2011-12 General Catalog

226 College Eight
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http://sociology.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Dane Archer, Emeritus

John Brown Childs, Emeritus

Ben Crow
International development, sociology of waterand markets, global inequality, South Asia and East Africa, political economy, and green enterprise

E. Melanie DuPuis
Economic sociology, sociology of consumption,sociology of development, political sociology, sociology of the environment,technological change, historical sociology, social theory, food and socialchange

William H. Friedland, Emeritus

Hiroshi Fukurai
Global jury systems; deliberative democracy andlay participation in law; wrongful conviction and acquittal; advancedquantitative methods; survey and research

Walter L. Goldfrank,Emeritus

Herman S. Gray
Cultural studies, media and television studies,black cultural politics, social theory

Paul M. Lubeck
Political sociology; political economy ofdevelopment, globalization, labor and work; logics of methodology; religion andsocial movements; Islamic society and identities; information and networks

Dennis C. McElrath, Emeritus

Marcia Millman
Social psychology, the family, sociology ofemotions, field research methods, sociology of medicine

James R. O’Connor, Emeritus

Craig Reinarman
Political sociology; law, crime, and socialjustice; drugs and society

Pamela Ann Roby, Emerita

Dana Y. Takagi
Social inequality, affect, religion, race,quantitative analysis

Andrew Szasz
Environmental sociology (environmentalmovements, policy, environmental justice); theory

Candace West
Language and social interaction, sex andgender, conversation analysis, microanalysis and medicine, animals and society

Associate Professor

Julie Bettie
Cultural studies and popular culture;race/ethnicty, class, and cultural politics; gender, sexuality, and culturalpolitics; critical ethnography, autoethnography, and visual ethnography

Deborah Gould
Politicalemotion; social movements and contentious politics; classic and contemporarysocial theory; sexualities; lesbian/gay/queer studies; feminist and queertheory

Miriam Greenberg
Urban sociology, media studies, culturalstudies, political economy, and globalization

Steven McKay
Work; technology and labor markets; globalizationand social change; race, ethnicity and migration; political sociology;ethnography/qualitative methods

Jennifer E. Reardon
Issues of social identity as influenced by thenew sciences of genetics and genomics; intersection of the sociology of scienceand knowledge and the sociology of race, gender, and class

Helen Shapiro
Political economy, Latin American economichistory and development (with an emphasis on Brazil), industrial policy, theauto industry, the state and transnational corporations

Lecturer

Francesca Guerra
Comparative-historical sociology, race and ethnicity, social justice, poverty,law, crime, deviance, asylum and prison architecture, religious non-profits,history of eugenics, disability studies, mass media, oral history, andqualitative and quantitative research methods

Wendy Martyna
Social psychology, death and dying, gender,social change, family and youth

Professor

Barbara L. Epstein (History of Consciousness)
Social movements and theories of socialmovements, 20th-century U.S. politics and culture, Marxism and related theories of social change

Nancy Stoller, Emerita (Community Studies)

Mark Traugott (History)
Social and economic history, 19th-centuryFrance, French revolutions, European working class, historical methods,workers’ autobiographies

David Wellman, Emeritus (Community Studies)
Working-class culture, American ethnic andracial diversity, social documentary studies, critical race theory,interrogations of whiteness, and qualitative research methods

Associate Professor

Julie Guthman (Community Studies)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative foodmovements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics ofobesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography

Assistant Professor

Shannon Gleeson (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Migrant populations, the effects of documentation status, labor rights, civicengagement, inequality & stratification, political sociology, law &society, mixed methods & comparative approaches

Revised: 8/13/12