• Sociology of Guns SOC 346
• Society, Culture, and Sport SOC 347
• Sociology of the Family SOC 348
• Defund, Transform, Abolish?: (Re)Imagining Justice SOC 349
• Globalization, Technology, and Work SOC 350

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.