Faculty
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Office: 132 Hodges Hall
Email: troy@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-8273
Specializations: Social inequality; social demography; applied sociology
Program Codirector for the BA in Sociology for LSU Online
Senior Instructor of Sociology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Office: 137 Stubbs Hall
Email: cdufre3@lsu.edu
Specializations: Violent crime, delinquency, gender & crime, gun violence
Senior Instructor of Sociology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Office: 110 Stubbs Hall
Email: sgremi3@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-1117
Specializations: Gender; law; inequality; online communications
Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Florida
Office: 11 Stubbs Hall
Email: mjossie@lsu.edu
Specializations: Corrections; Collateral consequences of justice system involvement; program evaluation;
criminal justice policy
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, Ohio State University
Office: 108 Stubbs Hall
Email: rkroeger@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-3898
Specializations: Health & Illness; family demography; quantitative methods
Vice President for Agriculture & Dean, College of Agriculture
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Office: 156 Thomas Boyd Hall
Email: mlee@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-3979
Specializations: Criminology; public health; community resilience
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: 20 Stubbs Hall
Email: hoconnell@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-4032
Specializations: Race & ethnicity; social stratification; spatial demography
Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Merced
Office: 106B Stubbs Hall
Email: hoh@lsu.edu
Specializations: Race, ethnicity, and immigration; Critical criminology; Gentrification; Organizations,
occupations and work; Sociology of health; Sociology of education; Quantitative and
mixed methods
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, Duke University
Office: 125 Stubbs Hall
Email: hrackin@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-5123
Specializations: Family formation & fertility; social inequality; social demography
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness
PhD, Indiana University
Office: 215 Martin Woodin Hall
Email: mschaf1@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-5357
Specializations: Sociology of education; comparative & global sociology; social inequality; rural
sociology
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Office: 107 Stubbs Hall
Email: edsoc@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-1635
Specializations: Criminology; urban sociology; race, ethnicity & immigration
Department Chair
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Princeton University
Office: 105B Stubbs Hall
Email: shrum@lsu.edu
Specializations: Technology (e.g., video, internet, mobile communication); Africa/Asia
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Office: 104A Stubbs Hall
Email: slack@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-1116
Specializations: Social stratification & poverty; community & environment; social demography; rural
sociology
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, Rice University
Office: 110A Stubbs Hall
Email: ksmiley@lsu.edu
Phone:
Specializations: Environmental Sociology; community and urban sociology; disasters; health; race; immigration;
social capital
Program Codirector for the BA in Sociology for LSU Online
Senior Instructor of Sociology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Office: 119 Stubbs Hall
Email: gsteven@lsu.edu
Specializations: Criminology; interpersonal violence; deviance
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Baylor University
Office: 105A Stubbs Hall
Email: sstroope@lsu.edu
Specializations: Health inequalities; medical sociology; religion
LSU President
Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Office: 3810 West Lakeshore Drive
Email: tate@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-2111
Specializations: Sociology of education; stratification; geospatial science; public health; urban
sociology
Instructor of Sociology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Office: 10 Stubbs Hall
Email: dthom68@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-5798
Specializations: Race & ethnicity; community development; sports
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Iowa
Office: 18 Stubbs Hall
Email: mwalk67@lsu.edu
Specializations: Social psychology; social networks; self & identity; mental health
Professor of Sociology
PhD, Harvard University
Office: 17C Stubbs Hall
Email: fweil@lsu.edu
Phone: 225-578-1140
Specializations: Political sociology; comparative-historical; community & urban; disasters; poverty
& grassroots mentoring; survey research; photo/video ethnography; geospatial analysis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California Irvine
Office: 141 Stubbs Hall
Email: sethwilliams@lsu.edu
Specializations: Spatial inequality; community criminology; housing
Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, Harvard University
Office: 133 Stubbs Hall
Email: tomwooten@lsu.edu
Specializations: Poverty, education, crime and criminalization
Assistant Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Office: 17B Stubbs Hall
email: xyan10@lsu.edu
Specializations: Health and health inequalities, family demography, social stratification