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view their Fact Sheet.

Chair

Eiko Ikegami
Professor of Sociology.
PhD 1989, Harvard University.
  

Department Members

Andrew Arato (on leave 2007-08)
Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory.
PhD 1975, University of Chicago.

Paolo Carpignano
Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Studies.
PhD 1969, University of Rome.

José Casanova
Professor of Sociology.
PhD 1982, New School for Social Research.

Sarah Daynes
Assistant Professor.
PhD 2001, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Carlos Forment
Associate Professor of Sociology.

Jeffrey Goldfarb
Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology (on leave Spring 2008).
PhD 1976, University of Chicago.

Jaeho Kang
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Media Studies.
PhD 2003, Cambridge University.

Elzbieta Matynia
Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology.
PhD 1979, University of Warsaw.

Virag Molnar
Assistant Professor

Rachel Sherman
Assistant Professor of Sociology.
PhD 2003, University of California at Berkeley.

Terry Williams
Professor of Sociology.
PhD 1978, City University of New York.

Vera Zolberg
Professor of Sociology.
PhD 1974, University of Chicago.
  

Affiliated and Visiting Faculty

Robert Beauregard
Professor, Columbia University.

Robin Blackburn
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Historical Studies (Fall 2005).
BsSc 1965, University of London.

Julian Casanova (Fall 2006)
Hans Speier Visiting Professsor of Sociology.
PhD 1983, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.

Jean Cohen
PhD 1979, The New School for Social Research.

Daniel Dayan (visiting Fall 2007)
Visiting Professor.

Nilüfer Göle (visiting Spring 2008)
Visiting Professor
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Agnes Heller
Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy and Political Science.
PhD 1955, Lorand Eotvos University (Budapest).

James M. Jasper
PhD 1988, University of California at Berkeley

Riva Kastoryano
Visiting Professor.
PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

János Kis
Hans Speier Visiting Professor.
MA 1967, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest).

Orville Lee
Professor at Eugene Lang College.
PhD 1996, University of California, Berkeley.

Frank Michelman
Visiting Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law.

James Murtha
Executive Vice President, The New School.

Patricio Navia (visitor 2005)
Visiting Assistant Professor.
PhD 2003, New School University.

Uri Ram (visiting 2006-07)
Visiting Associate Professor.
Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Hartmut Rosa (visiting Spring 2006)
Visiting Assistant Professor.

Willfried Spohn (Fall 2005)
Visiting Professor.

Kenneth Wark
Assistant Professor of Sociology and at Eugene Lang College.

Aristide Zolberg
Eberstadt Professor of Political Science.
PhD 1961, University of Chicago.
  

Emeriti

Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod
Professor Emerita of Sociology.
PhD 1966, University of Massachusetts.

Louise Tilly
Professor Emerita of Sociology.
PhD 1974, University of Toronto.