2007-2008 New Faculty in Sociology!
We are very pleased to welcome the following New Faculty to our department this year:
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Interest: Comparative Political Sociology
Mary Daly
Visiting Associate Professor
Professor Daly is a Professor at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland. Mary is a return visitor to Maxcy Hall, and she is expert in areas of welfare policy, women and poverty, and family. She will be working with Dennis Hogan on his comparative study of children with disability.
Glenn Deane
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Interest: Demography, Quantitative Methods
We are extremely fortunate to have Professor Deane here teaching SOC 297-06, Spatial Data Analysis Techniques in the Social Sciences. He is nationally and internationally known for his teaching and development of spatial analysis techniques. Since 2005 he has been program faculty for the annual summer ICPSR Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, held in Ann Arbor. He is currently the Associate Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, and Director of the SUNY-Albany Data Services Core with the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis.
Laurie DeRose Brooks
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Brown University
Areas of Interest: Demography, Development
A "welcome back" to Laurie Derose: Laurie is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Derose received her 1995 Ph.D. from Brown University in Sociology (specialization in demography). She is teaching two courses for us this term: African Demography and Development, and Special Topics in Population.
Ricky Leung
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Interest: Sociology of Organizations, Sociology of Science, and Science & Technology Studies
Carrie Spearin
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Brown University
Areas of Interest: Social Demography, Family Formation, Gender, and Health