Sociology
Faculty
Alexandra M. Hrycak
Associate Professor of Sociology
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B.A., Rutgers University, 1988. M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1991. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998. Reed College 1998-.
Research Interests: Social movements, political sociology, sociology of culture, gender and post-socialism. Alexandra Hrycak is President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Her current research focuses on gender and democratization in Ukraine. Since 2001 she has investigated the formation of women's associations in the cities of Lviv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv. In 2005 she conducted interviews and focus groups in these three cities to examine the role women played at the local level in the 2004 elections and the Orange Revolution. A selection of Hrycak's published work is available here.
Yan Li
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
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B.A., Beijing Normal University (English), 1995. M.A., University of Notre Dame, 2000. PhD., Stanford University, 2010 (expected).
Research Interests: Yan Li studies social inequality and its micro foundations. Her research intersects social psychology, gender and race inequalities, immigration, Asia and Asian America, and social change. At the theoretical level, she is interested in micro-level processes through which social inequalities based on ascriptive categories such as race and gender are legitimized and perpetuated, and seeks both micro-level explanations (the intrinsic relations between status and intergroup stereotypes) and contextual explanations (how social locations alter the outcome of micro-level processes). At the empirical level, she studies gender and racial/ethnic inequalities in their many forms and settings, especially how immigrants are affected by these inequalities both socioeconomically and ideologically.
Marc Schneiberg
John C. Pock Professor of Sociology and Chair
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B.A., Haverford College; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1994. University of Arizona 1994-2000. Reed College 2000-.
Research Interests: Economic sociology, organizations, comparative institutional analysis. Schneiberg continues his work on associations, regulation and alternative organizational forms in the American economy, which appears in Politics and Society, American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Forum, American Sociological Review, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. He is currently completing an NSF funded study of private, public and cooperative enterprise, focusing mainly on mutuals, cooperatives and municipal companies in the insurance, dairy, grain and electrical utility industries. He is collaborating with Matt Kraatz and Adam Goldstein on studies of the conversion of mutual savings and loan associations to for-profit stock corporations from 1970 to 1990, with Tim Bartley on an analysis of financial regulation in the current period, and with Gerald Berk on a 340 industry study of associations, learning, and benchmarking in the US economy from 1900 to 1930. He is also Editor of the Socio-Economic Review. Courses taught include Introduction to Sociology, Economic Sociology, American Capitalism, Race and Ethnicity, Organizations, Race and Stratification, and Research Methods.
Kjersten Bunker Whittington
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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On leave fall 2009.
Ph.D. Stanford University 2007.
MA Stanford University 2001.
BS North Carolina State University (Physics) 1999. Reed College 2007-.
Research Interests: Kjersten Bunker Whittington's research is rooted in the broad areas of gender and work, scientific careers and organizations, and the high-technology knowledge economy. She is particularly interested in how structural and background antecedents of organizations and organizational boundaries influence career trajectories, scientific output, and subsequent innovation and development. Her current research investigates whether and how the durable gender inequality in science careers is affected by the recent changing boundaries between universities and firms, and the increasing trend to commercialize basic research in academia. Whittington also studies formal organizations and the science economy. With collaborators, she is engaged in research that examines the contingent role of inter-organizational network structure and regional clustering in influencing innovative output among science-based firms.
John C. Pock
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
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A.B. 1947, University of Chicago. M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1956. University of Illinois. Reed College 1955-98.
Dr. Pock was a member of the Department of Sociology for 43 years, teaching courses and conducting research in general social science, social demography, stratification & class, organizational analysis, and quantitative methods in history. He also taught or gave lectures at the University of Illinois, the Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Irvine, and the Naval War College. He has held office and is active on committees in several professional organizations, including the American Sociological Association, the PacificSociological Association, the Population Association of America, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and the Society for the History of Technology. He served as editor of Sociological Perspectives, the official journal of the Pacific Sociological Association and was given the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association. His legacy at Reed was recognized by some of his many former students who honored him with a festschrif t consisting of a collection of their research, entitled Social Differentiation and Social Inequality edited by James N. Baron, David B. Grusky, and Donald J. Treiman (Westview Press, 1996).
Professor Pock's non-academic work has largely focused on program evaluation and organizational studies. These included evaluation and training research at the Oregon State Hospital; the pediatric residency training program at Oregon Health Sciences University; program evaluation for the Office of Economic Opportunity's VISTA, Community Action, and Model Cities projects, and for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. In the private sector, he has worked as a consultant in the advertising, polling, and marketing research industry and on work organization and management issues for domestic and international companies engaged in heavy construction and metal fabrication.
Professor Pock's current interests are in methodological problems involved in the study of poverty and in measuring the consequences of welfare reform. He maintains an office at Reed and can be reached by phone at extension 7460.
William Tudor
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
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B.A., Reed College, 1965. Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1971. Reed College 1973-.
Research Interests: Social psychology, deviant behavior, research methods. Tudor's research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and the Sage Annual Reviews of Studies in Deviance. He recently contributed a chapter entitled "The Social Construction of Modern Intelligence: An Exploration of Gender-Differentiated Boundaries," to a festschrift in honor of John C. Pock.
