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

