»The Earl Babbie Research Center

Due to the decades-long, world-wide popularity of his textbooks in social research, Dr. Earl Babbie is one of the most famous living sociologists today. He holds the position of Campbell Professor Emeritus in Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University. He is best known for his book The Practice of Social Research (first published in 1975), currently in its 12th English edition, with numerous non-English editions. The text has been widely adopted in colleges throughout the United States and throughout other parts of the world. He is also an author of research articles and monographs. Throughout his career he has been active in the American Sociological Association and served on the ASA’s executive committee. He is also past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association.

Dr. L. Edward Day received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 1992. He has been involved in research projects ranging from multi-site surveys to two person participant observation autoethnographies. He is able to consult on research design and both quantitative and qualitative analyses. A criminologist by training, he has a special fondness for cross-disciplinary research. He is founding editor of the open access journal War Crimes, Genocide & Crimes against Humanity and has served on the boards of both national and regional academic societies. 

Desiree Fehmie, Babbie Center consultant, joins the Babbie Center in March, 2013. Ms. Fehmie holds a Masters in Public Health from Dartmouth University and a Masters of Science in Health and Psychology from City University London. She has experience in data management and analysis as well as program design, implementation and evaluation. She is skilled in conceptualization processes, helping researchers move from initial ideas to study questions. Her hours will be posted soon.

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

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

Aaron Babbie
Vice President, Business Development, Sparkloft Media

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

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

Rosalind Edwards
Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, Editor, International Journal of Social Research Methods, England 

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

Mark Francisco
Executive Sales Representative, Cengage

Ann Gordon
Founding Director (ex officio)

Charles Glock
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UC Berkeley, Former and Founding Director, Survey Research Center, UC Berkeley, Former Director, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia

Sally T. Hillsman
Executive Officer of the American Sociological Association

Charles Hohm
Executive Director, Pacific Sociological Association; 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, Dean of Social Sciences, Harvard University

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

Esteban Montilla
Professor of Counseling, 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
Carnegie Scholar, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Wisconsin Parkside

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

Steve Rutter
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, and William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow, Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, AR

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

Teresa Sullivan
President of the University of Virginia

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

Negussie Teffera
Country Representative Population Media Center, Ethiopia

Thomas Van Valey
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Western Michigan University

Jennifer Waldeck
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Chapman University

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

Jerry Westby
Publisher, Pine Forge Press/SAGE Publications