Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Studies
My major interests in sociology include gender, sexuality, and inequality. My past research has focused on a diverse range of topics associated with gender inequality in work and family roles including an analysis of the structural determinants of gender composition of university and college faculties, a longitudinal examination of educational decision-making and its relationship to ...
I am trained in class analysis, political sociology, and sociology of development (globalization). However, my work in the last 20 years has been in the area of race. I have published on racial theory, race and methodology, color-blind racism, the idea that race stratification in the USA is becoming Latin America-like, racial grammar, HWCUs, race and ...
Matt Bradshaw’s research focuses on three interrelated topics:
I. Gene-Environment Interplay and Health: Matt’s research in this area employs twin sibling models and molecular genetic techniques to examine how genes and environments work together in correlated and interactive ways to affect health. He is currently working on a paper examining ...
My research focuses on: 1) poverty and inequality; 2) work, labor and economic sociology; and 3) political economy, social policy and political sociology. First, I am interested in the causes, measurement and consequences of poverty and inequality. Often, I examine why poverty and inequality vary cross-nationally. For example, several studies explore ...
My program of research is conceptually grounded in life course, developmental, and ecological perspectives and focuses on three themes concerning the lives of America's poorest urban, small town, and rural families: (1) intergenerational family structures, processes, and role transitions; (2) the meaning of context and place in the daily lives of ...
Professor Chaves specializes in the sociology of religion. Most of his research is on the social organization of religion in the United States. Among other projects, he directs the National Congregations Study (NCS), a wide-ranging survey of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations conducted in 1998, 2006-07, and 2012. NCS results have helped us to better understand many ...
I received my B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature in 1983, and M.A. in Comparative Higher Education in 1986 from Beijing University. I received an M.A. in 1990 and a Ph.D in Sociology in January 1994 from Princeton University. Before entering the United States, I worked as a research fellow at Beijing University. I have worked as visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi ...
I received my B.A. and M.A. in sociology from the Miami University of Ohio. My Ph.D. in sociology is from Duke University (1975) and my postdoctoral training, in aging, was performed at Duke University School of Medicine. I am a sociologist interested in social psychology, aging and adult development, medical sociology, and family relationships. I ...
Gary Gereffi's research interests deal with the competitive strategies of global firms, the governance of global value chains, economic and social upgrading, and the emerging global knowledge economy. His major ongoing research projects are: (1) industrial upgrading, global production networks, and decent work in Asia, the Americas, Eastern Europe, ...
My research interests are in
economic sociology, culture, and organizations. I have written several
articles and a book about gift and market exchange in human blood and
organs. I’ve also published work on the relationship between information
technology and culture, wage growth and unemployment in OECD labor
markets, and debates about structure and agency ...
Professor and Director of the Markets & Management Program
My research is concentrated in two areas in economic sociology: the study of wealth inequality and the study of complex organizations, particularly in China. Both research agendas explore the emergence of social structure and the subsequent effect of social structure on the behaviors of actors. I conduct research in two diverse contexts and on two ...
John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology
I received my Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. After a year of
postdoctoral study in mathematical statistics at
Columbia University in New York City, I taught there
and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage
Foundation for three years. I then was successively a
member of the faculties of the ...
Norb F. Schaefer Professor of International Studies
Statement of Current and Future Research Program
S. Philip Morgan, Sociology Department, Duke University10/28/2006
My research focuses on human fertility. More specifically I ask: what factors explain variation in fertility across populations? A sociological perspective guides my research. This perspective focuses attention on group-specific ...
My major research interests focus on patterns of inequality across the life span, with a special interest in the temporal diversity of life transitions, their consequences for later life, and the impact of institutions on these transitions over time. Over thirty-three years I have examined workplace policies related to wage and benefit structures and ...
I study identity, action and emotional response. I’m interested in the basic question of how identities affect social interaction. I use experimental, observational, survey and simulation methods to describe how identities, actions and emotions are interrelated. The experiments I do usually involve creating social situations where unusual things ...
My current research involves a multi-year panel study of racial and ethnic differences in academic performance. A substantial body of research documents a gap in performance among different groups, yet the reasons why are only partly clear. Our research design follows two cohorts of Duke University undergraduates, the incoming classes of 2001 and ...
The main goal of my current research is to understand the varieties, origins, and consequences of different moral worldviews. I want to know where people get their ideas about what a "good life" looks like and what it means to be a "good person" and how these (usually implicit) ideas help shape their strategies of action over time. In recent months, I have also been writing about the promise ...
Professor of African & African American Studies and Sociology
I am interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly in the Atlantic and Pacific regions generally. My current projects are focused on the sorts of claims that populations deemed diasporic make on states, and how this reconfigures their communities and general sociocultural practices. I am also interested in development's impact on social and economic environments, and the way this structures and restructures people's assessments of their spaces for the articulation and pursuit of ...
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy and Assistant Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences
Research: Causes and consequences of marriage formation for low-income families; health and well-being of low-income families and children
Associate Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Human Development Certificate Program
Dr. Gold's research focuses on the psychosocial consequences of chronic illness in late life. In particular, she has studies the impact of an exercise and psychosocial intervention on women with osteoporosis living in retirement communities as well as the impact of chronic pain on community-dwelling older women with osteoporosis. She has also looked at issues of ...
Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy and Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Community and Family Medicine; Professor of African and African-American Studies
Research: Social determinants of U.S. racial and ethnic health disparities; community-based and public policy interventions to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities
Dr. Reeves received her BA from the University of Montana, her MA from Truman State University, and her Ph.D. in human resources management and industrial relations from the University of Keele, United Kingdom. She has published articles on reward management, virtual teams, and appraisal systems and is the author of Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired (Greenwood Press, 2000), focusing ...
My main research interests are social networks and social capital, the life stress process (especially social support as resources), social stratification and mobility, and Chinese societies.
Most of my research focuses on voluntary groups and the social networks that draw people into and out of them. But my research agenda is more ambitious than that. I think that the general ecological theory of affiliation that I have developed shows how any social entity that spreads through networks behaves. We’ve already applied the theory to ...
I received my B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Alabama and my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina in 1955. I taught at William and Mary, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Illinois, Chicago before joining the Duke Faculty in 1967. My main research interests are occupations and occupational changes, ...
My continuing research interest focuses on large-scale social units, their principles of organization and the processes by which they survive. I am particularly interested in the coercive and voluntaristic processes that shape individual conformity to organizational needs and experiences. Much of my current work is devoted to the (NSF supported) Quebec Referendum Study, which is intended to shed light ...
I received my B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton University and my Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. Prior to my appointment at Duke I taught at both Princeton and Harvard. At Duke I have served as departmental chair and as Director of International Studies (1989-91), in which capacity I was instrumental in internationalizing the university. ...
I received my PH.D. from the University of Oxford in 1966 and taught for two years at the University of East Anglia in England before joining the sociology department at Duke. I have published books on social movements, religion, leisure, sport and social theory. Currently, I am conducting a number of studies of volunteers, looking at who volunteers, ...
Vice Provost For Int'l Affairs and Professor Of The Practice
I received my A.B. from Harvard University and my M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. I have been a Fulbright scholar at the Universidad Nacional San Cristó bal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Perú; a visiting scholar at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and a visiting scholar at the Latin Amerika Institutet, Stockholms Universität, ...
Affiliated Faculty and Professor at the Center for Study of Aging and Human Development and Geriatric Division / Dept of Medicine of Medical School, and Institute of Population Research
I received my doctoral degree from Brussels Free University in May 1986, and conducted my post-doctoral study at Princeton University, 1986-87. Currently, I am a Professor at Center for Study of Aging and Human Development and Department of Sociology of Duke University, a Professor of Peking University in China, and Distinguished Research Scholar of Max ...
Carl's extensive experience in entrepreneurship includes cellular telecommunications, advertising, and marketing. He has helped
many young start-up companies and entrepreneurs through mentoring and acting as interim CEO, in addition to founding and running his own companies.
Carl has recently started a new consulting practice that claims the ...
My research focuses on the intersection between racial and gender stratification, economic globalization, and labor. My dissertation analyzed the racial mechanisms of inclusion, exclusion, and stratification for micro businesses and workers in the tourism global value chain in Costa Rica. I compared two tourism towns in Costa Rica that had different racial demographics, connections to the Costa Rican state, and positions in the global ...
My long-term professional goal is to conduct academic research investigating the implications of the geography of social stratification, including contributions of environmental health exposures to multidimensional quality of life, especially for vulnerable populations such as late life adults. Specifically, I am interested in (1) how individuals ...
As a social gerontologist, I investigate complex and pressing problems related to aging through independent research that integrates the perspectives and methodologies of gerontology, sociology, and women’s studies. My research reflects a commitment to the interdisciplinary exploration of aging. Through my research, I investigate and promote health and well-being for older adults. I do this work in four related areas: spirituality, ...
My long-term research agenda is to understand how state level workforce regulations affect labor market inequality for low-income populations, particularly racial minorities. My work thus far has focused upon regulation of migrant workers and global labor markets. My book manuscript entitled Black Gold, Brown Labor: The Legalization of Indentured Work through the Transnational Migration Industry, seeks to explain why despite the recent economic downturn there has been an increased ...
