People
Faculty
- Professor
Social and political theory, history of social thought, Africa and the Middle East, Sociology and Politics of Crime and Law
- Assistant Professor
Migration, social stratification based on skin color, and the effect of social programs on socio-economic and demographic outcomes
- Professor
G. H. Mead, human sexuality, socialization, capitalism, micro-macro synthesis
- Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Race, Ethnicity, Nation; International migration; Urban Sociology; Culture; Ethnography/Qualitative Methodology
- Associate Professor
Gender, Sexualities, Masculinities, Families, Cultural Sociology, Inequalities, Qualitative Methods
- SSMS 3320 Faculty Office
- SSMS 3439 Men & Masculinities Journal
- Professor
- Broom Center Director
Gender, Transnational and Global Sociology, Intersectional Inequalities, Work, Education, Demography
- Professor
Race and ethnic relations, critical mixed race studies, comparative race and culture, comparative and historical sociology
- Professor
Culture, Social Theory, Sociology of Knowledge
- Distinguished Professor
revolutions, global justice movements, radical social change, development and globalization, Middle East studies, Latin American studies, Third World cultural studies, social theory, political sociology, comparative historical methods
- Professor
Social Networks, Influence Systems, Social Psychology, Complex Organizations
- Professor
Sociology of law; sociology of human rights; political sociology; state theory; Middle East Studies; American Studies; law and conflict; torture; war crimes; international humanitarian law.
- Distinguished Professor
Specializes in the global dimensions of religion in public life, South Asian religion and society, religious violence, neo-nationalism, and conflict resolution
- Assistant Professor
Environmental politics, urban sociology, economic sociology, global/comparative sociology, ethnography, South Asia
- Assistant Professor
(im)migration, race & ethnicity, education, family, culture, punishment
- Associate Professor
social movements, human rights, reproduction, intersectionality
- Distinguished Professor
globalization, development studies, global political economy, cultural studies, emerging societies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, future studies
- Professor
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing
- Professor
- Associate Dean Division of Social Sciences
Urban ethnography, juvenile justice, Latino sociology
- Distinguished Professor
Globalization, Global Political Economy, Political Sociology, Development, Latin America, Inequality, Crisis of Capitalism
- Professor
Chicana and Chicano Studies, feminist studies, gender, family, work, race-ethnic relations, education
- Associate Professor
Gender, work, health, social psychology, and social inequality
- Distinguished Professor
- Department Chair
social movements, gender, sexuality, culture, health and mental health
- SSMS 3008 Faculty Office
- SSMS 3109 Chair Office
- Associate Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies
Gender, families, social psychology, economic sociology, organizations, work
- Professor
- Department Vice Chair
The Body, Ethnography, Intimacy, Privilege, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Visual Sociology, Comparative Racial Studies (Europe/US/South Africa)
- Associate Professor
Race and racism; social categories and identities; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; interactions in conversational and institutional settings; conflicts and violence in interactions
- Distinguished Professor
race and racism, political sociology, comparative/historical sociology, social theory
- Assistant Professor
Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Urban Sociology; Social Psychology; Education; Qualitative Methodology; Medical Sociology; Mixed Methodology
- Assistant Professor
Creative industries, culture, markets, valuation, sociological theory, ethnography
Lecturers
- Lecturer
Criminology, Law & Society, Legal Communication, Social Psychology (small groups), Communicating Science, Power, Sociology of Science, Cheating, Methodology, Statistics
- Senior Lecturer
Global environmental governance, climate change, sustainable development, political economy, international organizations and governance
- Lecturer
Sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and identity, gender identity, gender and migration, language and youth, youth culture and globalization
- Lecturer
Cultural Sociology, Collective Memory, Inequality, Comparative/Historical Sociology, Ireland
Emeriti Faculty
- Professor Emeritus
World-system theory; global production and labor; science, technology, and society
- Professor Emeritus
Culture, gender, work, and social psychology/life-course
- Professor Emeritus
Organizational inequality, workplace discrimination, media & popular culture.
- Professor Emeritus
Work and gender, feminist inquiry, feminist theory, research methods
- Professor Emeritus
Cultural theory; architecture; religious nationalism; institutional theory; space, time and social theory
- Professor Emeritus
Social theory, radical thought and practice, militarism, imprisonment, art and literature
- Professor Emeritus
conversation analysis, social life of very young children, social aspects of syntax
- Professor Emeritus
Race, Culture and Social identities, 20th-century U.S. history, urban history and culture, social movements
- Professor Emeritus
Comparative historical sociology, comparative politics, globalization. Latin American politics, organized labor
- Professor Emeritus
Sexuality, feminist and gender studies, social movements, health/AIDS, lesbian/gay studies
- Professor Emeritus
Organizations, law, crime and punishment, comparative sociology, culture
- Professor Emeritus
Social stratification, comparative sociology, methods and statistics, sociology of economic change, demography
Affiliated Faculty
- Affiliated Faculty
- Comparative Politics
- Middle East Politics
- Social Movements and Revolution
- Critical Security Studies
- Police and Military Studies
- Human Rights / Socio-Legal Studies
- Latin American Studies (especially Brazil, liberalization, human rights, sexuality/race/religion, urban inequality, state theory, regionalism)
- Middle East Studies (esp. Egypt, Persian Gulf, Lebanon, regionalism, public security, state theory, globalization, urban development, morality, masculinity, gender/sexuality)
- Theories of state, governance, institutional and legal change
- Queer Theory
- Post-Colonial Studies
- Affiliated Faculty
Race, labor, empire, social movements, urban studies, Latin American studies, Central America, Marxism, liberation theology
- Affiliated Faculty
Sociocultural Anthropology (South Asia, social theory, nationalism, religion, cultural studies, feminist theory, public memory)
- Affiliated Faculty
Sociocultural Anthropology (medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, risk and perception, environmental and health inequality, science, technology and society, gender, race and new technologies, public engagement/deliberation, immigration and health, mixed methods for social research, collaborative interdisciplinary research)
- Affiliated Faculty
Sexual and reproductive politics; health advocacy movements; feminist analysis of public health, medicine and science; qualitative research methods
- Affiliated Faculty
Ph. D, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law.
- Affiliated Faculty
- Affiliated Faculty
Environmental Justice Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Change, and Social Movements
- Affiliated Faculty
- Affiliated Faculty
Women's Movements,
Sexualities,
Transnational History
- Affiliated Faculty
Race, ethnicity, international migration, global inequality
Staff
- Business Officer
- Manages Sociology's administrative office
- Handles confidential faculty and staff matters for the department and insures compliance with and implementation of procedures and policies
- Addresses space, equipment, computing, or other facility’s needs
- Oversees department payroll
- Academic Personnel Assistant.
- Administers the department merit and promotion processing for tenure, retention, and other advancements.
- Processes all faculty and lecturer recruitment for permanent and short-term hires.
- Office Assistant
- Issues SSMS room and mailbox keys
- Orders supplies
- Handles mail distribution
- Graduate Program Coordinator
- Oversees the graduate program
- Provides administrative counseling to current and prospective graduate students
- Handles payroll for TAs and Associates
- Financial Coordinator
- Balances department monthly ledgers and tracks faculty research expenditures
- Processes reimbursements, invoices, and contracts
- Hires student assistants and readers and addresses payroll questions
- Undergraduate Advisor
- Provides counseling to Sociology majors and prospective majors
- Assists with curriculum planning and course development
- Student Affairs Manager
- Oversees undergraduate program
- Provides counseling to Sociology majors and prospective majors
- Prepares curriculum plans
Graduate Students
- Graduate Student
Education; Health and Well-being; Rural, Suburban, and Urban Sociology; Children and Youth; Ethnography; Race, Class, and Gender; Community-Engaged Research
- Graduate Student
Aesthetics, Political Culture, Feminist Theories and Activism, Central America
- Graduate Student
19th century U.S. historical feminisms, Intersectionality studies, Feminist epistemology, Social movements, Historical and collective memory
- Graduate Student
Gender, Social movements, Violence, Criminology, Critical theory, Participatory research
- Graduate Student
Environmental sociology, Critical environmental justice, Energy democracy, Prison ecology, Labor, Political sociology, Science and technology studies, Infrastructure, Marxism, Anarchism.
- Graduate Student
Culture, popular culture, play, fandom/audience studies, DIY
- Graduate Student
LGBTQ Inequalities, Public Opinion, Gender, Sexuality, Social Change, Demography
- Graduate Student
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing, Criminology, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Data Studies
- Graduate Student
Utopian Studies, Sociology of Communities, Society-Nature relations, Decolonial Epistemologies.
- Graduate Student
Gender, sexuality, feminist theory, queer theory, intersectionality, social psychology, qualitative & mixed methods, narrative analysis
- Graduate Student
Social Psychology; Race and Racism; Gender, Race, and Class; Health; Social Inequality
- Graduate Student
migration, gender & sexuality, race, political economy, Central America, incarceration, postcolonial feminist theory
- Graduate Student
Medical Sociology; Community Health; Health Policy; Health Services; Equity; HIV/AIDS; Immigration; Theory; Queer of Color Analysis; Race, Class, and Gender; Latina/o/x Studies; Social Movements
- Graduate Student
Migration, Political economy, Labor, Globalization, Political sociology
- Graduate Student
Marxist theory, socialist theory, dialectics, ecology, race and class, sociology of law, social movements, communology
- Graduate Student
Gender, Masculinities, Friendship, Intimacy, Feminist theory, Intersectionality, Social psychology
- Graduate Student
Medical Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Culture, Health disparities, Qualitative Methods
- Graduate Student
Gender and Sexuality, Education, Organizational Culture, Sexual Violence
- Graduate Student
Latinx Sociology, Masculinity, Education, and Critical Youth Studies
- Graduate Student
Race, Social Movements, Gender, Asian American Studies
- Graduate Student
Race and Racism; Law, Crime, and Punishment; Policing; Black Feminism; Social Movements; Critical Race Theory; Black Europe and African Diaspora Studies; Culture, Media, & Discourse; Hip Hop
- Graduate Student
Climate change, power, politics, ecology, social movements, futures
- Graduate Student
Health, immigration, race, social inequalities.
- Graduate Student
Race and ethnicity, Latin American studies, Racialized national identity, Racial inequalities
- Graduate Student
Race and ethnicity, class, South Asian migration and identity, diaspora, transnationalism, Islamophobia, multiculturalism
- Graduate Student
Carceral systems, abolitionist praxis, policing, race, surveillance, social movements
- Graduate Student
Race, Gender, Culture, Elites, Sociology of the Body, Work and Occupations
- Graduate Student
Race, Ethnicity, Nation; Adoption Studies; Culture; Sociology of Family; Critical Mixed Race Studies; Latinx Sociology
- Graduate Student
Sexualities, Gender, Masculinity, Sex/Gender-Based Violence, Qualitative Methods, Inequalities
- Graduate Student
Radical Criminology, Barrio Criminology, Barrio Pedagogy, Globalization, Revolutionary Theory, Radical Perspectives on Prisons and Corrections, Prison Pedagogy, Global Political Economy, Transnational Migration, Urban Studies
- Graduate Student
Race and ethnicity; International migration; Political sociology; Nation and nationalism; Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; Comparative and historical methods; German studies
- Graduate Student
Gender, Intersectionality, Families, Latina/o/x Sociology, Qualitative Methods
- Graduate Student
Astrology as a Social Phenomenon, Gender and Masculinities, Sociology of Science, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Fun
