Faculty and Staff
Department Chair
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Race and Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Youth and Street Cultures, Urban Ethnography
Academic Department Manager
Department Manager
Faculty
Teaching Professor and Department Internship Coordinator
Carework, Gender, and Family, Childhood and Youth, Health/Illness, Globalization, Social Inequalities
Associate Professor
Science, Technology, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Globalization, and Mixed-Methodology
Assistant Professor
Latina/o/e Sociology, Urban Displacement & Gentrification, Street Vendors, Spaces of Belonging & Joy, Bay Area
Professor and Strategic Advisor to the Dean for Faculty DEI Initiatives
Race, gender, education, hip-hop, sociology
Associate Professor
Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Science, Inequality, Gender, Computational Social Science
Professor
Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First-Generation and Transfer College Students
Professor and Miller Center Lewis Family Fellowship Chair
Digital Sociology, Media Sociology, Digital Inequality, Brazil, and France
Lecturer
Emeriti Faculty
Visiting Scholars
- Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D. (2026 with the Black Justice Studies Collaborative and the Silicon Valley Studies Initiative)
- Jeffrey Chin, Ph.D. (2026)
- Brittany Friedman, Ph.D. (2025)
- Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D. and Denise Daniels Hudson, Ph.D. (2025)
Previous Visiting Scholars:
- Michael Johnston, Ph.D. & Noah McClain, Ph.D. & Grant Blank, Ph.D. (Summer 2024)
- Jeffrey W. Lockhart (Winter 2023)
- Michael Agliardo, S.J. Ph.D. (2018-2021)
- Lisa Nunn, Ph.D. (Spring 2020)
- Sandra Hanson, Ph.D. (Spring 2019)
- Cid Martinez, Ph.D. (Spring 2018)
- Gabe Ignatow, Ph.D. (Spring 2017)
- Cecilia MacDowell Santos, Ph.D. (Spring 2016)








