Professor Mark Berg is the Director of the Center for Social Science Innovation at the University of Iowa.

Alison Bianchi is a structural social psychologist who specializes in group processes and in nomothetic theory construction and its concomitant quantitative methodology.

Stephanie DiPietro’s research and teaching interests center on life course criminology, criminal desistance, and patterns of adaptation (and maladaptation) among immigrant and refugee groups, with a particular focus on violence and delinquency.

Jennifer Glanville’s recent and ongoing research contributes to two main lines of inquiry: (1) the consequences of social capital (social connections that enhance the capacity of individuals and communities to achieve goals) and (2) the sources of generalized trust (trust in strangers).

Sarah Harkness's work centers on the social psychology of inequality, specifically related to the study of status, morality, health stigma, and intersectionality.

Jennifer Haylett conducts research and teaches in the areas of gender, family, medical sociology, sociology of reproduction, economic sociology, and qualitative research methods.

Karen Heimer is Professor of Sociology & Criminology, Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa.

Steve Hitlin's interests include social psychology, self and identity, values, morality, social theory, and the life course.

Lindsay Jarratt is a Visiting Instructor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies from the University of Iowa, and a Master’s in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University.

Michael Lovaglia's interests include social psychology, especially power and status processes, the reciprocal effects of evolution and physiology on social behavior, social factors that affect academic performance, theory construction, and the sociology of science.

Freda Lynn’s research focuses on status, cumulative advantage, and the construction of value. She teaches classes on quantitative methodology, stratification, and networks.

Mary Noonan's research interests include gender, work, family, and quantitative research methods.

Kate K. O'Neill earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington and an MSc in the Sociology of Crime, Control, and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She uses criminological and critical perspectives to understand how delinquency, crime, and the criminal legal system reproduce gender and race inequalities.

Amber Joy Powell received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Minnesota in 2022. Her research examines the intersections of gendered racialized violence, law, and the carceral state.

Victor Ray is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, and a Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Meghan Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Criminology Department at the University of Iowa.

Michaela Ruppert is a criminologist whose teaching and research interests include delinquency, justice, and criminal punishment.

Michael Sauder is Chair and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Iowa, specializing in the sociology of organizations, theory, culture, and inequality.

Louise Seamster is a sociologist whose research examines contemporary mechanisms for the reproduction of racial and economic inequality. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and the program of African American Studies at the University of Iowa.

Yongren Shi is a computational sociologist working in the areas of social networks, organizations, social psychology, and culture. He is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa.

Bogdan Vasi's research focuses primarily on how social movements contribute to the diffusion of technological innovations, organizational change, and policymaking.

Professor Wo’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of criminology, urban sociology, and planning and public affairs.

Marina Zaloznaya joined the Sociology faculty at the University of Iowa in 2012, after she received a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University.