Current Research

Health and Well-Being
Aaron McCright: Artificial suntanning and seduction; eating disorders and gendered bodies
Linda Kalof: Cultural history of the body
Clifford Broman: The epidemiology of substance use and HIV risk behavior among adolescents and adults
Rita Gallin: Women, Work, and Health in Rural Taiwan
Stan Kaplowitz: Predicting lead poisoning in children from the socio-demographic characteristics of the child's family and environmental characteristics of the neighborhood in which the child lives, social psychology (with special emphasis on attitudes and belief measurement, structure and dynamics and communication), social psychology of health (especially relations between physicians and patients and caregivers, racial attitude, attitudes towards a campus riot and attitudes towards food safety regulations)
Sabrina McCormick: Intersections Between Health and Environment
Toby TenEyck: Development, dissemination, and interpretation of mass media messages on obesity

Family and Gender
Linda Kalof: Visual Sociology (Gender), Cultural History of the Body (Gender)
Clifford Broman: Family formation behavior
Jualynne Dodson: Gender
Rita Gallin: Women, Work, and Family in Rural Taiwan

Urban, Race, and Migration
Linda Kalof: Visual Sociology, Cultural History of the Body
Clifford Broman: Racial Identity and Racial Formation
Jualynne Dodson: African Diaspora, Religion, Culture
Rita Gallin: Rural to Urban Migration in Taiwan
Steve Gold: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Customers, Refugee Resettlement
David Wiley: Globalization, Race, Ethnicity, and Environment in Africa

FEAST
Linda Kalof: Animals & Society, Environmental Values
Larry Busch: Domestic and International food and agricultural standards
Rita Gallin: Agricultural Production and Rural Industrialization in Taiwan
Sabrina McCormick: intersections between health and environment, environmental social movements, the role of science in movements and politics
Toby TenEyck: Development, dissemination, and interpretation of mass media messages on nanotechnology
Tom Dietz: Human dimensions of global environmental change, environmental values, and valuation, evolutionary theory and the interplay of science, deliberationand democracy
Aaron McCright: Politics of climate change; role of science in environmental policy-making; political ideology and environmentalism; environmental movements and anti-environmental countermovements; science, technology, and risk
Craig Harris:Citizen/consumer food safety risk perceptions, trust in food safety organizations, and food safety policy preferences; Comparative study of food safety systems in industrialized countries; Risk analysis of raw milk and raw milk cheese; Agroecological transitions in agriculture in southwest Michigan in the past 150 years