Department Faculty
Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY, 2001
Associate Professor
Interests: Racial and Economic Residential Segregation; Immigration; Internal Migration; Occupational, Industrial, and Earnings Inequality
466 Park Hall
716 645 8478
adelman4@buffalo.edu
Arditi,
Jorge
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1989
Associate Professor
Interests: Classical and Contemporary Theory
409 Park Hall
716 645 8460
arditi@buffalo.edu
Berrey, Ellen
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
Assistant Professor
Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Cities, Political Language, Law and Organizations, Inequality and Discrimination, Qualitative Methods
404 Park Hall
716 645 8464
eberrey@buffalo.edu
Blair, Sampson L.
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1991
Associate Professor
Interests: Sociology of the Family; Child and Adolescent Development; Gender; Ethnicity
456 Park Hall
716 645 8472
slblair@buffalo.edu
Farrell, Michael P.,Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., Yale University, 1964
Professor
Interests: Social Psychology; Sociology of the Family; Sociology of Small Groups; Friendship Groups; Adolescence
446 Park Hall
716 645 2711
ofarrell@buffalo.edu
Gottdiener, Mark
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1973
Professor
Interests: The New Urban Sociology, Contemporary Theory, Cultural Studies, Semiotics
403 Park Hall
716 645 8454
mgott@buffalo.edu
Granfield, Robert
Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1989
Professor
Director, Civic Engagement & Public Policy
Interests: Law and Society, Sociology of Drugs and Alcohol, Crime and Deviance, Law and Urban Justice, Occupations and Professions
406 Park Hall
716 645 8457
rgranfie@buffalo.edu
Hatton, Erin
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2007
Assistant Professor
Interests: Work & Labor Markets; Labor & Labor Movements: Law & Social Policy; Race, Gender, Class & Inequality
464 Park Hall
716 645 8476
eehatton@buffalo.edu
Hoffman, Steve
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
Assistant Professor
Interests: Organizations, Social Psychology, Theory, Science and Technology, Qualitative Methods
457 Park Hall
716 645 8465
sgh@buffalo.edu
Lee, Kristen Schultz
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2004
Assistant Professor
Interests: Gender and the Life Course, Sociology of the Family, Aging, Education, Japan
453 Park Hall
716 645 8469
kslee4@buffalo.edu
Mele,
Christopher
Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1994
Associate Professor
Interests: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Community Studies
407 Park Hall
716 645 8458
cmele@buffalo.edu
Moore,
Brenda
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987
Associate Professor
Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations, Military Sociology, Gender Stratification
454 Park Hall
716 645 8470
socbrend@buffalo.edu
Street, Debra, Chair
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1996
Professor
Interests: Health and Income Security over the Life Course; Long-Term Care; Comparative Public Policies/Welfare State; Mixed-Methods Research Design438 Park Hall
716 645 8475
dastreet@buffalo.edu
Trautner, Mary Nell, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2006
Associate Professor
Interests: Sociology of Law; Gender and Sexuality; Labor and Labor Movements; Organizations and Institutions
465 Park Hall
716 645 8477
trautner@buffalo.edu
Wagmiller, Robert, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004
Associate Professor
Interests: Urban Poverty, Male Joblessness, Racial and Economic Residential Segregation, Child Development, Quantitative Methods
467 Park Hall
716 645 8479
rw26@buffalo.edu