Sociology Faculty
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

C. Leon Bailey Associate Professor of Sociology lbailey@roosevelt.edu faculty.roosevelt.edu/bailey/ Leon Bailey holds a B.A. from Northeast Missouri State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. His doctoral dissertation on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School was awarded the Louis M. Schneider Memorial Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Sociology in 1988. Formerly the Department Chair of Sociology and Assistant Director of the School of Policy Studies, his primary academic interests are critical social and political theory, social movements and social change. Professor Bailey teaches courses in classical and contemporary social theory, globalization, the sociology of culture, and criminology. His publications include Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: A Comparative Study in the Theory of Ideology (Peter Lang, 1994, 1996} and "Karl Mannheim e la Scuola di Fancoforte riconsiderati," Studi Perugini, Anno II n.2 luglio-dicembre, 1997. He is currently working on a critique of German and American neo-conservatism.

Albert L. Bennett Harold Washington Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Education Director, St. Clair Drake Center for African American Studies Coordinator, African-American Studies Major (Sociology and Education) abennett@roosevelt.edu Albert Bennett holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois (Chicago) and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to Roosevelt, Professor Bennett was the director of the Bureau of School Evaluation in the Department of Research and Evaluation for the Chicago Public Schools and a Senior Staff Associate at the Chicago Community Trust. A former dean of the Evelyn T. Stone University College (1992-1998), Professor Bennett now serves as the director of the St. Clair Drake Center for African and African-American Studies. He is the Project Director of the Roosevelt University/Wentworth Gardens Collaboration (WeRC), an attempt to link public housing with university resources. Specializing in education policy and the politics of educational reform and social trust and its effects on school improvement, his current interest lies in improving the ways that principals and school superintendents are prepared. He also serves on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Centre, El Valor, The Golden Apple Foundation, and the Parkways Foundation.

Heather M. Dalmage Professor of Sociology Director, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice hdalmage@roosevelt.edu faculty.roosevelt.edu/dalmage Heather Dalmage holds a B.A. from Marquette University, an M.A. from DePaul University, and a Ph.D. from City University of New York, Graduate Center. Her dissertation, In Black and White: Examining Racial Borders, received the David Spitz Distinguish Dissertation award. Specializing in race, multiracialism, gender, family, and education, her current research and scholarly interests lie in the areas of race, family, shifting racial discourses, and social justice. Dalmage is the Director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice. She is the author of Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World, Rutgers University Press, 2000, and editor of The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking, SUNY Press, 2004. She has published articles and presented on a broad range of topics including adoption, whiteness and white privilege, multiracial families, housing discrimination, and cultural capital. She serves on the board of the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs.

Cherise A. Harris Assistant Professor of Sociology charris@roosevelt.edu faculty.roosevelt.edu/harris/ Cherise Harris holds a B.A. from Seton Hall University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Specializing in the intersection of race, class, and gender inequality, her teaching interests include social inequality, racial identity, social psychology, marriage and the family, and the influence of race and gender on the mass media. Before coming to Roosevelt, she won two teaching awards at the University of Georgia. She has previously written on attitudes toward welfare where she is the author of "Get to Work: Understanding Public Support for Welfare Reform" published in Race, Gender and Class. Her current research interests focus on identity issues among Black middle-class Americans and she is currently working on a book based on her dissertation research entitled, The Costs of Upward Mobility: Black Middle Class Children Discuss Life in the Suburbs. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Association for Black Sociologists, and serves as an advisory board member for Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice.

Michael T. Maly Associate Professor of Sociology Department Chair mmaly@roosevelt.edu faculty.roosevelt.edu/maly/ Michael Maly holds a B.A. from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. Specializing in urban sociology, policy, and research methods, he teaches courses in urban policy, research methods, the sociology of sport, and race and housing. Author of the book, Beyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005), his research focuses on neighborhood racial change, race and housing, and residential integration/segregation. He has also written numerous articles on racial integration in U.S. urban areas and the role of community organizations in maintaining integration. He is currently working on a project examining how and why neighborhood newcomers choose to move into particular neighborhoods that are either poised to gentrify or already well along into the gentrification process.

Pamela M. Robert Associate Professor of Sociology probert@roosevelt.edu Pamela M. Robert was graduated magna cum laude with honors in Sociology from the College of St. Rose and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. with distinction from the University at Albany, State University of New York, where she was a Jacob K. Javits National Graduate Fellow. Her dissertation, Specialists Without Spirit, Interventionists Without Heart: Obstetrics Denounced by Women Reclaiming Birth, received the University President’s Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. Before coming to Roosevelt, she was an Assistant Research Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY School of Public Health and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Women and Government, where her research on disability and labor force participation was funded by NIDRR, and where she co-authored a monograph entitled, Disability In Work Organizations: Barriers to Employment Opportunities. She has subsequently authored several articles and given numerous presentations on disability oppression. Professor Robert joined the Roosevelt faculty in 1996 and currently holds a joint appointment in Sociology and in Women and Gender Studies. She teaches a mix of interdisciplinary courses including: Gender, Power, and the Body; Health, Illness, and Medicine in American Society; Death, Dying, and Loss; and Social Gerontology. She brings her commitment to social activism and her belief that students learn best by doing into the classroom through the pedagogy of service-learning, most notably in the university signature course, City and Citizen Empowerment. She is also working on book-length study that explores the politics of infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, and parenthood.