Sociology Faculty

RICHARD P. APPELBAUM
PhD, University of Chicago, 1971, Professor
World-system theory; global production and labor; Marxism and critical theory; urban sociology; sociology of housing and homelessness
political economy; urban sociology

JANICE I. BALDWIN
PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 1985 , Lecturer
Areas: human sexuality; gender

JOHN D. BALDWIN
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1967, Professor
Areas: G. H. Mead; social behaviorism; socialization; human sexuality

KUM-KUM BHAVNANI
PhD, King's College, Cambridge, 1988, Professor
Areas: cultural studies; development studies; feminist studies; social representation

DENISE D. BIELBY
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1975, Professor
Areas: cultural sociology, gender, work, life course

JON D. CRUZ
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1986, Associate Professor
Areas: culture; sociology of knowledge; American racial history; media

G. REGINALD DANIEL
PhD, UC Los Angeles, 1987, Associate Professor
Areas: race and ethnic relations; comparative and historical sociology; comparative race and culture

JENNIFER EARL
PhD University of Arizona, 2002, Associate Professor
Areas: sociology of law; social movements; political sociology; statistics; methods; gender; sexuality

SIMONETTA FALASCA-ZAMPONI
PhD UC Berkeley, 1992, Associate Professor
Areas: culture; political/historical sociology; Western European studies

SARAH FENSTERMAKER
PhD, Northwestern University, 1976, Professor and Director of ISBER
Areas: women and work; gender inequality; feminist epistemologies; ethnographic methods

JOHN FORAN
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1988, Professor
Areas:social movements/revolutions; development and social change; Third World cultural studies; Latin America, Middle East; historical-comparative

NOAH E. FRIEDKIN
PhD, University of Chicago, 1977, Professor
Areas: social psychology; social networks; formal organizations

ROGER O. FRIEDLAND

PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1976, Professor
Areas: cultural analysis; religion and politics; social theory; institutions

AVERY GORDON
PhD, Boston College, 1990, Professor
Areas: social theory; race; gender; class and culture

NIKKI JONES
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2004, Assistant Professor
Areas: urban ethnography, race and ethnicity, gender and crime, criminology and criminal justice, and research methods

MARK JUERGENSMEYER
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1974, Professor
Areas: sociology of religion; nationalism; terrorism; moral community and social ethics; South Asian and global studies

GENE H. LERNER
PhD, UC Irvine, 1987, Professor
Areas: conversation analysis; social aspects of grammar; social life of very young children

GEORGE LIPSITZ
PhD, U Wisconsin, 1987, Professor
Areas: social movements, urban culture, and inequality

FERNANDO LOPEZ-ALVES
PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor
Areas: comparative politics, Latin America, political economy

JOHN MOHR
PhD, Ya
le University, 1992, Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor
Areas: organizational theory; sociology of culture; historical analysis; the welfare state; qualitative/quantitative methods

MELVIN OLIVER
PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, 1977, Professor & Dean of Social Sciences - College of Letters & Science
Areas: poverty; inequality & social policy; urban; race & interethnic relations

CAROLYN PINEDO TURNOVSKY
PhD City University of New York, 2005, Assistant Professor
Areas: race and ethnicity, Latino/a studies, immigration studies, and urban ethnography

GEOFFREY T. RAYMOND
Ph.D. UCLA, 2000, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Areas: the organization of talk in interaction; sociology of science and technology; sociology of mass communication

VICTOR RIOS
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2005, Assistant Professor
Areas: Juvenile Justice, Chicana/o-Latina/o Sociology, Race and Penality, Black-Latino Relations, Masculinity, Youth Culture

WILLIAM I. ROBINSON
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1994, Professor
Areas: macro and comparative sociology; globalization; political economy; development; social change; political sociology; Latin America and the Third World

BETH E. SCHNEIDER
PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1981, Professor & Associate Dean of Social Sciences - College of Letters & Science
Areas: sexuality; feminist studies; social movements; AIDS; health

DENISE A. SEGURA
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1986, Professor
Areas: gender; feminist studies; Chicano/a studies; race relations; work and community studies

JOHN SUTTON
PhD, UC Davis, 1981, Professor
Areas: law/social control; organizations; comparative

VERTA TAYLOR
PhD Ohio State University, 1976, Professor and Department Chair
Areas: social movements; health; gender; sexuality; feminist studies

FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE
PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1994, Professor & Department Vice Chair
Areas: ethnography; sociology of family; critical race theory; feminist theory; field research methods; girls culture; comparative racial studies in Brazil, U.S. and Western Europe

HOWARD WINANT
PhD, UC Santa Cruz, 1980, Professor
Areas: race and racism, comparative historical sociology, political sociology, social theory, human rights

RAYMOND S. WONG
PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1989, Professor
Areas: social stratification; comparative sociology; methodology; demography

Affliated Faculty

RALPH ARMBRUSTER-SANDOVAL
PhD, UC Riverside, 1998, Associate Professor of Chicano Studies
Areas: globalization; social movements; labor; race and ethnic relations; Chicano/Latino studies

WILLIAM FREUDENBURG, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies
Areas: rural sociology; social impacts of social change; social organization of resource dependent communities

LISA HAJJAR
PhD, The American University, 1995, Associate Professor of Law and Society
Areas: comparative law, social theory, human rights, Middle Eastern conflict, and law in American society

MARY E. HANCOCK
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Areas: ideology and cultural practice, South Asia, social theory, nationalism, cultural studies, feminist theory, public memory

LAURY OAKS
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1998, Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Ar
eas: feminist studies; reproductive politics; anthropology of health, medicine, and science

JOHN S. W. PARK
PhD, UC Berkeley, M.P.P., Harvard, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
Areas: immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law

WADE CLARK ROOF
PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, 1971, Professor of Religious Studies
Areas: religion and society; moral culture; psychology of religion

LEILA J. RUPP
PhD, Bryn Mawr College, Professor of Women Studies, and Associate Dean of Social Sciences-College of Letters & Science
Areas: women’s movements, sexuality, gay/lesbian history, women’s history

Visiting Faculty

ALICIA CAST
PhD, Washington State University

Lecturers

RICHARD KAPLAN
PhD, UC Berkeley; Lecturer

TIM MECHLINSKI
PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Lecturer

CHARLES TERRY
PhD, UC Irvine, Lecturer

RICHARD WIDICK
PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 2005; Lecturer

Professor Emeriti

WILLIAM T. BIELBY
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1976, Professor
Areas: economy/society; quantitative methods; organizations; popular culture; gender; discrimination

SETHARD FISHER
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1964
Areas: social and personal change; socialization; social welfare; race relations

RICHARD FLACKS
PhD, University of Michigan, 1964, Professor
Areas: political sociology; social movements; political consciousness; student culture; music and politics

DAVID GOLD
PhD, University of Chicago, 1953
Area: political sociology; public opinion; mass communication; methodology

MORRIS F. FRIEDELL (no email)
PhD, University of Chicago, 1965
Areas: humanistic sociology: personal and political

HARVEY L. MOLOTCH
PhD, University of Chicago, 1967
Areas: degradation; domination; design

ELENE H. NAGEL
PhD, New York University, 1974, Professor, Sociology/Law & Society
Areas: sociology of law; white collar and corporate crime

THOMAS J. SCHEFF
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1960, Professor
Areas: social psychology; emotions; mental illness; theory; conflict

GARY I. SCHULMAN
PhD, Stanford University, 1965, Associate Professor
Areas: social psychology; sex roles; methods; small groups analysis; hypnosis as a research tool; focus group methods

JOHN A. SONQUIST
PhD, University of Chicago, 1969, Professor
Area: research methods; computer applications; simulation; organizations; social networks; technological change

BRUCE C. STRAITS
PhD, University of Chicago, 1967, Professor
Areas: personal networks; methodology; social demography

THOMAS P. WILSON
PhD, Columbia University, 1965, Professor
Areas: ethnomethodology; conversation analysis; theory

DON H. ZIMMERMAN
PhD, UCLA, 1966, Professor
Areas: Talk in institutional settings; development of sociality of young children; conversation analysis


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