SRA New Members 2024

Susan L. Brown is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research and Co-Director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research. With support from NIH, she studies family patterns and change in the U.S. and their implications for health and well-being, particularly in the second half of life. Brown is author of Families in America published by the University of California Press and currently serves as Vice President of the Population Association of America and Vice President of the Association of Population Centers. 

John Campbell is the Class of 1925 Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College where he served as department chair for ten years.  He has also held faculty positions at the Copenhagen Business School, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, and Washington State University.  His most recent books are Pay Up!  Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State (Cambridge University Press, 2023), What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (Cambridge University Pres, 2021), and American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age (Oxford University Press, 2018).   

Jennifer Carlson is a Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University, where she is the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Guns in Society. In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her research into how guns shape American life, including those who survive gun violence’s harrowing aftermath, police who enforce the country’s complex gun laws, gun sellers and retailers who are on the front lines of surges in gun purchasing, and the people who choose to own and carry guns. She is the author of three research monographs: Merchants of the Right (Princeton University Press, 2023), Policing the Second Amendment (Princeton University Press, 2020) and Citizen-Protectors (Oxford University Press, 2015), and her articles have appeared in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Law and Society Review, and Social Forces. She is currently working on a National Science Foundation-funded study on gun violence survivors as well as a book project on "how we end the gun debate."  

David Cunningham is Professor and outgoing Chair of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. His research has focused on drivers of political repression and organized racism, and currently centers on legacies of racial violence and contention. Building on related prior public-facing work with the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Mississippi Truth Project, he currently serves on the City of St. Louis Reparations Commission and as an instructor and board member for WashU’s Prison Education Project. 

Tim Hallett is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington. He does research at the intersections of social psychology, organizations, and culture, and he is most known for his efforts to build Inhabited Institutionalism. He has an additional line of research that examines how social science ideas become public ideas, in an effort to build a sociology of public social science. 

Lynne Haney is Professor of Sociology at New York University, where she also directs the Prison Education Program Research Lab and the Law and Society Undergraduate Program. Trained as an ethnographer, she has published widely in the areas of gender, punishment and law, and European Studies. Her most recent book, Prisons of Debt, examines the criminalization of child support in the U.S. and its effects on men's lives as fathers. 

Greta R. Krippner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is a political economist, with interests spanning the history of capitalism, gender and sexuality, law, and political and social theory. Her first book, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (Harvard University Press, 2011), examined the financialization of the U.S. economy in the period since the 1970s, arguing that the turn to finance was an inadvertent response to unresolved distributional dilemmas as post-war growth stalled. Her current book project traces the long history of the individualization of risk in U.S. society, asking how the notion that each individual should “pay the cost” of her own riskiness emerged as a widely accepted normative principle governing how risk is distributed. She is a founding editor of Theory and Social Inquiry. 

Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a specialist on political sociology of the Middle East. He is author of The Missing Martyrs: Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists? (first edition, 2011; second edition, 2019), Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 (2008), and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (2004), and editor of the anthologies Liberal Islam (1998) and Modernist Islam, 1840-1940 (2002). 

Scott M. Lynch is a professor of sociology and the director of graduate studies at Duke University, where he also directs the Center for Population Health and Aging and is the associate director of the Duke University Population Research Institute.  His research interests include identifying and understanding cohort and life course patterns in health disparities and the development and application of demographic and statistical methods for studying them.  He has published two books on applied Bayesian statistics and an introductory statistics text for undergraduate teaching, and he has published widely on health disparities in journals in sociology, demography, and gerontology.  He has served on roughly five dozen dissertation committees and has chaired more than a dozen for students in sociology and public policy at both Duke and Princeton University. 

Lisa D. Pearce is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research examines how religions and families affect the ideas, behaviors, and well-being of their members. Pearce’s articles have appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sociological Methodology. She has published four books and has a new one in press (with Jessica Halliday Hardie) entitled, Approaches to Mixed Methods Research (Sage, 2024). Pearce has served as Chair of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Religion and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the General Social Survey. 

Allison Pugh’s research focuses on how meaningful emotional connections between people are shaped and impeded by rationalization, precariousness and inequalities of gender, race and class. Her most influential publications have been in qualitative methods and in childhood studies, for which she recently won a mid-career award.  Her fourth book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton 2024) is based on an NSF-funded study of the standardization of work that relies on relationship.  A professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins, she has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Berggruen Institute, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a visiting scholar in Germany, France and Australia. 

Wendy D. Roth is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on how social processes challenge racial and ethnic boundaries and transform classification systems. She is author of Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race, which examines how immigration changes cultural concepts of race—for the migrants, for their host society, and for the societies they left behind. Her current work is on genetic ancestry testing’s influence on racial concepts, identities, and interactions, as well as racial appraisals by others. 

Rebbeca L. Sandefur is Professor and Director of the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she founded and leads the Access to Justice Research Initiative. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018 for her work on inequality and access to justice. 

Liana C. Sayer is Chair and Professor of Sociology, faculty affiliate of the Maryland Population Research Center, and director, Maryland Time Use Laboratory, at the University of Maryland.  From 2021-2024, Sayer is the editor of Journal of Marriage and Family. Sayer’s research on cross-national and historical determinants, patterns, and consequences of gendered time use documents how time use is a fundamental mechanism that reinforces and reconfigures gender, race and class inequality over time, place, and generation. 

John Skrentny is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego. The recipient of grants from Guggenheim, Sloan, Spencer, and NSF, among others, John’s work has mostly focused on opportunities in work, education, and immigration, and the laws and politics that shape these opportunities. He is the author, most recently, of Wasted Education: How We Fail Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2023. His research and writing have appeared in academic journals such as American Journal of Sociology  and Science, and also news media, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and CNN.com. 

Sarah Thébaud is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty Affiliate of the Technology Management Program, and Research Associate of the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research identifies social psychological and institutional processes that contribute to gender inequalities in work, families, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Her work has appeared in academic outlets such as American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Gender & Society, Social Forces, and the Annual Review of Sociology, as well as leading media publications like The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Before arriving at UCSB, she earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. 

Kristin Turney is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her current research uses a variety of methods to understand the repercussions of stressors (particularly, but not exclusively, those stemming from the criminal legal system) on family and child wellbeing. She is also working to bring greater transparency to the conditions inside jails and prisons through the creation of a digital archive, PrisonPandemic, and via her research on mortality in carceral facilities. Her research has been funded by organizations including Arnold Ventures, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Foundation for Child Development, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. 

Karolyn Tyson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Georgetown University. She received her BA from Spelman College and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work centers on understanding the institutional processes that reproduce patterns of inequality in American public schools, with a specific focus on the experiences of black students and their families. She is the author of Integration Interrupted and other publications examining how schooling policies and practices shape students’ educational experiences, attitudes, and outcomes. She is currently working on a project investigating class differences in real-world trust decision making. 

Robb Willer is a professor of sociology at Stanford University, where he studies social psychology, political sociology, and computational social science. He is currently focused on three main areas: pathways to healthy democracy, strategies for social change, and application of social science to emerging technologies. He has published broadly in sociology, psychology, political science, and organizational behavior, and his popular writing has appeared in outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Vox, and Scientific American. 

Geneviève Zubrzycki is the William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies at the University of Michigan. A comparative-historical and cultural sociologist, she has published extensively on nationalism and religion, collective memory and the politics of commemoration, cultural politics in Eastern Europe and North America, and visual sociology and materiality. Her books The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland  (Chicago 2006), Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec (Chicago 2016), and  Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton 2022) received multiple national and international awards, and were translated into Polish and French. In 2021, Zubrzycki was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bronisław Malinowski Prize in the Social Sciences from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.