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‌Department Chair

Nicole Leeper Piquero

Professor
Associate Dean for Program Development
CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY

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Nicole Leeper Piquero is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami. She received her Ph.D. as well as her M.A. and B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Professor Piquero has published over 95 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of...
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Olena Antonaccio

Professor
Director of Criminology and Criminal Justice MS/Certificate Program

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Olena Antonaccio is a professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology. Her areas of specialty are crime, social control, and sociological theory. Her research interests include empirical tests and the development of theories of crime and victimization and their application to various problem areas such as cybersecurity, particularly...
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Jomills Henry Braddock, II

Professor

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Marvin Phillip Dawkins

Professor

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Editorial Board, Journal of Race and Policy, 2004 -  Faculty Advisor, FEF Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2002 -  Editorial Board, Negro Education Review, 1996 - 
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Roger G. Dunham

Professor

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Robert J Johnson

Professor

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Nicole Leeper Piquero

Professor
Associate Dean for Program Development
CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY

nxl491@miami.edu

(305) 284-6172
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Nicole Leeper Piquero is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami. She received her Ph.D. as well as her M.A. and B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Professor Piquero has published over 95 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of...
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John W Murphy

Professor

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John W. Murphy is a Professor of Sociology. He received his PhD from Ohio State University. Although he is a theorist/social philosopher, he has worked for years on community-based health projects both domestically and internationally. His most recent social project relates to participatory budgeting and the community organizing efforts related...
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Amie L Nielsen

Assoc. Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

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Kathryn M Nowotny, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

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Dr. Kathryn Nowotny is Associate Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Miami where she directs the Miami Health & Justice Lab (www.miamihealthjustice.com). Her research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the multilevel factors that create increased risk for poor health among justice-involved people and...
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Nick Petersen

Associate Professor

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Alexis Piquero

Professor
Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar

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Alex R. Piquero is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology & Criminology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar the University of Miami and Professor of Criminology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was Co-Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology from 2008 to 2013 and currently serves as Editor of...
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Alejandro Portes

Research Professor

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Alejandro Portes teaches across the University of Miami at the School of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Sociology. Before joining the University of Miami, Alejandro Portes was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton...
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Margarita Rodriguez

Lecturer

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Margarita Rodriguez, Ph.D. is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Faculty Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami. Her extensive teaching portfolio includes a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses. She has taught Sociology; International Migration; Organizations; International...
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Jan Sokol-Katz

Senior Lecturer
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Faculty Advisor

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Jan Sokol-Katz is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Sociology and Criminology. Dr. Sokol-Katz is a Faculty Advisor of undergraduates, the Department’s Alpha Kappa Delta and Alpha Phi Sigma honor society chapters, and of the Sociology and Criminology Club and URecovery: Collegiate Recovery...
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Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Miami and is originally from Long Beach, CA. Her multimethod research examines nationally representative surveys and qualitative interview data to explore racial/ethnic differences in HPV...
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Ellen S. Venzer

Lecturer: Judge in Residence

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George Wilson

Professor

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Co-Editor Social Currents, 2018-2021  Deputy Editor, Social Currents, 2015 - present Editorial Board, Research in the Sociology of Work, 2015 - present Editorial Board, Sage Open Review, 2015 - present
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Secondary Appointments

Julio Frenk

President

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A fourth-generation physician whose paternal grandparents fled Germany in the early 1930s to build a new life in Mexico, Julio Frenk catalyzed his deep gratitude for the kindness of strangers into a lifelong mission to improve the health, education, and well-being of people around the world. Dr. Frenk became the sixth...
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Bryan Page

Professor

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Dr. Page specializes in studying the consumption of drugs in urban, street based settings. His 42-year career in the anthropology of drug use has focused on the consequences and impacts of various patterns of legal and illegal drug use in a wide variety of cultural settings. Among his funded projects supported by the National Institute on Drug...
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Robert E. Rosen

Professor of Law

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Robert E. Rosen, professor of law, earned an A.B. from Harvard College in 1974, an M.A. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977, a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. He joined the faculty in 1984. During the 1987-88 academic year,...
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