People
Faculty
Social and political theory, history of social thought, Africa and the Middle East, Sociology and Politics of Crime and Law
Migration, social stratification based on skin color, and the effect of social programs on socio-economic and demographic outcomes
G. H. Mead, human sexuality, socialization, capitalism, micro-macro synthesis
Race, Ethnicity, Nation; International migration; Urban Sociology; Culture; Ethnography/Qualitative Methodology
Gender, Sexualities, Masculinities, Families, Cultural Sociology, Inequalities, Qualitative Methods
- SSMS 3320 Faculty Office
- SSMS 3314 Men & Masculinities Journal
Gender, Inequalities, Work, Education, Global and Transnational Sociology, Demography
Urban Sociology, Ethnography and Ethnomethodology, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Health Disparities, Criminology, Inequality and Social Justice, Theories of the Interaction Order
Culture, Social Theory, Sociology of Knowledge
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.
Native American and Indigenous Studies; Sociology of Education, Sociology of Race; Critical Mixed Race Studies; Two-Spirit, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Medical Sociology, Public Health and HIV; Research Justice, CBPR and Indigenous Methodologies; Decolonial Education; Queer Indigenous Knowledges; Creole, Black, Latinx and Comparative Critical Ethnic Studies
Environmental politics, urban sociology, economic sociology, global/comparative sociology, ethnography, South Asia
(im)migration, race & ethnicity, education, family, culture, punishment
Law and society, language and discourse, child welfare law, racialization, ethnography
globalization, development studies, global political economy, cultural studies, emerging societies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, future studies
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing
Urban ethnography, juvenile justice, Latino sociology
Globalization, Global Political Economy, Political Sociology, Development, Latin America, Inequality, Crisis of Capitalism
Chicana and Chicano Studies, feminist studies, gender, family, work, race-ethnic relations, education
Sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and identity, gender identity, gender and migration, language and youth, youth culture and globalization
Gender, social psychology, substance use / addiction, mixed methods
gender, globalization, migration, theory, qualitative methods
Gender, work, health, social psychology, and social inequality
Gender, Organizations & Work, Social Psychology, Family, Social Inequality, Economic Sociology
Cultural Sociology, Collective Memory, Inequality, Comparative/Historical Sociology, Ireland
Gender, Inequality, Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Race, Racism & Anti-Racism, Work and Organizations, Visual Sociology
Race and racism; social categories and identities; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; interactions in conversational and institutional settings; conflicts and violence in interactions
Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Urban Sociology; Social Psychology; Education; Qualitative Methodology; Medical Sociology; Mixed Methodology
Creative industries, culture, markets, valuation, sociological theory, ethnography
Lecturers
Global environmental governance, climate change, sustainable development, political economy, international organizations and governance
Social Movements, Political Parties, Labor Movement, Political Sociology, Political Theory
Her research interests include Mexican/Chicano Gang Culture, Mass Incarceration, Third World & Indigenous Qualitative Research Methods, U.S. (Settler) Colonialism, Police Use of Lethal Force, and Prison/Police Abolition.
Urban sociology, environmental sociology, political economy, race and ethnicity
Globalization Studies, Turkish Politics, History of Economic Thought and Analysis
Social theory, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, health and medicine, race and ethnicity, culture
In Memoriam
Race and ethnic relations, critical mixed race studies, comparative race and culture, comparative and historical sociology.
Complex Organizations, Computational Sociology, Content Analysis/Text-Mining, Historical/Comparative Methods, Network Science, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Science, Sociological Theory.
Emeriti Faculty
World-system theory; global production and labor; science, technology, and society
Culture, gender, work, and social psychology/life-course
Organizational inequality, workplace discrimination, media & popular culture.
Work and gender, feminist inquiry, feminist theory, research methods
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
Social Networks, Influence Systems, Social Psychology, Complex Organizations
Cultural theory; architecture; religious nationalism; institutional theory; space, time and social theory
Social theory, radical thought and practice, militarism, imprisonment, art and literature
Specializes in the global dimensions of religion in public life, South Asian religion and society, religious violence, neo-nationalism, and conflict resolution
conversation analysis, social life of very young children, social aspects of syntax
Race, Culture and Social identities, 20th-century U.S. history, urban history and culture, social movements
Comparative historical sociology, comparative politics, globalization. Latin American politics, organized labor
Race, ethnicity, nation, class, wealth inequality
Race and Ethnicity, African American Experience, Race/Class/Gender, Social Stratification, Social Movements, Social Change, Family, Inequality
Sexuality, feminist and gender studies, social movements, health/AIDS, lesbian/gay studies
Organizations, law, crime and punishment, comparative sociology, culture
social movements, gender, sexuality, culture, health and mental health
Interpersonal Processes, Status and Roles, Sociology of Emotions, Social Psychology, History of Sociological Theory, Philosophy of Science, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Change, Theory Construction, Comparative Institutions, Social Stratification and Inequality, Historical Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, Human Social Ecology, Human and Societal Evolution, Evolutionary Sociology, Neuro-sociology, Modeling of Social Processes
race and racism, political sociology, comparative/historical sociology, social theory
Social stratification, comparative sociology, methods and statistics, sociology of economic change, demography
Affiliated Faculty
Professor Ackert's research interests include racial/ethnic inequality, immigration, education, health disparities, urban geography, and quantitative methods. Her work examines explanations for why racial/ethnic and immigrant-origin groups are unequally distributed across contexts– including schools, neighborhoods, and immigrant destinations– and evaluates the consequences of this contextual inequality for disparities in outcomes in domains such as education, residential mobility, and health. Dr. Ackert is particularly interested in understanding how the attributes of immigrant-receiving contexts, including states, communities, neighborhoods, and schools, influence the educational and health outcomes of children and adolescents of Mexican origin.
- 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
Race, labor, empire, social movements, urban studies, Latin American studies, Central America, Marxism, liberation theology
Sociocultural Anthropology (South Asia, social theory, nationalism, religion, cultural studies, feminist theory, public memory)
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)
Global political economy of urbanization, ecology and agrarian change, with a focus on post-colonial Africa
Sexual and reproductive politics; health advocacy movements; feminist analysis of public health, medicine and science; qualitative research methods
Ph. D, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law.
Environmental Justice Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Change, and Social Movements
Women's Movements,
Sexualities,
Transnational History
Visiting Faculty
Globalization Studies, Turkish Politics, History of Economic Thought and Analysis
Staff
- 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
- Oversees the graduate program
- Provides administrative counseling to current and prospective graduate students
- Handles payroll for TAs and Associates
- Provides counseling to Sociology majors and prospective majors
- Assists with curriculum planning and course development
- 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.
- Issues SSMS room and mailbox keys
- Orders supplies
- Handles mail distribution
- Balances department monthly ledgers and tracks faculty research expenditures
- Processes reimbursements, invoices, and contracts
- Hires student assistants and readers and addresses payroll questions
- Provides counseling to Sociology majors and prospective majors
- Assists with curriculum planning and course development
Graduate Students
Race, Multiracial Identity, Gender & Masculinities, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Science, Religion and Spirituality
Education; Health; Inequality and Regeneration; Rural, Suburban, and Urban Sociology; Ethnography; Community-Engaged Research
Gender, work and organizations, social psychology, quantitative methods
Aesthetics, Political Culture, Feminist Theories and Activism, Central America
Sociology of Gender; U.S. Gender History; Feminist Epistemology; Intersectionality; Social Movements; Cultural Sociology; Memory and Memorialization
Culture, popular culture, play, fandom/audience studies
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing, Criminology, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Data Studies
Environmental Sociology. Relational Sociology. Decolonial Theory. Multispecies Studies. Agroecology.
Gender, sexuality, race, culture, work, social psychology, mixed methods
Migration, mobilities, gender & sexuality, race & ethnicity, Central America, postcolonial feminist theory
Legal theory and praxis; sociology of law; social movements; application of dialectical methodology to real-world issues (e.g., law, racism, climate change)
Policing; State Violence; Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class; Critical Criminology; Qualitative Research Methods
Gender, Sexuality, Friendship, Masculinities, Culture, Social Psychology, Feminist Theory
Sexualities, gender, race, stigma, identity
Masculinity, heterosexuality, media, science and technology studies, sociology of cultures, digital games, affective networks
Palestine, Middle East, environmental justice, colonialism, indigeneity, media
Education, Organizations, Gender, Labor, Policy
Social Inequalities, Latinx Sociology, Youth and Adolescence, Masculinity, and Education.
Race, Social Movements, Gender, Asian American Studies
Family Formation, Diverse Family Structure, Social Demography, Gender and Sexuality, Mental Health, Ex/Inclusive Policies and Impact
Culture, economic sociology, sociology of art
Health, immigration, race, social inequalities.
Historical political sociology, contentious politics, antimining struggles, Andean and Latin American politics, Marxism, indigenous socialism, Political Economy, Antisystemic movements
race and ethnicity, migration, national identity, quantitative methods
Race and ethnicity, South Asian identity, cultural sociology, transnationalism
Race and Ethnicity, Intersectionality, Social Psychology, Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology
Global Political Economy, Theory of Integration and Capitalist Development in Vietnam, Theory of Globalization
Race, Class, and Gender; Policing and Incarceration; Asian American Studies; Culture; Ethnography; Abolitionist Praxis
Feminist theories, international migration, political economy, and citizenship studies.
Health, Ethnography, Social Theory, Latinx Sociology, Historical Methods
Chicana and Indígena Feminisms; Social Movements; Immigration; Education; Race, Ethnicity, Nation
State violence, law, militaries/militarism, race/ethnicity
Race and Caste Intersections; Intersectionality; South Asia; South Asian Diaspora
gender, masculinities, race, Asian Americans, identity, culture, emerging adulthood
Gender and Sexuality, Masculinities, Violence, Dating and Intimacy, Privilege, Elites, Culture, Reproductive Health
Gender and sexualities, men and masculinities, inequality, queer, (im)migration
Conversation analysis, Mandarin talk-in-interaction, conversational repair
Graduate Students on the Job Market
Race, Multiracial Identity, Gender & Masculinities, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Science, Religion and Spirituality
Culture, popular culture, play, fandom/audience studies
Migration, mobilities, gender & sexuality, race & ethnicity, Central America, postcolonial feminist theory
Historical political sociology, contentious politics, antimining struggles, Andean and Latin American politics, Marxism, indigenous socialism, Political Economy, Antisystemic movements
Global Political Economy, Theory of Integration and Capitalist Development in Vietnam, Theory of Globalization