Professor Callanan’s specialty areas include critical criminology, corrections, media, public opinion of crime.  Her research examines the influence of crime-related media on public opinion of crime and crime control.  Her recent work examines reciprocity and suicide, media construction of the criminal justice system and fear of crime.  

Professor Elman’s research areas include the sociology of aging and the life course, historical demography, sociology of health, and sociology of the family.  Her current projects explore early-to midlife educational trajectories and late-life health status; U.S. patterns of multigenerational living arrangement; and regional differences in the family structure, employment and health of the 19th century frontier women.

Professor Erickson’s research interests include emotion management in work and family and their effects on well-being as well as issues related to the social psychology of the self.  Her most recent project focuses on the occupational experiences of nurses and how the emotional demands of the nursing profession impact nurses’ health and present unique challenges to healthcare organizations seeking to retain qualified nurses in bedside care.

Professor Feltey’s research interests include gender, homelessness, domestic violence and qualitative methods.  Her current projects extend her earlier work on women’s homelessness, focusing on lived experiences of dislocation historically of pioneer women in the 19th century United States and in contemporary society of families evacuating in the aftermath of disaster.

Professor Fenwick’s research interests include organizations, work and markets, and their effects on job stress.  His current projects include analyzing changes in U.S. occupational structures and stress-related health outcomes since the 1970’s; the effects of job autonomy and authority on job stress; and the effects of job schedules on health and family outcomes.

Professor Lee’s research interests include altruism, organizational deviance, and the relationship between immigration and crime.  His most recent work is part of a larger interdisciplinary project on the role of religious experiences in the production of altruism.  He also continues to conduct research in several areas of criminology.

Professor Nofziger’s specialty areas include criminology and gender.  Her research encompasses major areas within criminology, including the relationship of criminal justice agencies and communities as well as the causes and consequences of juvenile involvement in delinquency.  Her current projects emphasize the role of self-control and lifestyles in predicting both violent offending and victimization among juveniles.

Professor Pendleton’s specialty areas include medical sociology, quantitative methodology, social epidemiology, literary and the sociology of children.  His current research focuses on issues of preventative health, health disparities, drug and alcohol prevention, and community development.  

Professor Peralta’s research interests include deviance, gender, social inequality, alcohol and other substance use and abuse, and interpersonal violence.  Alcohol use in intimate partner violence and the association between alcohol use and the construction of gender are the focus of his current research.

Professor Takyi’s specialty areas include demographic and health outcomes in Africa, family dynamics, maternal and child health, religion and reproductive outcomes, the intersection of gender and power on fertility decision making, and the experiences of Africans and other black immigrants within the United States.

Professor Tausig’s research interests include mental health, medical sociology and international health.  His current projects include studies of the institutional and organization contexts of work stress, the epidemiology of mental illness in Nepal, and the social network origins of stigma.

Professor Xi’s research interests include medical sociology, migration and immigrants, and quantitative methods.  Her current projects examine the role of structure covariates in the relationship between immigrants’ English ability and earnings by testing structure-individual cross level mediation and moderation effects. 

Professor Zipp’s specialty areas are in inequality, especially class and gender.  His most recent research projects center  on a variety of topics including class, gender and the family, the sociology of sport, and higher education (e.g. the scholarship of teaching and learning and the corporatization of universities). 

Processor Adam’s research interests are in the sociology of mental health, medical sociology and urban social processes.  Specifically, his ongoing research projects involve quality of life among individuals with severe mental illnesses, the physical and mental health consequences of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the influence of local communities on teenage delinquent behavior, physical and mental health and transitions to adult social roles.

Professor Dreby’s research interests are in the areas of immigration, gender and family, childhood studies, and Latin America.  Her current work focuses on parent-child separation during migration, as well as the impact of international migration on children in Mexico.

Professor Gallagher’s research focuses on the nonverbal component of doctor-patient interactions using both expectation states theory and relational communication theory.  He also is developing a more general theory that uses an evolutionary model to explain the observed regularities in the nonverbal components of speech acts.

Professor Hall’s research interests are gender, race/ethnicity, and class and their intersections.  She conducts research on stereotypes in the media, women’s health issues, subtle discrimination in education, and women’s experiences as workers.

Professor Kakhoff’s research  interests include social psychology, group dynamics, deviance and biosociology.  His current projects examine status and social influence processes, including how opinions form and change in stratified social networks. 

Professor Marcussen’s specialty areas include social psychology and mental health/illness.  Her research examines the relationship between social roles, identities and mental health.  Recently her research focuses on the impact of stigma on self-concept and quality of life among individuals with severe mental illnesses. 

Professor Pai’s research interests include social gerontology, medical sociology, sociology of family and social structure and personality.  Her current work examines how social processes, such as volunteering, informal helping and providing emotional support, affects mental and psychical health of older adults. 

Professor Purcell specializes in the study of inequality, race/ethnicity, cultural and work.  His current projects include an examination of how race, class, and gender inequality are reproduced in the corporate workplace via cultural capital and an investigation into racial segregation in urban sociocultural spaces. 

Professor Rousseau’s research interests include structural and institutional inequalities, politics of reproduction and sexuality, and reproductive health policy.  Currently, she is working on several projects that include examining the effects of negative social rhetoric on black women’s sexuality and examining the ways reproductive policies have commodified black women in the United States. 

Professor Roxburgh’s research focuses on gender differences in depression and alcohol consumption and on understanding how the quality of experiences in work and family forces influence well-being.  Her current projects include an extension of her earlier work on time pressure and well-being, and papers on race/gender differences in depression and work-family spillover.

Professor Serpe’s research interests include social psychology, family, survey research and quantitative methods.  His ongoing research projects focuses on the relationship between the concepts of self and identity, social structure and social action in everyday life.

Professor Stacey’s research interests include medical sociology, work and occupations, inequality and carework.  Her current research explores the identity formation and work experiences of low-skill healthcare workers.  She also studies doctor-patient interaction with a focuses on cultural competency.

Professor Taylor’s research includes studies of workplace inequality, spatial variability in inequality, organization volunteerism, and the relationship between family and work.  Her current research examines how organizations providing temporary assistance to needy families services construct and maintain legitimacy and effectiveness despite considerable obstacles. 

Professor Webster’s research interests are in the areas of family violence and the social construction and processing of deviance.  More specifically, his recent research is on the recognition and reporting of child abuse by professionals.