Tenure-Track Faculty
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Shweta Adur
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Connecticut
Phone: 323-343-2296
Email: [email protected]
Gender, Sexuality, Immigration, Asians/Asian Americans, Human Rights, Qualitative Methods
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Luoman Bao
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park
Phone: 323-343-2215
Email: [email protected]
Aging and Health, Family and Life Course, Gender, Inequality, Demography
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Bradley Campbell
Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Phone: 323-343-2218
Email: [email protected]
Criminology, Law and Society, Historical Comparative Sociology
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Wai Kit Choi
Professor
Ph.D. UC Irvine
Phone: 323-343-2214
Email: [email protected]
Critical Theory, Political Economy, Labor, Historical Society
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Katie Dingeman
Associate Professor
Ph.D. UC Irvine
Phone: 323-343-2210
Email: [email protected]
Migration, Borders/Citizenship, Detention/Deportation, Human Rights
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Kristen Discola
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Ph.D. SUNY Albany
Phone: 323-343-2211
Email: [email protected]
Social Psychology, Emotions, Criminology, Qualitative Methods
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Elaine Draper
Professor
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, J.D. UCLA
Phone: 323-343-2299
Email: [email protected]
Law and Society, Environment and Technology, Bioethics and Medical Sociology, Work and Organizations
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Louis Esparza
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Phone: 323-343-6348
Email: [email protected]
Historical-Comparative Sociology, Social Movements, Human Rights, Latin American Studies
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Gabriela Fried Amilivia
Professor
Ph.D. UCLA
Phone: 323-343-6349
Email: [email protected]
Cultural and Political Sociology, Human Rights, Political Transitions, Social Memory, Latin American Studies
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Roseann Giarrusso
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D. UCLA
Phone: 323-343-2200
Email: [email protected]
Aging and Life Course, Family, and Intergenerational Relations, Quantitative Methods, Social Pscyhology
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Analena Hope Hassberg
Associate Professor
Ph.D. American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
Race & Ethnicity, Food & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Gentrification, Community Health & Wellness
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Hyojoung Kim
Professor
Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill
Phone: 323-343-5768
Email: [email protected]
Political Sociology; Social Movements; Rational Choice
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Libby Lewis
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Phone: 323-343-2211
Email: [email protected]
Social Philosophy, Race and Ethnicity, Human Sexuality, Sociology of Media and Culture, Ethnography.
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Luis F. Nuño
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. New School for Social Research
Phone: 323-343-2209
Email: [email protected]
Urban Sociology, Social Control, Deviant Behavior, Latina/o Sociology
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William E. Rosales
Associate Professor
Ph.D. UCLA, J.D. University of Wisconsin
Phone: 323-343-2210
Email: [email protected]
Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Social Stratification, Deviance/Crime, Law and Society
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Tanya Sanabria
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. UC Irvine
Phone: 323-343-2216
Email: [email protected]
Sociology of Education, Social Inequality, Quantitative Methods
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Vanessa Stout
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin
Race & Ethnicity, African Diaspora, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Popular Culture
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Molly Talcott
Professor
Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara
Email: [email protected]
Abolition, antiracist feminism, climate justice, labor & social movements, research justice methodologies, radical social theory
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Robert Weide
Associate Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Radical Theory
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Zhe (Meredith) Zhang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Email: [email protected]
Health Disparities, Family, Gender & Sexuality, Life Course & Aging, Quantitative Methods
Lecturers
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Mohammed Abdelhamid
M.A. Psychology, Cal State LA
Email: [email protected]
Statistics, Research Methods, Intimate Relations
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Julie Albright
Ph.D. Sociology and Clinical MFT, USC.
Email: [email protected]
Marriage and Family, Culture and Communications, Technology and Society, Human Sexuality
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Dinur Blum
Ph.D. UC Riverside
Email: d[email protected]
Social Control, Law/Crim/Deviance, Culture, Higher Education, Qualitative Research
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Victor Corona
Ph.D. Columbia University.
Email: [email protected]
Sociology of Culture, Urban Sociology, Gender and Sexuality, Ethnography
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Geraldine Date
M.S. Gerontology and M.S.W., USC
Email: [email protected]
Aging and Social Gerontology, Community, Social Welfare/Social Work, Mental Health
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Rick Fraser
Ph.D. Sociology and Clinical M.F.T., USC
M. Div., Fuller Theological Seminary
Phone: 323-343-6352
Email: [email protected]
Marriage and Family, Religion, Organizations
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Gilbert Garcia
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Riverside
Email: [email protected]
Social Inequality, Race Ethnic Relations, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
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Ruzanna Karmiryan
M.A., Sociology, Cal State LA
Email: [email protected]
Emotions, Socialization, Family, Children and Youth, Aging/Social Gerontology, Race/Class/Gender
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Soo Mee Kim
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Email: s[email protected]
Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Immigration, Globalization/Transnsociology, Asian American Studies, Visual Sociology
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Theodoric Manley
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Email: [email protected]
Urban and Community Studies, Social Policy, Intergroup Relations
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Michael McKail
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Riverside
Email: [email protected]
Race/Gender/Class Inequality, Social Theory, Political Economy
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Marcellino J. Morales
Ph.D. Education, University of La Verne
Email: [email protected]
Human Sexuality, Inequality, Social Psychology
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Charity Perry
Ph.D., M.F.T., University of Louisiana Monroe
Email: [email protected]
Family Relations, Gender, Domestic Violence
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Dmitri Seals
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Email: [email protected]
Intersectional Studies, Race, Class and Gender, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Mixed Methods, Social Theory
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Melanie Stagnaro
Ph.D. University of Florida
Phone: 323-343-2028
Email: [email protected]
Aging and Life Course, Quantitative Methods, Gender
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Jeffrey D. Stone
Ph.D. Public Health UCLA
Email: [email protected]
Psychiatric Epidemiology, Medical Sociology, Survey Research, Evaluation Research, Statistics
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Gunnar Valgeirsson
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University
Phone: 323-343-2212
Email: [email protected]
Class/Race/Gender, Sociology of Sport, Violence in American Society, Drug Use and Public Policy
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Carin Wong
Ph.D. Occupational Science, USC
Email: [email protected]
Gerontology, Health Services, Long-Term Care
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Michelle Ysais
Emeritus Faculty
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Bernard Berk
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Deviance, Sociological Theory, Macro-Micro Integration
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Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte
Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 323-343-2212
Email: [email protected]
Evaluation and Applied Research, Social Psychology, Sociology of Media and Culture
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Steven L. Gordon
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. UCLA
Sociology of Emotions, Social Psychology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
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Janet Lever
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Yale University
Sociology of Gender, Human Sexuality, Alternative Family Forms
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Ron Tsukashima
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. UCLA
Race and Ethnic Relations, Urban Sociology, Asian-American Studies.