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Duane Alwin

  • McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography
  • Director, Life Course Center
(814) 863-0438

Paul R. Amato

  • Arnold and Bette Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography

David Baker

  • Professor of Education
  • Professor of Sociology

Alan Booth

  • Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Human Development, and Demography
(814) 863-1141

Francis Dodoo

  • Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 863-2240

Diane Felmlee

  • Professor of Sociology
(814) 863-5509

Richard Felson

  • Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology
(814) 865-8797

Roger Finke

  • Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies
  • Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives (theARDA.com)
(814) 867-1427

Glenn Firebaugh

  • Roy C. Buck Professor of American Institutions and
  • Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 865-5001

Michelle Frisco

  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 863-5507

Emily Greenman

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 867-2275

Steven A. Haas

  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography

Melissa A. Hardy

  • Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 867-4337

Julie Horney

  • Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice
  • Director, Graduate Program in Crime, Law and Justice
(814) 867-3202

John Iceland

  • Professor of Sociology and Demography
  • Department Head
(814) 867-2821

David Johnson

  • Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies
(814) 865-9564

Valarie King

  • Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies
  • Director, Family Demography Training Program, Population Research Institute
(814) 863-8716

John Kramer

  • Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice
(814) 865-3394

Derek Kreager

  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice
(814) 867-0217

Nancy Landale

  • Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 863-8342

Barry Lee

  • Professor of Sociology and Demography
  • Director, Graduate Program in Sociology
(814) 863-7430

Doris MacKenzie

  • Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice
  • Director, Justice Center for Research
(814) 867-3291

Molly Martin

  • Associate Professor of Sociology & Demography
(814) 863-5508

Stephen A. Matthews

  • Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
  • Courtesy appointment in Geography
  • Faculty Director, Geographic Information Analysis Core PRI/SSRI
  • Incoming Director of the Demography (Dual-Degree) Training Program (July 2013)
(814) 863-9721

John McCarthy

  • Distinguished Professor of Sociology
(814) 863-8260

R.S. Oropesa ("Sal")

  • Professor of Sociology & Demography
  • Director, Undergraduate Program in Sociology
(814) 865-1577

Wayne Osgood

  • Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology
  • Lead Editor of Criminology,
  • the official journal of the American Society of Criminology
(814) 865-1304

Tetyana Pudrovska

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 867-4336

Stacy Rogers Silver

  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Human Development
(814) 865-8798

Barry Ruback

  • Professor of Crime, Law, & Justice and Sociology
(814) 865-1307

Alan Sica

  • Professor of Sociology
(814) 863-0121

Eric Silver

  • Professor of Sociology and Criminology
  • Associate Department Head
  • (Incoming Associate Dean for Research)
(814) 865-8867

Jeremy Staff

  • Associate Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology
(814) 864-4560

Darrell Steffensmeier

  • Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice
(814) 863-1690

Marylee Taylor

  • Associate Professor of Sociology
(814) 865-1411

Jason R. Thomas

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 865-2036

Kevin J.A. Thomas

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography, and African Studies
(814) 865-2527

Jenny Trinitapoli

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography and Religious Studies
(814) 867-3246

Jeffery Ulmer

  • Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice
  • Director, Undergraduate Program in Criminology
  • Honors Advisor, Sociology and Criminology
(814) 865-6429

Jennifer Van Hook

  • Director, Population Research Institute and Professor of Sociology and Demography
(814) 867-2276

Affiliated Faculty

Forrest S. Briscoe

  • Assistant Professor of Management & Organization and Sociology
(814) 865-0746

Sarah Damaske

  • Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and Sociology
(814) 865-5425

David J. Eggebeen

  • Associate Professor of Human Development and Sociology
(814) 865-2655

Michael Hecht

  • Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Crime, Law and Justice
(814) 863-3545

Leif I. Jensen

  • Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology and Demography
(814) 863-8642

Kurt Johnson

  • Research Associate Social Science Research Institute and Sociology
(814) 867-1290

Gary King

  • Professor of Biobehavioral Health
(814) 863-8184

Diane K. McLaughlin

  • Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology and Demography
(814) 863-8626

Eric Plutzer

  • Professor of Political Science and Sociology
(814) 865-6576

Suet-Ling Pong

  • Professor of Education, Sociology and Demography
(814) 865-0486

Andrea Tapia

  • Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Sociology
(814) 865-1524

Ann R. Tickamyer

  • Professor of Rural Sociology and Sociology
(814) 865-5461

Susan Welch

  • Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts
(814) 865-7691

Christopher Zorn

  • Liberal Arts Research Professor of Political Science and Sociology
(814) 863-9446

Emeritus Faculty

Alan Block

  • Emeritus Professor of Crime, Law and Justice and Jewish Studies

Richard Bord

  • Emeritus Associate Professor of Sociology

Frank Clemente

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology

Gordon De Jong

  • Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Demography
  • Director, Graduate Program in Demography
(814) 863-2277

James Eisenstein

  • Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Crime, Law and Justice

Joseph Faulkner

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology

Craig Humphrey

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology

Michael Johnson

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies

Hart Nelson

  • Emeritus Professor of Sociology

William Parsonage

  • Emeritus Professor of Crime, Law and Justice

Richard Ritti

  • Emeritus Professor of Crime, Law and Justice

Shannon C. Stokes

  • Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology and Sociology

Edward Walsh

  • Emeritus Professor of Crime, Law and Justice

Lecturers and Instructors

Jarl Ahlkvist

  • Lecturer of Sociology

Thomas Backenstoe

(814) 865-2527

Mark Bergstrom

(814) 863-4368

Caren Bloom

  • Lecturer in Criminology
(814) 865-5768

Vanitha Dayananda

  • Senior Lecturer in Sociology
(814) 865-0260

Samar Farage

  • Senior Lecturer in Sociology
(814) 863-9722

John Fulton

  • Lecturer in Sociology
(814) 867-2819

Jonathan Grine

(814) 865-2527

Bradley Lunsford

(814) 865-2527

Laurie Mulvey

  • Lecturer in Sociology
  • Executive Director, World In Conversation
(814) 865-2527

Sam Richards

  • Senior Lecturer in Sociology
(814) 863-7456

Tim Robicheaux

  • Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology
(814) 865-9501

Kevin Ross

(814) 863-7453

Laurie Scheuble

  • Senior Lecturer in Sociology
(814) 865-6949

Howard Smith

  • Lecturer in Criminology
(814) 863-8868

Tanja St. Pierre

(814) 865-2527

Lecinda M. Yevchak

  • Lecturer of Criminology
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