Sociology at University of Washington

20 faculty and 30 courses in Sociology at University of Washington.

Faculty

• Kyle Crowder, Department Chair, Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Sociology h-index 51
  Notable: “Escaping Distressed Neighborhoods: Individual, Community, and Metropolitan Influences” (1997) · 531 citations
• Katherine Beckett, Professor, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology h-index 36
  Notable: “Governing Social Marginality” (2001) · 514 citations
• Sara Curran, Professor of Sociology h-index 23
  Notable: “Engendering migrant networks: The case of Mexican migration” (2003) · 402 citations
• Nathalie Williams, Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “Measures of Human Mobility Using Mobile Phone Records Enhanced with GIS Data” (2015) · 115 citations
• Alexes Harris, University of Washington Presidential Term Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contemporary United States” (2010) · 382 citations
• Zack Almquist, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Spatial heterogeneity can lead to substantial local variations in COVID-19 timing and severity” (2020) · 138 citations
• Audrey Dorelien, Associate Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation” (2012) · 128 citations
• Julie Brines, Associate Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home” (1990) · 2,245 citations
• Patricia Louie, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Representations of race and skin tone in medical textbook imagery” (2018) · 265 citations
• Patrick Greiner, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Renewable energy injustice: The socio-environmental implications of renewable energy consumption” (2019) · 132 citations
• Sarah Quinn, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Performance of an Imaging System vs. Manual Screening in the Detection of Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions of the Uterine Cervix” (2006) · 95 citations
• Theresa Rocha Beardall, Associate Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare” (2021) · 50 citations
• Peter Catron, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Modes of incorporation: a conceptual and empirical critique” (2016) · 41 citations
• Hyungmin Cha, Assistant Professor h-index 7
  Notable: “Gender and Social Isolation across the Life Course” (2022) · 152 citations
• Sasha Johfre, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Reconsidering the Reference Category” (2021) · 107 citations
• Jelani Ince, Assistant Professor h-index 5
  Notable: “The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use” (2017) · 281 citations
• Rosalind Kichler, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 2
  Notable: ““What Has Kept Me Alive”: Transgender Communities and Support” (2021) · 12 citations
• Andrew Messamore, Assistant Professor
• Ann Frost, Associate Teaching Professor
• Tyler McCormick, Professor

Courses

• Survey of Sociology SOC 110
• American Society SOC 111
• Stability and Change in American Society SOC 211
• Evolution and Revolution: Comparative Social Change SOC 212
• Introduction to Urban Sociology SOC 215
• War, Peace, and the Sociology of Survival SOC 218
• Introduction to Sociological Methods SOC 220
• Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences SOC 221
• Sociology of Sport SOC 222
• Data and Society SOC 225
• Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities SOC 230
• Introduction to Social Psychology SOC 240
• Contemporary Social Movements SOC 247
• Media and Society SOC 250
• Introduction to Labor Studies SOC 266
• Social Problems SOC 270
• Introduction to the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control SOC 271
• Introduction of the Sociology of Sexuality SOC 287
• Who Gets Ahead? Public Schooling in America SOC 292
• Foundations of Social Inquiry SOC 300
• Introduction to Sociological Theory SOC 316
• Evaluating Social Science Evidence SOC 320
• Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I SOC 321
• Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences II SOC 322
• Quantified Self: Self Tracking Implications SOC 325
• Methodology of Sociological Research SOC 328
• Human Ecology SOC 330
• Population and Society SOC 331
• Social Construction of Madness and Mental Health SOC 337
• Symbolic Interaction SOC 340

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.