Sociology
2017-18 General Catalog
226 Rachel Carson College
(831) 459-4306
http://sociology.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
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 the justice system, international law, race and inequality, East Asian law and politics, military and justice, and advanced quantitative methods
Herman S. Gray
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory
Miriam Greenberg
Urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, political economy, globalization, and urban political ecology
Paul M. Lubeck, 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, Emeritus
Pamela Ann Roby, Emerita
Dana Y. Takagi, Emerita
Candace West, Emerita
Associate Professor
Julie Bettie
Cultural theory and popular culture; race, gender, class, and cultural politics; sexuality and erotic labor; critical qualitative methodologies
Deborah Gould
Political emotion; social movements and contentious politics; classical and contemporary social theory; sexualities; lesbian/gay/queer studies; feminist and queer theory
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, nature and society, infrastructure, social theory, urban political ecology, historical methods
James Battle
Anthropologies and technologies of science and medicine; biological, pharmaceutical, and technological citizenship; racial classification, bioethics, and health disparities; history of social medicine; risk, translation, and uncertainty
Lindsey Dillon
Urban geography, critical race theory, political ecology, environmental justice, feminist approaches to science and technology studies
Rebecca London
Education; children, youth and families; social policy; health and well-being; social inequality; cross-sector analyses; community-engaged research; quantitative methods; mixed methods
Lecturer
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)
California agriculture, sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of food and health, political ecology, race and food, epigenetics and environmental health, 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)
Associate 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: 09/01/17
