People
Faculty
- Distinguished 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
- Department Vice Chair
Gender, Sexualities, Masculinities, Families, Cultural Sociology, Inequalities, Qualitative Methods
- SSMS 3320 Faculty Office
- SSMS 3314 Men & Masculinities Journal
- Professor
Gender, Inequalities, Global and Transnational Sociology, Work, Education, Demography
- Professor
- North Hall Endowed Chair
Urban Sociology, Ethnography and Ethnomethodology, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Health Disparities, Criminology, Inequality and Social Justice, Theories of the Interaction Order
- 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
- Department Chair
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.
- Assistant Professor
Environmental politics, urban sociology, economic sociology, global/comparative sociology, ethnography, South Asia
- Assistant Professor
(im)migration, race & ethnicity, education, family, culture, punishment
- Distinguished Professor
globalization, development studies, global political economy, cultural studies, emerging societies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, future studies
- Professor
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing
- Professor
Urban ethnography, juvenile justice, Latino sociology
- Distinguished Professor
Globalization, Global Political Economy, Political Sociology, Development, Latin America, Inequality, Crisis of Capitalism
- Professor
- Diversity Representative
Chicana and Chicano Studies, feminist studies, gender, family, work, race-ethnic relations, education
- Associate Teaching Professor
Sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and identity, gender identity, gender and migration, language and youth, youth culture and globalization
- Assistant Teaching Professor
Gender, social psychology, substance use / addiction, mixed methods
- Associate Professor
Gender, work, health, social psychology, and social inequality
- Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies
Gender, Organizations & Work, Social Psychology, Family, Social Inequality, Economic Sociology
- Associate Teaching Professor
Cultural Sociology, Collective Memory, Inequality, Comparative/Historical Sociology, Ireland
- Professor
Gender, Inequality, Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Race, Racism & Anti-Racism, Work and Organizations, Visual Sociology
- Associate Professor
Race and racism; social categories and identities; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; interactions in conversational and institutional settings; conflicts and violence in interactions
- Assistant Professor
Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Urban Sociology; Social Psychology; Education; Qualitative Methodology; Medical Sociology; Mixed Methodology
- Associate Professor
Creative industries, culture, markets, valuation, sociological theory, ethnography
Lecturers
- Senior Lecturer
Global environmental governance, climate change, sustainable development, political economy, international organizations and governance
- Lecturer
Urban sociology, environmental sociology, political economy, race and ethnicity
- Lecturer
Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, medical sociology, social theory
Emeriti Faculty
- Emeritus
- Distinguished Professor
World-system theory; global production and labor; science, technology, and society
- Emeritus
- Distinguished Professor
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
Social Networks, Influence Systems, Social Psychology, Complex Organizations
- 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
- Emeritus
- Distinguished Professor
Specializes in the global dimensions of religion in public life, South Asian religion and society, religious violence, neo-nationalism, and conflict resolution
- 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
Race, ethnicity, nation, class, wealth inequality
- Professor Emeritus
Race and Ethnicity, African American Experience, Race/Class/Gender, Social Stratification, Social Movements, Social Change, Family, Inequality
- Professor Emeritus
Sexuality, feminist and gender studies, social movements, health/AIDS, lesbian/gay studies
- Professor Emeritus
Organizations, law, crime and punishment, comparative sociology, culture
- Emeritus
- Distinguished Professor
social movements, gender, sexuality, culture, health and mental health
- Professor Emeritus
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
- Emeritus
- Distinguished Professor
race and racism, political sociology, comparative/historical sociology, social theory
- Professor Emeritus
Social stratification, comparative sociology, methods and statistics, sociology of economic change, demography
Affiliated Faculty
- Affiliated Faculty
- Geography
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.
- Affiliated Faculty
- Global Studies
- 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
- Chicano Studies
Race, labor, empire, social movements, urban studies, Latin American studies, Central America, Marxism, liberation theology
- Affiliated Faculty
- History
Sociocultural Anthropology (South Asia, social theory, nationalism, religion, cultural studies, feminist theory, public memory)
- Affiliated Faculty
- Anthropology
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
- Global Studies
Global political economy of urbanization, ecology and agrarian change, with a focus on post-colonial Africa
- Affiliated Faculty
- Feminist Studies
Sexual and reproductive politics; health advocacy movements; feminist analysis of public health, medicine and science; qualitative research methods
- Affiliated Faculty
- Asian American Studies
Ph. D, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law.
- Affiliated Faculty
- Asian American Studies
- Affiliated Faculty
- Environmental Studies
Environmental Justice Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Change, and Social Movements
- Affiliated Faculty
- Environmental Studies
- Affiliated Faculty
- Feminist Studies
Women's Movements,
Sexualities,
Transnational History
Visiting Faculty
- UC Presidential Postdoc Fellow
Sociology of police vision and racialization; media studies; feminist film theory and visual culture; Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) social movements; science and technology studies (STS); performance ethnography
- Visiting Scholar
Globalization Studies, Turkish Politics, History of Economic Thought and Analysis
- Visiting Scholar
Conversation Analysis, Doctor-Patient Interaction, Pragmatics
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
- Graduate Program Advisor
- Oversees the graduate program
- Provides administrative counseling to current and prospective graduate students
- Handles payroll for TAs and Associates
- Undergraduate Advisor
- Provides counseling to Sociology majors and prospective majors
- Assists with curriculum planning and course development
- 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.
- Peer Advisor
Simiao He (何 思邈) is a third-year undergraduate student at UCSB, currently pursuing a double major in Sociology and Psych & Brain Sciences. As an international student from China, Simiao can provide advising for international and exchange students. She is also happy to assist with academic planning for students who intend to double major.
- Office Assistant
- Issues SSMS room and mailbox keys
- Orders supplies
- Handles mail distribution
- 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
Graduate Students
- Graduate Student
Education; Health; Inequality and Regeneration; Rural, Suburban, and Urban Sociology; Ethnography; Community-Engaged Research
- Graduate Student
Gender and work, occupational segregation, women in STEM, demography
- Graduate Student
Aesthetics, Political Culture, Feminist Theories and Activism, Central America
- Graduate Student
Sociology of Gender; U.S. Gender History; Feminist Epistemology; Intersectionality; Social Movements; Cultural Sociology; Memory and Memorialization
- Graduate Student
Gender, social movements, race and racism, criminology, violence, critical theory, participatory research
- Graduate Student
Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Energy Democracy, STS
- Graduate Student
Culture, popular culture, play, fandom/audience studies
- Graduate Student
LGBTQ+ Inequalities, Health Equity and Policy, Survey Research Methods, Gender, Education, Science and Technology
- Graduate Student
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing, Criminology, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Data Studies
- Graduate Student
Environmental Sociology. Relational Sociology. Decolonial Theory. Multispecies Studies. Agroecology.
- Graduate Student
Gender, sexuality, feminist theory, queer theory, intersectionality, social psychology, qualitative & mixed methods, narrative analysis
- Graduate Student
Migration, mobilities, gender & sexuality, race & ethnicity, Central America, postcolonial feminist theory
- Graduate Student
Migration, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Globalization
- Graduate Student
Legal theory and praxis; sociology of law; social movements; application of dialectical methodology to real-world issues (e.g., law, racism, climate change)
- Graduate Student
Policing; State Violence; Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class; Critical Criminology; Qualitative Research Methods
- Graduate Student
Gender, Sexuality, Friendship, Masculinities, Culture, Social Psychology, Feminist Theory
- Graduate Student
Masculinity, heterosexuality, media, science and technology studies, sociology of cultures, digital games, affective networks
- Graduate Student
Medical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Culture, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Wealth & Inequality.
- Graduate Student
Education, Organizations, Gender, Labor, Policy
- Graduate Student
Social Inequalities, Latinx Sociology, Youth and Adolescence, Masculinity, and Education.
- Graduate Student
Race, Social Movements, Gender, Asian American Studies
- Graduate Student
Health, immigration, race, social inequalities.
- Graduate Student
Historical political sociology, contentious politics, antimining struggles, Andean and Latin American politics, Marxism, indigenous socialism.
- Graduate Student
race and ethnicity, migration, national identity, citizenship
- Graduate Student
Race and ethnicity, South Asian identity, cultural sociology, transnationalism
- Graduate Student
Carceral Systems; Policing; Race, Class and Gender, Asian American Studies; Critical Ethnic Studies
- Graduate Student
Feminist theories, international migration, political economy, and citizenship studies.
- Graduate Student
Critical Theory, Latino Cultural Studies, Social Theory
- Graduate Student
Race and Caste Intersections; Intersectionality; South Asia; South Asian Diaspora
- Graduate Student
Sexualities, Gender, Masculinity, Sex/Gender-Based Violence, Qualitative Methods, Inequalities
- Graduate Student
gender, masculinities, race, Asian Americans, identity, culture, emerging adulthood
- Graduate Student
Gender and Sexuality, Masculinities, Violence, Dating and Intimacy, Privilege, Elites, Culture, Reproductive Health
- Graduate Student
Astrology as a Social Phenomenon, Masculinities and Gender, Stigma, Culture.
- Graduate Student
Gender, Sexuality, Masculinities, (Im)migration, China
- Graduate Student
Conversation analysis, Mandarin talk-in-interaction, conversational repair
Graduate Students on the Job Market
- Graduate Student
Gender, social movements, race and racism, criminology, violence, critical theory, participatory research
- Graduate Student
Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Energy Democracy, STS
- Graduate Student
Culture, popular culture, play, fandom/audience studies
- Graduate Student
LGBTQ+ Inequalities, Health Equity and Policy, Survey Research Methods, Gender, Education, Science and Technology
- Graduate Student
Migration, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Globalization
- Graduate Student
Medical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Culture, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Wealth & Inequality.
- Graduate Student
Sexualities, Gender, Masculinity, Sex/Gender-Based Violence, Qualitative Methods, Inequalities