Visiting the Department
Michigan State University
Department of Sociology
316 Berkey Hall
East Lansing , MI 48824-1111
Phone: (517) 355-6640
Fax: (517) 432-2856
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday
The Department of Sociology administrative and academic offices are located on the third floor of Berkey Hall on the campus of Michigan State University (MSU). Berkey Hall is located along Grand River Avenue which forms the northern boundary of the MSU campus. The building is located just off of Collingwood Drive on East Circle Drive. MSU maps, driving directions to campus, building locations, parking and transportation services, and information regarding the Lansing/East Lansing community are available at: http://www.msu.edu/community/index.html .
Sociology Department Administration
Janet L. Bokemeier
(Ph.D., Iowa State University)
Department Chair
Phone: (517) 355-6632
bokemeie@msu.edu
Dr. Bokemeier has been chair of the Department of Sociology since January 2004. In addition, as she serves as Acting Assistant Vice President for University Research and Graduate Studies, and is co-director of Families and Communities Together Coalition (FACT) ( http://www.fact.msu.edu/ ). She joined the MSU faculty as a professor of Sociology in 1990. Dr. Bokemeier's scholarship has focused on family, work and inequality issues in rural America . Her recent research is on individual and household impacts on personal and community investment decisions.
She joined the MSU faculty as a professor of Sociology in 1990 and has served as Associate Director and Director of Evaluation of the MSU Institute of Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR). She also served as transition director for the integration of three departments within the MSU College of Agricultural and Natural Resources into the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies and as Associate Chair of Sociology.
Dr. Bokemeier received the MSU Distinguished Faculty Award in 1996 and the College of Social Science Faculty Initiative Award from the College of Social Science in 1995 and 1996. She has also received numerous national recognitions including President of the Rural Sociological Society.
Prior to joining the Michigan State University community, she was professor and chairperson in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky . She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Iowa State University . She received both her master's degree in sociology/education and her bachelor's degree in home economics/sociology from Western Illinois University.
Steven J. Gold
(Ph.D., University of California , Berkeley)
Associate Chair and Graduate Program Coordinator
Phone: (517) 355-6634
gold@msu.edu
Dr. Gold is professor and associate chair in the department of sociology. He has published articles on qualitative research methods, visual sociology, immigration, ethnic economies and ethnic community development in numerous journals and edited volumes. In addition, he has edited special issues of American Behavioral Scientist and Qualitative Sociology. The past president of the International Visual Sociology Association, and past chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, he is co-editor of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000) with Ruben G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner; and the author of four books: Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study (Sage, 1992); From the Worker's State to the Golden State (Allyn Bacon, 1995); and Ethnic Economies with Ivan Light (Academic Press, 2000). His most recent book, The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington , 2002) won the American Sociological Association's Thomas and Znaniecki Award given by the International Migration Section for the best book on international migration in 2003. His current research interests include race, ethnic economies, international migration and visual sociology.
Khalida Zaki
(Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator and Academic Advisor
Phone: (517) 355-6640
zakik@msu.edu
Dr. Zaki specializes in social demography of South Asian region as well as Muslim immigrant communities from Middle East and South Asia . She takes a multi-cultural international perspective in her areas of teaching sex and gender, family, work, dynamics of population, global development and integrative studies in social sciences. Her research includes the study of women's status, fertility, and mortality in South Asia and among Muslim populations in Michigan . Examples of her research studies include: Social and cultural barriers and family planning among Muslim communities in the Lansing, Michigan, area and food safety and cultural concerns among Pakistani and Yemeni Americans in Michigan. Her current research project focuses on issues of Muslim immigrant youth, parents, and schools in the Lansing , Michigan area. She continues to serve on graduate student doctoral dissertation committees. She also serves as the department undergraduate program coordinator and academic advisor.
