Emeritus Faculty
Friedman, Judith J.
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Associate Professor, teaches courses in urban sociology and research methods. Recent research focuses on suburbanization, race, and visual sociology.
Greenblat, Cathy
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CV
Cathy Greenblat is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Rutgers University where she served for 35 years as a member of the Department of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and the Bloustein School of Planning. The author of 15 books and more than 100 articles, she has lectured in the USA, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, Africa, the Philippines, China, Australia, and Japan. Since 2002 she has been engaged in a cross-cultural photographic project on aging, dementia, and end of life care. She served as an Honorary Research Fellow at the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK from 2006-2010 and as an Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, from 2011-2014. She has a continuing appointment as a Researcher in Human Sciences and Photographie at the Center for Memory Resources and Research (CMRR), University of Nice, France, after serving as an Artist in Residence at the University Hospital Network (CHU) there for 10 years.
Hansell, Stephen
Associate Professor
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Office: Davison Hall, 101A
Office Phone: 609-203-2830
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses on the sociology of medicine and health care, research methods, and statistics. He is interested in medical sociology, social networks, globalization, and the sociology of science. His current research is about the effects of managed care on adolescents.
Horwitz, Allan V.
Professor
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Office: Health Institute
Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in mental health and illness and the sociology of normality and abnormality. His research interests are in the areas of social definitions of mental illness, medicalization, and the impact of social roles on mental health. He is currently working on a book that examines the interplay of cultural and biological factors on conceptions of normality and abnormality.
Mechanic, David
Professor
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Mechanic is the René Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. His research and writing deal with social aspects of health and health care.
Oppenheimer, Martin
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Professor
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Professor of Sociology, retired effective 7/1/20. Taught courses in sociological writing; research methods; inequalities; addiction. Her current project is on grief and resilience in the midst of the opioid epidemic.
Rosenfield, Sarah
Associate Professor
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Office: Davison Hall, 134
Office Phone: 848-932-7688
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in the self, gender, mental health, and in writing. In her own research, she is particularly interested in the role of self in mental health and how race/ethnicity, class, and gender shape the self and mental health problems. She is also involved in research on services, stigma, and quality of life of people with chronic mentally illness.
Rudel, Thomas
Professor
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Office: Room 202 Cook Office Building
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Human Ecology, teaches courses in the sociology of economic development, and human ecology. Dr. Rudel's major research interests are in the fields of environmental sociology and economic sociology, especially in Latin America . He has recently published the book, Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press).
Smith, D. Randall
Associate Professor
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Office: Davison Hall, 037
Office Phone: 848-932-7797
Associate Professor of Sociology is currently conducting research on the indirect benefits of big-time intercollegiate athletics for colleges and universities. Over the years his research interests have also included labor markets, social networks, criminal careers and criminal sentencing, and bias and inequality in performance evaluations. He has taught a variety of statistics courses and sociology of sport at the graduate level.
Toby, Jackson
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Waxman, Chaim I.
Chaim I. Waxman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University where he served from as a member of the Department of Sociology from 1975 to 2006. He has written and edited more than 18 books and more than 100 articles.
After retiring from Rutgers he moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where he continued to be active professionally and served as a senior fellow in several scholarly institutes. In 2013, he was recruited by Jerusalem’s Hadassah Academic College to write a proposal for an undergraduate program in behavioral sciences. When the proposal was approved by Israel’s Council for Higher Education, he was asked to head the new department which opened in the fall of 2016, where he continues to serve as Chair.
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White, Helene Raskin
Professor
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Office: Alcohol Studies
Office Phone: 732-445-3579
Distinguished Professor in the Sociology Department and the Center of Alcohol Studies. Her research focuses on the comorbidity of substance use, crime, violence, and mental health problems in community and high-risk samples. She also evaluates drug prevention interventions for college students.
Williams, Richard
Associate Professor
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Office: Davison Hall, 111
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses in the sociology of identity and race and the sociology of symbolic boundaries. One area of interest for Dr. Williams is the development of "racial" and "national" identities within the context of macro and mid-range social structures. Another area of interest is around contemporary cultural forms of social system legitimization. He is currently at work on, "Scanning the Horizon: Local TV News in the Reproduction of Social Inequality," a book which argues that local TV news serves a significant role in the legitimization of existing social inequality.
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