Sociology
2015-16 General Catalog
226 College Eight
(831) 459-4306
http://sociology.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | 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
Veronica Terriquez
Immigrant incorporation, civic engagement, social inequality, Latinos in the U.S., youth transitions to adulthood, quantitative methods, mixed-methods
Assistant Professor
Hillary Angelo
Urban sociology, environmental sociology, social theory, historical sociology
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, Emerita (History of Consciousness)
Julie Guthman (Social Sciences)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, California agriculture, 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
Jessica Taft (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Youth activism; childhood and youth studies; social movements; participatory democracy; girls studies; Latin American radicalisms; feminist theory; qualitative and participatory research methods
Revised: 09/01/15
