Sociology Faculty

John Casparis, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD Brown University

 

Lois B. DeFleur, Professor Emerita

PhD, University of Illinois

 

Frederic C. Deyo, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Chicago

 

Juanita D铆az-Cotto, Professor

BA, University of Puerto Rico; MA, University of Chicago; PhD, Columbia University

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Criminal justice/penal institutions; gender/sexuality; Latinas and other people of color in the U.S.; Latin American and Caribbean history

Leslie C. Gates, Professor

BA, Princeton University; MA, PhD, University of Arizona

University Award for Outstanding Graduate Director, 2018-2019

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Philosophy, Politics, and Law Program (PPL)

Specialty: Latin America and political sociology

Gladys M. Jim茅nez-Mu帽oz, Associate Professor

BA, University of Puerto Rico; MA, PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Provost's Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2020-2021; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000-2001

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Women's history; feminist theories; Latin American and Caribbean history

脟a臒lar Keyder, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

 

Richard E. Lee, Professor Emeritus

PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

 

William G. Martin, Professor Emeritus

BA, University of Michigan; MS, PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009-2010

Jason W. Moore, Professor

BA, University of Oregon; MA, University of California at Santa Cruz; PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Specialty: Capitalism as world-ecology; environmental history; climate change

Ravi A. Palat, Bartle Professor

BA, University of Madras; MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University; PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

Specialty: Historical sociology; political economy and world-systems analysis

James F. Petras, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

 

Benita Roth, Professor

BA, Brandeis University; MA, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006-2007

Affiliated: Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender (CHSWG); Center on Democratic Performance (CDP); Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: The interaction of gender, race/ethnicity and class in postwar social protest

Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Professor

BA, Goddard College; PhD, The Union Institute

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2013-2014; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-1998

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: African Diaspora, the Americas, and the Caribbean within world-system

Mahua Sarkar, Professor Emeritus

BA, Colby College; PhD,  Johns Hopkins University

Specialty: Historical sociology; gender theory; global labor history; transnational migration; qualitative research

Marina A. Sitrin, Associate Professor

BA, The New School for Social Research; JD, The City University of New York (CUNY); MA, PhD, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

University Award for Excellence in Research, 1995-1996

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: Collective action; social  movements/societies in movement; forms of democracy and participation; alternative forms of adjudication

Dale W. Tomich, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2007-2008

Donald B. Trow, Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Michigan