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Dr. Cody R. Melcher joined the faculty of �������� in 2022 after receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of race and class in American public opinion and political behavior. His work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Ethnic and Racial Studies, American Politics Research (APR), Critical Sociology, Labor: Studies in Working Class History, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Teaching Sociology, and elsewhere.

Dr. Melcher was the recipient of the 2023 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, the 2024 Faculty Excellence Award in Advising, and the 2024-2025 Jon. T. Altschul Award for Faculty Excellence in Community Engagement. 

Dr. Melcher’s teaching interests include quantitative methods, the study of capitalism, urban politics, race and class, social policy, and labor history. He has also taught in the departments of political science and sociology at Wayne State University and the City College of New York.

Dr. Melcher is also a research associate at the Workplace Justice Project (WJP), housed in the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic & Center for Social Justice, Loyola University College of Law.

Dr. Melcher also teaches courses to incarcerated students at the Rayburn Correctional Center in Angie, Louisiana as part of the Loyola at Rayburn (Lo-Ray) prison education program.

Classes Taught:

• Statistics
• Research Methods and Techniques
• Capitalism
• Race Scholars Denied
• Social Policy
• Urban Sociology

Areas of Expertise:

• The Intersection of Race and Class
• Economic Insecurity
• The Political Economy of Racism
• Labor
• Experimental Designs
• Public Opinion
• Methods