Faculty
Mark Gould
Professor of Sociology & Department Chair
Mark Gould is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department. He has a B.A. in sociology from Reed College, where he worked with Howard Jolly, John Pock and John Tomsich, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, where he worked with Talcott Parsons, Barrington Moore, Jr., Kenneth Arrow, Judith Shklar, Karl Deutsch, and Shmuel Eisenstadt. He is a social theorist; consequently, he gets to teach and write about whatever he chooses, including the role of capitalist social development in the genesis of the English Revolution; the nature of contemporary racism, culture, opportunity structures and poverty in the inner-city USA; the logic of perfect and imperfect information microeconomic models and why the latter need to be reconstructed sociologically; the jurisprudential consequences of the sociological reconstruction of economic theory-especially for the law of employment discrimination and for the reconstruction of fiduciary obligations in corporate law; the jurisprudential consequences of a sociological construction of philosophical theory-especially in contract law and in discussions of affirmative action; on the nature of valid social orders and their derivation from values that legitimate and procedures that justify actions within them, in, for example, discussions about consensual sexual relationship policies in colleges and universities; about the relationship between theory and empirical research, and the relationship between normative and empirical theory, and about Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Freud, Parsons, Merton, Dworkin, George Herbert Mead, Habermas, Luhmann, and others. He is now writing about the logic of religious commitment and its consequences in Islam, about Islamic constitutionalism, about the role of reason in Christianity and Islam, and about a group of folks, including Kemal A. Faruki, who have attempted to reconstruct Islam(ic law).
Office:Roberts 205
Email: mgould@haverford.edu
Lisa McCormick
Assistant Professor of Sociology
On Leave 2011-2012 Academic Year
Lisa McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Sociology on a tenure-track appointment. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of cultural sociology, sociology of the arts, self and identity, social theory, and qualitative methods. She is co-editor, with Ron Eyerman, of Myth, Meaning and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts (Paradigm 2006). McCormick graduated from Rice University with a B.Mus. in Cello Performance and a B.A. in Sociology, both summa cum laude. She was a Rhodes Scholar (Alberta & Corpus Christi 1998), earning a Master of Philosophy in Music: Performance and Interpretation from Oxford University. In 2008, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. Prof. McCormick is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale. She also serves on the editorial board for the journal Music & Art in Action.
Office: Roberts 102
Email: lmccormi@haverford.edu
Anat Yom-Tov
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Anat Yom-Tov is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Sociology from the University of Tel-Aviv in Israel, both magna cum laude. In 2009 she received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation paper won the Genevieve Gorst Herfurth award for outstanding research in Social Studies. Prof. Yom-Tov is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Institution of Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. She teaches quantitative research methods, social problems, and labor market inequality. Yom-Tov’s main research interests lie in the areas of labor market inequalities, labor migration in the global economy, public attitudes, poverty, spatial inequality, and comparative social stratification. Her current research focuses on structural sources of ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic inequality (mostly in the labor market). She is a quantitative researcher familiar with advanced statistical methods and with a wide range of datasets. Yom-Tov worked with Profs. Moshe Semyonov (University of Tel-Aviv), Rebeca Raijman (University of Haifa), and Peter Schmidt (University of Manheim, Germany) on a comparative project related to international migration, foreign workers, and public attitudes. She also participated in several research projects focusing on family backgrounds, socioeconomic characteristics, attitudes, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), as well as on child support policies in the U.S. Her work resulted in several co-authored papers published in academic journals and on policy-related websites.
Email: ayomtov@haverford.edu
Anne Kane
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Anne Kane received her Ph.D. from UCLA, and is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston — Downtown. She has also taught at UT Austin, and at UC Dublin, the latter while on a Fulbright award. She is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. Her book, Constructing Irish Nationalist Identity: Ritual and Discourse during the Land War, 1879-1882 is forthcoming in Fall,2011. She has published widely on cultural and historical sociology in articles such as “Theorizing Meaning Construction in Social Movements: Symbolic Structures and Interpretation during the Irish Land War, 1879-1882,” Sociological Theory (1997); “Narratives of Nationalism: Constructing Irish National Identity during the Land War, 1879-1882,” National Identities (2000).