Faculty

Abigail Andrews

Assistant Professor. PhD UC Berkeley. Globalization, development, gender, migration, political sociology, Latinos / Latin America, urban studies, social theory, qualitative methods.

Amy Binder

Professor, Department Chair. PhD Northwestern 1998. Culture, movements, education, organizations.

Mary Blair-Loy

Professor, Founding Director, Center for Research on Gender in the Professions. PhD Chicago 1997. Sociology of gender, culture, inequality, work and organizations, family.

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

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.

Jeffrey M. Haydu

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

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

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

Thomas Medvetz

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

Daniel Navon

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

Kwai Ng

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies. PhD Chicago 2004. Sociology of law, sociology of language, social theory, religion.

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.

Danielle Raudenbush

Assistant 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 1994. Political sociology, law and society, comparative-historical sociology, immigration, human rights, East Asia.

April Sutton

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.

Richard Biernacki

Rae Lesser Blumberg

Aaron Cicourel

Jack Douglas

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

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

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

David Phillips

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

Andrew Scull

Carlos Waisman

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

Jacqueline Wiseman

Leon Zamosc

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

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.

Isaac W. Martin

Jericho (Suzanne) Burg

Email: sburg@ucsd.edu 

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Winter 2020: SOCI 149 Sociology of the Environment

Colin Burke

Email: cmburke@ucsd.edu 

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Winter 2020: SOCI 102 Network Data and Methods

Cat Crowder

Email: ccrowder@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 450 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 184 Gender and Film

Michael Calderon-Zaks

Email: m2calderonzaks@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 463 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 60 The Practice of Social Research

Dan Davis

Email: dbdavis@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 467 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 126 Social Organization of Education

Nichole Fernandez

Email: TBD

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Winter 2020: SOCI 162 Popular Culture & SOCI 175 Nationality and Citizenship

Cid Martinez

Email: cgmartinez@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 463 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 144 Forms of Social Control

Seth Merritt

Email: smerritt@ucsd.edu 

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Winter 2020: SOCI 106 Comparative and Historical Methods

Lisa Nunn

Email: lmnunn@ucsd.edu 

Office: SSB 465 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 110 Qualitative Research in Educational Settings

Khasha Ostovany

Email: TBD

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Winter 2020: SOCI 156 Sociology of Religion

Kara Placek

Email: kplacek@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 465 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 119 Sociology of Sexuality and Sexual Identities

Winter 2020: SOCI 142 Social Deviance

Valerie Summers

Email: valerie.summers@sdcda.org 

Office: SSB 465 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 141 Crime and Society

Abigail Thornton

Email: athornto@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 467 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 125 Sociology of Immigration

Jeffrey Tirshfield

Email: jtirshfi@mail.ucsd.edu 

Office: SSB 474 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 123 Japanese Culture | SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data

Chad Valasek

Email: cvalasek@ucsd.edu

 Office: SSB 474 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2019: SOCI 30 Science, Technology, and Society