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

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

  •  SSPA 4101 | 949-824-6800

  • ea3@uci.edu
  • CV
Richard Arum
  • Professor, Sociology and Education, UCI

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

  •  3231 Education | 949-824-2534

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

  • race and ethnicity, religion, immigration, latin america

  •  SSPA 4177 | 949-824-6800

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

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

  •  SSPB 4263 | 949-824-8872

  • nbandelj@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Asia Bento
  • Assistant Professor and Dean's Fellow
    Ph.D., Rice University 

  • race, ethnicity, inequality, economic sociology

  •  4259 Social Science Plaza B

  • abento@uci.edu
Carter Butts
  • Chancellor's Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

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

  •  SSPA 2145 | 949-824-8591

  • buttsc@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Emily Carian
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching & Director of Undergraduate Studies Honors Program

  • gender inequality, masculinity, male supremacism

  •  4231 Social Science Plaza B

  • cariane@uci.edu
  • Website
Sherelle Ferguson
  • Assistant Professor

  • 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

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

  •  4189 Social Science Plaza B

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

  • globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

  •  SSPA 4107 | 949-824-1117

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

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

  •  SSPB 4289 | 949-824-9683

  • goldber1@uci.edu
  • CV
Paul Hanselman
  • Assistant Professor, Sociology
     Ph.D.,  University of Wisconsin-Madison,  2014

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

  •  SSPB 4251

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

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

  •  SSPB 4269 | 949-824-6800

  • hironaka@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Matt Huffman
  • Professor & Undergraduate Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997

  • inequality, organizations, work and employment, social demography

  •  SSPB 4229 | 949-824-6460

  • mhuffman@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Julia C. Lerch
  • Assistant Professor
     Ph.D.,  Stanford, 2017

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

  •  SSPA 4145

  • lerchj@uci.edu
  • Website
David S. Meyer
  • Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Boston University, 1988

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

  •  SSPB 4207 | 949-824-1475

  • dmeyer@uci.edu
  • CV
Andrew Penner
  • Professor, Sociology and Director, CADA
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008

  • education, inequality, gender, race, family

  •  SSPA 4181

  • penner@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Francesca Polletta
  • Chancellor's Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Yale University, 1994

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

  •  SSPA 4183 | 949-824-6800

  • polletta@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Rocio Rosales
  • Inclusive Excellence Professor, Sociology, UCI
     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

  •  SSPA 4109 | 949-824-5859

  • r.rosales@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Rubén G. Rumbaut
  • Distinguished Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1978

  • international migration, immigration laws, criminalization, incarceration, social inequality and mobility, race and ethnicity

  •  SSPB 2293 | 949-824-2945

  • rrumbaut@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
David Schaefer
  • Professor, Sociology
     Ph.D., University of Arizona ,  2006

  • social networks, social psychology, criminology, health, adolescent development

  •  SSPB 4253 | 949-824-6245

  • drschaef@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Evan Schofer
  • Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999

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

  •  SSPB 4271 | 949-824-1397

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

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

  •  SSPB 5291 | 949-824-7292

  • dasmith@uci.edu
  • CV
Sabrina Strings
  • Chancellor's Fellow & Associate Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2012

  • race, gender, embodiment, sociology of medicine, sociology of media

  •  SSPB 4209 | 949-924-9745

  • sstrings@uci.edu
  • CV
Yang Su
  • Professor and Co-Graduate Director, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

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

  •  SSPB 4279 | 949-824-6800

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

  • immigration, race, ethnicity, latin america, latinos

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

  • e.telles@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Kristin Turney
  • Dean's Professor and Co-Graduate Director, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009

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

  •  SSPB 4283 | 949-824-8846

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

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

  •  SSPB 4275 | 949.824.5195

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

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

  •  SSPB 4285 | 949-824-1417

  • fwang@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

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