The Sociology Program's faculty have a range of 
research interests as may be seen below.

Dr. Robin Amonker	Population trends and projections, fertility and family planning, and mortality.
Dr. Gary Brinker	Community and applied sociology, social policy issues, the impact of social intervention programs on social problems and survey research methodology.
Dr. Gary Brock	Conservative churches, social change, and the holocaust movement.
Dr. Mike Carlie	Criminology, delinquency, corrections, police, and street gangs. See his newest online book.
Dr. Shahin Gerami	Gender and religious fundamentalism; women as participants in these movements and effects of fundamentalist movements for women's roles, gender and economic development, and women's health.
Dr. Judith Grant	Crime, justice and gender; drugs in society; drugs and gender; addiction/recovery from controlled substances; public policy; violence against women; community activism and community-academic alliances.
Dr. John Harms	Advertising and mass communications, industrial sociology, and sociological theory.
Dr. Tim Knapp	The human impact of labor market transformations, the causes and consequences of ethnic and gender inequality, the sociology of education, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Dr. Karl Kunkel	Crime control policy, crime and inequality, criminological theory, and technology in the classroom.
Dr. LiYing Li	Population studies, comparative criminal justice, and gender issues.
Dr. Jeffrey Nash	The study of human activity in public places, the social meaning of everyday life, the lives of deaf people and others who live on the margins of society ("hypermarginality"), and racism.
Dr. Marvin Prosono	Medical sociology, sociology of law, sociology of the Holocaust, forensic psychiatry, mental illness, and general cultural studies.
Dr. Martha Wilkerson	Sport, sport fans, coaches, small-town and rural, corporate farming.