Sociology Department

Noel Byrne

Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Sociology of Time, Sociology of Moral Orders,
Social Psychology, Organizations, Urban Sociology

  Kathy Charmaz

Professor of Sociology
Coordinator, Faculty Writing Program
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Sociological Theory, Social Psychology, Qualitative Methods, Health and Illness, Aging and Dying

James J. Dean

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany
Sociology of Sexualities, Gender, Culture, Social Theory

  Myrna Goodman

Department Chair
Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Sociology of Genocide, Political Sociology, Research Methods, Social Movements, Sociology of Gender

Elaine Leeder

Dean of the School of Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Cornell University
Sociology of the Family, Family Violence, Social Movements and Social Change, Social Policy

  Melinda Milligan
On Leave Spring 2008

Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Sociology of the Built Environment, Community and Urban Sociology, Emotions, Organizations, Social Psychology

Peter Phillips

Professor of Sociology
Director of Project Censored
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Political Sociology, Power, Class Stratification, Media Censorship

Andrew L. Roth

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Social Theory, Mass Media, Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis

Cindy Stearns

Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Sociology of Reproduction, Health, Gender, Work, Organizations

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Suzel Bozada-Deas
Not Teaching Spring 2008

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California
Race Relations, Intersectionality, Gender, Masculinities, Identity
Politics in the Production of Space and Place, Latina/o Sociology

F. Andrew Deseran

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Symbolic Interaction, The Individual in Society, Food and Society, Population Studies, Criminology

Heather Kohler Flynn
Not Teaching Spring 2008

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Social Psychology, Gender, Youth and Adolescence, Social Relationships

Penelope Huang

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., University of Washington
Sociology of Family, Sociology of Gender, Women and Work, Social Demography, Introductory Statistics, Research Methods

Sheila M. Katz

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University
Race/Class/Gender, Poverty, Urban Sociology, Drugs, Public Policy, Sociology of Education, Feminist Theory, and Qualitative and Participatory Methodologies

Thomas Lough
Not Teaching Spring 2008

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Social Movements, Political Sociology, Social Psychology, Globalism

Andrew McGuire

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of New England
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, California State University
Health Policy, Social Movements, Documentary Film

James J. Preston
Not Teaching Spring 2008

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., The Hartford Seminary Foundation Sociology of Religion, Symbolic Systems, Religious Movements, Comparative Religion, Globalism and Social Change, Sociology of Death

Madeleine Rose

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
D.S.W., University of California, Los Angeles
Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare, Family Systems, Aging and Society, Group Work with Older Adults

Jessica K. Taft

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
Girls’ Studies, Social Movements and Political Consciousness, Globalization, Transnational Feminist Theory, Youth Culture, Participatory and Qualitative Research Methods

Michael Traugot

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Davis
Social Change, Social Movements, Sociology of the Environment

Elaine Wellin

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Social Inequalities, Environmental Sociology, Gender, Sociological Methods

  David O. Arnold

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
At SSU 1970-1993

Susan Garfin

Emerita Professor of Sociology
At SSU 1970-2004

Dan Haytin

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
At SSU 1971-2004

John Steiner

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
At SSU 1968-1992

Bob Tellander

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
At SSU 1971-2004

David Walls

Emeritus Professor of Sociology
In Department 1993-2005