Faculty

Full Time Faculty


Karolyn Tyson

Chair and Professor
Interests: Education, social inequality, and social psychology
Email: kt801@georgetown.edu


Tim Bartley

Professor, Joint Appointment with Earth Commons
Interests: Organizations, Economic sociology, Environmental sociology, Global and Transnational sociology
Email: tb1114@georgetown.edu


Corey D. Fields

Associate Professor, Idol Family Term Chair
Interests: African American studies, culture and politics, and the relationship between identity, experience, and culture
Email: cdf46@georgetown.edu


Robert Groves

Provost, Gerard Campbell SJ Professor
Interests: Global cities, statistics, social cognitive and behavioral influences on the quality of statistical information
Email: bgroves@georgetown.edu


Kathleen Guidroz

Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Interests: Gender, sexuality, transgender studies, victimization studies
Email: kg578@georgetown.edu


Gözde Güran

Assistant Professor, Joint Appointment with SFS/Walsh
Interests: Economic sociology, migration studies, and cultural sociology
Email: gg754@georgetown.edu


Becky Yang Hsu

Associate Professor
Interests: Sociology of religion, organizations and institutions, global and transnational sociology, sociology of culture
Email: bh297@georgetown.edu


Yuki Kato

Assistant Professor
Interests: Urban sociology, urban agriculture, food justice, environmental justice, consumption
Email: yk483@georgetown.edu


Brian J. McCabe

Associate Professor, Faculty Director for Research & Scholarship in Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice
Interests: Housing policy, cities, community, social inequality, poverty and mobility, quantitative methods
Email: mccabeb@georgetown.edu


Dennis McNamara, S.J.

Park Professor Sociology & Korean Studies, Special Assistant to the University President for China Affairs
Interests: Socio-economic development in East Asia (Japan and South Korea), innovation in Southern China, comparative study of innovation systems
Email: mcnamard@georgetown.edu


Alyssa Newman

Assistant Professor, Joint Appointment with KIE
Interests: Sociology of race and ethnicity, assisted reproductive technologies, racial health inequities, bioethics
Email: an941@georgetown.edu


Kristin Perkins

Assistant Professor
Interests: Urban sociology, housing and neighborhoods, family demography
Email: Kristin.Perkins@georgetown.edu


Carla Shedd

Associate Professor
Interests: Race and ethnicity, criminalization and criminal justice, social inequality, urban policy, education, and law
Email: cs2084@georgetown.edu


Sarah Stiles

Teaching Professor
Interests: Ethics, flourishing, global cities, law and society, social entrepreneurship
Email: scs52@georgetown.edu


Affiliate Faculty

Pamela Herd

Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Interests: Intersection of inequality with health, aging, and policy; survey research, biodemographic methods
Email: ph627@georgetown.edu


Rebecca Johnson

Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Interests: K-12 education, quantitative methods, computational social science 
Email: rj545@georgetown.edu


Eva Rosen

Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Interests: Urban sociology, poverty and inequality, race and ethnicity, ethnography, social policy, immigration, crime, and culture
Email: ejr73@georgetown.edu


Christine Schiwietz

Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising
Interests: New technologies & society; gender roles, peace, security and international development
Email: kjs58@georgetown.edu 


Jamillah Bowman Williams

Director, Professor of Law
Interests: Civil rights and discrimination, labor and employment law, psychology, behavioral economics and cognitive science
Email: bowmanj@georgetown.edu


Adjunct Faculty

Elif Andaç-Jones

Adjunct Professor
Interests: Middle East, international politics, social policy, survey research
Email: ea568@georgetown.edu


William Daddio

Adjunct Professor
Interests: Terrorism, mitigating bioterrorism, prevention of transnational crime, and medical and social services in conflict areas
Email: daddiow@georgetown.edu


Britany J. Gatewood  

Adjunct Professor
Interests: Social inequality, criminology, social movements, and scholar activism
Email: bg700@georgetown.edu


Kimberlee Holland

Adjunct Professor
Interests: Medical sociology
Email: Kimberlee.holland@georgetown.edu


Gregory White

Adjunct Professor
Interests: Sociology of Education, Civic Education, Educational Transformation, Demography
Email: gregory.white@georgetown.edu


Emeritus Faculty 

Jose V. Casanova

Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs
Email: jvc26@georgetown.edu