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Faculty

  • Camila Alvarez

    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

    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

    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.

  • Ivan Evans

    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.

  • John H. Evans

    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

    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

    Harvey S. Goldman

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

  • Neil Gong

    Neil Gong

    Assistant professor. PhD UCLA. Power and social control, sociology of medicine, social theory, STS, ethnographic methodology.
  • Bennetta Jules-Rosette

    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

    Lane Kenworthy

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

  • Martha Lampland

    Martha Lampland

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

  • Kevin Lewis

    Kevin Lewis

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

  • Thomas Medvetz

    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

    Daniel Navon

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

  • Kwai Ng

    Kwai Ng

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

  • Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

    Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

    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

    Richard Pitt

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

    Danielle Raudenbush

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

  • Vanesa Ribas

    Vanesa Ribas

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

  • Akos Rona-Tas

    Akos Rona-Tas

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

  • Gershon Shafir

    Gershon Shafir

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

  • John D. Skrentny

    John D. Skrentny

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

  • April Sutton

    April Sutton

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

    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

    Christena Turner

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

  • Jake Watson

    Jake Watson

    Assistant Professor, International migration, with a focus on refugees

Emeritus Faculty

  • Richard Biernacki

    Richard Biernacki

    Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1988. Qualitative methodology, comparative-historical studies of Europe, culture, theory.
  • Amy Binder

    Amy Binder

  • Rae Lesser Blumberg

    Rae Lesser Blumberg

  • Jack Douglas

    Jack Douglas

    PhD Princeton 1969. Deviance, theory, social economics, history of social thought, field methods.
  • Jeffrey M. Haydu

    Jeffrey M. Haydu

    Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1984. Social movements, comparative-historical methods, class relations, food.
  • Rebecca Klatch

    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.

  • Richard Madsen

    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.

  • Hugh "Bud" Mehan

    Hugh "Bud" Mehan

    Professor Emeritus. Discourse processes, sociology of education, educational inequalities. Email: bmehan@ucsd.edu. Tel: 858-534-6765. Office: CRB 166 (CREATE).

  • David Phillips

    David Phillips

    Professor Emeritus. PhD Princeton 1970. Demography, epidemiology, medical errors, suicide, accidents, homicide, mass media. Email: dphillips@ucsd.edu.

  • Andrew Scull

    Andrew Scull

    Emeritus Distinguished Professor. PhD Princeton 1974. Historical, psychiatry, medicine, social control, professions, theory.
  • Carlos Waisman

    Carlos Waisman

    Professor Emeritus. Political sociology, development, theory. Email: cwaisman@ucsd.edu.

  • Jacqueline Wiseman

    Jacqueline Wiseman

     
  • Leon Zamosc

    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

  • Yen Le Espiritu

    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.

  • Mary L. Walshok

    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.

  • Abigail Andrews

    Abigail Andrews

    Email: alandrews@ucsd.edu

    I am Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program. My research takes a critical, feminist lens on state violence and borders, to inform struggles for immigrant justice. (Check out my books Undocumented Politics and Banished Men). For more...

    My CV is here
    For more, please check out my website
    or find me on Twitter @abigailandrews1.

Affiliated Faculty

  • Isaac W. Martin

    Isaac W. Martin

    Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 2003. Fiscal sociology, social movements, political sociology, social policy.

Lecturers

  • Maud Arnal

    Maud Arnal

    Email: mmarnal@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 475 | Office Hours: TBD

    Fall 2024: SOCI 129 The Family & SOCI 173 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine 

    Winter 2025: SOCI 104 Field Research: Methods of Participant Observation & SOCI 161 Field Research: Methods of Participant Observation

  • Michael Calderon-Zaks

    Michael Calderon-Zaks

    Email: m2calderonzaks@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 417 | Office Hours: TWTh 2:30pm - 3:30pm 

    Fall 2024: SOCI 125 Sociology of Immigration & SOCI 127 Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity

    Winter 2025: SOCI 148E Inequality and Jobs & SOCI 175 Nationality and Citizenship

     

     

  • Christine Crofts

    Christine Crofts

    Email: ccrofts@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 473 | Office Hours: TBD

    Fall 2024: SOCI 137 Sociology of Food & SOCI 139 Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender

    Winter 2025: SOCI 142 Social Deviance & SOCI 154 Religious Institutions in America

  • Charlene Holkenbrink-Monk

    Charlene Holkenbrink-Monk

    Email: ceholkenbrinkmonk@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 496 | Office Hours: TBD

    Fall 2024: SOCI 110 Qualitative Research in Educational Settings & SOCI 132 Gender and Work

     

  • Kevin Kilpatrick

    Kevin Kilpatrick

    Email: k2kilpatrick@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 465 | Office Hours: TBD

    Fall 2024: SOCI 103M Computer Applications to Data Management in Sociology  & SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data

    Winter 2025: SOCI 103M Computer Applications to Data Management in Sociology & SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data

  • Kris Kohler

    Kris Kohler

    Email: Kkohler@ucsd.edu

    Office: 496| Office Hours: TBD

    Fall 2024: SOCI 185 Globalization and Social Development

    Spring 2025 

  • Asa Maron

    Asa Maron

    Email: a2maron@ucsd.edu 

    Office: SSB TBA | TBA

    Winter 2025: SOCI 120T Special Topics in Culture, Language, and Social Interaction

  • Khasha Ostovany

    Khasha Ostovany

    Email: kostovany@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB TBA | Office Hours: By appointment

    Winter 2025: SOCI 160 Sociology of Culture & SOCI 180 Social Movements and Social Protest

     

  • Christine Payne

    Christine Payne

    Email: capayne@ucsd.edu 

    Office: SSB 418 | Office Hours: TBA 

    Fall 2024: SOCI 60 The Practice of Social Research & SOCI 135 Medical Sociology

    Winter 2025: SOCI 135 Medical Sociology & SOCI 148 Political Sociology

     

  • Julia Rogers

    Julia Rogers

    Email: jerogers@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 467 | Office Hours: Wed 2pm - 4pm

    Fall 2024: SOCI 1 Introduction to Sociology & SOCI 104Q Qualitative Interviewing

     

  • Jonathan Ruiz

    Jonathan Ruiz

    Email: jjr026@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 474 | Office Hours: TBD

    Fall 2024: SOCI 30 Science, Technology, and Society, SOCI 136 Data and Society, & SOCI 153 Urban Sociology

    Winter 2025: SOCI 136E Sociology of Mental Illness: A Historical Approach & SOCI 171 Technology and Society 

  • Kea Saper

    Kea Saper

    Email: ksaper@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB TBA | TBA

    Winter 2025: SOCI 1 Introduction to Sociology

  • Valerie Summers

    Valerie Summers

    Email: vsummers@ucsd.edu

    Office: 465 | Office Hours: By appointment

    Fall 2024: SOCI 141 Crime and Society & SOCI 146 Criminal Punishment

     

  • Jeffrey Tirshfield

    Jeffrey Tirshfield

    Email: jtirshfield@ucsd.edu

    Office: 496| Office Hours: TBA

    Fall 2024: SOCI 123 Japanese Culture Inside/Out: A Transnational Perspective & SOCI 140 Sociology of Law

    Winter 2025: SOCI 140 Sociology of Law

  • Pablo Victoria Torres

    Pablo Victoria Torres

    Email: pvictori@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB 473 | Office Hours: TBA

    Fall 2024: SOCI 118 Sociology of Gender & 184 Gender and Film

    Winter 2025: SOCI 119 Sociology of Sexuality and Sexual Identities & SOCI 150 Madness and the Movies

  • Brad Weinreb

    Brad Weinreb

    Email: bweinreb@ucsd.edu

    Office: SSB TBA | TBA

    Winter 2025: SOCI 159 Special Topics in Social Organizations and Institutions

Visiting Scholars

  • Asa Maron

    Asa Maron

    Email: a2maron@ucsd.edu 

    Asa Maron is Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Sociology, University of Haifa. His main research interest is the transformations of the welfare state in the context of neoliberal capitalism. While the welfare state developed as a configuration of institutions working against markets and attempting to reduce commodification, his work draws on political and economic sociology to study how welfare state institutions have come to adopt and mobilize market-oriented ideas, logics, and actors. Focusing on ideas and power interrelations, he studies the politics of these changes and their outcomes for contemporary state-society relations. His current project explores limits to the financialization of the state by using the case of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs, or Pay for Success in the US): a new financial model used to reduce social problems and public spending with the aid of private investors. This international study compares the rollout and implementation of SIBs in the US, Israel, Canada and Finland.