Sociology at Georgia State University

10th Floor General Classroom
Phone: (404) 413-6500
Fax: (404) 413-6505
SOCINFO@gsu.edu

Selma Poage	Business Manager	socsmp@langate.gsu.edu
Dracy R. Blackwell	Administrative Specialist	dracyb@gsu.edu
Quanda Miller	Administrative Coordinator	quanda@gsu.edu
Tiffanie Bailey	Student Assistant
Isha Metzger	Student Assistant

Faculty

	James Ainsworth Ph.D., Ohio State, 1999 Associate Professor Social Inequality, Race and Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Education, Family
	Dawn M. Baunach Ph.D., Virginia, 1996 Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Stratification and Inequality, Gender and Sexuality, Demography, Quantitative Methodology
	Elisabeth O. Burgess Ph.D., USC, 1997 Associate Professor Aging and Life Course, Families and Intimate Relationships, Gender, Intergenerational Relations
	Cecilia H. Cantrell Ph.D., Ohio State, 1974 Associate Professor Medical Sociology, Sociology of Mental Health/Illness, Loss, Dying and Death, Gerontology
	Phillip W. Davis Ph.D., UCLA, 1979 Associate Professor Deviance, Collective Behavior, Ethnography
	Denise A. Donnelly Ph.D., Florida, 1990 Associate Professor Family, Sexual and Intimate Violence, Social Inequality
	Kirk W. Elifson Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1973 Professor Methodology, Statistics, Medical, Deviance
	Charles A. Gallagher Ph.D., Temple, 1997 Associate Professor Race and Ethnic Relations, Urban Sociology, Inequality
	Adia Harvey Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004 Assistant Professor Race, Class & Gender, Work & Occupations, Social Theory
	Charles L. Jaret Ph.D., Chicago, 1977 Professor Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations
	Candace L. Kemp Ph.D., McMaster University, 2003 Assistant Professor, The Gerontology Institute Aging and the life course, intergenerational family ties, intimate relations, and long-term care.
	Toshi Kii Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977 Associate Professor Industrial Sociology, Comparative Culture, Japanese Society
	Jung Ha Kim Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1993 Senior Lecturer Social Theories, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Religion, Gender Studies
	Miriam Konrad Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2006 Lecturer Race and Ethnic relations, Urban Sociology, Crime and Deviance
	Ralph LaRossa Ph.D., New Hampshire, 1975 Professor Family, Gender, Theory, Fatherhood, Culture and Cognition, Qualitative and Historical Methods
	Chet Meeks Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 2003 Assistant Professor Sexualities, Social Theory, Culture
	Romney S. Norwood Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2001 Assistant Professor
	Deirdre Oakley Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 2003 Assistant Professor Urban and Community, race, inequality, GIS and Spatial Analysis
	Lesley Williams Reid Ph.D., Tulane University, 2000 Associate Professor Criminology, Drug Use, Urban Sociology
	Donald C. Reitzes Ph.D., Indiana University, 1977 Professor & Chair Social Psychology, Urban Sociology, Adult Socialization
	Erin Ruel Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003 Assistant Professor Intersection of Race, Class, Gender and Location Stratification
	Wendy Simonds Ph.D., City University of New York, 1990 Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Birth and Parenthood, Family, Gender, Cultural Studies, Medical Sociology, Sexuality, Theory
	Elisabeth Sheff Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in Boulder, 2004 Assistant Professor Sexuality, Gender, Family, Deviance, Sociology of the Body, Theory
	Mindy Stombler Ph.D., Florida State University, 1995 Senior Lecturer Social Inequality (Gender, Race, and Class), Sexuality, Qualitative Methods
	Griff Tester Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2007 Assistant Professor Housing Inequalities, Sexual Harassment in the Housing Context, Intersections of Race, Gender, & Class, Sexualities
	Frank J. Whittington Ph.D., Duke, 1975 Professor Social Gerontology, Medical Sociology
	Heying Jenny Zhan Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2000 Associate Professor Sociology of Aging and Life Course, Family, Gender