Faculty Experts

Ahmmad Brown

School of Education and Social Policy

Assistant Professor, Masters and Executive Learning and Organizational Change (MSLOC and ELOC)

Field: Management and Organizations, Sociology

Focus Areas: Business Strategy, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Education Disparities, Inequality, Organizational Change, Race and Ethnicity

Hector Carrillo

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies

Field: Public Health, Sociology

Focus Areas: Gender Diversity and Equality, Genealogy and Family History, Globalization, HIV/AIDS, Immigration, Latinx Culture and Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Public Health Policy, Relationships, Sexual Education, Sexual Health

Sheehan D. Fisher

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at The Graduate School, Northwestern University

Field: Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Sociology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Child Psychology, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Gender Diversity and Equality, Men’s Health, Mental Health, Postpartum Health, Race and Ethnicity, Women's Health

Hasan Mahmud

Northwestern University in Qatar

Assistant Professor

Field: Sociology

Focus Areas: Family Dynamics, Globalization, Immigration, Socioeconomics

Maryann Mason

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Field: Epidemiology, Public Health, Sociology

Focus Areas: Addiction and Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, Opioid Abuse, Violence Prevention, Violent Crime

Andrew V. Papachristos

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

IPR Director and John G. Searle Professor, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research and Science (CORNERS)

Field: Sociology

Focus Areas: Criminology, Policing, Social Networks, Violence Prevention, Violent Crime

Christine Percheski

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate professor of sociology

Field: Sociology

Focus Areas: Demography, Economic Inequality, Family Dynamics, Gender Diversity and Equality, Income Gap, Relationships

Beth Redbird

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Field: Sociology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Economic Inequality, Income Gap, Income Mobility, Indigenous Culture, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Social Safety Net, Socioeconomics

Christine V. Wood

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Research Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences

Field: Sociology

Focus Areas: Gender Diversity and Equality, Gender Identity, LGBTQ Health, Social Networks, STEM Education

Alithia Zamantakis

Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

Field: Public Health, Sociology

Focus Areas: Gender Identity, Health Disparities, HIV/AIDS, Inequality, Intersectionality, LGBTQ Health, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Health