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This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago.The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars ...
Andrew Delano Abbott (born November 1948) is an American sociologist and social theorist working at the University of Chicago.He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the college.
Linda Joan Waite is a sociologist and social demographer.She is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.Waite is also a Senior Fellow at the NORC at the University of Chicago and Principal Investigator on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP).
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side , near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop .
Current faculty include religion scholar Wendy Doniger, theologian David Tracy, sociologist Hans Joas, literary theorist Thomas Pavel, theorist of German literature David Wellbery, classicist James M. Redfield, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, philosopher Robert B. Pippin, classicist Laura M. Slatkin, historian of science Lorraine Daston, physician and philosopher Leon Kass (former ...
Edward Otto Laumann (born August 31, 1938) is an American sociologist.He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.Laumann earned his Ph.D. in the Harvard Department of Social Relations in 1964, where he worked with George Homans, Talcott Parsons, and Harrison White.
Rose Hum Lee (Ph.D. 1947) – first woman and first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed such at Roosevelt University, 1956; Charles Miller Leslie – anthropologist; Frederick B. Lindstrom (Ph.D. 1950) – sociologist and historian of the Chicago School of sociology
John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.He is the author of five books: Thinking Through Statistics, Thinking Through Methods, Thinking Through Theory, Social Structures, The Explanation of Social Action, the latter two of which have both won the Theory Prize for Outstanding Book from the ASA ...