Faculty
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Amy Binder
Professor. PhD Northwestern 1998. Culture, movements, education, organizations.
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Mary Blair-Loy
Professor, Director, Center for Research on Gender in STEMM. PhD Chicago. Sociology of gender, culture, inequality, work and organizations, family.
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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.
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Ivan Evans
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.
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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
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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.
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Harvey S. Goldman
Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1978. Theory, sociology of intellectuals and of knowledge, sociology of culture.
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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.
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Lane Kenworthy
Yankelovich Endowed Chair Professor. PhD Wisconsin 1993. Comparative political economy, poverty, inequality, social policy, politics.
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Martha Lampland
Professor. PhD Chicago 1987. Political economy, social and cultural history, science studies, Central Europe (Hungary).
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Kevin Lewis
Associate Professor. PhD Harvard 2012. Culture, social networks, social psychology, inequality, family.
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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.
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Daniel Navon
Associate Professor. PhD Columbia 2013. Sociology of science and knowledge/STS, comparative-historical sociology, social theory, medical sociology, qualitative methods.
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Kwai Ng
Professor, Department Chair. PhD Chicago 2004. Sociology of law, sociology of language, social theory, religion.
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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.
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Richard Pitt
Associate Professor. PhD University of Arizona. Social psychology, religion, (higher) education, work and occupations, gender and family -
Danielle Raudenbush
Assistant Professor. PhD Chicago. Urban sociology, health and medicine, poverty and inequality, qualitative methods.
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Vanesa Ribas
Associate Professor. PhD North Carolina 2012. International migration, race relations, work.
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Akos Rona-Tas
Professor. PhD Michigan 1990. Economic sociology, uncertainty and risk, rational choice theory, comparative social stratification, survey research, methodology.
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Gershon Shafir
Distinguished Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1980. Comparative-historical sociology, nationalism, citizenship and globalization, Middle Eastern societies, theory.
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John D. Skrentny
Professor. PhD Harvard. Science and innovation policy; education; work; immigration; political sociology; law and society.
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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.
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Christena Turner
Associate Professor. PhD Stanford 1987. Japanese society, culture, everyday life, organizations, Chinese society, work.
Emeritus Faculty
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Richard Biernacki
Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1988. Qualitative methodology, comparative-historical studies of Europe, culture, theory. -
Rae Lesser Blumberg
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Aaron Cicourel
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Jack Douglas
PhD Princeton 1969. Deviance, theory, social economics, history of social thought, field methods. -
Jeffrey M. Haydu
Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1984. Social movements, comparative-historical methods, class relations, food. -
Rebecca Klatch
Professor Emerita. PhD Harvard 1984. Sociology of gender, masculinities, sociology of family, social psychology/identities, race, American society, field research methods. Email: rklatch@ucsd.edu.
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Richard Madsen
Director of UC Fudan Center, Professor Emeritus. PhD Harvard 1977. Sociology of ideas/culture, sociology of religion, comparative sociology, Chinese society, "moral anthropology." Email: rmadsen@ucsd.edu.
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Hugh "Bud" Mehan
Professor Emeritus. Discourse processes, sociology of education, educational inequalities. Email: bmehan@ucsd.edu. Tel: 858-534-6765. Office: CRB 166 (CREATE).
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David Phillips
Professor Emeritus. PhD Princeton 1970. Demography, epidemiology, medical errors, suicide, accidents, homicide, mass media. Email: dphillips@ucsd.edu.
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Andrew Scull
Emeritus Distinguished Professor. PhD Princeton 1974. Historical, psychiatry, medicine, social control, professions, theory. -
Carlos Waisman
Professor Emeritus. Political sociology, development, theory. Email: cwaisman@ucsd.edu.
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Jacqueline Wiseman
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Leon Zamosc
Professor Emeritus. PhD University of Manchester-England 1983. Latin American societies, political economy, development, social movements, research methods, ethnicity, rural sociology.
Adjunct Faculty
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Yen Le Espiritu
Email: yespiritu@ucsd.edu.
Yen Espiritu received her Ph.D. from UC Los Angeles in 1990. She is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD. Focusing on Asian America, her research has sought to challenge the homogeneous descriptions of communities of color and the narrowness of mutually exclusive binaries by attending to generational, ethnic, class, and gender variations within constructed racial categories. In particular, her work has called attention to the ways in which racialized ethnicity is relational rather than atomized and discrete and the ways in which group identities necessarily form through interaction with other groups "through complicated experiences of conflict and cooperation" and in structural contexts of power.
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Mary L. Walshok
Email: mwalshok@ucsd.edu. Office: UNEX Complex.
Mary Walshok received her BA from Pomona College and her MA and PhD in sociology from Indiana University. Currently she is the associate vice chancellor for Extended Studies and Public Programs and professor of sociology. A thought leader on aligning workforce development with regional economic growth, she is the author of Blue Collar Women, Knowledge Without Boundaries, Closing America's Job Gap, and the forthcoming Invention and Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Entrepreneurial Economy. As an industrial sociologist she has researched various American regions for the US Department of Labor, NSF, and Lilly Foundation. Walshok is active on numerous community and national boards and is co-founder of CONNECT, one of the most admired innovation cluster development organizations in the world.
Affiliated Faculty
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Isaac W. Martin
Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 2003. Fiscal sociology, social movements, political sociology, social policy.
Lecturers
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Michael Calderon-Zaks
Email: m2calderonzaks@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 418 | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2022: SOCI 127 Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity & SOCI 180 Social Movements and Social Protest
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Camila Gonzalez Paz Paredes
Email: cag109@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2022 S2: SOCI 145 Violence and Society
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Heather Harper
Email: hmharper@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2022 S1: SOCI 115 Social Problems
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Ana Lopez Ricoy
Email: alopezri@ucsd.edu
Office: TBA | Office Hours: TBA
Summer 2022 S1: SOCI 60 The Practice of Social Research
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Elizabeth Mayes
Email: emayes@ucsd.edu
Office: TBA | Office Hours: TBA
Summer 2022 S2: SOC 138 Genetics and Society
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Christine Payne
Email: capayne@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 417 | Office Hours: TBA
Summer 2022 S1: SOCI 160 Sociology of Culture
Summer 2022 S2: SOCI 106 Comparative and Historical Methods & SOCI 135 Medical Sociology
Fall 2022: SOCI 60 The Practice of Social Research & SOCI 106 Comparative and Historical Methods
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Germano Ribeiro Fernandes Da Silva
Email: gribeiro@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2022 S1: SOCI 188D Latin America: Society and Politics
Summer 2022 S2: SOCI 148 Political Sociology
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Julia Rogers
Email: jerogers@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2022: SOCI 104Q Qualitative Interviewing & SOCI 136F Sociology of Mental Illness in Contemporary Society
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Jonathan Ruiz
Email: jjr026@ucsd.edu
Office: TBA | Office Hours: TBA
Summer 2022 S1: SOCI 135 Medical Sociology
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Yasemin Taskin Alp
Email: ytaskina@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2022 S2: SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data
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Jeff Tirshfield
Email: jtirshfield@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2022: SOCI 120T Sports Violence & SOCI 123 Japanese Culture Inside/Out: A Transnational Perspective
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Brad Weinreb
Email: bweinreb@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Visiting Scholars
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Brittany Birberick
Email: bbirberick@ucsd.edu
BA University of Chicago, 2012, Anthropology
PhD University of California, Berkeley, 2021, Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: South Africa, urban history and planning, infrastructure, political affect, African film and photography, ethnographic methods, gambling and speculation
I am a postdoctoral fellow for a Mellon funded project on Mobility, Temporality, and Africa’s Future Politics with the African Center for Migration Studies at the University of Witwatersrand and a visiting scholar in the department of sociology and AAASRC at UCSD. My research while at UCSD will focus on completing my first book manuscript, Paved with Gold, under the mentorship of Professor Bennetta Jules-Rosette and Professor Ivan Evans. The project explores a part of Johannesburg, South Africa built on uncertainty and speculation through an anthropological and historical study of a single street in the neighborhood of Jeppestown. As a visiting scholar, I will also be editing a short ethnographic film adjacent to my larger project.
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Yael Shmaryahu-Yeshurun
Email: yshmaryahuyeshurun@ucsd.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow Bar-Ilan University, 2021, Law
PhD Ben-Gurion University, 2020, Administration and Public Policy
MBA Ben-Gurion University, 2013, Business Administration in Social Leadership
BA (BSW) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010, Social Work and Social Welfare
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Urban planning, Political geography, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Qualitative Methods.
I am a postdoctoral fellow for a Marie Skłodowska Curie funded project (MSCA) on class and ethnicity intersectionality in Latinx-led Gentrification Process in Barrio Logan, San Diego.
The Fellowship is conducted at the University of California San Diego under the mentorship of Professor Gershon Shafir (Outgoing phase), and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the mentorship of Professor Avner De-Shalit, Political Science department (Return Phase).
In my doctoral dissertation I investigates the connection between Nationalism and Neo-Liberalism in the Israelis’ Settlement Policy in the periphery and contested cities. I developed the term “State-Led Ethno-Gentrification” to describe the policy and its implications.
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Qianfeng Wu
Email: qiw039@ucsd.edu
Visiting Scholar, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, Sociology, 2021-2022
Ph.D in Progress, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Sociology, 2016-Now
B.A, Central University of Finance and Economics,Beijing, China, International Politics, 2014
Research Interests: Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Kam Studies, Qualitative Methods
Publications: Qianfeng Wu , 2021, Living Wisdom, Social Capital and House Construction of Kam
Village: A Study of the Housing Strategies of Traditional Village Residents in
Ethnic Areas(1990-2020)(in Chinese), Journal of Sociological Studies(4):195-215