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Full-Time Faculty

The Department of Sociology has eleven full-time faculty members and a number of affiliated faculty from diverse backgrounds as well as varied areas of expertise.

Jay Livingston
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. (Psychology and Social Relations), Harvard University
Interests: Culture; Social Psychology; Crime and Deviance
303 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-4131; livingstonj@mail.montclair.edu
Faye Allard
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Race and Ethnicity; Education; Urban Sociology; Qualitative Methodolgy; Gender
339 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7944; allardf@mail.montclair.edu
Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), State University of New York, Stony Brook
Interests: Work and Labor; Youth; Gender; Quantitative Methodology; Ethnography
305 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7229; beseny@mail.montclair.edu
Peter Freund
Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), New School for Social Research
Interests: Sociology of Health and Illness; Theory; Sociology of the Body
312 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7227; freundp@mail.montclair.edu
Lisette Garcia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), The Ohio State University
Interests: Stratification; Mental Health; Work and Occupations; Race and Ethnicity
311 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7170; garcial@mail.montclair.edu
Benjamin F. Hadis
Professor and Director, Minor in International Studies
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Development/Globalization; Population; Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Methods
306 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7276; hadisb@mail.montclair.edu
Gilbert Klajman
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), SUNY Buffalo
Interests: Statistics; Quantitative Methodology; Social Psychology
307 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7169; klajmang@mail.montclair.edu
George Martin
Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago
Interests: Environmental and Urban Sociology
308 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7231; martingt@mail.montclair.edu
Marietta Morrissey
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ph.D. (Sociology), Michigan State University
Interests: State and Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
401 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-4314; morrisseym@mail.montclair.edu
Sangeeta Parashar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Maryland, College Park
Interests: Demography; Development/Globalization; Sociology of Health
310 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7168; parashars@mail.montclair.edu
Janet Ruane
Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), Rutgers University
Interests: Research Methods; Popular Culture; Applied Sociologyy; Deviance and Social Control
309 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7647; ruanej@mail.montclair.edu
Yong Wang
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. (Sociology), Iowa State University
Interests: Theory; Cultural Sociology; Text Analysis; Statistics
311 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-7170; wangy@mail.montclair.edu
Gilbert Zicklin
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Davis
Interests: Sexuality; Family; LGBTQ Studies
313 Dickson Hall; (973) 655-4168; zickling@mail.montclair.edu