People
Director
Lawrence Wu
Research/Interest: Family; poverty; social demography; life course; methods for studying social change.
Affiliates
Richard Arum
Research/Interest: Education; legal and institutional environments of schools; social stratification; student achievement and socialization; formal organizations; self employment.
Dalton Conley
Research/Interest: Stratification/mobility; race; urban sociology; social policy; health and society.
David Greenberg
Research/Interest: Criminology; sociology of law; mathematical modeling; ancient civilizations; deviance; human sexuality; sociology of science; evolutionary psychology; statistical methods in the social sciences.
Barbara Heyns
Research/Interest: Sociology of education; social stratification; post-communist transitions; sociology of childhood; methodology/survey research.
Robert Max Jackson
Research/Interest: Gender inequality; stratification; economy and society; theory; research Methods.
Guillermina Jasso
Research/Interest: Sociobehavioral theory; distributive justice; status; international migration; inequality; probability distributions; mathematical methods for theory building; factorial survey methods for empirical analysis.
Jeff Manza
Research/Interest: Social inequality, political sociology, and public policy.
Ann Morning
Research/Interest: Race and ethnicity, especially racial classification; multiracial population; demography; sociology of knowledge and science; immigration; economic sociology.
Patrick Sharkey
Research/Interest: Neighborhoods and communities; stratification and mobility; urban sociology; crime and violence; social policy.
Florencia Torche
Research/Interest: Comparative sociology, stratification, education, wealth inequality, intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
Caitlin Zaloom
Research/Interest: culture and economy; cities and globalization; financial markets;
technology and cities; science and technology studies; social theory.
Staff
Carse Ramos Carse Ramos is the administrator of the center. She recently graduated with a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Email:
carse.ramos@nyu.edu