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List of Professors
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Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Charles Horton Cooley |
1899 - 1929 | Professor of Sociology |
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Harrison Standish Smalley |
1903 - 1911 | Professor of Political Economy |
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David Friday |
1908 - 1923 | Professor of Political Economy |
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Walton Hale Hamilton |
1910 - 1914 | Assistant Professor of Political Economy |
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Arthur E. Wood |
1917 - 1952 |
Professor of Sociology and Social Work Professor of Epidemiology |
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Roy Hinman Holmes |
1918 - 1949 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Robert Cooley Angell |
1922 - 1969 |
Professor of Sociology Chair of Sociology 1940-1951 |
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Lowell Juilliard Carr |
1925 - 1956 | Professor of Sociology |
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Richard Corbin Fuller |
1929 - 1944 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Roderick D. McKenzie |
1930 - 1940 |
Professor of Sociology and Psychology Chair of Sociology 1930-1940 |
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Amos Henry Hawley |
1937 - 1951 |
Professor of Sociology Chair of Sociology 1951-1961 |
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Luther Lee Bernard |
1940 | Professor of Sociology |
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Theodore Mead Newcomb |
1941 - 1974 |
Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding Professor of Psychology Professor of Sociology |
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Ronald Freedman |
1946 - 1986 | Roderick D. McKenzie Distinguished Professor of Sociology |
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Rensis Likert |
1946 - 1971 |
Professor of Sociology and Psychology Director of the Institute of Social Research |
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Horace M. Miner |
1946 - 1980 | Professor of Anthropology and Sociology |
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Peter Andrew Ostafin |
1946 - 1979 |
Assistant Professor of Sociology Associate Director of Housing |
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Albert Angus Campbell |
1946 - 1980 |
Professor of Psychology Professor of Sociology Director of Survey Research Center and Institute for Social Research |
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Leslie Kish |
1947 - 1989 |
Professor of Sociology Research Scientist Institute for Social Research |
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Werner Siegmund Landecker |
1947 - 1981 | Professor of Sociology |
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Guy Edwin Swanson |
1949 - 1969 |
Professor of Sociology Chair of Sociology 1961-1964 Acting Chair of Sociology 1967-1968 |
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Gerhard E. Lenski |
1950 - 1963 | Professor of Sociology |
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Robert O. Blood |
1952 - 1969 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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David Wright Varley |
1954 - 1960 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Harold L Wilensky |
1954 - 1963 | Professor of Sociology |
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Harry Palmer Sharp |
1955 - 1961 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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David Joseph Bordua |
1955 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Otis D. Duncan |
1956 - 1973 | Charles Horton Cooley University Professor of Sociology |
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David Goldberg |
1956 - 1997 |
Professor of Sociology Research Scientist of Population Studies Center |
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Hubert M Blalock Jr |
1957 - 1961 | |
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Philip Converse |
1958 - 1989 |
Robert Cooley Angell Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Political Science Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research |
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Henry Joseph Meyer |
1958 - 1978 | Professor of Social Work and Sociology |
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Morris Janowitz |
1958 - 1961 | Professor of Sociology |
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Albert J. Reiss Jr. |
1961 - 1971 |
Professor of Sociology Chair of Sociology 1964-1970 |
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David Street |
1961 - 1976 | Professor of Social Work and Sociology |
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William A. Gamson |
1962 |
Professor of Sociology and Urban Geography Chair of Sociology 1974-1978 |
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John Takeshata |
1962 - 1967 |
Assistant Professor of Sociology Associate Professor of Population Planning |
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Edward O. Laumann |
1964 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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John F. Lofland |
1964 - 1968 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Leon H. Mayhew |
1964 - 1970 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Charles C. Moskos Jr. |
1964 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies |
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Gayl D. Ness |
1964 - 1996 |
Professor of Sociology Professor of Population Planning and International Health |
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Howard Schuman |
1964 - 1995 |
Professor of Sociology Research Scientist Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research Chair of Sociology 1970-1974 |
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John Y. Takeshita |
1964 - 1967 |
Assistant Professor of Sociology Associate Professor of Population Planning |
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James C. Moore Jr. |
1965 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Ian Weinberg |
1966 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Mark Chesler |
1967 - 2004 | Professor of Sociology |
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Robert E. Cole |
1967 | Professor of Sociology and Business |
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Walter Reynolds Farley |
1967 - 2013 |
Professor of Sociology and Urban Geography Chair of Sociology 1977-1980, 86-87 |
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Yeheskel Hasenfeld |
1967 - 1988 | Professor of Sociology and Social Work |
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Max A. Heirich |
1967 - 1999 |
Professor of Sociology and Residential College Research Scientist in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations |
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Albert I. Hermalin |
1967 - 1997 |
Professor of Sociology and Residential College Research Scientist Population Studies Center |
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Joel H. Levine |
1967 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Thomas S. Smith |
1967 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Walter Downing Connor |
1968 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Donald R. Deskins Jr. |
1968 - 2002 |
Professor of Sociology and Urban Geography Chair Department of Geography 1974-1979 |
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Richard O. Lempert |
1968 - 2008 | Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law and Sociology |
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Marcello Truzzo |
1968 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Marcello Truzzo |
1968 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Gudmund R. Iverson |
1969 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Charles H. Tilly |
1969 - 1984 | Professor of History and Sociology |
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Michael S. Flynn |
1969 - 2005 |
Research Scientist Transportation Research Institute Assistant Professor of Sociology Senior Research Associate School of Education |
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Willard Rodgers |
1969 - 2008 | Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |
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Lawrence J. Redlinger |
1970 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Martin K. Whyte |
1970 - 1995 | Professor of Sociology |
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Ozzie Lee Edwards |
1972 - 1978 |
Associate Professor of Sociology Director of African and African American Studies |
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Andre Modigliani |
1972 - 2004 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Robert M. Groves |
1972 - 2012 | |
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Karen O. Mason |
1973 - 1991 | Professor of Sociology and Psychology |
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William M. Mason |
1973 - 1991 | Professor of Sociology and Psychology |
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Michael K. Moch |
1973 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Andrew Sanders |
1973 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Viola L. Hamilton |
1975 - 1980 | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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Ruth Horowitz |
1975 - 1976 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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John E. Knodel |
1975 - 2004 | Professor of Sociology |
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Jeffery M. Paige |
1976 - 2015 | Professor of Sociology |
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Mayer N Zald |
1977 - 2001 |
Professor of Sociology, Social Work, Business Administration Charles Horton Colley Distinguished University Professor of Social Science Chair of Sociology 1981-84, 90-92 |
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James S. House |
1978 - 2014 |
Professor of Sociology Research Scientist in Epidemiology Professor of Public Policy |
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Duane F. Alwin |
1979 - 2002 |
Professor of Sociology Senior Research Scientist Institute for Social Research |
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Mary R. Jackman |
1979 - 1989 | Professor of Sociology and Residential College |
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Guillermina Jasso |
1980 - 1982 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Aldon D. Morris |
1980 - 1990 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Robert Joseph Thomas |
1980 - 1985 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Walter R. Allen |
1981 - 1991 | Professor of Sociology and Afro-American and African Studies |
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David E. Rauma |
1983 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Barbara Fay Reskin |
1983 - 1985 | Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies |
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Howard A. Kimeldorf |
1985 - 2015 | Professor of Sociology & Statistics |
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Michael D. Kennedy |
1986 - 2009 | Professor of Sociology |
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Margaret Ramsay Somers |
1987 - 2016 | Professor of Sociology |
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James M. Lepkowski |
1988 - 2016 |
Research Professor, Institute of Social Research Adjunct Professor of Sociology Professor of Biostatistics |
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Miguel F. Guilarte |
1989 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Yu Xie |
1989 - 2015 |
Professor of Sociology & Statistics Professor of Public Policy Research Professor, Survey Research Center & Population Studies |
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Julia Potter Adams |
1990 - 2004 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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JoEllen Shively |
1990 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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David J. Tucker |
1990 - 2013 |
Professor of Social Work Adjunct Professor of Sociology |
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Brian P. Rowan |
1991 - 2020 |
Professor of Education & Sociology Research Professor survey Research Center ISR |
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Tomas Almaguer |
1992 - 2001 |
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Associate Professor of Sociology and American Culture |
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Miriam L. King |
1992 - 1998 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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David R. Williams |
1992 - 2013 |
Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology |
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Sonya O. Rose |
1993 - 2006 |
Natalie Zemon Davis Collegiate Professor Professor of History Professor of Sociology |
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Azumi A. Takata |
1994 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Gay W. Seidman |
1995 - 1996 | Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy |
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David L Featherman |
1995 - 2012 |
Professor of Psychology & Sociology Research Professor, Institute for Social Research |
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Deborah S. Carr |
1997 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Sociology |
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Mary Beth Ofstedal |
1997 - 2018 | Research Scientist Institute for Social Research |
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Stephen W. Raudenbush |
1998 - 2009 |
Professor of Education Professor of Sociology & Statistics Research Professor, Survey Research Center, ISR |
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Ching Kwan Lee |
1999 - 2008 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Jayati Lal |
2000 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies |
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Laurie A. Morgan |
2000 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies |
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John Lie |
2001 - 2003 |
Professor of Sociology Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Studies |
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Anthony S. Chen |
2002 - 2010 |
Associate Professor of Sociology Associate Professor of Public Policy |
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Raymond G. De Vries |
2003 - 2020 |
Professor of Sociology Professor of Learning Health Sciences Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology |
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David James Harding |
2005 - 2013 |
Associate Professor of Sociology Associate Professor of Public Policy Research Associate Professor of Population Studies |
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Frederick Fitzgerald Wherry |
2005 - 2013 | Associate Professor of Sociology |
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Teresa A. Sullivan |
2006 - 2010 |
Professor of Sociology Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs |