Sociology

2014-15 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, Emerita

William H. Friedland, Emeritus

Hiroshi Fukurai
Citizen participation in law, race and the 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, Emeritus

Dennis C. McElrath , Emeritus

Marcia Millman, Emerita

James R. O’Connor , Emeritus

Jennifer E. Reardon
Science studies; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; feminist theory; race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class; biology and society

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 theory and popular culture; race, gender, class, and cultural politics; sexuality and sex work; critical qualitative methodologies

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, globalization, and urban political ecology

Steven McKay
Work and labor markets; globalization and social change; political sociology; race; masculinity; migration; ethnography/qualitative methods

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

Professor

Barbara L. Epstein, Emerita (History of Consciousness)

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, epigenetics and environmental health, critical nutrition, critical human geography

Nancy Stoller, Emerita (Community Studies)

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

Mark Traugott, Emeritus (History)

David Wellman, Emeritus (Community Studies)

Assistant Professor

Sylvanna Falcón (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Human rights, racism/antiracism, globalization, gender, transnational feminism, Latin America (Mexico, Peru), United States

Revised: 09/01/14