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Diverse scholarship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research by Clark\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty research interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n \"Parminder\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n

Parminder Bhachu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Parminder Bhachu\u2019s ethnographic work on global migration and innovation highlights how displaced people enrich societies.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n\n\n \n

\n \"Jack\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n

Jack Delehanty<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jack Delehanty studies the role of religion in political life and how it can be used to resist or reinforce inequality.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n\n\n \n \n \n\n

Joseph Guzman<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Guzman\u2019s research focuses on the dynamics of race and class among African Americans and their social organizations. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n\n\n \n

\n \"Deborah\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n

Deborah Merrill<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Professor Merrill is studying same-sex marriage and its implications for relationships between parents and adult children.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n\n\n \n

\n \"Shelly\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n

Shelly Tenenbaum<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Shelly Tenenbaum\u2019s research focuses on how ethnic enterprise, mutual aid, gender, education, and identity intersects the broad areas of sociology of American Jews and historical sociology. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n\n\n \n

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Rosalie Torres Stone<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty research stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n \"Deborah\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n

Some women welcome menopause<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Professor Merrill conducted intensive interviews with women who had recently undergone the transition (or during varying stages of menopause).<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Religion\u2019s role in \u2018competitive political ethos\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Professor Delehanty analyzes how faith in politics can empower or unbalance.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018COVID Posse\u2019 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Movers and Makers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parminder Bhachu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

by Routledge, March 31, 2021<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Making Moral Citizens<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Delahanty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

By The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2023<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mastering Menopause<\/em>: Women’s Voices on Taking Charge of the Change<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deborah M. Merrill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

By Praeger, Santa Barbara, Calif., December 2019<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond Betrayal<\/em>: The Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, the Voice of the Faithful, and the Process of Collective Identity<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Ewick and Mark W. Steinberg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

By University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jefferson Academic Center, Room 401
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

1-508-793-7243<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1-508-793-7754 (Fax)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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