School of Natural and Social Sciences:
Sociology Faculty (Board of Study)

Matthew Immergut
Assistant Professor of Sociology
B.A., Prescott College; M.A., Ph.D., Drew University. Environmental sociology, sociology of religion, social theory.
matthew.immergut@purchase.edu

Chrys Ingraham
Professor of Sociology
B.A., M.A., M.P.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University. Social inequality (race, class, gender, sexuality); sociology of education, ; critical cultural studies; sociology of heterosexuality and weddings; organizational development; globalization; social movements; corporate social responsibility; social and feminist theory.
chrys.ingraham@purchase.edu

Wendy McKenna
Professor of Sociology (part-time)
B.A., Antioch College; Ph.D., City University of New York. Gender studies and human sexuality.
wendy.mckenna@purchase.edu

Lisa Jean Moore
Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology
B.A., Tufts University; M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco. Medical sociology, cultural studies of science and technology, health policy, the sociology of AIDS/HIV, gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory.
lisa-jean.moore@purchase.edu

Veronica Perera
Assistant Professor of Sociology
B.A., Del Salvador University (Buenos Aires); M.A., National University of San Martin (Buenos Aires); M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Globalization, social movements, neoliberalism, Latin America, feminist politics.
veronica.perera@purchase.edu

Cooperating Faculty

Mary Kosut: Media, Society, and the Arts

Emeritus Faculty

Thomas E. Dow, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
B.A., City University of New York; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Sociological theory; sociology and literature; political sociology; African culture and fertility.

Joseph Fashing
Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology
B.A., M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., University of Oregon; J.D., Pace University. Major social institutions: law, art, labor and work, religion, education.

John Howard
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Pace University. Criminal law; First Amendment and censorship issues; social stratification.

Nathaniel Siegel
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. Senior vice president for academic affairs, Purchase College, 1979–94. Medical sociology; social psychiatry; social psychology.

Updated Oct. 15, 2008