Faculty and Staff

Sociology is part of the Department of Social Sciences. 

Department Chair
Debra Gold
Email: dlgold@stcloudstate.edu

Stephen E. Philion

  • Professor

(320) 308-5497 | Stewart Hall 256

Interests: social theory, political economy of Chinese development, labor rights, racial inequality, globalization.

Chair: Greater Minnesota Worker Center

Tracy E. Ore

  • Professor

(320) 308-5570 | Administrative Services 101G


Interests: sustainable agriculture, technology of teaching and learning, race and ethnicity, inequality

Elizabeth D. Scheel-Keita

  • Professor

(320) 308-4819 | Stewart Hall 289


Interests: gender and violence, sociology of the body, social problems and deviance, sociology of youth, and community organizing

Elaine Moran

  • Office manager

(320) 308-4928 | 326 Stewart Hall

Emeriti

Jiping Zuo

  • Professor

Abbas Mehdi

  • Professor

In Memory

Mary Otremba

  • Our friend and colleague