Ladder Faculty

• Victor Agadjanian

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Social Demography; Migration; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Behavior; Family; Religion

  Contact Information

  Email    agadjanian@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  206 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-4943

• César J. Ayala

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Comparative/Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America

  Contact Information

  Email    cjayala@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  245 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-4306

• Jennie E. Brand

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Stratification/Mobility; Social Demography; Education; Jobs/Careers; Disruptive Events; Statistics and Quantitative Methods;

  Contact Information

  Email    brand@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  228 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-266-0826

• Karida L. Brown

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Race, Migration, Education, Collective Memory, Historical Sociology, Oral History, Archival Science, and the Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

  Contact Information

  Email    kbrown@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  297 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-2130

• Rogers Brubaker

  Distinguished Professor

  

  Subfield: Comparative/Historical Sociology, Theory, Nationalism

  Contact Information

  Email    brubaker@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  232 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-1129

• Steven Clayman

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Language/Social Linguistics, Mass Communication/Public Opinion, Ethnomethodology

  Contact Information

  Email    clayman@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  231 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-2090

• Jessica L. Collett

  Professor and Vice Chair

  

  Subfield: Social Psychology, Gender and Family, Emotions, Social Inequality, Religion

  Contact Information

  Email    collett@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  292 Haines
  Phone  310-267-4957

• Rebecca Jean Emigh

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Historical and Comparative Sociology, Social Change, Sociology of Knowledge, Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Theory, Historical Demography, Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology

  Contact Information

  Email    emigh@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  252a Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-9546

• Jason L. Ferguson

  Assistant Professor

  

  Contact Information

  Email    JLFERG@soc.ucla.edu
  Office 
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• Jacob Foster

  Associate Professor

  

  Subfield: Science and Technology, Theory, Computational Social Science, Networks, Complex Systems, Cognition and Culture, Machine Learning, Cultural Evolution, Game Theory

  Contact Information

  Email    foster@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  204 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-1031

• S. Michael Gaddis

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: discrimination, inequality, race and ethnicity, education, mental health, experimental methods

  Contact Information

  Email    mgaddis@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  285 Haines Hall
  Phone  310.206.6362

• Jeffrey Guhin

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Religion, Education, Theory, Culture, Islam, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods

  Contact Information

  Email    guhin@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  296 Haines Hall
  Phone  (310) 206-8660

• Kevan Harris

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Historical Sociology, Welfare States, Sociology of West Asia and North Africa

  Contact Information

  Email    kevanharris@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  284 Haines Hall
  Phone  (310) 206-1247

• Ruben Hernandez-Leon

  Professor

  

  Subfield: International Migration, Borders, Race and Ethnicity, Labor, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Mexico, Latin America

  Contact Information

  Email    rubenhl@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  247a Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-3059

• Chris Herring

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Urban Sociology, Poverty, Housing and Homelessness, Criminal Justice, Welfare, Ethnography, Community Action Research, Social Policy.

  Contact Information

  Email    cherring@soc.ucla.edu
  Office 
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• Patrick Heuveline

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Children and the Family, Cambodia, Formal Demography

  Contact Information

  Email    heuveline@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  214 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-6380

• Darnell Hunt

  Professor and Dean of Social Sciences

  

  Subfield: Race, Media, and Cultural Studies

  Contact Information

  Email    dhunt@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  255 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-4304

• Marcus Anthony Hunter

  Professor, Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences

  

  Subfield: Urban Sociology; Sexuality; Culture; Race, Class, and Gender; Racial and Ethnic Relations; Social Theory; Historical Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Critical Race Theory

  Contact Information

  Email    hunter@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  266 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-7865

• Gail Kligman

  Distinguished Professor

  

  Subfield: Comparative/Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Ethnography, Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism, International Migration, Trafficking

  Contact Information

  Email    kligman@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  251a Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-7277

• Hannah Landecker

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Science and technology studies, sociology and history of the life and biomedical sciences.

  Contact Information

  Email    landecker@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  268 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-1517

• Ching Kwan Lee

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Labor, Development, Political Sociology, Global and Comparative Ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Africa

  Contact Information

  Email    cklee@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  270 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-2691

• Ka-Yuet Liu

  Associate Professor

  

  Subfield: Social Networks; Social Epidemiology; Geographical Information System/Spatial Analysis; Medical Sociology; Micro-Macro Problems; Suicide; Autism; Agent-based Models

  Contact Information

  Email    ka@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  272 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-4967

• Omar Lizardo

  Professor and LeRoy Neiman Term Chair

  

  Subfield: Culture, Networks, Cognition, Consumption, Social Theory

  Contact Information

  Email    olizardo@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  290 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-5438

• Aliza Luft

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Political Sociology and Violence; Global Race and Racism; Culture; Cognition; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Morality.

  Contact Information

  Email    aluft@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  291 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-2724

• Cecilia Menjívar

  Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair

  

  Subfield: Subfield: International migration, immigrant families, immigration law, gender violence, state violence, Latin America, Central America

  Contact Information

  Email    Menjivar@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  218 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-4928

• Vilma Ortiz

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Latina/o Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender

  Contact Information

  Email    vilma@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  241b Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-5218

• Natasha Quadlin

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Social Inequality, Sex & Gender, Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Family, Quantitative & Experimental Methods

  Contact Information

  Email    quadlin@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  299 Haines Hall
  Phone 

• Giovanni Rossi

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Conversation analysis, language, gesture, comparative study of social interaction

  Contact Information

  Email    rossi@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  207 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-267-4832

• Gabriel Rossman

  Associate Professor

  

  Subfield: Economic Sociology, Culture

  Contact Information

  Email    rossman@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  287 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-8904

• Abigail Saguy

  Professor and Chair

  

  Subfield: Gender, culture, law, politics, comparative sociology

  Contact Information

  Email    saguy@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  102 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-794-4979

• Desi Small-Rodriguez

  Assistant Professor

  

  Subfield: Social Demography; Race and Ethnicity, Indigeneity; Sociology of Knowledge; Technology and Society; Stratification; Critical Quantitative Methods.

  Contact Information

  Email    desisr@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  244 Haines Hall
  Phone 

• Tanya Stivers

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology

  Contact Information

  Email    stivers@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  208 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-3840

• Megan Sweeney

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Demography, Family, Reproductive Health, Social Stratification

  Contact Information

  Email    msweeney@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  202 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-7290

• Stefan Timmermans

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Ethnography, sociology of health and illness, science and technology, the body, death and dying.

  Contact Information

  Email    stefan@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  216 Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-6526

• Andrés Villarreal

  Professor

  

  Subfield: International migration, race and ethnicity, stratification/mobility, health and social context

  Contact Information

  Email    avilla@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  283 Haines Hall
  Phone  (310) 825-9209

• Roger Waldinger

  Distinguished Professor

  

  Subfield: International migration; race and ethnicity

  Contact Information

  Email    waldinger@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  253a Haines Hall
  Phone  310-206-9233

• Edward Walker

  Professor

  

  Subfield: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Organizations, the Nonprofit Sector

  Contact Information

  Email    walker@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  235 Haines Hall
  Phone  (310) 206-2918

• Wei-hsin Yu

  Professor and Vice Chair

  

  Subfield: Gender inequality, Social Stratification, Marriage and Family, Social Change, East Asia

  Contact Information

  Email    whyu@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  257 Haines Hall
  Phone  (310) 825-3743

• Min Zhou

  Distinguished Professor

  

  Subfield: Migration and Development; Chinese Diasporas; Race and Ethnicity; the Sociology of Asian America; Urban Sociology

  Contact Information

  Email    mzhou@soc.ucla.edu
  Office  241a Haines Hall
  Phone  310-825-3532