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The social and behavioral science faculty at UCI are ranked 9th nationally in research productivity, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Frank D. Bean

Frank D. Bean

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Duke University, 1970

international migration, demography, mexican immigration, racial and ethnic relations, economic sociology, family

fbean@uci.edu
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Susan K. Brown

Susan K. Brown

Professor Emerita, Sociology, UCI
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001

immigration, inequality, urban sociology

skbrown@uci.edu
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Carter Butts

Carter Butts

Chancellor's Professor
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

mathematical sociology, social networks, quantitative methodology, human judgment and decision making, economic sociology

2145 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-8591

buttsc@uci.edu
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Leo Chavez

Leo Chavez

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982

migration, media, discourse analysis, visual semiotics, medicine

lchavez@uci.edu
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Katherine Faust

Katherine Faust

Professor Emerita, Sociology, UCI
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1985

social networks, animal social organization, population processes and social networks, research methods

kfaust@uci.edu
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David John Frank

David John Frank

Professor & Chair
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

4107 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-1117

frankd@uci.edu
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Rachel Goldberg

Rachel Goldberg

Associate Professor & Director of DASA
Ph.D., Brown University, 2012

health, social demography, family, children and youth, gender, migration

4289 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-9683

goldber1@uci.edu
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Bernard Grofman

Bernard Grofman

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972

public choice, mathematical models of collective decision making, formal democratic theory, politics of small groups, representation, voting rights

bgrofman@uci.edu
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Paul Hanselman

Paul Hanselman

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014

stratification/inequality, education, quantitative methods, treatment effect heterogeneity, data visualization

4251 Social Science Plaza B

paul.hanselman@uci.edu
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Matt Huffman

Matt Huffman

Associate Dean of Student Programs and Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997

inequality, organizations, work and employment, social demography

4229 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6460

mhuffman@uci.edu
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Julia C. Lerch

Julia C. Lerch

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford, 2017

Sociology of education, global and transnational sociology, education and citizenship, higher education, refugees and humanitarian emergencies, international organizations, globalization

4145 Social Science Plaza A

lerchj@uci.edu
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David Neumark

David Neumark

Distinguished Professor, Economics, UCI; Co-Director, Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy
Ph.D., Harvard University

labor economics

3219 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8496

dneumark@uci.edu
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Andrew Penner

Andrew Penner

Professor & Director of CADA
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008

education, inequality, gender, race, family

4181 Social Science Plaza A

penner@uci.edu
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Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

Professor and Director, Undergraduate Honors Program, Economics
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

economic history, macroeconomics, great depression, industrial revolution, property rights, economic development

3127 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-5089

garyr@uci.edu
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David Schaefer

David Schaefer

Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2006

social networks, social psychology, criminology, health, adolescent development

4253 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6245

drschaef@uci.edu
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Evan Schofer

Evan Schofer

Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999

comparative political sociology, sociology of education, quantitative methods and statistics, globalization, sociology of the environment, organizations, sociology of science

4271 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1397

schofer@uci.edu
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David A. Smith

David A. Smith

Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984

world systems analysis, urbanization, development, comparative-historical sociology, dependent development in east asia

4265 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-7292

dasmith@uci.edu
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Yang Su

Yang Su

Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

social movements and collective action, political sociology, china's political transition

4279 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6800

su.yang@uci.edu
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Judith Treas

Judith Treas

Distinguished Emerita Professor, Sociology, UCI
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

gender, inequality, family, aging and life course, social demography

jktreas@uci.edu
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Kristin Turney

Kristin Turney

Dean's Professor & Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009

social inequality; family demography; population health; incarceration and punishment; intergenerational transmission of disadvantage; child wellbeing

4283 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8846

kristin.turney@uci.edu
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Feng Wang

Feng Wang

Distinguished Professor
Ph.D.. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1987

contemporary demographic, economic, and social processes, social inequality in state socialisms, contemporary china

4285 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1417

fwang@uci.edu
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