Sociology at University of California, Berkeley

34 faculty and 0 courses in Sociology at University of California, Berkeley.

Faculty

• Loïc Wacquant, Professor h-index 86
  Embodiment, penal state, comparative urban inequality and marginality, racial domination, politics of reason, social epistemology, social theory. For information regarding Loïc Wacquant please refer to his
  Notable: “An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.” (1993) · 9,365 citations
• Neil Fligstein, Professor of the Graduate School h-index 58
  Economic sociology, political economy, organizational theory Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor. He is also the Director of the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics. He is Co-Chair with Steve Vogel of the N
  Notable: “Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay” (1990) · 2,200 citations
• Claude S. Fischer, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School h-index 50
  Personal networks, American social history, technology, social psychology, urban 1972 Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University 1970 M.A., Sociology, Harvard University 1968 B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Claude S. Fische
  Notable: “To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City.” (1984) · 1,955 citations
• David J. Harding, Professor h-index 35
  Poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, criminal legal systems, education, neighborhood effects, culture, urban communities David Harding studies poverty and inequality, urban neighborhoods, education, culture, and the crimina
  Notable: “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty” (2010) · 684 citations
• Ann Swidler, Professor of the Graduate School h-index 31
  Culture, religion, theory, institutionalization, social ecologies of religion in Africa; chieftaincy, congregational religion and capacities for collective action Ann Swidler (PhD UC Berkeley; BA Harvard) studies the interplay of culture an
  Notable: “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies” (1986) · 8,502 citations
• Marion Fourcade, Professor h-index 31
  Economic sociology, culture, political sociology, comparative methods, knowledge and science, digital society Marion Fourcade is Professor of Sociology and Director of Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Economists an
  Notable: “Moral Views of Market Society” (2007) · 872 citations
• Heather A. Haveman, Professor h-index 30
  Organizational theory, economic sociology, historical sociology, entrepreneurship, organizational demography, gender, careers and social mobility Professor of Sociology and Business at the University of California, Berkeley. I hold a B.A. i
  Notable: “Follow the Leader: Mimetic Isomorphism and Entry Into New Markets” (1993) · 1,502 citations
• Kristen Harknett, Professor h-index 30
  Labor, social stratification and mobility, demography, quantitative methods. Work plays a dominant role in shaping everyday life for workers and their families. At its best, work can be a source of meaning and purpose and a pathway to upwar
  Notable: “Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being” (2019) · 483 citations
• John Lie, Distinguished Professor h-index 28
  Social theory John Lie (pronounced "Lee") is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Lie's main scholarly interest is social theory. After working on a reconceptualization of "markets," he sought to r
  Notable: “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy” (2006) · 342 citations
• Katherine Newman, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “Socioeconomic Disparities In Health: Pathways And Policies” (2002) · 2,111 citations
• Robert Braun, Associate Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Private Equity In Dermatology: Effect On Price, Utilization, And Spending” (2021) · 96 citations
• Mara Loveman, Professor h-index 17
  Comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, ethnoracial politics, biopolitics and necropolitics, political economy of development, race and nation, Latin America Mara Loveman is a political and historical sociologist with bro
  Notable: “Ethnicity as cognition” (2004) · 721 citations
• Raka Ray, Professor and Dean, Social Sciences h-index 17
  Gender, postcolonial sociology, emerging middle classes, South Asia, inequality, qualitative research methods, social movements I am a sociologist with interests in gender and feminist theory, postcolonial sociology and the emerging middle
  Notable: “Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India” (2000) · 307 citations
• Kim Voss, Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement” (2000) · 713 citations
• Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Professor and Executive Dean, College of Letters & Science h-index 16
  Culture and population, intentions, uncertainty, epistemology, history of population thought, sub-Saharan Africa, family, fertility, gender, life course Jennifer Johnson-Hanks is a cultural demographer whose empirical work focuse
  Notable: “On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography: Toward a Theory of Vital Conjunctures” (2002) · 387 citations
• Jeffrey W. Lockhart, Assistant Professor h-index 16
  Science, Knowledge and Technology; Gender and Sexuality; Computational Social Science; Archival Data Jeffrey Lockhart is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the social and pol
  Notable: “Design considerations for the WISDM smart phone-based sensor mining architecture” (2011) · 170 citations
• Cihan Tugal, Professor h-index 15
  Political sociology; Social theory; Religion; Capitalism and development; Social movements; Islam and the Middle East; Comparative and historical sociology; Ethnography Cihan Tuğal studies social movements, populism, capitalism, democracy
  Notable: “Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey” (2009) · 160 citations
• Cybelle Fox, Professor h-index 12
  Welfare State, Immigration, Race and Ethnic Relations, American Political Development, and Historical and Political Sociology. Cybelle Fox is Class of 1944 Professor of Sociology. Her research is primarily focused on race, immigration, and
  Notable: “The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites’ Attitudes toward Latinos Influence Support for Welfare” (2004) · 249 citations
• G Cristina Mora, Chancellor's Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Panethnicity” (2014) · 133 citations
• Dylan John Riley, Professor h-index 12
  Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology and Social Theory I study capitalism, socialism, democracy, authoritarianism, and knowledge regimes in a broad comparative and historical perspective. My first book, The Civic Foun
  Notable: “Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions” (2021) · 347 citations
• Stephanie L Canizales, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  International migration and immigrant integration; Children, youth, and families; Inequality and mobility; Qualitative Methods Stephanie L. Canizales, PhD, is a researcher, author, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the Univers
  Notable: “Latinos & Racism in the Trump Era” (2021) · 96 citations
• Armando Lara-Millan, Associate Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Public Emergency Room Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Imprisonment” (2014) · 162 citations
• Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Distinguished Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Minority Youth and Civic Engagement: The Impact of Group Relations” (2002) · 173 citations
• Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology h-index 9
  Climate emergency; political economy; eco-apartheid; inequalities of race and class; urban studies; political sociology Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is
  Notable: “Contradictions of the Climate‐Friendly City: New Perspectives on Eco‐Gentrification and Housing Justice” (2019) · 266 citations
• Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Knowledge and Culture, Latinx Politics and Identity, Political Sociology, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz was born and raised in Chicago. He is an associate professor of sociolog
  Notable: “Cultivating Consent: Nonstate Leaders and the Orchestration of State Legibility” (2017) · 77 citations
• Laura J. Enriquez, Professor of the Graduate School h-index 8
  Development in Latin America; Latin American Emigration to Europe; Rural Sociology, Political Sociology; Social Movements Laura Enríquez’s principal interest lies in the possibilities and dilemmas inherent in social transformation in Latin
  Notable: “Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective on the Political Economy of Structural Adjustment” (1998) · 64 citations
• Areej Sabbagh-Khoury h-index 7
  Research interests: Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Knowledge Production, Social Theory, Colonialism and Settler Colonialism, Citizenship My research explores the material and symbolic mechanisms that sustain structures of
  Notable: “Settler-colonial citizenship: conceptualizing the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens” (2014) · 147 citations
• Danya Lagos, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Sex and Gender, Demography, Social Change Danya Lagos conducts research on transgender and non-binary populations, and the relationship between social change, gender, and political economy. They are passionate about applying quantitative me
  Notable: “The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology” (2017) · 159 citations
• Eliza Brown, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Economic Sociology; Family; Gender and Sexualities; Medicine; Reproduction; Science and Technology Studies I am a sociologist who specializes in reproduction. I am particularly interested in temporality and anticipation, the role of money i
  Notable: “Time, Anticipation, and the Life Course: Egg Freezing as Temporarily Disentangling Romance and Reproduction” (2018) · 108 citations
• Ricarda Hammer, Assistant Professor h-index 5
  Anticolonial Politics, Empire, Citizenship, Global and Transnational Sociology, Sociology of Race & Racism, Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Du Boisian Methodologies Ricarda Hammer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Universi
  Notable: “Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and Liberia” (2018) · 50 citations
• Yan Long, Associate Professor h-index 5
  Global and transnational sociology, political sociology, health and medicine, organizations, gender and sexualities Yan Long studies the interactions between globalization and authoritarian politics across empirical areas such as health, ci
  Notable: “Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning on Development of Nursing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills” (2023) · 33 citations
• Luis Flores, Assistant Professor h-index 5
  Notable: “The Presence of the Body in Digital Education: A Phenomenological Approach to Embodied Experience” (2021) · 26 citations
• Ekédi Mpondo-Dika, Assistant Professor
  Emotions, Poverty, Family and Personal Relationships, Mental Health UC Berkeley Sociology Department 410 Social Sciences Building Berkeley CA
• Trond Petersen, Professor
  Organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods I grew up in Oslo (Norway) and finished undergraduate and masters-level degrees at the University of Oslo before coming to U.S.

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.