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Faculty

The sociology faculty includes nine full-time and four part-time members. Our areas of teaching specialization are collected from the macro and the micro levels: urban sociology, racial and ethnic relations, social change, the family, globalization and social justice, sociology internship, Latino(a) sociology, gender, domestic violence, African-American women, whiteness, criminology, and sport. We also offer research, statistical analysis, computer applications, and perspectives on the relevance of sociological theory in contemporary society.

The faculty is highly committed to student learning. We value and provide support and encouragement to our majors and minors throughout their college experience. Frequently, our students ask us to write letters for graduate and professional school applications. This is an activity which we enjoy doing, along with keeping up with our majors’ and minors’ lives, educations, and careers after their graduation from Providence College. 

Full-Time Faculty

brooks.jpgAbigail T. Brooks
Education: Ph.D., Boston College
Research Areas: Sociology of Gender; Sociology of the Body; Age Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Sociology of Health and Illness; Feminist Theory; Qualitative Methods
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Social Theory; Gender and Society; Introduction to Women’s Studies; Masculinity, Femininity, and the Body in Popular Culture; Gender, Environmental Health, and New Technologies



Kara Cebulko
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Unauthorized Migration; Children of Immigrants; Latino(a) Studies; Education
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Sociology of Immigration; Global Studies Capstone Seminar



Cedric de Leon
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Race and Class Formation
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; History of Social Thought; Contemporary Social Theory



Eric Hirsch
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Research and advocacy on homelessness in Rhode Island
Courses Taught: Race and Ethnic Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Movements; Homelessness in America; Sociology of Disaster
Charlotte G. O’Kelly
Education: Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Research Areas: Development; Gender and Racial Stratification; Environment
Courses Taught: Sociology of Women and Men; African-American Women; Globalization and Social Justice; Consumer Society; Power of Whiteness

Maureen Outlaw (Department Chair)
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Research Areas: Violence against Women; Gender; Hate and Bias
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Criminology; Criminal Justice; Women and Crime; Domestic Violence; Conflict and Violence; Sociology Capstone





Cornelius Riordan
Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University
Research Areas: Social organization of schools; Educational outcomes of at-risk children in public single-sex and co-educational schools; Gender gap in academic achievement
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Social Research Methods; Schools in American Society; Computer Applications in Sociology; The Uses of Sociology
Josephine A. Ruggiero
Education: Ph.D., Fordham University
Research Areas: Gender; Race; Social Policy; International Adoption
Courses Taught: The Changing Family; Social Change; Sociology Internship; Women and Family Issues Internship





Eve Veliz
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Research Areas: Family; the U.S. Latino Experience; Minority Health
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Latino(a)s in the U.S.; Sociology of the Family; Minority Health in the U.S.; Sociology of Inequality






Part-Time Faculty

Kaan Agartan​
Education: Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton
Research Areas: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Sociology of Work
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology​; Intro to Global Studies

Martin A. Barroll
Education: Ph.D., New School of Social Research
Research Areas: Imperialism
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology

David Levy
Education: Ph.D. candidate, Boston University
Research Areas: Culture; Post-Soviet Societies​
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology

Robert H. Pankin
Education: Ph.D., Purdue University​
Research Areas: Part-time and Contingent Faculty; Hegemony
Courses Taught: Introductory Sociology; Social Problems; Sociology of Sport; Sociology of Leisure; Social and Social Science Theory
Community Activity: Member of PC Symphonic Winds



Location:

Howley Hall
 

Chair:

Dr. Maureen Outlaw
118 Howley Hall
Phone:
401-865-2523
E-mail:
 

Departmental Contact:

Marcia Battle, Secretary
119 Howley Hall
Phone:
401-865-2125
E-mail:
Fax:
401-865-2232
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