Faculty Research

Parminder Bhachu

Professor Bhachu is interested in emergent cultural forms and cultural identities 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.

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Parminder Bhachu

Professor Bhachu is interested in emergent cultural forms and cultural identities 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.

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Jack Delehanty

Professor Delehanty’s primary research focus is on the construction and deployment of moral meaning in political organizations and social movements. He currently is studying progressive religious activism, with the goal of understanding how solidarity and collective action emerge across race and class differences in contemporary politics. A second project investigates how conservative Christian discourse contributes to Americans’ understandings of national identity and belonging.

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Jack Delehanty

Professor Delehanty’s primary research focus is on the construction and deployment of moral meaning in political organizations and social movements. He currently is studying progressive religious activism, with the goal of understanding how solidarity and collective action emerge across race and class differences in contemporary politics. A second project investigates how conservative Christian discourse contributes to Americans’ understandings of national identity and belonging.

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Deborah Merrill

Professor Merrill’s primary interests and training in sociology lie within the fields of family, aging, medical sociology, and demography. She currently is studying same-sex marriage and its implications for relationships between parents and adult children.

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Deborah Merrill

Professor Merrill’s primary interests and training in sociology lie within the fields of family, aging, medical sociology, and demography. She currently is studying same-sex marriage and its implications for relationships between parents and adult children.

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Shelly Tenenbaum

Professor 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. She also explores the relationship between immigrant Jewish credit networks and ethnic enterprise and the impact of feminist scholarship in the various fields of Jewish Studies. She teaches courses on race and ethnicity, Jewish studies, comparative genocide, gender, and social stratification, and coordinated undergraduate activities for the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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Shelly Tenenbaum

Professor 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. She also explores the relationship between immigrant Jewish credit networks and ethnic enterprise and the impact of feminist scholarship in the various fields of Jewish Studies. She teaches courses on race and ethnicity, Jewish studies, comparative genocide, gender, and social stratification, and coordinated undergraduate activities for the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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Rosalie Torres Stone

Professor Torres Stone focuses on a theoretical foundation and research studies in racial/ethnic economic disparities. Her empirical work in mental health and health disparities extends existing conceptual frameworks by including socio-economic and cultural-specific factors in examining health outcomes and access to care for underserved populations. Over the last 12 years, she has been involved in numerous research projects addressing access to appropriate care and health outcomes for Hispanics.

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Rosalie Torres Stone

Professor Torres Stone focuses on a theoretical foundation and research studies in racial/ethnic economic disparities. Her empirical work in mental health and health disparities extends existing conceptual frameworks by including socio-economic and cultural-specific factors in examining health outcomes and access to care for underserved populations. Over the last 12 years, she has been involved in numerous research projects addressing access to appropriate care and health outcomes for Hispanics.

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