37 faculty and 7 courses in Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles.
- Rogers Brubaker, Distinguished Professor h-index 59
Notable: “Beyond “identity”” (2000) · 2,786 citations
- Min Zhou, Distinguished Professor h-index 55
Publications Awards & Grants Min Zhou Distinguished Professor
Notable: “The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants” (1993) · 5,090 citations
- Stefan Timmermans, Professor h-index 50
Notable: “Theory Construction in Qualitative Research” (2012) · 3,826 citations
- Cecilia Menjivar, Distinguished Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair h-index 48
Notable: “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants' Lives in the United States” (2006) · 1,321 citations
- Tanya Stivers, Professor h-index 47
Notable: “Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation” (2009) · 1,484 citations
- Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor h-index 45
Publications Awards & Grants Roger Waldinger Distinguished Professor
Notable: “Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship” (1990) · 1,321 citations
- Omar Lizardo, Professor and LeRoy Neiman Term Chair h-index 39
Notable: “How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks” (2006) · 604 citations
- Victor Agadjanian, Distinguished Professor h-index 36
Notable: “War, peace, and fertility in Angola” (2002) · 151 citations
- Steven Clayman, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Questioning Presidents: Journalistic Deference and Adversarialness in the Press Conferences of U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan” (2002) · 321 citations
- Hannah Landecker, Professor h-index 28
. I hold a joint appointment between the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Society and Genetics , an interdisciplinary teaching and research unit in Life Science which houses the Human Biology and Society major; I serve as the A
Notable: “Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism” (2011) · 491 citations
- Ching Kwan Lee, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt” (2008) · 608 citations
- Jennie E. Brand, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment” (2015) · 719 citations
- Patrick Heuveline, Professor h-index 26
Center on how childhood family structures affect child wellbeing and the transition to adulthood. My work to date is divided between comparative, secondary data analyses on single parenting or cohabitation in Western Nations, and an ongoing
Notable: “Demography, Measuring and Modeling Population Processes” (2002) · 1,777 citations
- Abigail Saguy, Professor h-index 25
Research Publications Awards & Grants Collaborators Graduate Students Abigail Saguy Professor
Notable: “The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral panic?” (2005) · 744 citations
- Edward Walker, Professor and Chair h-index 24
Notable: “Confronting the State, the Corporation, and the Academy: The Influence of Institutional Targets on Social Movement Repertoires” (2008) · 271 citations
- Ann Owens, Professor h-index 21
Notable: “60 Years AfterBrown: Trends and Consequences of School Segregation” (2014) · 515 citations
- Megan Sweeney, Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage” (2002) · 543 citations
- Andres Villarreal, Professor h-index 20
Es on Latin America and the Latin American-origin population in the U.S. Within the area of immigration he seeks to understand how population movements are driven by economic changes, and the consequences that these movements have for socia
Notable: “Stratification by Skin Color in Contemporary Mexico” (2010) · 271 citations
- Wei-hsin Yu, Professor h-index 20
Es on how macrolevel forces influence individuals, paying special attention to their labor market outcomes, family behaviors, and health and wellbeing. She has published two books and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including A
Notable: “The Motherhood Wage Penalty by Work Conditions: How Do Occupational Characteristics Hinder or Empower Mothers?” (2017) · 102 citations
- Natasha Quadlin, Associate Professor h-index 19
Es on social inequality in the contemporary United States. She is especially interested in topics such as the social and economic dynamics of gender inequality; inequality in access and returns to higher education; and debt and the economic
Notable: “The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring” (2018) · 340 citations
- Jessica L. Collett, Professor h-index 18
Collaborators Graduate Students Jessica L. Collett Professor
Notable: “Building Solidarity through Generalized Exchange: A Theory of Reciprocity” (2007) · 581 citations
- Gail Kligman, Distinguished Professor h-index 17
Notable: “The Politics of Gender after Socialism” (2000) · 243 citations
- Vilma Ortiz, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Factors Related to Immunization Status Among Inner-City Latino and African-American Preschoolers” (1995) · 159 citations
- Marcus Anthony Hunter, Professor, Scott Waugh Endowed Chair h-index 16
Notable: “Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry” (2016) · 244 citations
- Rebecca Jean Emigh, Professor h-index 15
Notable: “The power of negative thinking: The use of negative case methodology in the development of sociological theory” (1997) · 228 citations
- Jeffrey Guhin, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Whatever Happened to Socialization?” (2021) · 144 citations
- Gabriel Rossman, Professor h-index 12
Publications Awards & Grants Gabriel Rossman Professor
Notable: “Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange” (2014) · 121 citations
- Aliza Luft, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro Level of Genocide” (2015) · 97 citations
- Darnell Hunt, Professor and Executive Vice Chancellor h-index 10
Race, media, and cultural studies. As Director of UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, I am currently managing several research projects on the experiences of African Americans, as well as a major projec
Notable: “The Televised Sports Manhood Formula” (2000) · 280 citations
- Cesar J. Ayala, Professor h-index 10
Notable: “The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914.” (1991) · 90 citations
- Kevan Harris, Associate Professor and Vice Chair h-index 10
Notable: “THE RISE OF THE SUBCONTRACTOR STATE: POLITICS OF PSEUDO-PRIVATIZATION IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN” (2013) · 130 citations
- Faith M. Deckard, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Poor People's Survival Strategies: Two Decades of Research in the Americas” (2022) · 67 citations
- Chris Herring, Assistant Professor
Es on poverty, homelessness, and housing in US cities. His work has been published in the American Sociological Review , Social Problems , City and Community , The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences , City , Tea
- Giovanni Rossi, Associate Professor and Vice Chair
- Ian Lundberg, Assistant Professor
Awards & Grants Ian Lundberg Assistant Professor
- Naomi F. Sugie, Associate Professor
- Ruben Hernandez-Leon, 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.