Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2002
Office: KAUF 324
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: bmpeck@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Areas: Health and Medicine, Health Disparities, Stratification, Research Methods
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
B. Mitchell Peck
GRADUATE LIAISON
Cyrus Schleifer
Associate Professor and Graduate Liaison
Ph.D., Duke University, 2015
Office: KAUF 343
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: cyrus.schleifer@ou.edu
Website: www.cyrus-schleifer.com
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Areas: Quantitative Methods, Sociology of Religion, Longitudinal/Panel Statistics, Clergy, Occupational Inequality
PRIMARY FACULTY
Loretta Bass
Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1998
Office: KAUF 301
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: lbass@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: International Migration, Child Labor, Stratification, Fertility, Demography
Ann Beutel
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997
Office: KAUF 329A
Phone: (405) 325-2784
Email: ambeutel@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Education, Family, Gender, Social Demography, Social Psychology, Social Stratification
Stephanie Burge
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University, 2006
Office: KAUF 306
Phone: (405) 325-2797
Email: sburge@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Sociology of Education, Health and Aging, Work and Family
Thomas Burns
Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1990
Office: KAUF 323
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: tburns@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Areas: Comparative and Historical Development, Environment and Human Ecology, Social Theory, Social Institutions, Communication and Rhetoric, Enviromental Ethics, Culture and Social Change
John Carl
Associate Professor - Renewable Term
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2002
Office: KAUF 329D
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: jcarl@ou.edu
Criminology, Labeling, Criminal Justice, U.S. Prison system, Sociological Theory, Teaching Sociology, and Inside-Out
Ian Carrillo
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
Office: KAUF 343
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: icarrillo@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Areas: Race and Ethnicity, Environmental Sociology, Economic Sociology, Environmental Justice, Qualitative Sociology
Constance Chapple
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1999
Office: KAUF 332A
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: cchapple@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Criminological theory, group differences in crime, peers and crime, child abuse and neglect, research methods
Christopher R.H. Garneau
Assistant Professor - Renewable Term
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2012
Office: KAUF TBD
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: cgarneau@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Areas: Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Social Psychology, Research Methods, and Environment Sociology
Julie Gerlinger
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2017
Office: KAUF 317
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: jgerlinger@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Criminology, Education, Public Policy, Inequality, Juvenile Delinquency, Research Methods
Christopher Hill
Assistant Professor - Renewable Term
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2004
Office: KAUF 309
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: christopher.hill@ou.edu
Research Areas: Criminology, Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice
Trina Hope
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1997
Office: KAUF 303
Phone: (405) 325-3647
Email: thope@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Criminological Theory testing (control theories especially), the Family and Crime, Gender and Crime
Annabel Ipsen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
Office: KAUF 340
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: aipsen@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: International development, agri-food systems, gender, political economy, environmental sociology, qualitative sociology
Erin Maher
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington, 2000
Office: KAUF 331
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: erin.maher@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Child Abuse and Neglect, Early Childhood, Poverty
Samuel Perry
Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2015
Office: KAUF 328
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: samperry@ou.edu
Research Areas: Religion, Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Politics, Families, Sexual Behavior
Martin Piotrowski
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2006
Office: KAUF 316
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: piotrow@ou.edu
Research Areas: Migration, Social Networks, Inter-generational Relations, Household Demography, and Quantitative Research Methods
Dan Wang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2022
Office: Kaufman Hall 337A
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: dan.wang@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Vulnerable Families, Culture, Evaluative Research, Research Methods
Meredith Worthen
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2009
Office: KAUF 321
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: mgfworthen@ou.edu
Website: http://meredithworthenphd.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Areas: Deviance; LGBTQ Stigma; Feminist/Queer Criminology
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Laura A. Bray
Affiliated Faculty
Research Scientist, Center for Applied Social Research
PhD, North Carolina State University, 2021
5 Partners Place, Ste 4100
Phone: 405-325-2267
Email: laura.bray@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/they
Research Areas: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, Rural Sociology, Health and Wellbeing, Social Movements
Manata Hashemi
Affiliated Faculty
Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies
Farzaneh Hall, Room 212
Email: hashemi@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Sara A. Mata
Affiliated Faculty
Research Associate
Vice President for Research and Partnerships
Email: sara.mata@ou.edu
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Barbara Borden
Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2014
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: ann.borden@ou.edu
Nicholas Membrez-Weiler
Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D Canidate, North Carolina State University (expected 2022)
Office: KAUF 308
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: njmw@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Areas: Organizations, Organizational wrongdoing, white-collar and corporate crime, sociology of work, qualitative methods, economic sociology
EMERITUS FACULTY
Wilbur J. Scott
Emeritus Chair and Professor
Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma
Emeritus Professor Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership
U.S. Air Force Academy
Email: sonny1542@gmail.com
Susan F. Sharp
Craig St. John
