50 faculty and 40 courses in Sociology at University of California, Irvine.
- George Farkas, Professor Emeritus, Education h-index 67
Social Ethnic Minority Education, Cognition, Behavior Websites Google Scholar Profile Dean Richard Arum Interviews Professor George Farkas
Notable: “Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits and Behaviors in Stratification Processes” (2003) · 621 citations
- John Hipp, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society h-index 60
Notable: “Local solutions in the estimation of growth mixture models.” (2006) · 746 citations
- Charles Ragin, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus h-index 56
Notable: “Fuzzy-Set Social Science” (2001) · 2,831 citations
- David Snow, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 54
Notable: “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment” (2000) · 9,721 citations
- Susan K. Brown, Professor Emerita h-index 49
Notable: “Cohabitation versus Marriage: A Comparison of Relationship Quality” (1996) · 608 citations
- Ruben G. Rumbaut, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 47
Notable: “The Crucible Within: Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, and Segmented Assimilation among Children of Immigrants” (1994) · 1,158 citations
- Kristin Turney, Dean's Professor and Co-Director, Graduate Studies h-index 45
Notable: “Barriers to School Involvement: Are Immigrant Parents Disadvantaged?” (2009) · 614 citations
- David S. Meyer, Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity” (1996) · 1,477 citations
- Francesca Polletta, Chancellor's Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Collective Identity and Social Movements” (2001) · 2,775 citations
- Edwin Amenta, Professor and Co-Director, Graduate Studies h-index 37
Notable: “The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism Across Nations.” (1990) · 894 citations
- Judith Treas, Distinguished Professor Emerita h-index 35
Notable: “Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic Scores: How the New Measures Measure up” (1994) · 559 citations
- Evan Schofer, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century” (2005) · 1,647 citations
- David Schaefer, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Development of a Standard E-Mail Methodology: Results of an Experiment” (1998) · 834 citations
- Valerie Jenness, Professor and Dean, Social Ecology h-index 34
Notable: “Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed.” (1994) · 301 citations
- Charis Kubrin, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society h-index 33
Notable: “New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory” (2003) · 809 citations
- Katherine Faust, Professor Emerita h-index 32
Social Networks, Comparative Structural Analysis, Demographic Processes and Network Structure, Animal Social Networks Websites Publications Wasserman, Stanley and Katherine Faust 1994 Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambr
Notable: “Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications” (1995) · 1,591 citations
- Edward E. Telles, Distinguished Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement” (2017) · 374 citations
- Andrew Penner, Professor and Director, CADA h-index 31
Notable: “Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States” (2012) · 457 citations
- David John Frank, Professor and Chair h-index 29
World society, university and society, environment and society, sexuality and society Websites faculty.sites.uci.edu/davidfrank/ Awards and Honors Coleman Award for Best Article Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Sociology of Education (2025
Notable: “The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century” (2000) · 677 citations
- Matt Huffman, Professor and Associate Dean, Student Programs h-index 28
Notable: “Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap” (2007) · 453 citations
- Richard Arum, Professor, Education h-index 26
Social Stratification, Sociology of Organizations, Sociology of Education Websites Google Scholar Profile
Notable: “Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub: Empirical and Theoretical Advances in the Sociology of Higher Education” (2008) · 418 citations
- Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Relational Work and Economic Sociology” (2012) · 199 citations
- Charles Smith, Professor h-index 22
Law and legal institutions; US politics, international law, comparative law Websites The Rise and Fall of War Crimes Trials from Charles I to Bush II (Cambridge University Press) Globalizing Human Rights emerging issues and approaches (Rout
Notable: “Factors Associated with Early Sexual Activity among Urban Adolescents” (1997) · 253 citations
- Stanley R. Bailey, Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Death at the Border” (1999) · 196 citations
- Laura Enriquez, Professor h-index 20
Notable: “"Because We Feel the Pressure and We Also Feel the Support": Examining the Educational Success of Undocumented Immigrant Latina/o Students” (2011) · 229 citations
- Paul Hanselman, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement” (2019) · 1,461 citations
- Yang Su, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “The Political Consequences of Social Movements” (2010) · 762 citations
- Andrew Noymer, Associate Professor, Public Health h-index 16
Notable: “The 1918 Influenza Epidemic's Effects on Sex Differentials in Mortality in the United States” (2000) · 233 citations
- Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor Emerita h-index 16
Notable: “Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement” (2005) · 93 citations
- Rachel Goldberg, Associate Professor and Director, DASA h-index 15
Notable: “What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future” (2022) · 127 citations
- Ann Hironaka, Professor h-index 14
Notable: “The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century” (2000) · 677 citations
- Julia C. Lerch, Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “World Society and the Globalization of Educational Policy” (2016) · 81 citations
- Kelley Fong, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life” (2020) · 255 citations
- Linda Trinh Vo, Professor Emerita h-index 13
Asian American studies; racial and ethnic relations; immigrants and refugees; gender relations; and community and urban studies Academic Distinctions University of California, Irvine Chancellor's Fellow ) Appointments University o
Notable: “Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America” (2010) · 119 citations
- Glenda M. Flores, Professor and Chair h-index 10
Notable: “Racialized Tokens: Latina Teachers Negotiating, Surviving and Thriving in a White Woman’s Profession” (2011) · 84 citations
- Sharon Koppman, Assistant Professor, Organization and Management h-index 10
Notable: “Different Like Me” (2015) · 76 citations
- Tony Cheng, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law and Society h-index 10
Notable: “Understanding the Crime Gap: Violence and Inequality in an American City” (2018) · 69 citations
- Maria Rendon, Associate Professor, Planning, Policy and Design h-index 9
Notable: “Barrios and Burbs: Residential Context and Health-Risk Behaviors among Angeleno Adolescents” (2007) · 82 citations
- Emily Carian, Assistant Professor of Teaching and Director, Undergraduate Studies and Honors h-index 9
Notable: “Medication administration quality and health information technology: a national study of US hospitals” (2011) · 63 citations
- Irene Vega, Associate Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Increasing Latina/o Students' Baccalaureate Attainment” (2008) · 127 citations
- Patrick Bergemann, Assistant Professor, Organization and Management h-index 8
- Christopher Seeds, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law and Society h-index 7
Notable: “Bifurcation nation: American penal policy in late mass incarceration” (2016) · 108 citations
- Nicole Iturriaga, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law and Society h-index 6
Notable: “How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics” (2020) · 81 citations
- Rocio Rosales, Inclusive Excellence Professor and Active Associate Dean, Faculty Development h-index 5
Notable: “Survival, Economic Mobility and Community among Los Angeles Fruit Vendors” (2013) · 54 citations
- Asia Bento, Assistant Professor and Dean's Fellow h-index 5
Notable: “Belief in systemic racism and self-employment among working blacks” (2020) · 23 citations
- Carolina Valdivia Ordorica, Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law and Society
Immigration, law and society, the sociology of education, race and ethnicity, youth and families, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her work explores how various forms of legal and social exclusion impact the lives of immigrant youth
- Carter Butts, Chancellor's Professor
Mathematical Sociology; Social and Biophysical Networks; Computational, Bayesian, and Applied Statistics; Simulation and Computational Methods; Molecular Modeling and Analysis; Human Judgment and Decision Making; Disasters Websites Networks
- David A. Smith, Professor
- Feng Wang, Distinguished Professor
Politics and public policy, global demographic, economic, and social processes, social inequality, contemporary Chinese society Academic Distinctions Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography. Sociology of
- Sherelle Ferguson, Assistant Professor
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.