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Professor, Director, Science & Justice Research Center
Sociology Department, Science & Justice Research CenterAreas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, History of Science, New Media, Genomics
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2002 - Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University 1993 - B.A., Political Science and B.S. in Biology, University of Kansas Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training... more »
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Ethnography
Biography, Education and Training
• Ph.D. Sociology. University of California at Davis with a designated emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research, Department of Women's Studies. • M.A. Sociology. University of California at Davis • Department Chair, 2017-20. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. • Chair, 2014. Race, Gender, Class Section of the American Sociological Association.
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Sylvanna Falcón
Associate Professor
Areas of expertise: Human Rights, Activism, Border Studies, Community-based Research, Violence and Violence Prevention, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, International and Global Affairs
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I am the 2024 president-elect of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS). I an on the faculty of the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at UC Santa Cruz. I am also the founder and director of UC Santa Cruz's Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas.
Areas of expertise: Sociology
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B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Philosophy, Nationalism
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1986 - Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1979 - M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 1976 - B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Dana Takagi is a professor of Sociology at UCSC, since 1987; before coming to UCSC, she taught at UC Irvine in the program in social ecology. She is a committed to empirically based research, theoretical innovation, and linking interdisciplinary knowledge to understanding the world-as-it is.
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Cultural Studies, African American / Black Studies
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1983 - Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz1975 - M.A., Washington State University1972 - B.S., Florida A & M University Herman Gray is professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and has published widely in the areas of black cultural theory, politics, and media. Gray is the author of Watching Race (Minnesota) and Cultural Moves and he co-edited Towards a Sociology of the Trace with Macarena Gomez Barris (Minnesota). Most recently, he co-edited The Sage Handbook of Television with Manue... more »
Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, President, Asian Law and Society Association (2018-19)
Sociology DepartmentAreas of expertise: Sociology, Legal Studies, International and Global Affairs, Race, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Law and Policy, Discrimination and Inequality, Statistics
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Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Riverside M.A., Sociology, University of California, Riverside B.A., Sociology, California State University Fullerton Metallurgical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Miyagi, Japan Hiroshi Fukurai is professor of Sociology and Legal Studies and the President of the Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA, 2018-2019). He won the Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity in 2014 and the UCSC Service Recognition Awa... more »
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Sexuality, Affect Studies, Class, Discrimination and Inequality, Labor and Social Movements, Race, Sexism and Gender Bias
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Ph.D., Sociology, UCSC (2016) M.A., Sociology, UCSC (2010) M.A., Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation, California Institute of Integral Studies (2005) B.A., Language Studies, UCSC (1998) EMT-P, State of California (P17390) and NREMT (2001-Present)
Professor, Director, UCSC Center for Labor and Community
Sociology Department, Center for Labor StudiesAreas of expertise: Sociology, Labor and Social Movements, Immigration, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Globalization, Gender Studies
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2001 - Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison1996 - M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison1989 - B.A., Political Economy of Industrial Societies, University of California - Berkeley
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Andrew Szasz
Professor Emeritus
szasz@ucsc.edu
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Areas of expertise: Environmental Studies, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Sociology
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B.A., Harvard University, 1969 M.A., University of Chicago, 1971 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982
Research Social Scientist, Adjunct Faculty
Institute of Marine Sciences, Coastal Science & Policy ProgramAreas of expertise: Anthropology, Fisheries, Natural Resource Management, Sociology, Environmental Policy
Areas of expertise: Schools and Academic Achievement, Community-based Research, Health and Wellness, School Reform and School Policy, Youth Studies, Sociology
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Ph.D. Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1996 M.A. Economics, Northwestern University, 1994
Areas of expertise: Activism, Youth Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, Democracy
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An interdisciplinary youth studies scholar, my work focuses on the political lives of children and youth across the Americas, with an emphasis on youth activists and youth social movements. Theoretically, I am interested in how identity narratives shape social movement practices and look at how the subject categories of child, youth, adult, teenager, and girl are constructed within transnational and local political cultures, and how these subject categories matter for the strategies, organ... more »
Professor, Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair, Director, Everett Program for Technology and Social Change, Director, Institute for Social Transformation
Environmental Studies Department, Sociology DepartmentAreas of expertise: Urban studies, Labor and Social Movements, Sociology, Environmental Justice, Globalization, Community-based Research, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Political Economy of Development, Activism
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Dr. Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets... more »
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Immigration, Labor and Social Movements, Social Justice, Statistics
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2009. Ph.D., Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles 2000. M.A., Social and Cultural Studies of Education, Berkeley School of Education. 1997. B.A., Sociology (cum laude), Harvard University Dr. Veronica Terriquez received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles, her M.A. in Education at the University of California Berkeley, and her B.A. in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research examines how individuals’ demographic... more »
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, Anthropology, African Diaspora, Sociology of Development, Genomics
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Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley/University San Francisco, 2012
Areas of expertise: Sociology, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Immigration, Activism, Discrimination and Inequality, Labor and Social Movements
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PhD: Geography and Science and Technology Studies, UC Berkeley (2018) MPA: Brown University (2010) AB: International Relations and Africana Studies, Brown University (2009)
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Immigration
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I'm an Assistant Professor of sociology at UCSC where I study the changing landscape of immigration in the United States. Over the past decade, I have examined the vast inequalities of immigrants' access to justice and the social safety net. My research examines how and where deportation and enforcement initiatives exacerbate these inequalities and leave imprints in our local communities. My research on immigrant families has received support from the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeli... more »
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Legal Studies, Science and Technology, Health and Wellness, Human Rights
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2018-19. Postdoctoral Associate in Global Health, Yale University 2018. Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University 2006. M.P.H. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 1998. B.A. Departments of Political Science and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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