Sociology

Faculty and Staff

Faculty & Staff

Sociology is part of the Department of Social Sciences. 

Department Chair
Debra Gold
Email: dlgold@stcloudstate.edu 

Stephen E. Philion

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

    Chair: Greater Minnesota Worker Center

Abbas Mehdi

  • Professor
  • Interests: social change, globalization, Arab countries, Iraq

Tracy E. Ore

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

Elizabeth D. Scheel-Keita

  • Professor
  • Director Applied Sociology Program
  • Interests: gender and violence, sociology of the body, social problems and deviance, sociology of youth, and community organizing

Emeriti

Jiping Zuo

  • Professor
  • Interests: marital/gender equality, work and family, China, and socialism

In Memory

Mary Otremba

  • Our friend and colleague

Department of Sociology

262 Stewart Hall
St. Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301

(320) 308-4928