Michael Aguilera

Associate Professor
PhD from Stony Brook University
Areas: Economic Sociology, Social Inequality and Race and Ethnicity
Research Activities: Social Networks and Economic Behavior, Labor Markets, Immigrant Adaptation and Ethnic Relations

Recent Publications:

Aguilera, MB, & Contreras-Medrano, D. (2022). Colombian international migration: The impact of information networks on migration. Migraciones Internacionales, 13, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2462.

Aguilera, MB. (February 2020). Global horse trade in the United States: 1981-2013.” Society and Animals, 29(1), 63–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-00001446.

Oluwakemi Balogun

Associate Professor
PhD from University of California, Berkeley
Areas: Gender and Feminist Theory, Cultural Sociology, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration and Qualitative Methods
Research Activities: Globalization, Nationalism, Body and Embodiment, and Africana studies

Michael C. Dreiling

Professor and Department Head
PhD from University of Michigan
​​​​Areas: Political and Environmental Sociology, Social Movements and Social Network Analysis
Research Activities: Corporate Political Action and US Trade Policy, Nonviolence and Social Change, and  Network Analysis of Collective Action

Recent Publications:

Dreiling, M.C., Nakamura, T. & Braun, Y.A. Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex. Theory & Society (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-023-09513-8

Cunningham, J. & Dreiling, M. (July 2021). Elite networks for environmental philanthropy: Shaping environmental agendas in the twenty-first century. Environmental Sociology, 7(3), 351­–367. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2021.1942604.

Dreiling, M. (2020). Liberalizing trade and finance: Corporate class agency and the neoliberal era. In T. Janoski, C. de Leon, J. Misra, & I. William Martin (Eds.), The new handbook of political sociology (pp. 973–1002). Cambridge University Press.

Dreiling, M. (2020). Trade globalization and its consequences. In I. Rossi (Ed.), Challenges of globalization and prospects for an inter-civilizational world order (pp. 263–292). Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Dreiling, M., & Darves, D. (2016) Agents of neoliberal globalization: Corporate networks, state structures, and trade policy. Cambridge University Press.

Dreiling, M. (producer and co-director) & Eddy, M. (producer and director). (2016). A bold peace [Motion picture]. Award-winning feature length film on Costa Rica’s 1948 revolution, abolition of the army, and expansion of social democracy. 105/89/56/52-minute versions.

Clare Evans

Assistant Professor
ScD from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Areas: Medical and Health Sociology, Social Networks, and Research Methods
Research Activities: The Social Determinants of Health, Intersectionality and Health Inequality, Place and Area Effects, Social Networks and Quantitative Method Development

Recent Publications:

Alvarez, C., Calasanti, A., Evans, C., & Ard, K. (September 2022). Intersectional inequalities in industrial air toxics exposure in the United States. Health & Place, 77, 102886. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102886.

Silva, T., & Evans, C. (May 2022). How do adolescent social determinants and social contexts shape adult sexual identification? Social Problems, 69(2), 817–840. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spaa074.

Liévanos, R., Evans, C., & Light, R. (February 2021). An intercategorical ecology of lead exposure: Complex environmental health vulnerabilities in the Flint water crisis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 2217. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052217.

Alvarez, C., & Evans, C. (January 2021). Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach. Social Science & Medicine, 269, 113559. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113559.

Barker, K., Dunn, E., Richmond, T., Ahmed, S., Hawrilenko, M., & Evans, C. (August 2020). Cross-classified multilevel models (CCMM) in health research: A systematic review of published empirical studies and recommendations for best practices. SSM – Population Health, 12, 100661. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100661.

Silva, T., & Evans, C. (March 2020). Sexual identification in the United States at the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, immigration, and education. Sex Roles, 83, 722–738. doi: 10.1007/s11199-020-01145.

John Bellamy Foster

Professor
PhD from York University
Areas: Environmental Sociology,  Social Theory, Marxism and Political Economy
Research Activities: Ecological Crisis, Economic Crisis, Imperialism, and Social Theory

Aaron Gullickson

Associate Professor
PhD from University of California, Berkeley
Areas: Social Demography, Race and Ethnicity, Stratification, and  Family
Research Activities: Racial Inequality, Interracial Families, Racial Boundary Formation, and Kinship Health.

Recent Publications:

Gullickson, A. (October 2022). Patterns of panethnic intermarriage in the United States, 1980-2018. Demography, 59(5), 1929–1951. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48687821.

Gullickson, A., & Ahmed, S. (November 2021). The role of education, religiosity and development on support for violent practices among Muslims in thirty-five countries. PLOS ONE, 16(11), e0260429. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260429.

Gullickson, A. (March 2021). A counterfactual choice approach to the study of partner selection. Demographic Research, 44(3), 513–536.

Jill Ann Harrison

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
PhD from Ohio State University
Areas: Work and Labor, Globalization and Social Change, Organizations, Research Methods, Sociology of Everyday Life and Ethnography
Research Activities: Globalization and Social Change, Labor Movements, Working Class Issues, Qualitative Methods, Work, Economy, & Organizations

Recent Publications:

Harrison, J. (2020). “Down here we rely on fishing and oil”: Work identity and fishers' responses to the BP oil spill disaster. Sociological Perspectives, 63(2), 333–350. doi.org/10.1177/0731121419881.

Claire Herbert

Assistant Professor
PhD from University of Michigan
Areas: Crime and Socio-legal Studies, Property Rights, Housing, Urban Sociology, Race, Poverty and Inequality
Research Activities: Property use and Rights, Gentrification, Environmental Justice, Informal Education, and Homelessness

Jocelyn A. Hollander

Professor
PhD from University of Washington
Areas: Gender, Social Psychology, Social Inequality, Violence against Women, Sociology of Women, Social Psychology, Microsociology and Food
Research Activities: Social Construction of Gender, Violence against Women, Language, and Discourse

Raoul Liévanos

Associate Professor
PhD from University of California, Davis
Areas: Environment, Urban, and Community, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Organizations and Institutions, Social Movements, Spatial Analysis, Qualitative and Historical Methods
Research Activities: Environmental and Housing Market Inequalities, Environmental and Climate Justice Policy, Disaster Vulnerability, Food Insecurity and Justice, Spatial Pattern Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis.

Recent Publications:

Lubitow, A., Liévanos, R., Carpenter, E., & McGee, JA. (September 2021). Transformative transportation survey methods: Enhancing household transportation survey methods for hard-to-reach populations. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 98, 102953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102953.

Liévanos, R., Richter, L., Wilder, E., Carrera, J., & Mascarenhas, M. (April 2021). Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology, 7(2), 103–109. doi: 10.1080/23251042.2021.1902665.

Liévanos, R., Evans, C., & Light, R. (February 2021). An intercategorical ecology of lead exposure: Complex environmental health vulnerabilities in the Flint water crisis. International Journal ofEnvironmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 2217. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052217.

Liévanos, R. & Sze, J. (2021). Stockton isn’t Flint, or is it? Race and space in comparative crisisdriven urbanization. In TA Benz & G. Cassano (Eds.), Urban emergency (mis)management and the crisis of neoliberalism: Flint, MI in context (pp. 80–119). Brill Publishers.

Davies, A., Hooks, G., Knox-Hayes, J., & Liévanos, R. (July 2020). Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 13(2), 197–213. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa016.

Liévanos, R. (July 2020). Racialised uneven development and multiple exposure: Sea-level rise and high-risk neighbourhoods in Stockton, CA. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 13(2), 381–404. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa009.

Ryan Light

Associate Professor
PhD from Ohio State University
​​​​​Areas: Cultural Sociology, Research Methods, Social Networks and Social Theory
Research Activities: Cultural Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Networks, Historical Sociology, Race/Ethnicity, Sociology of Science

Recent Publications:

Light, R., & Moody, J., Eds. (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press.

Moody, J., Edelmann, A., & Light, R. (2022). 100 years of Social Forces as seen throughbibliometric publication patterns. Social Forces, 101(1), 38–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac046.

Light, R., Theis, N., Edelmann, A., Moody, J., & York, R. (December 2021). Clouding climate science: A comparative network and text analysis of consensus and anti-consensus scientists. Social Networks. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.11.007.

Liévanos, R., Evans, C., & Light, R. (February 2021). An intercategorical ecology of lead exposure: Complex environmental health vulnerabilities in the Flint water crisis. International Journal ofEnvironmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 2217. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052217.

adams, j., Light, R., & Theis, N. (Fall 2020). Mobilizing COVID-19 science. Contexts, 19(4), 36–41. doi: 10.1177/1536504220977933.

Light, R., & Moody, J. (2020). Introduction. In R. Light & J. Moody (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks (pp. 1–15). Oxford University Press.

Krystale Littlejohn

Assistant Professor
PhD from Stanford University
Areas: Fertility, Race, Gender, Class, Health and Medicine, Body and Embodiment, Science, Knowledge, Technology, and Mixed Methods
Research Activities: Race and Social Boundaries, Contraceptive Use, Mixed Methodology, and Qualitative Sociology

Recent Publications:

Littlejohn, K., & Solinger, R. (Eds.). (Expected publication 2023). Resistance!: Health professionals, district attorneys, politicians, religious leaders, community activists, and others fight the end of Roe v. Wade. Under contract with University of California Press.

Kimport, K., & Littlejohn, K. (2022). Abortion as obtainable: Insights into how pregnant people in the United States who considered abortion understand abortion availability. Contraception, 106, 45–48.

Littlejohn, K. (2021). Just get on the pill: The uneven burden of reproductive politics. University of California Press.   

--Featured in: Mashable, Ms. Magazine, Salon, Times Literary Supplement 

--Positively reviewed in: CHOICE; Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Force.

Kimport, K., & Littlejohn, K. (2021). What are we forgetting?: Sexuality, sex, and embodiment in abortion research. Annual Review of Sex Research, 58(7), 863–873. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1925620.

Kari Marie Norgaard

Professor
PhD from University of Oregon
Areas: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, Gender, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Culture
Research Activities: Tribal Environmental Health, Race and Environment, Gender and Environment, Climate Change Denial, Emotions and Social Movements

Matthew Norton

Associate Professor
PhD from Yale University
Areas: Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Historical Sociology, and Social Theory
Research Activities: Cultural Dimensions of State Power, State Formation, Empires, Comparative Historical Methods, and Social Theory

Recent Publications:

Norton, M. (2023). The punishment of pirates: Interpretation and institutional order in the early modern British empire. University of Chicago Press.

Norton, M. (2021). Analytical Sociology and Pragmatism. In G. Manzo (Ed.), Research handbook on analytical sociology (pp. 170–184). Edward Elgar Press.

Norton, M. (2020). Cultural sociology meets the cognitive wild: Advantages of the distributed cognition framework for analyzing the intersection of culture and cognition. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 8(1), 45–62. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-019-00075-w.

C.J. Pascoe

Associate Professor
PhD from University of California, Berkeley
Areas: Sexuality & Gender, Childhood & Youth, New Media, and Ethnography
Research Activities: Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity, Schools, Bullying, and Eating Disorders

Recent Publications:

Pascoe, CJ. (2022). Bullying as a social problem: Interactional homophobia and institutional heteronormativity in schools. In C. Donaghue (Ed.), The sociology of bullying: Power, status and aggression among adolescents (pp. 76–94). New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479803873.003.0006.

Pascoe, CJ. (2021). Going back to high school: Lessons from classroom teaching 2021 for ethnographic practice. In J. Aurini, M. Heath, & S. Howells (Eds.), The how to of qualitative research, second edition. Sage Publications.

Pascoe, CJ. (June 2021). Masculinity, fun and social change: Reflections on The Men and the Boys. Boyhood Studies, 14(1), 121–124. doi:10.3167/bhs.2020.140110.

Pascoe, CJ, & Bridges, T. (Eds). (2016). Exploring masculinities: Identity, inequality, continuity and change. Oxford University Press.

Elaine Replogle

Senior Instructor
PhD from Rutgers University
Areas: Sociology of Health and Medicine, Social Inequality, Sociology of Mental Health, Experiences of Second-Generation South Asian Americans, Bystander and Mob Behavior, and Sociology of Media
Research Activities:  Experiences of Racism among Second-Generation South Asian Americans, Election Outcomes and Racism Experience

Ellen Scott

Professor
PhD from University of California, Davis
Areas: Social inequality; gender; race and ethnicity; welfare policy; feminist theory; social movements; qualitative methods.
Research Activities: Intersections of gender, race, class, and sexualities; poverty, low-wage labor, and family life, welfare reform; feminist organizations and social movements; qualitative methods.

Recent Publications:

Petrucci, L., Loustaunau, L., King, M., Dodson, L., & Scott, E. (July 2022). A labor crisis within the child care crisis: Growing need for “non-traditional hours” met by underpaid in-home providers, 1–45. University of Oregon Labor Education & Research Center.

Petrucci, L., Loustaunau, L., Scott, E., & Stepick, L. (2022). Persistent unpredictability: Analyzing experiences with the first statewide scheduling legislation in Oregon. ILR Review, 75(5), 1133–1158. https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939211064902.

Loustaunau, L., Stepick, L., Scott, E., Petrucci, L., & Henifin, M. (April 2021). No choice but to be essential: Expanding dimensions of precarity during COVID-19. Sociological Perspectives, 64(5), 857–875. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211005491.

Loustaunau, L., Petrucci, L., Scott, E., & Stepick, L. (November 2020). Persistent unpredictability: Assessing the impacts of Oregon’s employee work schedules law, 1–19. UFCW.

Loustaunau, L., Petrucci, L., Scott, E., & Stepick, L. (October 2020). Assessing the Initial Impacts of the First Statewide Scheduling Law, 1–7. University of Oregon Labor Education & Research Center.

Loustaunau, L., Petrucci, L., Coffey, A., Lauderback, E., Peteres, HE, Scott, E., & Stepick, L. (August 2020). Combating unstable schedules for low-wage workers in Oregon, 1–45. Urban Institute.

Jiannbin “J” Shiao

Professor and Associate Department Head
Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley
Areas: Race & ethnicity; Asian American studies; research methods.
Research Activities: Social demography of race/ethnicity; race/ethnicity in the life course; race/ethnicity in organizations; racial/ethnic theory.

Recent Publications:

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. 2023. “Measuring Hispanics/Latinxs: Racial Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Modeling Social Outcomes in U.S. Population Samples.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 9:1–18. doi: 10.1177/23780231231174830.

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee, and Ashley Woody. 2020. “The Meaning of ‘Racism.’” Sociological Perspectives 495–517. doi: 10.1177/0731121420964239.

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. 2019. “When (In)Consistency Matters: Racial Identification and Specification.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 5:1–18. doi: 10.1177/2378023119848268.

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. 2018. “It Starts Early: Toward a Longitudinal Analysis of Interracial Intimacy.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 4(4):508–26. doi: 10.1177/2332649218769440.

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. 2017. “The Meaning of Honorary Whiteness for Asian Americans: Boundary Expansion or Something Else?” Comparative Sociology 16(6):788–813. doi: 10.1163/15691330-12341445.

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD from University of California, Berkeley
Areas: Race/Ethnicity, Latino/as, International Migration and Family
Research Activities: Race/Ethnicity, Latino/as, Intermarriage, International Migration & Incorporation, Family, and Identity

Recent Publications:

Vasquez-Tokos, J., & Yamin, P. (2021). The racialization of privacy: Racial formation as a family affair. Theory and Society, 50(5), 717–740.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-020-09427-9.

--Awarded: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award – Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association.

Vasquez-Tokos, J. (2020). Do Latinos consider themselves mainstream? The influence of region. Sociological Perspectives, 63(4), 571–88. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121419881139

Vasquez-Tokos, J. (2017). Marriage Vows and Racial Choices. Russell Sage Foundation.

Richard York

Professor
PhD from Washington State University
Areas: Environmental Sociology, Research Methods, and Statistics
Research Activities: Effects of Population, Development, and Capitalism on the Environment, Assessing the Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Global Environmental Change, Connections Between Human Ecology and Historical Materialism, Relationship Between Theory and Research Methodology

Recent Publications:

Ergas, CA, & York, R. (2023). A plant by any other name: …Foundations for materialist sociological plant studies. Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211017209.

Clement, M., Pino, N., York, R., DeWaard, J., Dede-Bamfo, N., & McGee, JA. (November 2022). The lagged environmental consequences of demographic and economic change. Sociological Inquiry, 92(4), 1445–1465. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12458.

Theis, N., & York, R. (August 2022). How robust are social structural predictors of carbon dioxide emissions? A multiverse analysis. Environmental Sociology, 9(1), 80–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2022.2116361.

York, R., Adua, L., & Clark, B. (July/August 2022). The rebound effect and the challenge of moving beyond fossil fuels: A review of empirical and theoretical research. WIREs Climate Change, 13(4), e782. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.782.

Taylor, R., & York, R. (July 2022). Fractal shifts and esthetic rifts: Climate change and emotional well-being. Climatic Change, 173, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03414-y.

Longo, S., Isgren, E., & York, R. (April 2022). Key challenges to the corporate biosphere stewardship research program: Inequity, reification, and stakeholder commensurability. Global Sustainability, 5, E9. doi:10.1017/sus.2022.8.

Greiner, P., York, R., & McGee, JA. (January 2022). When are fossil fuels displaced? An exploratory inquiry into the role of nuclear electricity production in the displacement of fossil fuels. Heliyon, 8(1), e08795. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08795.