Sociology at Wesleyan University

13 faculty and 36 courses in Sociology at Wesleyan University.

Faculty

• Sue C. Fisher, Professor of Sociology, Emerita h-index 20
  Notable: “Identifying video game addiction in children and adolescents” (1994) · 261 citations
• Mary Ann Clawson, Professor of Sociology, Emerita h-index 14
  Notable: “Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital” (1997) · 1,516 citations
• Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus h-index 13
  Notable: “Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition” (1997) · 1,636 citations
• Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Professor, Sociology (Affiliated) h-index 12
  Notable: “The plastic brain: Neoliberalism and the neuronal self” (2010) · 293 citations
• Anthony Ryan Hatch, Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for the Humanities; Professor, STS and AFAM (Affiliated) h-index 10
  Notable: “Sugar ecologies: their metabolic and racial effects” (2019) · 48 citations
• Rob Rosenthal, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus h-index 7
  Notable: “Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community.” (1994) · 78 citations
• Greg Goldberg, Associate Professor of Sociology h-index 5
  Notable: “Rethinking the public/virtual sphere: The problem with participation” (2010) · 108 citations
• Robyn Autry, Associate Professor of Sociology h-index 5
  Notable: “The political economy of memory: the challenges of representing national conflict at ‘identity-driven’ museums” (2012) · 27 citations
• Benjamin Haber, Assistant Professor of Sociology h-index 5
  Notable: “The digital ephemeral turn: queer theory, privacy, and the temporality of risk” (2019) · 30 citations
• Abigail Huston Boggs, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Assistant Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Assistant Professor, Education Studies h-index 4
  Notable: “Critical University Studies and the Crisis Consensus” (2018) · 67 citations
• Jonathan Cutler, Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology h-index 2
  Notable: “Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation” (1999) · 71 citations
• Courtney Patterson-Faye, Associate Professor of Sociology h-index 1
  Notable: “‘I like the way you move’: Theorizing fat, black and sexy” (2016) · 10 citations
• Emily Elizabeth Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Assistant Professor, Sociology (Affiliated)

Courses

• Introductory Sociology SOC151
• Social Analysis SOC202
• Introduction to Journalism: Constructing the News SOC206
• Social Theory SOC212
• Sociology of Crime and Punishment SOC231
• Media and Society SOC234
• Comparative Race and Ethnicity SOC240
• Mental Illness and Society SOC241
• Feminist and Queer Theories of Social Reproduction SOC244
• Intersectionality and Identity (FGSS Gateway) SOC245
• Social Movements SOC246
• Drugs, Culture, and Society SOC247
• Sociology of Knowledge SOC255
• Cultural Studies of Health SOC259
• The Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Family SOC262
• From Shirtwaists to Hoodies: Fashion and Public Life SOC265
• The Social Life of Data SOC266
• Urban Societies SOC270
• Bored in the House: Work, Leisure, and the Domestic Mundane SOC278
• Abolition and Social Praxis SOC280
• The Way We Remember SOC284
• Death and Dying at the End of the World SOC292
• Queer and Trans Aesthetics SOC300
• Paternalism and Social Power SOC302
• Baby Got Back: Embodiment, Gender, and Sexuality in Black Music SOC308
• America's Lure: The Politics of the Transnational US University SOC309
• The Health of Communities SOC315
• Community Research Seminar SOC316
• Social Science, Black Life: Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, and Hurston's Empirical Experiments SOC318
• Theories of Capitalism SOC319
• The Sociology of Nina Simone SOC322
• Race, Fantasy and Fetish SOC326
• Take Care/Say No SOC333
• Race, Immigration, and the U.S. Empire SOC352
• The Personal Is Social SOC355
• Cultural Politics of Capitalism SOC364

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.