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Sociology

Department of Sociology
Division of Social Sciences
Social Sciences and Media Studies 3005
Telephone: (805) 893-3118
Undergraduate e-mail: ugrad-soc@soc.ucsb.edu
Graduate e-mail: grad-soc@soc.ucsb.edu
Website: www.soc.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Lisa Hajjar


 
Faculty
Kevin Anderson, PhD, City University of New York, Professor (social and political theory; class, race, gender & sexuality theory; cultural and religious studies; development and social change; Middle Eastern studies; criminological theory)
Erika Arenas Velazquez, Assistant Professor (Migration, social stratification based on skin color, and the effect of social programs on socio-economic and demographic outcomes)
Janice Baldwin, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Senior Lecturer (human sexuality, gender, AIDS)
John Baldwin, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Professor (G. H. Mead, human sexuality, socialization, capitalism, micro-macro synthesis)
Jean Beaman, Associate Professor (Race, Ethnicity, Nation; International migration; Urban Sociology; Culture; Ethnography/Qualitative Methodology)
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, PhD, Cambridge University, Professor (development studies and gender; cultural studies; feminist studies; methodology; critical social psychology)
Tristan Bridges, Associate Professor (Gender, Sexualities, Masculinities, Families, Cultural Sociology, Inequalities, Qualitative Methods)
Maria Charles, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (gender, social inequality, cross-national comparative sociology)
Raymond Clemencon, PhD, University of Zurich, Continuing Senior Lecturer (International and comparative environmental politics, sustainable development, international organizations, political economy, European Integration)
Waverly Duck, Professor
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (cultural sociology and history, French social theory, politics and aesthetics, fascism)
John Foran, PhD, UC Berkeley, 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)
Lisa Hajjar, PhD, The American University, Professor (human rights, international humanitarian law, war and conflict, torture, Israel/Palestine, US policy in the Middle East)
Dana Kornberg, Assistant Professor (Environmental politics, urban sociology, economic sociology, global/comparative sociology, ethnography, South Asia)
Yader Lanuza, Assistant Professor ((im)migration, race & ethnicity, education, family, culture, punishment)
Jessica Lopez Espino, Assistant Professor
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, PhD, University of Nijmegen, Professor (globalization, development studies, global political economy, cultural studies, emerging societies, ethnicity, multiculturalism, future studies) Joint Appointment: GLOBL
Elena Raymond, Lecturer SOE
Geoffrey Raymond, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, interaction in institutional settings, social theory, medical sociology, sociology of science and technology; qualitative research methods)
Victor Rios, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (urban ethnography, juvenile justice, Latino sociology)
William Robinson, PhD, University of New Mexico, Professor (globalization, development, political economy, macrosociology, political sociology, Latin America, migration/immigration, Latino/a studies)
Denise Segura, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (Chicana and Chicano Studies, feminist studies, gender, family, work, race-ethnic relations, education)
Tagart Sobotka, Lecturer Potential SOE
Catherine Taylor, Associate Professor (Gender, work, health, social psychology, and social inequality)
Sarah Thebaud, PhD, Cornell University, Professor (gender, families, social psychology, economic sociology, organizations, work)
Tara Tober, Lecturer SOE
France Winddance Twine, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (The Body, Ethnography, Intimacy, Privilege, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Visual Sociology, Comparative Racial Studies (Europe/US/South Africa))
Kevin Whitehead, Associate Professor (ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; interactions in everyday life and in institutional settings; social categories and identities, particularly race and ethnicity; conflicts and violence in interactions)
Terrell Winder, Assistant Professor (Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Urban Sociology; Social Psychology; Education; Qualitative Methodology; Medical Sociology; Mixed Methodology)
Hannah Wohl, Associate Professor (Aesthetic judgment; Art; Culture; Markets; Valuation; Knowledge; Gender and Sexuality; Sociological Theory; Qualitative methods.)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Richard Appelbaum, PhD, University of Chicago Joint Appointment: GLOBL
Denise Bielby, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
William Bielby, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Jon Cruz, PhD, UC Berkeley
Sarah Fenstermaker, PhD, Northwestern University
Sethard Fisher, PhD, UC Berkeley
Richard Flacks, PhD, University of Michigan
Morris Friedell, PhD, University of Chicago
Noah Friedkin, PhD, University of Chicago
Roger Friedland, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison Joint Appointment: RELST
Avery Gordon, PhD, Boston College
Mark Juergensmeyer, PhD, UC Berkeley Joint Appointment: GLOBL
Gene Lerner, PhD, UC Irvine
George Lipsitz, PhD, University of Wisconsin Joint Appointment: BLKST
Fernando Lopez-Alves, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Harvey Molotch, PhD, University of Chicago
Ilene Nagel, PhD, New York University
Melvin Oliver, PhD, Washington University
Belinda Robnett
Thomas Scheff, PhD, UC Berkeley
Beth Schneider, PhD, University of Massachusetts
Gary Schulman, PhD, Stanford University
Tamotsu Shibutani
Bruce Straits, PhD, University of Chicago
John Sutton, PhD, UC Davis
Verta Taylor, PhD, Ohio State University
Thomas Wilson, PhD, Columbia University
Howard Winant, PhD, UC Santa Cruz
Raymond Wong, PhD, Louisiana State University
Don Zimmerman, PhD, UC Los Angeles

 
Affiliated Faculty
Liz Ackert, PhD (Geography)
Paul Amar, PhD (Global Studies)
Ralph Armbruster, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Charmaine Chua, PhD (Global Studies)
Laury Oaks, PhD (Feminist Studies)
John Park, PhD (Asian American Studies)
Lisa Park, PhD (Asian American Studies)
David Pellow, PhD (Environmental Studies)
Simone Pulver, PhD (Environmental Studies)
Leila Rupp, PhD (Feminist Studies)