Sociology
2012-13 General Catalog
226 College Eight
(831) 459-4306
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 water and markets, global inequality, South Asia and East Africa, political economy, sustainable development
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 social change
William H. Friedland, Emeritus
Hiroshi Fukurai
Race and law, citizen participation in law, indigenous approach to international law, decolonialism, Japan and East Asia, advanced quantitative methods, survey 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 of development, globalization, labor and work; logics of methodology; religion and social movements; Islamic society and identities; information and networks
Dennis C. McElrath , Emeritus
Marcia Millman
Social psychology, the family, sociology of emotions, field research methods, sociology of medicine
James R. O’Connor , Emeritus
Craig Reinarman
Political sociology; law, crime, and social justice; drugs and society
Pamela Ann Roby, Emerita
Dana Y. Takagi
Social inequality, affect, religion, race, quantitative analysis
Candace West
Language and social interaction, sex and gender, conversation analysis
Associate Professor
Julie Bettie
Cultural studies and popular culture; gender, sexuality, and cultural politics; race/ethnicty, class, and cultural politics; critical ethnography
Deborah Gould
Political emotion; social movements and contentious politics; classic and contemporary social theory; sexualities; lesbian/gay/queer studies; feminist and queer theory
Miriam Greenberg
Urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, political economy, and globalization
Steven McKay
Work; technology and labor markets; globalization and social change; race, ethnicity and migration; political sociology; ethnography/qualitative methods
Jennifer E. Reardon
Science studies; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; feminist theory; race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class; biology and society
Helen Shapiro
Political economy, Latin American economic history and development (with an emphasis on Brazil), industrial policy, the auto industry, the state and transnational corporations
Lecturer
Francesca Guerra
Social justice, race and ethnicity, poverty, deviance, history of eugenics, disability rights, media, statistics and research methods
Wendy Martyna
Social psychology, death and dying, gender, social change, family and youth, language and society
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Professor
Barbara L. Epstein (History of Consciousness)
Social movements and theories of social movements, 20th-century U.S. politics and culture, Marxism and related theories of social change
Nancy Stoller, Emerita (Community Studies)
Andrew Szasz (Environmental Studies)
Environmental sociology (environmental movements, policy, environmental justice); theory
Mark Traugott (History)
Social and economic history, 19th-century France, French revolutions, European working class, historical methods, workers’ autobiographies
David Wellman, Emeritus (Community Studies)
Working-class culture, American ethnic and racial diversity, social documentary studies, critical race theory, interrogations of whiteness, and qualitative research methods
Associate Professor
Julie Guthman (Social Sciences)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography
Assistant Professor
Sylvanna Falcón (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Human rights, racism/antiracism, globalization, gender, transnational feminism, Latin America (Mexico, Peru), United States
Shannon Gleeson (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Migrant populations, the effects of documentation status, labor rights, civic engagement, inequality & stratification, political sociology, law & society, mixed methods & comparative approaches
Revised: 8/31/12
