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Faculty and Staff

Professors

Jenifer BratterJenifer Bratter
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor
Interests: Race, demography, marriage, and family
Email: Jenifer.L.Bratter@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-4254
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Elaine Howard EcklundElaine Howard Ecklund
Ph.D., Cornell University
Assistant Professor
Interests: Religion, science, immigration, culture 
Email: ehe@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-6761
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Michael EmersonMichael Emerson
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor
Interests: Race and ethnic relations, religion, urban sociology  
Email: moe@rice.edu
Phone: 713)348- 4448
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Bridget GormanBridget Gorman
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Interests: Racial and gender disparities in physical and mental health
Email: bkgorman@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-4137
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Holly HeardHolly Heard
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor
Interests: Families and children, social demography, life course studies, adolescent development 
Email: hheard@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-3415
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Rachel KimbroRachel Kimbro
Ph.D., Princeton University
Assistant Professor
Interests: Demography, medical sociology, family, and poverty 
Email: rtkimbro@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-4265
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Stephen L. KlinebergStephen L. Klineberg
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor
Interests: Contemporary social change, survey research methodologies, urban and environmental sociology 
Email: slk@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-3484
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D. Michael LindsayD. Michael Lindsay
Ph.D., Princeton University
Assistant Professor
Interests: Elites, social class, and society, religion, culture
Email: mlindsay@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-5511
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Elizabeth LongElizabeth Long
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Professor and Chair
Interests: Sociology of culture, study of women and gender, social theory, and qualitative research methods 
Email: elong@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-3483
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Steve H. MurdockSteve H. Murdock
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Professor
Interests: Demography, social and applied demography, migration, rural sociology, and socioeconomic impact assessment 
Email: steve.h.murdock@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-2159
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Richard Johnson(2)Richard Johnson
Professor of the Practice of Environmental Studies in Sociology
Email: rrj@rice.edu
Phone: 713 348-5003
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Julia Zhang(2)Julia Zhang
Ph.D., Yale University
Visiting Professor
Interests: Classical & Contemporary Social TheoryCultural SociologySociology of Arts Civil Society
Email: julia.c.zhang@rice.edu
Phone: 713 348-4219
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Emeritus Faculty

Chandler DavidsonChandler Davidson
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Professor and Tsanoff Chair of Public Affairs Emeritus
Interests: Racial and ethnic politics; minority voting rights; social inequality
Email: fcd@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-3490
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William MartinWilliam Martin
Ph.D. Harvard
Professor Emeritus
Interests:  Religion (fundamentalism, religion and politics), criminology, drug policy and the rise of the modern Religious Right in the U.S. 
Email: wcm@rice.edu
Phone: (713)348-3481
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Adjunct Faculty

Roland B. Smith, Jr.Roland B. Smith, Jr.
Ed.D., Harvard
Adjunct Professor and Associate Provost
Interests: Ethnographic research methods, sociology of education, cultural diversity of higher educations, school-university collaborative relationships, urban studies 
Email: rbsmith@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-5688
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Postdoctoral Fellows

Jeremy PorterJeremy Porter
Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Quantitative research methods, health disparities, spatial analysis of social data, social inequalities and sociology of religion  
Email: jporter@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-4459
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Adrianne Frech(2)Adrianne Frech
Ph.D./ The Ohio State University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Physical and mental health, health disparities, life course transitions, union transitions and family formation, quantitative methods
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Madlene Hamilton(2)Madlene Hamilton
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: K-12 education, race/ethnicity, poverty, policy studies, child development
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Sarah Damaske(2)Sarah A. Damaske
Ph.D. New York University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Gender, Work-Family, Social Class, Race
Email: sarah.a.damaske@rice.edu
Phone: 713 348-5589
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Staff

Department Administrator
Phone: (713) 348-4237
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Shirley Tapscott
Administrative Coordinator
Email: sht1@rice.edu
Phone: (713) 348-4225
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