Faculty

Please feel free to contact any faculty member in the Department for more information regarding the Department, the major, or any particular subfield area or research issue of interest to you.

For transfer credit requests, please submit the Transfer Credit Application form to the Department Chair, Professor Michael Rocque (mrocque@bates.edu).

Francesco G. Duina

Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

economic sociology, globalization, international political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

Marcelle M. Medford

Associate Professor of Sociology

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

Ben Moodie

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Economics and European Studies

Michael Rocque

Professor of Sociology

Biosocial crime prevention, Corrections, Criminology theory, Desistance from crime, Life-course criminology, Race and crime, Race and school discipline, Risk assessment in corrections, Survey research

Sawyer F. Sylvester Jr.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Heidi L. Taylor

Associate Professor of Sociology

healthcare systems, Medicaid, medical sociology, physicians, sociology, underserved patients