Faculty

Karl L. Alexander

John Dewey Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Sociology of education, social stratification

410.516.6178
karl@jhu.edu
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Joel Andreas

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Post-1949 Chinese society, transitions to and from socialism, education and class reproduction, industrial democracy.

410.516.7325
jandreas@jhu.edu
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Rina Agarwala

Assistant Professor

M.P.P (Harvard University, Boston), Ph.D. (Princeton University, Princeton)
International Development, Social Demography, Gender, Labor and Class, Inequality, Globalization, Political Sociology, Social Movements

410.516.5169
agarwala@jhu.edu
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Pamela R. Bennett

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Racial & ethnic inequality, racial residential segregation, education, social demography.

410.516.7637
pbennett@jhu.edu
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Andrew J. Cherlin

Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy

Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sociology of the family, demography, social policy.

410.516.2370
cherlin@jhu.edu
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Stefanie A. Deluca

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Sociology of education, sociology of neighborhoods, life course studies

410.516.7629
sdeluca@jhu.edu
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Doris R. Entwisle

Research Professor

Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins University)
Sociology of human development, socialization of cognitive behavior, methods in social science research

entwisle@jhu.edu
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Lingxin Hao

Professor

Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Sociology of the family, public policy, immigration, social inequality, sociology of education, quantitative methods.

410.516.4022
hao@jhu.edu
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Ho-Fung Hung

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
Global political economy, contentious politics, nationalism, and social theory

410.516.7051
hofung@jhu.edu
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Melvin L. Kohn

William D. and Robin Mayer Professor of Sociology

Ph.D. (Cornell University)
Social structure and personality, cross-national comparative analysis, social class and stratification, sociology and social psychology of work

410.516.7623
mel@jhu.edu
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Katrina Bell McDonald

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (University of California, Davis)
Sociology of the family, gender/ethnic identity, race and social class

410.516.7624
mcdon@jhu.edu
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Katherine Newman

James B. Knapp Dean, Professor

Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego)
Sociology of poverty and the working poor

410.516.4065
knewman@jhu.edu
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Stephen B. Plank

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Sociology of education, statistical and research methods, stratification

410.516.7633
splank@jhu.edu
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Beverly J. Silver

Professor

Ph.D. (SUNY, Binghamton)
historical capitalism, comparative and world-historical research methods, global inequality and development, labor and social movements

410.516.7635
silver@jhu.edu
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