Edwin Amenta
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1989

  • political sociology, historical and comparative sociology, social movements, social policy, media, and American political development

  •  4101 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6800

  • ea3@uci.edu
Richard Arum
  • Professor of Sociology

  • socialization, social stratification, organizations, out-of-school development, technology, policy

  •  4169 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-2534

  • richard.arum@uci.edu
  • Website
Stanley R. Bailey
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002

  • race and ethnicity, religion, immigration, latin america

  •  4177 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6800

  • bailey@uci.edu
  • Website
Nina Bandelj
  • Chancellor's Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003

  • economic sociology, culture, organizations, globalization, social networks, political economy, globalization, central and eastern europe

  •  4263 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8872

  • nbandelj@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Asia Bento
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology; Dean's Fellow
    Ph.D., Rice University, 2022

  • race, ethnicity, inequality, economic sociology

  •  4259 Social Science Plaza B

  • abento@uci.edu
Carter Butts
  • Chancellor's Professor of Sociology; Co-Director of Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

  • mathematical sociology, social networks, quantitative methodology, human judgment and decision making, economic sociology

  •  2145 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-8591

  • buttsc@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Emily Carian
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching of Sociology; Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2019

  • gender inequality, masculinity, male supremacism

  •  4231 Social Science Plaza B

  • cariane@uci.edu
  • Website
Sherelle Ferguson
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2021

  • education, race and ethnicity, social stratification, social capital and social networks, qualitative methods

  •  4257 Social Science Plaza B

  • sherellf@uci.edu
Kelley Fong
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2020

  • poverty, inequality, social policy, children and youth, education, family life

  •  4189 Social Science Plaza B

  • kelley.fong@uci.edu
  • Website
David John Frank
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

  • globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

  •  4107 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-1117

  • frankd@uci.edu
  • Website
Rachel Goldberg
  • Associate Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Brown University, 2012

  • health, social demography, family, children and youth, gender, migration

  •  4289 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-9683

  • goldber1@uci.edu
Paul Hanselman
  • Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of DASA
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014

  • stratification/inequality, education, quantitative methods, treatment effect heterogeneity, data visualization

  •  4251 Social Science Plaza B

  • paul.hanselman@uci.edu
  • Website
Ann Hironaka
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998

  • political sociology, war and peace, environmental sociology, ethnic and racial conflict

  •  4269 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6800

  • hironaka@uci.edu
  • Website
Matt Huffman
  • Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean, Student Programs
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997

  • inequality, organizations, work and employment, social demography

  •  4229 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6460

  • mhuffman@uci.edu
  • Website
Julia C. Lerch
  • Associate Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford, 2017

  • Sociology of education, global and transnational sociology, education and citizenship, higher education, refugees and humanitarian emergencies, international organizations, globalization

  •  4145 Social Science Plaza A

  • lerchj@uci.edu
  • Website
Mirian Martinez-Aranda
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

  • international migration, immigration detention, law and society, race and ethnicity

  •  4223 Social Science Plaza B

  • miriangm@uci.edu
David S. Meyer
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Boston University, 1988

  • social movements, public policy, peace and war, social justice

  •  4207 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1475

  • dmeyer@uci.edu
Andrew Penner
  • Professor of Sociology; Co-Director of Graduate Studies; Director of CADA
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008

  • education, inequality, gender, race, family

  •  4181 Social Science Plaza A

  • penner@uci.edu
  • Website
Francesca Polletta
  • Chancellor's Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology
    Ph.D., Yale University, 1994

  • social movements, democracy, culture, sociology of law, political sociology, social theory

  •  4183 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6800

  • polletta@uci.edu
  • Website
Rocío Rosales
  • Inclusive Excellence Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2012

  • international migration, immigrant and ethnic economies, urban sociology, qualitative methods, ethnography, latino/a studies, race and ethnicity, immigrant detention

  •  4109 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-5859

  • r.rosales@uci.edu
  • Website
Evan Schofer
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999

  • comparative political sociology, sociology of education, quantitative methods and statistics, globalization, sociology of the environment, organizations, sociology of science

  •  4271 Social Science Plaza B

  • schofer@uci.edu
  • Website
David A. Smith
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984

  • world systems analysis, urbanization, development, comparative-historical sociology, dependent development in east asia

  •  4265 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-7292

  • dasmith@uci.edu
Yang Su
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

  • social movements and collective action, political sociology, china's political transition

  •  4279 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6800

  • su.yang@uci.edu
  • Website
Edward E. Telles
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D.,  University of Texas at Austin,  1988

  • immigration, race, ethnicity, latin america, latinos

  •  4171 Social Science Plaza A | (949) 824-6800

  • e.telles@uci.edu
  • Website
Kristin Turney
  • Dean's Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009

  • social inequality; family demography; population health; incarceration and punishment; intergenerational transmission of disadvantage; child wellbeing

  •  4283 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8846

  • kristin.turney@uci.edu
  • Website
Irene Vega
  • Associate Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

  • international migration, racial group formation, socio-legal studies, educational inequality

  • ivega@uci.edu
  • Website
Feng Wang
  • Distinguished Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D.. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1987

  • contemporary demographic, economic, and social processes, social inequality in state socialisms, contemporary china

  •  4285 Social Science Plaza B

  • fwang@uci.edu
  • Website