Faculty
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Abigail Andrews
Assistant Professor. PhD UC Berkeley. Globalization, development, gender, migration, political sociology, Latinos / Latin America, urban studies, social theory, qualitative methods.
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Amy Binder
Professor, Department Chair. 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 1997. 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. -
Jeffrey M. Haydu
Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1984. Social movements, comparative-historical methods, class relations, food.
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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. PhD UC Berkeley 2007. Sociology of knowledge and intellectuals, classical and contemporary theory, political sociology, cultural sociology.
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Daniel Navon
Assistant 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, Director of Graduate Studies. PhD Chicago 2004. Sociology of law, sociology of language, social theory, religion.
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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Assistant 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 1994. Political sociology, law and society, comparative-historical sociology, immigration, human rights, East Asia.
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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. -
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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Arthur Atkinson
Email: alatkinson@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: Th 10:00a-12:00p (Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOCI 147 Organizations, Society, and Social Justice
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Leroy Joey Arciniega
Email: larcinie@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2020: SOCI 126 Social Organization of Education
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Colin Burke
Email: cmburke@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 453 | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 102 Network Data and Methods
Fall 2020: SOCI 102 Network Data and Methods
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Michael Calderon-Zacs
Email: m2calderonzaks@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: Th 1:30p-3:00p (Skype or Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOCI 20 Social Change in the Modern World
Fall 2020: SOCI 133 Immigration in Comparative Perspective & SOCI 175 Nationality and Citizenship
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Davide Carpano
Email: dcarpano@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: M/W 2:00p-3:00p (Zoom) & By Appointment
Spring 2020: SOCI 171 Technology and Society
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Catherine Crowder
Email: ccrowder@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2020: SOCI 30 Science, Technology, and Society
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Daniel Davis
Email: dbdavis@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: W 9:50a-10:50a (Zoom) & By Appointment
Spring 2020: SOCI 110 Qualitative Research in Educational Settings
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Darwin Fishman
Email: dfishman@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: T 12:00p-1:00p (Zoom) & By Appointment
Spring 2020: SOCI 139 Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 145 Violence and Society
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Kyle Haines
Email: kyhaines@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB TBD | Office Hours: W 1:00p-3:00p (Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOCI 164 Green Movements and Comparative Environmental Policies
Fall 2020: SOCI 149 Sociology of the Environment
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Heather Harper
Email: hmharper@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2020: SOCI 152 Social Inequality and Public Policy
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Fatima Khayar Camara
Email: fkhayarc@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB TBD | Office Hours: By Appointment (Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOCI 104 Methods of Participant Observation
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Stacey Livingstone
Email: sbliving@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 184 Gender and Film
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Seth Merritt
Email: smerritt@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 426 | Office Hours: M 12:00p-1:00p
Spring 2020: SOCI 168E Sociology of Science
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 172 Films and Society
Summer 2020 S2: SOCI 149 Sociology of the Environment
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Khasha Ostovany
Email: kostovany@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 467 | Office Hours: By Video Appointment
Spring 2020: SOCI 158 Islam in the Modern World
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Christine Payne
Email: capayne@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 474 | Office Hours: M/W 3:00p-5:00p (Droid)
Spring 2020: SOCI 136F Sociology of Mental Illness in Contemporary Society & SOCI 160 Sociology of Culture
Fall 2020: SOCI 135 Medical Sociology & SOCI 160 Sociology of Culture
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Kara Placek
Email: kplacek@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Fall 2020: SOCI 119 Sociology of Sexuality and Sexual Identities & SOCI 142 Social Deviance
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Germano Ribeiro Fernandes Da Silva
Email: gribeiro@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2020 S2: SOCI 148 Political Sociology
Fall 2020: SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data
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Julia Rogers
Email: jerogers@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 467 | Office Hours: TBD
Spring 2020: SOCI 112 Social Psychology & SOCI 104Q Qualitative Interviewing
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 113 Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic
Fall 2020: SOCI 113 Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic & SOCI 162 Popular Culture
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Jonathan Ruiz
Email: jjr026@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 171 Technology and Science
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Valerie Summers
Email: vsummers@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: By Appointment (Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOCI 146 Criminal Punishment
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Jeffrey Tirshfield
Email: jtirshfield@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 474 | Office Hours: T 1:00p-3:00p (109), Th 1:00p-3:00p (50) (Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOC 50 Introduction to Law and Society & SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data
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Chad Valasek
Email: cvalasek@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 135 Medical Sociology
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Graydon Wetzler
Email: gwetzler@ucsd.edu
Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD
Spring 2020: SOCI 172 Films and Society & SOCI 144 Forms of Social Control
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Teresa Zimmerman-Liu
Email: tjzimmer@ucsd.edu
Office: SSB 463 | Office Hours: Th 5:00p-6:00p (Zoom)
Spring 2020: SOCI 187 African Societies through Film
Summer 2020 S1: SOCI 139 Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
Fall 2020: SOCI 185 Globalization and Social Development