»The Earl Babbie Research Center

• Latif, Mehr, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, and Pete Simi. Forthcoming. “The Body in Extremist White Supremacism.” British Journal of Sociology.
• Kranjac, Dinko and Ashley W Kranjac. 2025. “Adult Cigarette Smoking in the United States, 1971–2020: Age–Period–Cohort Analysis.” Scientific Reports15: 14341. [DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-98843-x]
• Scalco, G., Venezia, S.A., Simi, P., Cloutier, J., & Kubota, J.T. 2025. “White supremacy beliefs predict explicit but not implicit biases towards perceived Arab/Middle Eastern men.” Scientific Reports.
• Kranjac, AW, Dinko Kranjac, and Roxanne Aguilera*. 2024. “Pediatric Obesity in the United States: Age—Period—Cohort Analysis.” Heliyon 10(12): e32603. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32603]
• Simi, Pete, Gina Ligon, Seamus Highes, and Natalie Standridge. 2024. "Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data." CTC-Sentinel 17, 5. 
• Kranjac, AW, Zeev Kain, Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Michael Weiss, and Brooke Jenkins. 2024. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context Predicts Asthma Exacerbation.” Clinical Pediatrics [DOI: 10.1177/00099228241262997]
• Simi, Pete, Robert Futrell, and Adam Burtson. 2024. “How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: the 1980s to the Present.” Annual Review of Sociology, v. 50.

*Research Fellow

• Babbie Center Annual Report 23-24
• Babbie Center Annual Report 21-22
• Babbie Center Annual Report 20-21

Hamid Abdollahyan
Professor of Communications, University of Tehran, Iran
Editor of Global Media Journal-Persian Edition

Ron Anderson
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Founder, Foundation for Compassionate Societies

Aaron Babbie
Director of Engagement, Spoon Foundation

Petras Barsauskas
Rector, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Jennifer Bevan
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Chapman University

Solveiga Buoziute-Rafanaviciene
Quality Director, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Yuet-wah Cheung
Professor of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mick Couper
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

James Dannemiller
President, SMS Research, Honolulu, HI

Weida Fan
President, Chinese Survey Research Association
Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai

Mark Francisco
Executive Sales Representative, Cengage

Ann Gordon
Founding Director (ex officio)

Sally T. Hillsman
Former Executive Officer of the American Sociological Association

Charles Hohm
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, San Diego State University

Raymond Lee
Professor Emeritus of Social Research Methods, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Jack Levin
Professor and Co-Director, Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence, Northeastern University

Peter Marsden
Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Mike Maxfield
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Esteban Montilla
Associate Professor of Counseling and Coordinator of Counseling Internship, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX

Jodi O'Brien
Professor of Sociology, Seattle University

John Robbins
Author, social activist, and humanitarian

Ocean Robbins
Author, speaker and movement builder

Dennis Rome
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Columbus State University, Georgia

Allen Rubin
Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin

Steve Rutter
Former Publisher, Routledge / Taylor and Francis

William Ryerson
President of Population Media Center and Population Institute

Dietram Scheufele
John E. Ross Professor of Communications, University of Wisconsin

Arvind Singhal
Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow, Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, AR

Metta Spencer
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada

Jiaming Sun
Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Texas A&M (Commerce)

Negussie Teffera
Country Representative Population Media Center, Ethiopia

Jennifer Waldeck
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Chapman University

Theodore Wagenaar
Professor of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, Carnegie Scholar

Jerry Westby
Former Publisher, Pine Forge Press/SAGE Publications

We would like to honor and thank the following people for serving on the Advisory Board

James Davis, (1929 - 2016)
Co-founder, General Social Survey, Principal Investigator Emeritus, National Opinion Research Center

Charles Glock (1919-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Former Founding Director, Survey Research Center, UC Berkeley
Former Director, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia

• Host conferences with internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners.
• Provide seed grant money to encourage student and faculty research.
• Provide travel funds to students and faculty who need to do field work.
• Host visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows.
• Develop Courses that support the goals of the Center.

• 2024-2025: Valentine Chung
• 2023-2024: Roxy Aguilera