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Full-time Faculty

Name Title Email Office Area of Expertise
Abu Bah Professor, Chair abah@niu.edu ZH 807 International Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance
Keri Burchfield Professor kburchfield@niu.edu ZH 907 Criminology, Community Social Control, Animal Crime
Patrick Burke Assistant Professor pburke@niu.edu ZH 812 Illicit Drug Markets, Policing Strategy, Gun Violence, Opioid-related Overdose Deaths, Gangs, Organized Criminal Groups
Chris Einolf Professor ceinolf@niu.edu ZH 912 Altruism, Nonprofits, Human Rights
Mike Ezell Associate Professor mezell@niu.edu ZH 801 Criminology, Quantitative Research
Laura Heideman Associate Professor lheideman@niu.edu ZH 805 Peace, Social Movements, Nonprofits and NGOs, Human Rights
Jeffrey Kidder Professor jkidder@niu.edu ZH 816 Cultural Sociology
Fred Markowitz Professor fredm@niu.edu ZH 804 Crime, Mental Illness
Kristopher Robison Associate Professor krob@niu.edu ZH 820 Globalization, Political Violence
Diane Rodgers Professor, Director of Graduate Studies drodgers@niu.edu ZH 822 Social Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Social Movements
Shane Sharp Professor shanesharp@niu.edu ZH 802 Social Psychology, Religion
Carol Walther Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies cwalther@niu.edu ZH 807 Social Inequality and Demography
Simon Weffer Associate Professor sweffer@niu.edu ZH 808 Race, Social Movements, Protest, Urban Sociology, Sports, Politics, Immigration
Canton Winer Assistant Professor cwiner@niu.edu ZH 810 Sexuality, Gender, Feminist/Queer Theory

Instructors

Name Title Email Office Area of Expertise
Kristie Crane Undergraduate Advisor kristieb@niu.edu ZH 803 Social Institutions, Justice and Inequality
Kevin Ervin Instructor kervin@niu.edu ZH 814 Sociology of Health and Illness
Bonnie Jensen Instructor bjensen@niu.edu ZH 818 Criminology, Social Psychology

Staff

Name Title Email Office Phone
Ashley Ford Office Administrator aford1@niu.edu ZH 815 815-753-0365

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