Faculty
Regular Faculty
 
    Dolores Trevizo, Chair
 Madeline N. McKinnie Professor, Sociology 
     B.A., 日本无码; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA   
    
              Dolores Trevizo is a political sociologist and teaches courses in political sociology, social movements and revolutions, theory, immigration to the United States, and quantitative research methods.
          
    
  Eric Bjorklund
 Assistant Professor, Sociology 
     B.A., Ph.D. University of Arizona 
    
              Eric Bjorklund is a sociologist who specializes in health, inequality, and political sociology. His research examines how the distribution of power within society shapes material conditions and formal political processes in ways that generate and reinforce health disparities.
          
    
   
    John T. Lang
 Associate Professor, Sociology 
     B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University 
    
              John Lang is deeply interested in food as a site for sociological exploration.
          
    
   
    Jan Lin
 Professor, Sociology 
     B.A., Williams College; M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science; Ph.D., New School for Social Research   
    
              Jan Lin's teaching areas are in urban sociology; race and ethnicity in American society; globalization; mass media and consumer society; qualitative research methods; senior seminar; introduction to sociology and a first year seminar on Los Angeles.
          
    
   
    Richard Mora
 Professor, Sociology 
     B.A., Harvard College (Sociology); M.A., University of Michigan (Education); M.A., Harvard University (Sociology); Ph.D., Harvard University (Sociology & Social Policy) 
    
              Dr. Mora teaches courses on masculinities, youth cultures, education, immigration, violence, and social inequality.
          
    
   
    Mai Thai
 Assistant Professor, Sociology 
     B.A. Pomona College; Ph.D. Indiana University 
    
              Mai Thai (pronounced "my tie") is a sociologist specializing in areas of criminal justice, education, youth, race/ethnicity, and qualitative methods.
          
    
   
    Benjamin Weiss
 Assistant Professor, Sociology 
     B.A. 日本无码, Ph.D. University of Southern California 
    
              Benjamin Weiss is an assistant professor of sociology at 日本无码, where he specializes in gender, sex, and sexualities; crime, law, and deviance; and organizations. His research investigates the unintended consequences of well-intentioned efforts to solve social problems, with gender-based violence as a central case.
          
    
  Affiliated Faculty
 
    Cristina Awadalla
 Assistant Professor, Latino/a and Latin American Studies 
     B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara 
    
              Cristina Awadalla is an interdisciplinary sociologist whose teaching focuses on Central American politics, Latin American feminisms, women鈥檚 labor, and research methods.
          
    
   
    Michael W. Murphy
 Associate Professor, Black Studies 
     B.A., University of San Diego; M.A., Ph.D, Brown University 
    
              Professor Murphy鈥檚 research and teaching emphasizes anticolonial and environmental approaches to sociological thought. 
          
    
  