Faculty Members

Camila Alvarez

Assistant Professor, Environmental sociology, environmental justice, and critical quantitative methodology. Recipient of the Career Enhancement Fellowship funded by Mellon Foundation

Mary Blair-Loy

Professor, Director, Center for Research on Gender in STEM. PhD Chicago. Sociology of gender, culture, inequality, work and organizations, family.

Michel Estefan

Assistant Teaching Professor. PhD UC Berkeley. Social theory, political sociology, law and society, comparative and historical methods, Latin America, inclusive and equitable pedagogy and teaching.

Professor, Provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College. PhD Wisconsin 1986. African studies, political sociology, sociology of development, ethnic and race relations, social movements, sociology of the environment.

John H. Evans

Professor; Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences; Associate Dean of Social Sciences; Co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Science, Politics, Public Ethics

David FitzGerald

Professor, Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. PhD UCLA 2005. Law and society, international migration, political sociology, nationalism and ethnicity, comparative-historical and ethnographic methodology.

Harvey S. Goldman

Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1978. Theory, sociology of intellectuals and of knowledge, sociology of culture.

Neil Gong

Assistant professor. PhD UCLA. Power and social control, sociology of medicine, social theory, STS, ethnographic methodology.

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Distinguished Professor & Director of the African & African-American Studies Research Center. PhD Harvard 1973. Sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge, sociology of culture, sociology of art, ethnographic film and media methods, African studies.

Lane Kenworthy

Yankelovich Endowed Chair Professor. PhD Wisconsin 1993. Comparative political economy, poverty, inequality, social policy, politics.

Martha Lampland

Professor. PhD Chicago 1987. Political economy, social and cultural history, science studies, Central Europe (Hungary).

Kevin Lewis

Professor. PhD Harvard 2012. Culture, social networks, social psychology, inequality, family.

Thomas Medvetz

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies. PhD UC Berkeley 2007. Sociology of knowledge and intellectuals, classical and contemporary theory, political sociology, cultural sociology.

Daniel Navon

Associate Professor. PhD Columbia 2013. Sociology of science and knowledge/STS, comparative-historical sociology, social theory, medical sociology, qualitative methods.

Kwai Ng

Professor, Department Chair. PhD Chicago 2004. Sociology of law, sociology of language, social theory, religion

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Associate Professor. PhD University of Edinburgh 2010. Economic sociology, sociology of markets, science and technology studies, cultural sociology, financial markets, art markets, public valuations, innovation.

Richard Pitt

Professor. PhD University of Arizona. Social psychology, religion, (higher) education, work and occupations, gender and family

Danielle Raudenbush

Associate Professor. PhD Chicago. Urban sociology, health and medicine, poverty and inequality, qualitative methods.

Vanesa Ribas

Associate Professor. PhD North Carolina 2012. International migration, race relations, work.

Akos Rona-Tas

Professor. PhD Michigan 1990. Economic sociology, uncertainty and risk, rational choice theory, comparative social stratification, survey research, methodology.

Gershon Shafir

Distinguished Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1980. Comparative-historical sociology, nationalism, citizenship and globalization, Middle Eastern societies, theory.

John D. Skrentny

Professor. PhD Harvard. Science and innovation policy; education; work; immigration; political sociology; law and society.

April Sutton

Assistant Professor. PhD The University of Texas at Austin 2015. Social stratification, education, gender, and spatial inequalities.

Charles Thorpe

Professor. PhD UC San Diego 2001. Social and political theory, sociology of knowledge and intellectuals, sociology of science and technology, Marxism, culture, ecology and society.

Christena Turner

Associate Professor. PhD Stanford 1987. Japanese society, culture, everyday life, organizations, Chinese society, work.