Faculty

Laura Acosta

Camila Alvarez

Mary Blair-Loy

Professor, Director, Center for Research on Gender in STEM. PhD Chicago. Sociology of gender, culture, inequality, work and organizations, family.

Michel Estefan

Associate Professor of Teaching, Director of Undergraduate Studies. PhD UC Berkeley. Social theory, political sociology, law and society, comparative and historical methods, Latin America, inclusive and equitable pedagogy and teaching.

Ivan Evans

Professor, Provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College. PhD Wisconsin 1986. African studies, political sociology, sociology of development, ethnic and race relations, social movements, sociology of the environment.

John H. Evans

Professor; Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences; Associate Dean of Social Sciences; Co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Science, Politics, Public Ethics

David FitzGerald

Professor, T.E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and honorary Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair in refugee studies. PhD UCLA 2005. Law and society, international migration, political sociology, nationalism and ethnicity, comparative-historical and ethnographic methodology.

Harvey S. Goldman

Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 1978. Theory, sociology of intellectuals and of knowledge, sociology of culture.

Neil Gong

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Distinguished Professor & Director of the African & African-American Studies Research Center. PhD Harvard 1973. Sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge, sociology of culture, sociology of art, ethnographic film and media methods, African studies.

Lane Kenworthy

Yankelovich Endowed Chair Professor. PhD Wisconsin 1993. Comparative political economy, poverty, inequality, social policy, politics.

Martha Lampland

Professor. PhD Chicago 1987. Political economy, social and cultural history, science studies, Central Europe (Hungary).

Kevin Lewis

Professor. PhD Harvard 2012. Culture, social networks, social psychology, inequality, family.

Thomas Medvetz

Associate Professor. PhD UC Berkeley 2007. Sociology of knowledge and intellectuals, classical and contemporary theory, political sociology, cultural sociology.

Daniel Navon

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies. PhD Columbia 2013. Sociology of science and knowledge/STS, comparative-historical sociology, social theory, medical sociology, qualitative methods.

Kwai Ng

Professor, Department Chair. PhD Chicago 2004. Sociology of law, sociology of language, social theory, religion.

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Professor. PhD University of Edinburgh 2010. Economic sociology, sociology of markets, science and technology studies, cultural sociology, financial markets, art markets, public valuations, innovation.

Richard Pitt

Danielle Raudenbush

Associate Professor. PhD Chicago. Urban sociology, health and medicine, poverty and inequality, qualitative methods.

Vanesa Ribas

Associate Professor. PhD North Carolina 2012. International migration, race relations, work.

Akos Rona-Tas

Professor. PhD Michigan 1990. Economic sociology, uncertainty and risk, rational choice theory, comparative social stratification, survey research, methodology.

John D. Skrentny

Professor. PhD Harvard. Science and innovation policy; education; work; immigration; political sociology; law and society.

April Sutton

Charles Thorpe

Professor. PhD UC San Diego 2001. Social theory, Sociology of knowledge and intellectuals, Sociology of science and technology, Cultural sociology, Sociology of childhood and youth.

Christena Turner

Associate Professor. PhD Stanford 1987. Japanese society, culture, everyday life, organizations, Chinese society, work.

Jake Watson

Richard Biernacki

Amy Binder

Rae Lesser Blumberg

Jack Douglas

Jeffrey M. Haydu

Rebecca Klatch

Professor Emerita. PhD Harvard 1984. Sociology of gender, masculinities, sociology of family, social psychology/identities, race, American society, field research methods. Email: rklatch@ucsd.edu.

Richard Madsen

Director of UC Fudan Center, Professor Emeritus. PhD Harvard 1977. Sociology of ideas/culture, sociology of religion, comparative sociology, Chinese society, "moral anthropology." Email: rmadsen@ucsd.edu.

Hugh "Bud" Mehan

Professor Emeritus. Discourse processes, sociology of education, educational inequalities. Email: bmehan@ucsd.edu. Tel: 858-534-6765. Office: CRB 166 (CREATE).

David Phillips

Professor Emeritus. PhD Princeton 1970. Demography, epidemiology, medical errors, suicide, accidents, homicide, mass media. Email: dphillips@ucsd.edu.

Andrew Scull

Gershon Shafir

Carlos Waisman

Professor Emeritus. Political sociology, development, theory. Email: cwaisman@ucsd.edu.

Jacqueline Wiseman

Leon Zamosc

Yen Le Espiritu

Email: yespiritu@ucsd.edu.

Yen Espiritu received her Ph.D. from UC Los Angeles in 1990. She is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD. Focusing on Asian America, her research has sought to challenge the homogeneous descriptions of communities of color and the narrowness of mutually exclusive binaries by attending to generational, ethnic, class, and gender variations within constructed racial categories. In particular, her work has called attention to the ways in which racialized ethnicity is relational rather than atomized and discrete and the ways in which group identities necessarily form through interaction with other groups "through complicated experiences of conflict and cooperation" and in structural contexts of power.

Mary L. Walshok

Email: mwalshok@ucsd.edu. Office: UNEX Complex.

Mary Walshok received her BA from Pomona College and her MA and PhD in sociology from Indiana University. Currently she is the associate vice chancellor for Extended Studies and Public Programs and professor of sociology. A thought leader on aligning workforce development with regional economic growth, she is the author of Blue Collar Women, Knowledge Without Boundaries, Closing America's Job Gap, and the forthcoming Invention and Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Entrepreneurial Economy. As an industrial sociologist she has researched various American regions for the US Department of Labor, NSF, and Lilly Foundation. Walshok is active on numerous community and national boards and is co-founder of CONNECT, one of the most admired innovation cluster development organizations in the world.

Abigail Andrews

Email: alandrews@ucsd.edu

I am Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program. My research takes a critical, feminist lens on state violence and borders, to inform struggles for immigrant justice. (Check out my books Undocumented Politics and Banished Men). For more...

My CV is here
For more, please check out my website
or find me on Twitter @abigailandrews1.

Isaac W. Martin

Maud Arnal

Email: mmarnal@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 475 | Office Hours: TBD 

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 106 Comparative and Historical Methods & SOCI 115 Social Problems

Fall 2025: SOCI 104  Field Research: Methods of Participant Observation & SOCI 173 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine

Michael Calderon-Zaks

Email: m2calderonzaks@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 417 | Office Hours: TWTh 2:30pm - 3:30pm 

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 125 Sociology of Immigration

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 20 Social Change in the Modern World & SOCI 148E Inequality and Jobs

Fall 2025: SOCI 148E Inequality and Jobs & SOCI 180 Social Movements and Social Protest 

Eunchong Cho

Email: e3cho@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 111 Local Lives, Global Problems

Zosia Cooper

Email: zcooper@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 104Q Qualitative Interviewing

Christine Crofts

Email: ccrofts@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 473 | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2025: SOCI 137 Sociology of Food & 142 Social Deviance 

Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp

Email: rhhildeb@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB TBA | TBA

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 40 Sociology of Health-Care Issues

Charlene Holkenbrink-Monk

Email: ceholkenbrinkmonk@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 130E Sociology of Higher Education & SOCI 132 Gender and Work

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 110 Qualitative Research in Educational Settings

Hart Hornor-Jones

Email: hhornorj@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2025: SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data

Kevin Kilpatrick

Email: k2kilpatrick@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2025: SOCI 103M Computer Applications to Data Management in Sociology

Kristopher Kohler

Email: kkohler@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 150 Madness and the Movies

Jinhyuk Kim

Email: jhk008@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 175 Nationality and Citizenship

Dasom Lee

Email: dal257@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 127 Immigration, Race & Ethnicity

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 139 Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender

Ana Lopez Ricoy

Email: alopezri@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI Sociology of Gender

Bernardo Mackenna

Email: bmackenn@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 60 Practice of Social Research

Ayumi Matsuda-Rivero

Email: aematsud@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 114 Sociology of Humor

Elizabeth Miller

Email: eam001@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Fall 2025: SOCI 184 Gender and Film

Khasha Ostovany

Email: kostovany@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB TBD | Office Hours: By appointment

Winter 2026:

Christine Payne

Email: capayne@ucsd.edu 

Office: SSB 418 | Office Hours: TBA 

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 100 Classical Sociological Theory & SOCI 148 Political Sociology

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 135 Medical Sociology

Fall 2025: SOCI 70 General Sociology for Premedical Students & SOCI 135 Medical Sociology

Julia Rogers

Email: jerogers@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 467 | Office Hours: Wed 2pm - 4pm

Fall 2025: SOCI 104Q Qualitative Interviewing & 113 Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic

Jonathan Ruiz

Email: jjr026@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 474 | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 70 Gen Soc for Pre-Med Students

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 2 The Study of Society

Fall 2025: SOCI 30 Science, Technology, and Society & SOCI 153 Urban Sociology

Sevin Sagnic

Email: ssagnic@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB TBA | TBA

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 160 Sociology of Culture

Kea Saper

Email: ksaper@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB TBA | TBA

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 1 Introduction to Sociology

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 127 Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity

Jeffrey Tirshfield

Email: jtirshfield@ucsd.edu

Office: TBA| Office Hours: TBA

Winter 2026

Pablo Victoria Torres

Email: pvictori@ucsd.edu

Office: SSB 473 | Office Hours: TBA

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 184 Gender and Film

Summer Session 2 2025: SOCI 112 Social Psychology

Fall 2025: 150 Madness and the Movies

Beatrice Waterhouse

Email: bwaterho@ucsd.edu

Office: TBD | Office Hours: TBD

Summer Session 1 2025: SOCI 145 Violence and Society