Specialization:
Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Urban Sociology; Social Psychology; Education; Qualitative Methodology; Medical Sociology; Mixed Methodology
Education:
Ph.D., UC Los Angeles
Bio:
Terrell J. A. Winder is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in the study of race, gender, sexuality, and identity formation. He is the author of Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA (New York University Press 2026). His scholarship sits at the intersection of Black studies, queer studies, and urban sociology, with a particular emphasis on how marginalized communities navigate systems of stigma and inequality.
Winder’s research has appeared in academic journals such as Qualitative Sociology, Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Gender & Society, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His collaborative health projects have been funded by the California HIV Research Program and the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and publications appear in leading international journals such as AIDS Patient Care and STDs, the Journal for Medical Internet Research, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
At UCSB, Winder’s teaching and mentoring has been recognized by the department and university. In 2022, he received the UCSB Sociology Department Graduate Mentorship Award for work with graduate students; in 2023, Winder was awarded the campus-wide UCSB Chancellor's Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring in recognition of this work with undergraduate students on campus. Winder holds an MA, C.Phil, and PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BA in Comparative Ethnic Studies from Columbia University in the City of New York. Before joining the faculty at UCSB, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University.
Courses:
Dr. Winder's primary teaching areas are qualitative methods, sociology of gender and sexuality, and the sociology of race and ethnicity.