BECKER, GEORGE (PhD, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1976)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Historical Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Science and Knowledge of Psychopathology
Office: 305 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7517
Email: george.becker@vanderbilt.edu

BROWN, TONY N. (PhD, University of Michigan, 1998)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Racial and Ethnic Relations, Social Psychology, Sociology of Mental Health, Quantitative Methods, Survey Design
Office: 310 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7518
Email: tony.n.brown@vanderbilt.edu

CAMPBELL, KAREN (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1985)
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests: Gender Inequality, Occupations and Professions, Social Networks
Office: 317 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7533
Email: karen.e.campbell@vanderbilt.edu

CARPENTER, LAURA (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1999)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Gender, Sex & Sexuality, Health & Medicine, Aging & the Life Course, Qualitative Methods, Mass Media & Journalism
Office: 220G Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7546
Email: l.carpenter@vanderbilt.edu

CASPER, MONICA (PhD, University of California @ San Francisco, 1995)
Associate Professor
Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program
Research Interests: Women's Health; Feminist Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Gender, Bodies, and Sexuality; Environmental Health and Justice; Public Health Aspects of Security and War; Reproductive Technologies; Bioethics; Disability Studies; Children's Health; Qualitative Methodologies
Office: 220B Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-343-7808
Email: monica.casper@vanderbilt.edu

CORNFIELD, DANIEL B. (PhD, University of Chicago, 1980)
Professor
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies
Research Interests: Work and Occupations, Labor Markets, Labor Movements, Labor-Management Relations, Immigration
Office: 309 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7535
Email: daniel.b.cornfield@vanderbilt.edu

DONATO, KATHARINE (PhD, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1988)
Professor
Research Interests: International Migration between Mexico and the United States, Social Determinants of Health, Immigrants in the U.S. Economy, Ethnic and Gender Stratification
Office: 321G Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7542
Email: katharine.donato@vanderbilt.edu

EZELL, MICHAEL E. (PhD, Duke University, 2002)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Crime, Law & Deviance, Juvenile Delinquency, Statistics, Research Methodology, Sociology of the Lifecourse, Aging/Demography
Office: 312 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7536
Email: mike.ezell@vanderbilt.edu

GIBBS, JACK P. (PhD, Oregon, 1957)
Centennial Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
Research Interests: Theory, Criminology, Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization

GOVE, WALTER (PhD, University of Washington, 1968)
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
Elected Fellow, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
Email: walter.r.gove@vanderbilt.edu

ISAAC, LARRY (PhD, Indiana University, 1979)
Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Social Movements, Paramilitary Formation, Cultures of Class, Historical Methods, Labor Theory & History
Office: 319 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7534
Email: larry.isaac@vanderbilt.edu

JENSEN, GARY F. (PhD, University of Washington, 1972)
Professor
Chair
Research Interests: Deviance, Social Control, Justice, Persecution
Office: 201AA Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7626
Email: gary.jensen@vanderbilt.edu

KARPOS, MARYALTANI (PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2003)
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Discretionary Behavior
Office: 203B Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7514
Email: m.karpos@vanderbilt.edu

KELNER, SHAUL (PhD, University of New York - Graduate Center, 2002)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies
Research Interests: Sociology of Jewish Communities, Travel and Tourism, Social Networks, Culture, Religion, Theory
Office: 201C Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7506
Email: s.kelner@vanderbilt.edu

LANG, JAMES J. (PhD, University of Michigan, 1973)
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests: Comparative Sociology/macrosociology, Social Change, Latina/o Sociology
Office: 207 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7516
Email: james.j.lang@vanderbilt.edu

LENA, JENNIFER (PhD, Columbia University, 2003)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Rap Music and Hip-Hop, Production of Culture, Social Networks, Work and Organizations, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Religion
Office: 321C Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-8539
Email: jennifer.c.lena@vanderbilt.edu

LLOYD, RICHARD (PhD, University of Chicago, 2002)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Change, New Media Technology and Social Theory
Office: 205 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7515
Email: richard.d.lloyd@vanderbilt.edu

McCAMMON, HOLLY (PhD, Indiana University, 1990)
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Science, and Professor
Research Interests: Social Movements, Political Sociology Women's Activism, Historical/Comparative Sociology, Quantitative Methodology
Office: 313 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7531
Email: holly.mccammon@vanderbilt.edu

NOBLE, ROSEVELT (PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2003)
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Racial and Ethnic Relations, Social Psychology, Sociology of Mental Health, Quantitative Methods, Survey Design
Office: 303B Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7514
Email: rosevelt.l.noble@vanderbilt.edu

PETERSON, RICHARD A. (PhD, University of Illinois, 1962)
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
Research Interests: Music Industry, Taste and Stratification, The Auto-Production of Culture
Email: richard.a.peterson@vanderbilt.edu

PITT, RICHARD N. (PhD, University of Arizona, 2003)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Education, Gender, Family, Religion, Race
Office: 315 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7530
Email: r.pitt@vanderbilt.edu

SPETALNICK, TERRIE (PhD, Vanderbilt University, 2005)
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Community Organizing, Public Policy, Work and Organizations
Email: terrie.spetalnick@vanderbilt.edu

STEINBERG, RONNIE (PhD, New York University, 1977)
Professor
Research Interests: Gender, Public Policy and Politics, Work and Occupations; Race, Class, Gender; Sociology of Emotions
Office: 315 Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7532
Email: ronnie.j.steinberg@vanderbilt.edu

TEPPER, STEVEN (PhD, Princeton, 2001)
Assistant Professor
Associate Director Curb Center
Research Interests: Cultural Policy, Sociology of Culture, Creativity, Social and Cultural Conflict
Office: 203A Garland Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7513
               204 Alumni Hall, Office Phone 615-322-7951
Email: steven.j.tepper@vanderbilt.edu