Faculty in the Department of Sociology and Demography engage in meaningful, community-based research. Topics include, but are not limited to, aging, family, gender, health disparities, migration, religion, poverty and more.
Below are examples of their areas of expertise.
Aging & Life Course
- Melinda Denton
- Terrence Hill
- Ying Huang
- Zhiyong Lin
- Raymond Swisher
- Xiaohe Xu
Demography (Applied, Social, Formal)
- Lynne Cossman
- Ginny Garcia-Alexander
- Ying Huang
- Kara Joyner
- Zhiyong Lin
- Lloyd Potter
- Fernando Riosmena
- Johnelle Sparks
- Rene Zenteno
Family & Gender
- John Bartkowski
- Chelsea Belanger
- Melinda Denton
- Christopher Ellison
- Zhiyong Lin
- Kara Joyner
- Xiaohe Xu
Health Disparities & Medical Sociology
- John Bartkowski
- Lynne Cossman
- Christopher Ellison
- Ginny Garcia-Alexander
- Terrence Hill
- Ying Huang
- Kara Joyner
- Zhiyong Lin
- Lloyd Potter
- Fernando Riosmena
- Rogelio Saenz
- Johnelle Sparks
- Raymond Swisher
Methodology (Demographic, Evaluation, Qualitative, Quantitative)
- John Bartkowski
- Melinda Denton
- Terrence Hill
- Kara Joyner
- Zhiyong Lin
- Lloyd Potter
- Christina Sue
- Xioahe Xu
Migration & Immigration
- Zhiyong Lin
- Fernando Riosmena
- Rogelio Saenz
- Christina Sue
- Rene Zenteno
Poverty and Inequality
- Lynne Cossman
- Ying Huang
- Michael Miller
- Rogelio Saenz
- Johnelle Sparks
- Raymond Swisher
Race, Ethnicity & Latino Studies
- Christopher Ellison
- Zhiyong Lin
- Michael Miller
- Fernando Riosmena
- Rogelio Saenz
- Johnelle Sparks
- Christina Sue
- Rene Zenteno
Religion & Culture
- John Bartkowski
- Chelsea Belanger
- Melinda Denton
- Christopher Ellison
- Ginny Garcia-Alexander
- Michael Miller
- Joanne Ford-Robertson
- Xiaohe Xu
