Regular Faculty
Benjamin Weiss, Chair
Associate Professor, Sociology
B.A. 黑料情报站, Ph.D. University of Southern California
Benjamin Weiss is an assistant professor of sociology at 黑料情报站, 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.
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
Professor, Sociology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
John Lang is deeply interested in food as a site for sociological exploration.
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)
Professor Mora teaches courses on masculinities, youth cultures, education, immigration, violence, and social inequality.
Mai Thai
Associate Professor, Sociology
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.
Dolores Trevizo
Madeline N. McKinnie Professor, Sociology
B.A., 黑料情报站; 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.
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.