back to contents Complete Information University of Connecticut   Contact:   Box U-68 344 Mansfield Road Storrs, CT 06269-2068   Telephone: (860) 486-4422 Fax: (860) 486-6356   Email: socadm2@uconnvm.uconn.edu Web: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~wwwsoci/   Chair: Michael Wallace, Director of Graduate Studies: Ralph McNeal Jr.   Aministrative Assistant(s): Arlene Goodwin   Degrees Offered: PhD, MA, BA Academic Year System: Semester   In–State Tuition (2002–2003): $5825 Out–of–state Tuition (2002–2003): $15130 Alternative Tuition Structure: Financial Aid Available to Full-Time Students: Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships- university funded and under faculty members' grants, Tuition Waivers, Fellowships from the University, Other Number of First Year Graduate Students Receiving Some Form of Assistance: 3 Admission Deadline: (during academic year) February 1 Financial Support Deadline: February 1 Number of Full-Time Graduate Students: 28 Number of Part-Time Graduate Students: 0 Number of Undergraduate Majors in Fall 2002: 274 Teacher Trainings Programs: Number of Undergraduate Sociology Degrees Awarded in 2001-2002: 274 Graduate Record Examination: General Test Required Number of Graduate Sociology Degrees Awarded In 2001-2002:  Masters: 0 PHDs: 1   Special Programs and Areas of Expertise:   Sex and Gender, Stratification/Mobility, Quantitative Methodology, Qualitative Methodology, Political Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Work and Labor Markets, Policy Analysis/Public Policy, Education   Full–Time Faculty Abrahamson, Mark (PhD, Washington-Saint Louis 1963) Urban Sociology, Theory; Professor. Bernstein, Mary (PhD, New York 1997) Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Sexuality and Homosexuality, Sex and Gender; Assistant Professor. Broadhead, Robert S. (PhD, California-San Francisco 1978) Medical Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Deviant Behavior, AIDS and Drugs; Professor. Cazenave, Noel A. (PhD, Tulane 1977) Racism, Poverty, Political Sociology; Associate Professor. Cheng, Hsu-Chih (PhD, Indiana 2003) Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Education, Quantitative Methodology; Assistant Professor. Dashefsky, Arnold M. (PhD, Minnesota 1969) Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Psychology, Judaic Studies; Professor. DeFronzo, James L. (PhD, Indiana 1975) Criminology/Delinquency, Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Social Psychology; Associate Professor. Eisenhandler, Susan A. (PhD, Massachusetts-Amherst 1986) Aging/Social Gerontology, Qualitative Methodology, Social Psychology; Assistant Professor. Glasberg, Davita Silfen (PhD, SUNY-Stony Brook 1983) Political Economy, Political Sociology, Economy and Society; Professor. Goodstein, Lynne (PhD, CUNY 1977) Criminology/Delinquency, Penology/Corrections, Sex and Gender; Professor. Gugler, Josef (PhD, Cologne 1959) African Studies, Urban Sociology, Visual Sociology; Professor. Logan, Charles H. (PhD, Indiana 1971) Criminal Justice, Criminology/Delinquency, Policy Analysis/Public Policy; Professor. Macdonald, Cameron (PhD, Brandeis 1997) Family, Sex and Gender, Qualitative Methodology; Assistant Professor. McNeal, Ralph B., Jr. (PhD, North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1994) Education, Social Capital, Adolescent Substance Use; Associate Professor. Naples, Nancy (PhD, CUNY 1988) Race/Class/Gender, Policy Analysis/Public Policy, Community; Associate Professor. Neubeck, Kenneth (PhD, Washington-Saint Louis 1972) Political Sociology, Race/Class/Gender, Poverty; Associate Professor. Purkayastha, Bandana (PhD, Connecticut 1999) Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender, Migration and Immigration; Assistant Professor. Ratcliff, Kathryn Strother (PhD, Wisconsin 1977) Women and Health, Sociology of Health, Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research; Assistant Professor. Rockwell, Richard C. (PhD, Texas-Austin 1970) Urban Sociology, Demography; Professor. Sanders, Clinton (PhD, Northwestern 1972) Qualitative Methodology, Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization, Cultural Sociology; Professor. Taylor, Ronald L. (PhD, Boston 1973) Social Psychology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Children and Youth; Professor. Tec, Nechama (PhD, Columbia 1963) Holocaust Studies, Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization, Family; Professor. Tuchman, Gaye (PhD, Brandeis 1969) Cultural Sociology, Sex and Gender, Mass Communication/Public Opinion; Professor. Villemez, Wayne J. (PhD, Texas-Austin 1970) Stratification/Mobility, Organizations-Formal/Complex, Work and Labor Markets; Professor. Wallace, Michael (PhD, Indiana 1983) Political Economy, Stratification/Mobility, Work and Labor Markets; Professor. Weakliem, David L. (PhD, Wisconsin-Madison 1987) Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Work and Labor Markets; Professor. Wright, Bradley R. Entner (PhD, Wisconsin-Madison 1996) Criminology/Delinquency, Social Psychology, Quantitative Methodology; Assistant Professor. Younts, C. Wesley (PhD, Iowa 2003) Social Psychology, Small Groups, Criminology/Delinquency; Assistant Professor. Part–Time Faculty Abramson, Harold (PhD, Chicago 1969) Religion, Community, Ethnomethodology; Emeritus. Garey, Anita I. (PhD, California-Berkeley 1993) Family, Qualitative Methodology, Sociology of Gender; Assistant Professor, Joint Appointment with: Family Studies. Gordon, Michael (PhD, Connecticut 1967) Family, Sexuality and Homosexuality; Emeritus. Hadden, Kenneth (PhD, Michigan 1972) Demography, Human Ecology, Environmental Sociology, Emeritus. Heiss, Jerold (PhD, Indiana-Bloomington 1958) Family, Social Psychology, Emotions; Emeritus. Margolis, Diane Rothbard (PhD, New York 1976) Emotions, Theory, Race/Class/Gender; Emeritus. Newman, William (PhD, New School for Social Research 1970) Religion, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Theory; Emeritus. Warkov, Seymour (PhD, Yale 1959) Environmental Sociology, Social Change, Policy Analysis/Public Policy; Emeritus. Wilkie, Jane R. (PhD, Massachusetts-Amherst) Demography, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender; Emeritus. 2001–02 PHD Recipients and Dissertation Titles Bird, Donna Determinants of State-Level Health Care Reform Policies, 1988-1994