#  Past Junior Fellows - Sociology 

 



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 ### Scott Boorman

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1970-73

[Yale Faculty Website](https://sociology.yale.edu/people/scott-boorman)



 

 ### Larissa Buchholz

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 2012-15

[Northwestern Faculty Website](https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/larissa-buchholz.html)



 

 ### W. Rogers Brubaker

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91

[UCLA Faculty Website](https://brubaker.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/)



 

 ### Matthew Desmond

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 2010-13

[Princeton Faculty Website](https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/matthew-desmond)



 

 ### Jason Ferguson

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 2021-23, 2024-25

[UC-Berkeley Faculty Website](https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/jason-l-ferguson/#tab_profile)



 

 ### George Homans \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1934-39

[Obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/31/obituaries/george-homans-78-sociologist-and-harvard-professor-emeritus.html)



 

 ### John B. Howard \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1936-39



 

 ### Anthony Abraham Jack

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 2016-18, 2019-20

[Personal Website](https://anthonyabrahamjack.com/)

[BU Faculty Website](https://www.bu.edu/wheelock/profile/anthony-abraham-jack/)



 

 ### Ya-Wen Lei

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 2013-16

[Harvard Faculty Website](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yawen-lei)



 

 ### Duane Metzger \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1957-60



 

 ### Joseph Rhodes, Jr. \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1969-72

[Obituary](https://www.hetrickbitnerfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Former-State-Representative-Joseph-Rhodes?obId=2022098)

[Wikipedia Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rhodes_Jr.)



 

 ### Neil J. Smelser \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1955-58

[In Memoriam](https://sociology.berkeley.edu/memoriam-neil-smelser)

[Wikipedia Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Smelser)



 

 ### Paul Starr

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1975-78

[Princeton Faculty Website](https://www.princeton.edu/~starr/)



 

 ### Francis X. Sutton \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1946-49

[In Memoriam](https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/francis-x-sutton-40)



 

 ### Sudhir Venkatesh

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1996-99

[Columbia Faculty Website](https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/sudhir-venkatesh)



 

 ### Loïc Wacquant

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1990-93

[UC-Berkeley Faculty Website](https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/loic-wacquant)

[Personal Website](https://loicwacquant.org/)



 

 ### James Weinrich

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1977-80

[Grossmont College Faculty Website](https://www.grossmont.edu/about-grossmont/find-people/james-weinrich/)



 

 ### William F. Whyte \*

**Sociology**

Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1936-40

[Obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/20/us/william-whyte-a-gang-sociologist-dies-at-86.html)