Sociology
2018-19 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, Emeritus
E. Melanie DuPuis, Emerita
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, Emeritus
Miriam Greenberg
Urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, political economy, globalization, and urban political ecology
Paul M. Lubeck, Emeritus
Marcia Millman, Emerita
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
Camilla Hawthorne
Black Europe and the Black Mediterranean, diaspora, race and racisms, critical human geography, immigration and borders, inequality, social movements, qualitative methods
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
Juan Pedroza
Immigration, social demography, social inequality, public policy
Lecturer
Wendy Martyna, Emerita
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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: 07/15/18
