Faculty research

Diverse scholarship

Research by Clark’s sociology faculty focuses on a wide range of topics, including cultural identity, religion, social movements, family relationships, social stratification, genocide, and the sociology of sport.

Faculty research interests

Parminder Bhachu

Parminder Bhachu’s ethnographic work on global migration and innovation highlights how displaced people enrich societies.

Jack Delehanty

Jack Delehanty studies the role of religion in political life and how it can be used to resist or reinforce inequality.

Joseph Guzman

Joseph Guzman’s research focuses on the dynamics of race and class among African Americans and their social organizations.

Deborah Merrill

Professor Merrill is studying same-sex marriage and its implications for relationships between parents and adult children.

Shelly Tenenbaum

Shelly Tenenbaum’s research focuses on how ethnic enterprise, mutual aid, gender, education, and identity intersects the broad areas of sociology of American Jews and historical sociology.

Rosalie Torres Stone

Rosalie Torres Stone focuses on the theoretical foundation for research into how socio-economic and cultural-specific factors correspond to health outcomes and access to care for underserved populations.

Faculty research stories

Some women welcome menopause

Professor Merrill conducted intensive interviews with women who had recently undergone the transition (or during varying stages of menopause).

Religion’s role in ‘competitive political ethos’

Professor Delehanty analyzes how faith in politics can empower or unbalance.

Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), people in white medical face mask. Concept of coronavirus quarantine vector illustration. Seamless pattern.

‘COVID Posse’

Professor Torres Stone with several other faculty members used the mountain of available data to collaborate on an interdisciplinary research project, exploring the progress of the pandemic over time and how it has affected different demographic groups.