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Sociology College of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Studies

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Staff

Heidy Sarabia

Department Chair

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  • Specialty & Interests: Globalization, U.S.-Mexico Border, Immigration and Citizenship, Law and Society, Social Movements, Research Methods

Millicent Ballesteros

Administrative Support Coordinator

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Alexa-Lynn Hylaris

Administrative Support Assistant

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  • Location: AMD 450
  • Phone: (916) 278-6522
  • Pronouns: She/Her

Faculty

Manuel Barajas

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  • Specialty & Interests: Race, Class, and Gender Inequalities, Labor Migration / Immigration / Transnationalism Studies, Chicana/o Sociology and Latino Studies, Ethnic & Race Relations, The Xaripu Community Across Borders

Ellen Berg

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  • Specialty & Interests: Family, Statistics

Jacqueline Brooks

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  • Specialty & Interests: Research Methods, Race and Ethnic Minorities, Sociology of Gender, Sociological Stratification, Sociological Theory

Jacqueline Carrigan

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  • Specialty & Interests: Demography, Marxist Sociology, Research Methods

Gabrielle Gonzales

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  • Specialty & Interests: Social inequality, Sociology of Health and the Body, Latin American Studies

Aya Kimura Ida

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  • Specialty & Interests: Social Psychology, Race and Ethnicity, Mental Health and Illness

Amy Liu

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  • Specialty & Interests: Asian and Asian American Studies, Family and Aging, Health and Mental Health, Needs Assessment, Opinion Polls, Program Evaluations, Race Relations, Survey

Anne Luna

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  • Specialty & Interests: Social Theory, Social Inequalities, Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Gender, Native American Sociology

Patricia Morris

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  • Specialty & Interests: Research Methods, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Work, Social Psychology

Amalia Pérez Martín

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  • Specialty & Interests: social movements in Latin America, legal mobilization, legal repression, authoritarianism, Latina/o political identities, and women's rights activism.

Lina Rincón

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  • Specialty & Interests: Race and ethnic relations in the U.S., legality and migration, the migration of Latine professionals, Colombians in the US, DEI in higher education

Christopher Rogers

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  • Specialty & Interests: Critical Race Theory; Critical Criminology (Abolition); Care; Black Feminist & Black Queer Theory; Qualitative Methods; Black & Brown Liberation, Health Care System; Education System; Carceral System

Nitika Sharma

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  • Specialty & Interests: Globalization, Postcolonial studies, Citizenship and Immigration, Qualitative Methods, Race and Immigration, Refugee studies; Migration studies, Menstruation studies

Amanda Shigihara

Graduate Coordinator

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  • Specialty & Interests: Social Psychology; Deviance, Crime, and Law; Life Course; Work and Occupations; Qualitative Methods; Sociological Theory

Charles Varano

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  • Specialty & Interests: Education, Social Stratification, Urban Sociology, Work & Organizations

Kevin Wehr

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  • Specialty & Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Criminology, Social Movements, Social Theory

Lecturers

Paul Bianchi

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  • Specialty & Interests: American Individualism, Race and Ethnic Relations, Criminology, and Sociological Theory

Paul Burke

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  • Specialty & Interests: Political Sociology, Race and Class Relations, Sociology of Law, Labor and the Sociology of Work and Organizations

Mark Carnero

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  • Specialty & Interests: Social Justice, Education, Mass Media, Structural Racism, Colonization & De-Colonial Resistance

Courtney Caviness

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  • Specialty & Interests: Theory, Social Psychology/Symbolic Interactionism, Gender & Sexuality, Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Work & Occupations

Yanyi Djamba

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  • Specialty & Interests: Demography, Gender, Marriage and the Family, Research Methods, Sociology of Health and Medicine

Danielle Duckett

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  • Specialty & Interests: Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Gender and Women's Studies, Social Methods Research, Social Inequalities and Stratification

Michelle Durden

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  • Specialty & Interests: Sociology of Gender, Social Psychology, Social Problems, Identity

Melissa Gosdin

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Nathen Menard

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  • Specialty & Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Disasters, Social Psychology, Social Inequality, Social Change Organizations, and Social Interactions.

Thien-Huong Ninh Villarreal

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  • Specialty & Interests: Statistics, Research Methods, Race & Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender & Family, Globalization, Religion

Christopher Pappas

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  • Specialty & Interests: Culture (including popular culture and music), Multicultural and Ethnic Studies, Stratification and Inequality, Sexuality, Sociology of Gender Sociological Theory

Miguel Ruiz

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  • Specialty & Interests: Civil Rights Movements, Sociology of Sports, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Race and Ethnicity

Bernadette Tello

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  • Specialty & Interests: Social Theory, Race relations, and Gender Inequalities

Debra Welkley

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  • Specialty & Interests: Critical Thinking; Ethnic and Race Relations; Gender Studies; Qualitative Research; Mentoring; Marriage and Family

Ayanna Yonemura

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  • Specialty & Interests: White Supremacy, Public Policy, Black Sociology, Comparative Black & Asian American Studies, African Studies, Comparative Migration Studies, Nationalism, Urban Planning, Patriarchy, and Feminism

Emeritus

Ayad Al-Qazzaz

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Carole Barnes

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Ernest Cowles

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Dean Dorn

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Rodney Kingsnorth

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Judson Landis

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David Lee

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Randall MacIntosh

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Todd Migliaccio

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Mridula Udayagiri

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Rosemary Varesio

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Total Members: 45