Faculty Profiles

Avery Gordon
Professor
Ph.D. Boston College
Research Interests

Avery Gordon is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, and the editor of Mapping Multiculturalism and Body Politics, among other works. She is currently writing about captivity, war and other forms of dispossession. She is the co-host of No alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara.

Teaching Areas

1:  Introduction to Sociology

118L: Sociology of Art & Literature

178:  The Prisoner

233:  Problems in Radical Thought

Course Listing

Contact Information

office
Social Sciences and Media Studies Bldg 3405
phone
805-893-3280
office hours
T 8:00-10:00 am by Skype
Crash Policy


Policy for Soc 1:

There are no waiting lists or add codes for Soc 1. You must register into an open section. If no sections are open, course is closed. No exceptions are made under any circumstances.  Course closes for adds on GOLD end of first week of classes.

Policy for upper division courses:

No waiting list. Registration by GOLD only. Any student registered who fails to attend first class is dropped.