Sociology at Wake Forest University

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

Faculty

• Joseph Soares, Professor h-index 36
• Catherine Harnois, Professor h-index 22
• Catherine T. Harris, Professor Emerita / Research Professor h-index 20
• Robin W. Simon, Professor Emerita h-index 19
• David Yamane, Professor h-index 17
• Ian Taplin, Professor h-index 17
  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
• Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Assistant Professor h-index 8
• Amanda Gengler, Associate Professor h-index 8
• Brittany P. Battle, Associate Professor h-index 6
• Rianka Roy, Assistant Professor h-index 4
• Cal Garrett, Assistant Professor h-index 4
• Ana-Maria Wahl, Associate Professor
  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
• Hana Brown, Professor
• Ken Bechtel, Associate Professor
• Michael Ramirez, Department Chair and Associate Professor
• Saylor Breckenridge, Associate Professor
• Steve Gunkel, Teaching 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 2026-07-01.