Faculty

Abigail Andrews

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

Richard Biernacki

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

Amy Binder

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies. PhD Northwestern 1998. Culture, movements, education, organizations.

Mary Blair-Loy

Associate 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, Associate Dean of Social Sciences. PhD Princeton 1998. Sociology of culture, knowledge, religion, medicine, bioethics, politics.

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

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

Isaac Martin

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

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

Associate Professor. 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

Assistant 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.

Andrew Scull

Distinguished Professor. PhD Princeton 1974. Historical, psychiatry, medicine, social control, professions, theory.

Gershon Shafir

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.

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.

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.

Brooke S. West

Email: bswest@ucsd.edu 

Brooke West has a MA in Sociology from Cornell University and a joint PhD in sociology and public health from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Brooke is a medical sociologist whose research focuses on the social determinants of HIV/STI and reproductive health among marginalized populations. Previous research includes a mixed methods study assessing how HIV risk environments for drug-using Malaysian fishermen were shaped by occupational context, social network relationships and conceptualizations of masculinity. In addition to her work in Malaysia, Dr. West has conducted HIV research with women involved in sex work in India, with migrant marketplace workers in Kazakhstan, and has looked at the intersection between gender, water/sanitation, and HIV health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining UCSD in 2014, she worked as the Principal Research Associate on a NIDA-funded study assessing changes over time in the HIV epidemic among injection drug users in 96 of the largest cities in the United States. 

Adi Hercowitz-Amir

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Office: TBD Social Science Building | Hours: TBD

Fall 2017: SOCI 125 Sociology of Immigration

Olga Mayorova

Email: olmayorova@ucsd.edu 

Office: 474 Social Science Building | Hours: TBD

Fall 2017: SOCI 102 Network Data and Methods

Cristin McVey

Email: cmcvey@ucsd.edu

Office: Social Sciences Building 467 Phone: (858) 534-0488

Fall 2017: SOCI 104 Field Research Method/Participation

Spring 2018: SOCI 184 African Societies Through Film

Jennifer Nations

Email: jnations@ucsd.edu

Office: 465 Social Science Building

Fall 2017: SOCI 152 Social Inequality and Public Policy (xUSP 133)

René Patnode

Email: rpatnode@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD Social Science Building | Hours: TBD

Fall 2017: SOCI 162 Popular Culture | SOCI 188G Chinese Society

Heidi Schneider

Email: hschneid@ucsd.edu 

Office: 465 Social Science Building | Hours: Tu 4:30p-5:30p

Fall 2017: SOCI 142 Social Diviance | SOCI 144 Forms of Social Control

Valerie Summers

Email: valerie.summers@sdcda.org

Office: 467 Social Science Building | Hours: TBD

Fall 2017 SOCI 141: Crime and Society

Jeffrey T Tirshfield

Email:

Office: TBD Social Science Building | Hours: TBD

Fall 2017: SOCI 70 General Sociology for Pre-Med Students

Inyi Choi

Visiting Scholar Researcher

Appointment Dates: March 2017 - February 2018

Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Haydu

Email: soc-ichoi@ucsd.edu

Area of Expertise: Labor Relations

Home Institution: Chungnam National University - Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Shuisheng Chen

• Visiting Scholar Researcher

  Appointment Dates: August 2017 - August 2018

  Faculty Sponsor: Richard Madsen

  Email: shc055@ucsd.edu

  Area of Expertise: Urban public space governance in China

  Home Institution: Associate Professor Fudan University, China.

Sigtona Halrynjo

• Visiting Scholar Researcher

  Appointment Dates: August 2017-December 2017

  Faculty Sponsor: Mary Blair-Loy

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  Area of Expertise: Gender disparities in the labor market

  Home Institution: Senior Research Fellow-Institute for Social Research, Oslo Norway

Gordon Chang

Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates: September 2017 - June 2018

Faculty Sponsor: Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Email: gcchangucsd@gmail.com

Area of Expertise: AAASRC Center

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