Program Faculty
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Dr. Bhachu is interested in emergent cultural forms and cultural identitities in border zones and niche markets innovated from the margins by multiply-moved new global citizens. Her work deals with the production, circulation, and marketing of cultural products and commodities in multiple sites around the globe and their interpretation in local contexts. These research topics build on her long term interests in immigrant enterprises, multiple migrations and diasporas, race and ethnicity, cultural nationalisms, and consumer and popular cultures in global markets.
Tel: 1-508-793-7599
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Patricia Ewick, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research methods, gender, law, deviance
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Bruce London, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Enviroment and society, community, sociology of the Third World, social demography
Tel: 1-508-793-7242
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Deborah Merrill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
; Research methods, family, aging, medical sociology, social demography
Tel: 1-508-793-7284
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Debra Osnowitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Social inequality, theory, work and occupations, organizations, social policy
Tel: 1-508-793-7230
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Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, International Studies Stream
Director of the International Studies Stream
Dr. Ross has worked on the political economy of urban development and the analysis of global capitalism. He still does occasional work on the social movements of the 1960s, and is frequently interviewed about his role in those movements. Dr. Ross has worked as a speechwriter and policy advisor, and he writes occasional commentary for magazines. Dr. Ross is among the founders of the program in Urban Development and Social Change, and is also an affiliate of the Community Development and Planning program.
Tel: 1-508-793-7376
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Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies
Chair of Sociology Department ; Coordinator of Undergraduate Activities, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Dr. Tenenbaum's research on ethnic enterprise, mutual aid, gender, education, and identity intersects the broad areas of sociology of American Jews and historical sociology. Her book, A Credit to their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880-1945, explores the relationship between immigrant Jewish credit networks and ethnic enterprise. Dr. Tenenbaum conducts research on such wide ranging topics as Jewish self-help societies and attitudes toward a controversial student assessment exam.
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