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, Yale
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
Areas:
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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