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Sociology Faculty


  • Department Chair

  • Susan D. Rose
    Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Director of the Community Studies Center (1984).
    239 W Louther St
    rose@dickinson.edu
    (717) 245-1244

  • Department Faculty

  • Susan D. Rose

    Susan D. Rose
    Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Director of the Community Studies Center (1984).
    239 W Louther St
    (717) 245-1244 | rose@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
    B.A., Dickinson College, 1977; M.A., Cornell University, 1982; Ph.D., 1984.
    Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2000-2001.

    She is interested in life course studies and systems of socialization (family, education, and religion), with a particular emphasis on comparative family systems and the interaction of gender, class, and race. Other areas of interest include: violence, religion, sex education, stratification, and social policy.

  • J. Daniel Schubert

    J. Daniel Schubert
    Associate Professor of Sociology (1996).
    Denny Hall Room 314
    (717) 245-1227 | schubert@dickinson.edu
    B.A., Towson State University, 1983; M.A., University of Maryland, 1989; Ph.D., 1995.

    He is interested in social theory, cultural studies, gender, health and illness, and the sociology of knowledge. Publications have focused on the ethics of academic practice and poststructuralist thought. Current research focuses on the lives of adults with long-term chronic illness.

  • Amy C. Steinbugler

    Amy C. Steinbugler
    Assistant Professor of Sociology (2008).
    Denny Hall Room 106
    (717) 254-8140 | steinbua@dickinson.edu
    B.A., Evergreen State College, 1998; M.A., Temple University, 2002; Ph.D., 2007.

    Amy Steinbugler's research and teaching focus on issues of race/ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and family. She is interested in how individuals maintain intimate ties across systems of stratification. Her current project is a qualitative analysis of lesbian, gay, and heterosexual Black/White couples that examines how these partners conceptualize and negotiate racial difference in their relationship. Steinbugler's book manuscript on this topic will be published by Oxford University Press. Her writing on the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender has also been published in Sexualities, Gender & Society, and the Du Bois Review.

  • Helene Kim Lee

    Helene Kim Lee
    Assistant Professor of Sociology (2008).
    Denny Hall Room 113
    (717) 245-1249 | leehe@dickinson.edu
    B.A., Cornell University, 1997; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003; Ph.D., 2009.

  • Erik Love

    Erik Love
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology (2009).
    Denny Hall Room 13
    (717) 245-1225 | lovee@dickinson.edu
    B.A., Albion College, 2001; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006; Ph.D., 2010.

  • Contributing Faculty

  • Shalom D. Staub

    Shalom D. Staub
    Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (2004).
    West College (Old West) 2nd Floor
    (717) 245-1080 | staubs@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
    B.A., Wesleyan University, 1977; M.A., 1978; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1985.

    His research and teaching interests focus on 1) various dimensions of conflict analysis, conflict resolution and peacemaking, and 2) the ethnography of religious experience, including “folk” religion, religion and conflict, and the intersection of religion with race, ethnicity, and gender. These interests play out in his courses on conflict and conflict resolution studies, religion and conflict, ethnography of Jewish experience, folk religious practices in the Middle East and North Africa, and immigration and religious diversity in the US.