Andrew L. Roth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at SSU. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining SSU in Fall 2005, he taught at Pomona College, initially as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and subsequently as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Professor Roth's teaching and research interests include social theory, the mass media (including a course on documentary film), environmental sociology, research methods, and the study of talk-in-interaction across a variety of everyday and institutional settings. He has published research on social identity in news media discourse (in Media, Culture & Society and Language in Society), ritual (Sociological Theory), urban movements for parkland (forthcoming in City and Community), and public commentary on federal tobacco control regulation (Social Studies of Science). His current research includes the study of ultra-marathons – running races beyond the standard 26.2 mile marathon distance -- as rituals that involve voluntary risk taking and through which participants shape and reshape their identities.

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