Tenure-Track Faculty
Shweta Adur
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Connecticut
Phone: 323-343-2296
Email: sadur@calstatela.edu
Gender, Sexuality, Immigration, Asians/Asian Americans, Human Rights, Qualitative Methods
Luoman Bao
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park
Phone: 323-343-2215
Email: lbao2@calstatela.edu
Aging and Health, Family and Life Course, Gender, Inequality, Demography
Bradley Campbell
Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Phone: 323-343-2218
Email: bcambe3@calstatela.edu
Criminology, Law and Society, Historical Comparative Sociology
Wai Kit Choi
Professor
Ph.D. UC Irvine
Phone: 323-343-2214
Email: wchoi@exchange.calstatela.edu
Critical Theory, Political Economy, Labor, Historical Society
Katie Dingeman
Associate Professor
Ph.D. UC Irvine
Phone: 323-343-2210
Email: mdingem@calstatela.edu
Migration, Borders/Citizenship, Detention/Deportation, Human Rights
Kristen Discola
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Ph.D. SUNY Albany
Phone: 323-343-2211
Email: khourig@calstatela.edu
Social Psychology, Emotions, Criminology, Qualitative Methods
Elaine Draper
Professor
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, J.D. UCLA
Phone: 323-343-2299
Email: edraper@calstatela.edu
Law and Society, Environment and Technology, Bioethics and Medical Sociology, Work and Organizations
Louis Esparza
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Phone: 323-343-6348
Email: louis.esparza5@calstatela.edu
Historical-Comparative Sociology, Social Movements, Human Rights, Latin American Studies
Gabriela Fried Amilivia
Professor
Ph.D. UCLA
Phone: 323-343-6349
Email: gfrieda@calstatela.edu
Cultural and Political Sociology, Human Rights, Political Transitions, Social Memory, Latin American Studies
Roseann Giarrusso
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D. UCLA
Phone: 323-343-2200
Email: rgiarru@calstatela.edu
Aging and Life Course, Family, and Intergenerational Relations, Quantitative Methods, Social Pscyhology
Analena Hope Hassberg
Associate Professor
Ph.D. American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
Race & Ethnicity, Food & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Gentrification, Community Health & Wellness
Hyojoung Kim
Professor
Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill
Phone: 323-343-5768
Email: hkim@calstatela.edu
Political Sociology; Social Movements; Rational Choice
Libby Lewis
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Phone: 323-343-2211
Email: llewis15@calstatela.edu
Social Philosophy, Race and Ethnicity, Human Sexuality, Sociology of Media and Culture, Ethnography.
Luis F. Nuño
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. New School for Social Research
Phone: 323-343-2209
Email: lnuno3@calstatela.edu
Urban Sociology, Social Control, Deviant Behavior, Latina/o Sociology
William E. Rosales
Associate Professor
Ph.D. UCLA, J.D. University of Wisconsin
Phone: 323-343-2210
Email: wrosale2@calstatela.edu
Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Social Stratification, Deviance/Crime, Law and Society
Tanya Sanabria
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. UC Irvine
Phone: 323-343-2216
Email: tsanabr@calstatela.edu
Sociology of Education, Social Inequality, Quantitative Methods
Vanessa Stout
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin
Race & Ethnicity, African Diaspora, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Popular Culture
Molly Talcott
Professor
Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara
Email: mtalcot@calstatela.edu
Abolition, antiracist feminism, climate justice, labor & social movements, research justice methodologies, radical social theory
Robert Weide
Associate Professor
Ph.D. New York University
Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Radical Theory
Zhe (Meredith) Zhang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Email: mzhang69@calstatela.edu
Health Disparities, Family, Gender & Sexuality, Life Course & Aging, Quantitative Methods
Lecturers
Mohammed Abdelhamid
M.A. Psychology, Cal State LA
Email: mabdelh@calstatela.edu
Statistics, Research Methods, Intimate Relations
Julie Albright
Ph.D. Sociology and Clinical MFT, USC.
Email: jalbrig@calstatela.edu
Marriage and Family, Culture and Communications, Technology and Society, Human Sexuality
Dinur Blum
Ph.D. UC Riverside
Email: dblum@calstatela.edu
Social Control, Law/Crim/Deviance, Culture, Higher Education, Qualitative Research
Victor Corona
Ph.D. Columbia University.
Email: vcoron23@calstatela.edu
Sociology of Culture, Urban Sociology, Gender and Sexuality, Ethnography
Geraldine Date
M.S. Gerontology and M.S.W., USC
Email: gdate@calstatela.edu
Aging and Social Gerontology, Community, Social Welfare/Social Work, Mental Health
Rick Fraser
Ph.D. Sociology and Clinical M.F.T., USC
M. Div., Fuller Theological Seminary
Phone: 323-343-6352
Email: rfraser@calstatela.edu
Marriage and Family, Religion, Organizations
Gilbert Garcia
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Riverside
Email: ggarcia6@calstatela.edu
Social Inequality, Race Ethnic Relations, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
Ruzanna Karmiryan
M.A., Sociology, Cal State LA
Email: rkarmir18@calstatela.edu
Emotions, Socialization, Family, Children and Youth, Aging/Social Gerontology, Race/Class/Gender
Soo Mee Kim
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Email: skim208@calstatela.edu
Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Immigration, Globalization/Transnsociology, Asian American Studies, Visual Sociology
Theodoric Manley
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Email: tmanley2@calstatela.edu
Urban and Community Studies, Social Policy, Intergroup Relations
Michael McKail
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Riverside
Email: mmckail@calstatela.edu
Race/Gender/Class Inequality, Social Theory, Political Economy
Marcellino J. Morales
Ph.D. Education, University of La Verne
Email: mmora34@calstatela.edu
Human Sexuality, Inequality, Social Psychology
Charity Perry
Ph.D., M.F.T., University of Louisiana Monroe
Email: cperry5@calstatela.edu
Family Relations, Gender, Domestic Violence
Dmitri Seals
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Email: dseals2@calstatela.edu
Intersectional Studies, Race, Class and Gender, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Mixed Methods, Social Theory
Melanie Stagnaro
Ph.D. University of Florida
Phone: 323-343-2028
Email: mstagna@calstatela.edu
Aging and Life Course, Quantitative Methods, Gender
Jeffrey D. Stone
Ph.D. Public Health UCLA
Email: jstone7@calstatela.edu
Psychiatric Epidemiology, Medical Sociology, Survey Research, Evaluation Research, Statistics
Gunnar Valgeirsson
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University
Phone: 323-343-2212
Email: gvalgei@calstatela.edu
Class/Race/Gender, Sociology of Sport, Violence in American Society, Drug Use and Public Policy
Carin Wong
Ph.D. Occupational Science, USC
Email: cwong10@calstatela.edu
Gerontology, Health Services, Long-Term Care
Michelle Ysais
Ph.D. UC Riverside
Email: mysais@calstatela.edu
Race and Ethnic Relations, Domestic Violence, Deviance
Emeritus Faculty
Bernard Berk
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Deviance, Sociological Theory, Macro-Micro Integration
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte
Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 323-343-2212
Email: cboding@calstatela.edu
Evaluation and Applied Research, Social Psychology, Sociology of Media and Culture
Steven L. Gordon
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. UCLA
Sociology of Emotions, Social Psychology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
Janet Lever
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Yale University
Sociology of Gender, Human Sexuality, Alternative Family Forms
Ron Tsukashima
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. UCLA
Race and Ethnic Relations, Urban Sociology, Asian-American Studies.