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
  • Distinguished Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., Duke University, 1970

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

  •  SSPA 4139 | 949-824-7497

  • fbean@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Susan K. Brown
  • Professor Emerita, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001

  • immigration, inequality, urban sociology

  •  SSPA 4175

  • skbrown@uci.edu
  • CV
Carter Butts
  • Chancellor's Professor
    Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

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

  •  SSPA 2145 | 949-824-8591

  • buttsc@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Leo Chavez
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982

  • migration, media, discourse analysis, visual semiotics, medicine

  •  SBSG 3326

  • lchavez@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
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

  •  SSPA 4117 | 949-824-9383

  • kfaust@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
David John Frank
  • Professor & Chair
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

  • globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

  •  SSPA 4107 | 949-824-1117

  • frankd@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Rachel Goldberg
  • Associate Professor & Director of DASA
    Ph.D., Brown University, 2012

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

  •  SSPB 4289 | 949-824-9683

  • goldber1@uci.edu
  • CV
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

  •  SSPB 2291 | 949-824-6394

  • bgrofman@uci.edu
  • Website
Paul Hanselman
  • Associate Professor
     Ph.D.,  University of Wisconsin-Madison,  2014

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

  •  SSPB 4251

  • paul.hanselman@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Matt Huffman
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997

  • inequality, organizations, work and employment, social demography

  •  SSPB 4229 | 949-824-6460

  • mhuffman@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Julia C. Lerch
  • Assistant Professor
     Ph.D.,  Stanford, 2017

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

  •  SSPA 4145

  • lerchj@uci.edu
  • Website
David Neumark
  • Distinguished Professor, Economics, UCI; Co-Director, Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • labor economics

  •  SSPB 3219 | 949-824-8496

  • dneumark@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Andrew Penner
  • Professor & Director of CADA
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008

  • education, inequality, gender, race, family

  •  SSPA 4181

  • penner@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
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

  •  SSPA 3127 | 949-824-5089

  • garyr@uci.edu
  • Website
Rubén G. Rumbaut
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1978

  • international migration, immigration laws, criminalization, incarceration, social inequality and mobility, race and ethnicity

  •  SSPB 2293 | 949-824-2945

  • rrumbaut@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
David Schaefer
  • Professor
     Ph.D., University of Arizona ,  2006

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

  •  SSPB 4253 | 949-824-6245

  • drschaef@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
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

  •  SSPB 4271 | 949-824-1397

  • schofer@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
David A. Smith
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984

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

  •  SSPB 4265 | 949-824-7292

  • dasmith@uci.edu
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Yang Su
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

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

  •  SSPB 4279 | 949-824-6800

  • su.yang@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Judith Treas
  • Distinguished Emerita Professor, Sociology, UCI
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

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

  •  SSPB 4291 | 949-824-8324

  • jktreas@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
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

  •  SSPB 4283 | 949-824-8846

  • kristin.turney@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Feng Wang
  • Professor
     Ph.D.. Sociology,  University of Michigan, 1987

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

  •  SSPB 4285 | 949-824-1417

  • fwang@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

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