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First Name | Last Name | Academic Title | Department | Research Keywords | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leisy | Abrego | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies | Central American immigration, Latina/o families, the inequalities created by gender, and the production of “illegality” through U.S. immigration laws,Complex consequences of U. S. immigration laws; Central American migration; Immigrant and Transnational Families; Gender; Latino undocumented youth | abrego@ucla.edu Bunche 7357 (310) 206-9414 |
| Stephen B. | Acabado | Assistant Professor | American Indian Studies, Archaeology, Anthropology | Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples; Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia , Archaeology | acabado@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 370 (310) 825-9359 http://www.stephen-acabado.com/ |
| Salih Can | Aciksoz | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | War and political violence; gender and masculinity; embodiment and disability; affect and trauma; humanitarianism; nationalism; authoritarianism; reproductive technologies; Turkey; the Middle East , Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology | aciksoz@ucla.edu Haines 305 |
| Victor | Agadjanian | Professor | Sociology | Social Demography; Migration; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Behavior; Family; Religion | agadjanian@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 206 (310) 267-4943 http://agadjanian.org |
| John | Agnew | Professor | Geography | Political Geography of Modern Europe; Place and Politics in Modern Italy; No Borders, No Nations: Nationalism and Borders in the Balkans; Sovereignty and Globalization; Geopolitics of the World Economy; Political Geography of Water; Critical Geopolitics of China; International Political Economy; European Urbanization, and Italy, Political and urban geography, international political economy, Italy, Mediterranean World | jagnew@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1171 (310) 825-1713 |
| Randall | Akee (Native Hawaiian) | Assistant Professor | American Indian Studies | Labor Economics; Economic Development and Migration; Human Trafficking, Poverty and Educational Attainment and Crime; Political Institutions and Economic Development; Property Institutions and Investment on American Indian lands; Income and Wealth Inequality by race and ethnicity, Economic Development, Education, Ethnicity and Development Politics, Immigration, Labor and Employment | rakee@ucla.edu Public Affairs 3250 (310) 825-6934 https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/randall-akee/ |
| H. Samy | Alim | Professor | Anthropology | Language, power, and identities; language and race, racism and (trans)racialization (raciolinguistics); the language and verbal art of Hip Hop Culture, locally and globally; Muslim youth cultures; language, culture, and education; culturally sustaining pedagogies; Black Language; U.S., Spain, South Africa., Linguistic Anthropology and Sociocultural Anthropology | halim@ucla.edu Haines 384 |
| Walter R. | Allen | Professor | Sociology, African American Studies | Comparative race, ethnicity and inequality; Diversity in higher education; Family studies | allen@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 3101A-1 (310) 206-7107 |
| Francis R. | Anderson | Professor | Sociology | Modern Europe: Intellectual History | Bunche Hall 6265 (310) 825-4601 |
| Richard D. | Anderson Jr. | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics; political language and voting rights in the United States, undemocratic polities, democracy in colonialism and decolonization, Russian politics, introduction to world politics, analytic approaches to comparative politics, and politics in Western Europe | randerso@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4351 (310) 206-5228 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/anderson/ |
| Juliann | Anesi | Assistant Professor | Gender Studies | janesi@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1312 | |
| Hannah | Appel | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | The anthropology of capitalism; U.S. oil and gas firms; the private sector in Africa; the economic imagination, Sociocultural Anthropology | happel@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 318C (310) 267-4253 |
| Andrew | Apter | Professor | History, Anthropology | West Africa (Yoruba, Nigeria) and the African Diaspora (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), History of Anthropology, Social Theory, Afrocentric cultural dynamics, capitalist modernity, Atlantic slavery | aapter@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5369 (310) 794-9547 |
| Stephen | Aron | Professor | History, American Indian Studies | frontiers and borderlands in North America; bridge the divide between "academic" and "public" history , United States, History, North American Frontiers, Borderlands, and American West | saron@history.ucla.edu Bunche 7391 (310) 825-1883 |
| John | Asker | Professor | Economics | antitrust policy, cartel behavior, vertical restraints, the competitive impact of mergers, auction design, firm-level productivity and the effects of industry subsidies, Industrial Organization | johnasker@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8363 http://www.johnasker.com/ |
| Sebouh | Aslanian | Associate Professor | History | Early modern world and Armenian history, Middle Eastern Studies | saslanian@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7383 (310) 825-4261 |
| Andrew | Atkeson | Professor | Economics | Macroeconomics and International Economics, finance, sustainability of international debt, the design of monetary policy and the measurement of the firm solvency, Macroeconomics and International Economics | andy@atkeson.net Bunche Hall 9379 (866) 312-9770 https://sites.google.com/site/andyatkeson/ |
| Eric | Avila | Professor | History, Chicana/o Studies | 20th Century U.S. History; urban and cultural history; popular/mass culture; history of architecture and the built environment; race and ethnicity; Chicano Studies. intersections of racial identity, urban space, and cultural representation in twentieth century America, 20C––U.S.urban, cultural, race and ethnicity | eavila@ucla.edu Bunche 7375 (310) 206-7695 |
| Cesar | Ayala | Professor | Sociology | Comparative/Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America | cjayala@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 245 (310) 267-4306 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/ayala/ayalares/ |
| Bryonn | Bain | Associate Professor | African American Studies | hip hop theater innovator, spoken word poetry champion, prison activist, actor and educator | bryonnrollybain@gmail.com Rolfe Hall 1318 |
| Peter | Baldwin | Professor | History | Comparative history of modern Europe and the United States, Europe | pbaldwin@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7240 (310) 396-0108 |
| David | Baqaee | Assistant Professor | Economics | Macroeconomics, Network Economics, IO, Applied Economic Theory | baqaee@econ.ucla.edu https://sites.google.com/site/davidbaqaee/ |
| Stefan | Bargheer | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Comparative/Historical Sociology; Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Environmental Sociology | bargheer@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 283 (310) 825-9209 |
| Matt A. | Barreto | Professor | Political Science, Chicana/o Studies | political participation of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States,approaches to research, research methodology, the Voting Rights Act, elections, statistics and Latino politics | barretom@ucla.edu Bunche 3284 (310) 794-1051 http://www.latinodecisions.com/about/our-team/matt-a-barreto/ http://www.mattbarreto.com/ |
| H. Clark | Barrett | Professor | Anthropology | Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology, cognitive development, hunter-gatherer ecology; South America , Biological Anthropology | barrett@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 376 (310) 267-4260 http://www.hclarkbarrett.com/ |
| Victor | Bascara | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies | Post-colonial studies (esp. U.S. imperialism); Asian American cultural politics; critical race studies; comparative ethnic studies; gender and sexuality; new social movements; mass/popular culture; media and technology, Asian American literature and culture (graduate and undergraduate), contemporary Asian American communities, Asian Americans and war, Filipino American experience, technology and new social movements, empire and sexuality, new media and the new world order, cultural politics of movements, and research methodologies | vbascara@asianam.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3336 (310) 794-7780 |
| Kathleen | Bawn | Professor | Political Science | American Politics and Methodology, political parties, focusing on roles they play in stabilizing coalitions and organizing politics | kbawn@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4240 (310) 794-5048 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=707&order=term&dept=POL%20SCI |
| Stephen | Bell | Professor | Geography | historical and cultural geography, Latin America, and the history of geographic thought, Brazil, Latin America, Historical Geography, Environmental History | sbell@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/bell/bell.htm |
| Stephen Andrew | Bell | Professor | History | Historical and cultural geography, Latin America, and the history of geographic thought; Historical geography; Latin America, especially Brazil and the southern cone region; the evolution of the world economy; European travelers in South America | sbell@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1619 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/bell/bell.htm |
| Saki | Bigio | Assistant Professor | Economics | nexus between financial markets liquidity and the macro-economy, builds on a broad range of theories of financial market liquidity and financial intermediation, to develop models designed to provide meaningful quantitative answers, Finance, Macroeconomics | sbigio@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9282 (310) 825-9397 https://saki-bigio.squarespace.com |
| Charlene Villaseñor | Black | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | art of the Ibero-American world, as well as Chicana/o art | cvblack@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 200D (310) 267-4816 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_papMzbb-I&feature=share |
| Maylei | Blackwell | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies, American Indian Studies, Gender Studies | U.S. women of color feminist theory: Social movements and historiography, Chicana feminism; Women's social movements in Mexico: Indigenous women's political mobilization, Sexual rights and human rights organizing; Transnational organizing: Latin American feminisms, Cross border activism, Migrant indigenous organizing; Queer of color genealogies; Collaborative research, oral history and ethnography, Indigenous Women, Social Movements, Indigenous Migration, Transborder Organizing and Community Formation, Chicano/a Studies | maylei@chavez.ucla.edu Bunche 7349 (310) 925-3082 |
| Graeme | Blair | Assistant Professor | Political Science | comparative politics, West Africa, experimental methodology | graeme.blair@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3274 (310) 825-4331 https://graemeblair.com/ |
| Simon | Board | Professor | Economics | Auctions, Contracts, Industrial Organization., Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization | sboard@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9353 (310) 825-5304 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/sboard/ |
| Aomar | Boum | Associate Professor | Anthropology | Ethnic and religious minorities; Islam; anthropology of religion, history, youth, and festival; Holocaust; sociology of Morocco; historiography; Morocco; North Africa; sub-Saharan Africa; Middle East, Sociocultural Anthropology | aboum@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 311 (310) 825-9516 |
| Jennie E. | Brand | Professor | Sociology | Stratification/Mobility; Social Demography; Education; Jobs/Careers; Quantitative Methodology | brand@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 228 (310) 206-1049 http://www.profjenniebrand.com |
| P. Jeffrey | Brantingham | Professor | Anthropology, Archaeology | Paleoanthropology; simulation modeling; carnivore ecology; hunter-gatherers; stone technology; evolutionary theory; China, Mongolia, Tibet | branting@ucla.edu Fowler A421 (310) 267-4251 http://paleo.sscnet.ucla.edu/ |
| Karida L. | Brown | Assistant Professor | Sociology, African American Studies | Culture and history of African Americans, migration, coalfields of eastern Kentucky, race, roots, Souls of Sociology, Black graduate students, double consciousness, school desegregation, ethnography; Historical Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Social Theory; Migration; Education; Oral History;W.E.B. Du Bois, Community Archives; Public Arts | kbrown@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 297 (310) 206-2130 |
| Scot | Brown | Associate Professor | African American Studies | African American history, african american community, social/political movements, history of funk music and popular culture | sbrown@history.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1321 (310) 267-5460 |
| Robert L. | Brown | Professor | Archaeology | India and Southeast Asia; art, culture, religion | rlbrown@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 247D (310) 825-3577 https://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/robert-l-brown/ |
| Tara | Browner | Professor | American Indian Studies | American Indian music in works by Western composers; Pow-wow culture in North America and Europe; Native American flute performance and contemporary ideologies, Ethnomusicology; American Indian music in works by Western composers; Pow-wow culture in North America and Europe; Native American flute performance and contemporary ideologies | tbrowner@ucla.edu SMB 2085 (310) 825-8449 |
| Rogers | Brubaker | Professor | Sociology | social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity, Comparative/Historical Sociology, Theory | brubaker@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 232 (310) 825-1129 |
| Gregory | Bryant | Professor | Communication | evolution of vocal communication and social behavior, Vocal communication, cross-cultural vocal production and perception, voice acoustics, pragmatics, music cognition, evolutionary psychology | gabryant@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2331 (310) 825-5984 http://gabryant.bol.ucla.edu/ |
| Moshe | Buchinsky | Professor | Economics | develops econometric tools and applies them to labor economics and public finance, Applied Econometrics, Econometrics, Labor Economics | buchinsky@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8373 (310) 206-9665 |
| Aaron A. | Burke | Professor | Archaeology | Bronze and Iron Age Levant; Archaeology of Warfare; Egyptian Imperialism in Canaan; Eastern Mediterranean trade in the Bronze Age | burke@humnet.ucla.edu Humanities 382 (310) 206-7218 http://ucla.academia.edu/AaronBurke |
| Lucy Mae San Pablo | Burns | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies | theater and performance, Filipino Studies, cultures of/against empire | lmburns@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3336 (310) 825-7625 |
| Ariel | Burstein | Professor | Economics | trade and international macroeconomics, International, Macroeconomics | arielb@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8365 (310) 206-6732 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/arielb/ |
| Jesse | Byock | Professor | Archaeology | Viking Age Scandinavia; Icelandic and Scandinavian archaeology, history, and political economy; feud and control of violence; sagas; the North Atlantic world | byock@humnet.ucla.edu Royce Hall 212 (310) 825-0671 http://www.viking.ucla.edu/ |
| Keith | Camacho | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies, American Indian Studies | Empire, gender, indigeneity, militarism, postcolonialism, war, anthropology, literature, and history indigenous studies, historian of Chamorros and other Pacific Islanders, U.S. colonial law and to its imperial regimes of freedom, punishment, and surveillance in the Pacific, Empire, gender, indigeneity, militarism, postcolonialism, war, Asian American studies | kcamacho@ucla.edu Rolfe 3336 (310) 267-5559 |
| Judith | Carney | Professor | Geography | African components of the Columbian Exchange; agrarian change in sub-Saharan Africa; human-environmental relations; mangrove ecologies and food systems in West Africa, Brazil, and Mexico, critical development studies; political ecology; agricultural history, environmental history; Africa and the African diaspora; food systems and food regimes | carney@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1216 |
| Genevieve | Carpio | Assistant Professor | Chicana/o Studies | comparative ethnic studies, 20th century U.S. history, (sub)urban history, and critical geography, particularly as it relates to notions of place and mobility | gcarpio@chavez.ucla.edu Bunche 7339 (310) 267-4983 |
| Elizabeth | Carter | Professor | Archaeology | Near East, currently working in Turkey and southeastern Turkey; Bronze Age urban sites | carter@humnet.ucla.edu Fowler A322-C (310) 206-5474 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=710 |
| Erica | Cartmill | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | Evolution of language; gesture; primate communication; human language development; parent-child interaction; language and thought; comparative cognition; great apes , Biological Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology | cartmill@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 396 (310) 825-5679 |
| Michelle L. | Caswell | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies | Archival theory and practice; Information ethics; The intersection of archival studies with social justice, human rights, and pluralism; Community archives; The politics of accountability, ownership, and access; Collective memory of violence; Archival pedagogy; Visual culture; Digital history; role of records and archival institutions in the construction of memory about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and traces a collection of mug shots taken at Tuol Sleng prison from their creation as bureaucratic documents, to their inclusion in archives, digitization, and use by survivors and the family members of victims to spark narratives about the regime and memorialize the dead | caswell@gseis.ucla.edu GSE&IS 214 (310) 206-3851 |
| Jessica | Cattelino | Associate Professor | Anthropology, Gender Studies, American Indian Studies | "Sociocultural anthropology, citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, economy and value, gender, environment, American public culture, Indian gaming; United States, Native North America", Citizenship and sovereignty, indigeneity and settler colonialism, anthropology of economy and value, environment and water, gender, American public culture, American Indian gaming | jesscatt@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 397 (310) 825-4400 |
| Kyle | Cavanaugh | Assistant Professor | Geography | coastal ecology, biogeography, spatial ecology, and remote sensing | kcavanaugh@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1156 |
| Duane | Champagne (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) | Professor | American Indian Studies | processes of social change and institutionalization; institutional change and variation among native American societies and their social, economic and political responses to Western influences (i.e. incorporation into the world system, geopolitical competition and trans-societal cultural interactions), Social change and cultural continuity in indigenous nations, the administration of justice among reservation communities, California Indians past and present, higher education for indigenous peoples, tribal and indigenous government, institution building and nation building, case studies of indigenous nations, indigenous perspectives and paradigms | champagn@ucla.edu Haines 292 (310) 825-2606 |
| Mitchell J. | Chang | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Educational efficacy of diversity-related initiatives on college campuses and how to apply those best practices toward advancing student learning and democratizing institutions | mjchang@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 3127 (310) 825-0504 |
| Denis | Chetverikov | Assistant Professor | Economics | high-dimensional models, shape restrictions, and applications of empirical process theory in econometrics, Econometrics | chetverikov@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8369 (310) 825-4521 https://denischetverikov.wordpress.com/ |
| King-Kok | Cheung | Professor | Asian-American Studies | American Ethnic Literatures, Asian American Literature, Chinese and Chinese American Literature, Renaissance British Literature (Shakespeare and Milton), World Literature (Comparative Odysseys and Comparative Heroic Traditions), sexuality & gender studies | cheung@humnet.ucla.edu Kaplan Hall 212 (310) 825-1701 |
| Darin Eugene | Christensen | Assistant Professor | Political Science | Conflict, Economic Development, Political Economy | darinc@luskin.ucla.edu Public Affairs 6341 (310) 825-7196 https://darinchristensen.com/ |
| Jennifer | Chun | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies | changing world of precarious work and labor politics, with a focus on the intersections of gender, race, class and migration in comparative and global perspective | jihyechun@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3319 (310) 794-7780 |
| Michael | Chwe | Professor | Political Science | Methodology and Race, Ethnicity and Politics, communication and coordination in social networks, jury decision making and television advertising | michael@chwe.net Bunche Hall 3276 (310) 794-5462 http://www.chwe.net/michael/ |
| M. Kamari | Clarke | Professor | Anthropology | Culture and power; legal anthropology; affect theory; transnationalism; globalization and diaspora theory; social and cultural theory; the anthropology of africa; race and globalization; controversies and dilemmas in social movements; critical approaches to international law; religious nationalism; the anthropology of evidence and expertise; Nigeria-West Africa; Oyotunji African Village; International Criminal Courts/Tribunals-The Hague, African Union Treaty Making-Addis Ababa | kamariclarke@ucla.edu Haines 318E (310) 794-7658 http://www.kamariclarke.com |
| Steven | Clayman | Professor | Sociology, Communication | Language/Social Linguistics, Mass Communication/Public Opinion, Ethnomethodology, journalism and mass communication, broadcast news interviews and presidential news conferences, spoken interaction and interface with social institutions Intersection of language, interaction, and mass communication; spoken interaction and its interface with social institutions; journalism, broadcast news interviews, presidential news conferences | clayman@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 231 (310) 825-2090 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/clayman/Site/Home.html |
| Meredith | Cohen | Associate Professor | Archaeology | Medieval Europe, archaeology of buildings, production and reception of art and architecture, uses and functions of structures and spaces, conservation theory and historiography | mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 247B (310) 206-9399 |
| Jessica L. | Collett | Professor | Sociology | Social Psychology, Gender and Family, Emotions, Social Inequality, Religion, small group processes, identity, work, education, methodology | collett@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 292 (310) 267-4957 http://collett.bol.ucla.edu |
| Kara | Cooney | Associate Professor | Archaeology | Egyptology, gender issues of death in ancient Egypt, craft specialization, funerary arts in the ancient world, and ritual studies | cooney@ucla.edu Humanities 393 (310) 825-9222 http://karacooney.squarespace.com/ |
| Dora | Costa | Professor | Economics | Effects of environmental stress and social networks on older age health and mortality; long-run changes in aging patterns; the effects of social networks on learning and community participation, labor economics, demography, and health, as interpreted over the long span of American economic history, Economic History, Aging, Health, Social Capital | costa@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9272 (310) 825-4249 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/costa/ |
| Daniela | Cusack | Associate Professor | Geography | biogeography and ecosystem science, biogeochemistry and global change factors, drivers of plant-soil-microbe processes and carbon cycling with changes in climate and nutrient availability (e.g. nitrogen deposition, warming, deforestation, and fire regime), Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Science, Tropical Ecology | dcusack@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 206-5536 http://cusacklab.geog.ucla.edu/ |
| Rick | Dale | Professor | Communication | dynamics of cognition and communication | rdale@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2319 http://rdale.bol.ucla.edu/ |
| Soraya | De Chadarevian | Professor | History | History of the biomedical sciences from the nineteenth century to the present, with special interest in the period after World War II , Science, genetics and society, history of science, technology and medicine | chadarevian@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5272 (310) 825-3888 |
| Jason | De León | Professor | Archaeology | Undocumented Migration, Violence, Materiality, taphonomy and siteformation processes, archaeology of the contemporary, forensicscience, photoethnography, Latin America, US/Mexico border | jpdeleon@umich.edu http://jasonpatrickdeleon.com/ |
| Erin | Debenport | Associate Professor | Anthropology | Technologies of language circulation; secrecy; indigeneity; semiotics; critical language documentation; language ideologies; Kiowa-Tanoan languages., Linguistic Anthropology | erindebenport@ucla.edu Haines 318B http://erindebenport.com/ |
| Lauren | Derby | Associate Professor | History | Her current research explores rumors about demonic animals in the central frontier of Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a form of sorcery and historical memory. , Modern Latin America & the Caribbean | derby@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7238 (310) 267-5461 |
| Jared M. | Diamond | Professor | Geography | Biogeography, Geography and Human Society; world regions and past societies | jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 56177 (310) 825-6177 http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Welcome.html |
| Joshua Foa | Dienstag | Professor | Political Science | Political Theory, European political theory between the 17th and 19th centuries, cinema, the American Founding, and Don Quixote, modern, continental and contemporary political theory | dienstag@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3339 (310) 267-5410 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=3823&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| John | Duncan | Professor | History | Late Koryo and early Choson period; Open Ports Period of 1876-1910; Asia, Korea, East Asia, History, Korean Studies | duncan@humnet.ucla.edu Royce Hall 290/Bunche Hall 11373 |
| Alessandro | Duranti | Professor | Anthropology | Linguistic anthropology, ethnopragmatics, phenomenological and anthropological theories of intentionality and human agency, political discourse, literacy activities, improvisation in language and music; jazz aesthetics; history of US anthropology; Samoa, U.S., Italy , Linguistic Anthropology | aduranti@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 349 (310) 825-2055 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/duranti/ |
| Sebastian | Edwards | Professor | Economics | Capital Markets, Consumer Price Index, Currency Crises, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Inequality, Inflation, Latin America, Mexico, NAFTA, Poverty | sebastian.edwards@anderson.ucla.edu Entrepreneurs Hall 508C (310) 206-6797 http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/sebastian.edwards/ |
| Rebecca Jean | Emigh | Professor | Sociology | Historical and Comparative Sociology, Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Change, Theory, Historical Demography, Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology, long-term process of social change, intersection of cultural economic and demographic factors to create social change | emigh@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 252A (310)206-9546 |
| Robert K. | Englund | Professor | Archaeology | Assyriology and Sumerology; proto-cuneiform texts from late 4th millennium BC Mesopotamia | englund@ucla.edu Humanities 396 (310) 825-8506 https://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=robert-k-englund |
| Michelle | Erai (Ngapuhi/Ngati Porou) | Assistant Professor | Gender Studies, American Indian Studies | queer indigenous studies, Maori in New Zealand, Postcolonial Feminist Theories, Visual Culture, Indigenous Feminisms, Violence, Historiography and the Pacific, Gender | merai@gender.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2220 (310) 206-8101 |
| Lieba Bernice | Faier | Associate Professor | Geography, Gender Studies | Ethnographic and feminist approaches to understanding the spatial and cultural dynamics of contemporary transnational processes, particularly as these pertain to people's lives in Japan, the Philippines, and the United States | lfaier@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-3525 |
| Pablo | Fajgelbaum | Associate Professor | Economics | international trade and the effects of regional policies on the spatial distribution of economic activity, International Trade, Macroeconomics | pfajgelbaum@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8347 (310) 794-7241 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/pfajgelbaum/ |
| Lothar Von | Falkenhausen | Professor | Archaeology | Archaeology of China, East and Inner Asia, coordination of archaeological materials and historical sources on ancient China, economic history and history of science and technology | lothar@humnet.ucla.edu Fowler A344 (310) 825-6046 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=69 |
| Chi-Fun Cindy | Fan | Professor | Geography, Asian-American Studies | Population, migration, regional development and policy, inequality, gender, ethnicity in North America, post-Mao China | fan@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 11343 (310) 825-4921 http://www.international.ucla.edu/institute/person/231 |
| Kym | Faull | Professor | Archaeology | biochemistry, brain biochemistry, mass spectrometry; Andean dyes, and residue analysis on ceramics recovered from sites in Egypt, the Sudan and elsewhere | faull@chem.ucla.edu (310) 206-7881 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php |
| Diane | Favro | Professor | Archaeology | Architectural history | dfavro@ucla.edu Perloff Hall 1317 (310) 825-5374 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php |
| Daniel M.T. | Fessler | Professor | Anthropology | Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology; emotions, cooperation, aggression, social control, risk taking, ingestive and reproductive behaviors, morality, cultural evolution; Indonesia , Biological Anthropology | dfessler@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 390 (310) 794-9252 http://www.danielmtfessler.com/ |
| Aisha | Finch | Associate Professor | History, African American Studies, Gender Studies | comparative slavery; political and intellectual movements in Cuba, Latin America, and the African Diaspora; gender ideologies in the Caribbean, and black feminist thought African diaspora, African American history, Caribbean history, Latin American history, women and gender, slavery, social movements, Cuba, postcolonial studies, Caribbean and Latin American History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminism, Comparative Slavery, Black Cultural Studies Comparative slavery; political and intellectual movements in Cuba, Latin America, and the African Diaspora; gender ideologies in the Caribbean, and black feminist thought | akfinch@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2210 (310) 206-1669 |
| Christian | Fischer | Archaeology | Archaeological and conservation science of stone and ceramics; non-invasive and portable spectroscopy; weathering mechanisms; sourcing and provenance; ancient Khmer material culture | chrisfischer@ucla.edu (310) 794-4915 https://archaeomaterialsgroup.wordpress.com/ | |
| Alan Page | Fiske | Professor | Anthropology | Psychological anthropology, social theory, social relationships, social/moral emotions, methodology; Africa , Psychological and Sociocultural Anthropology | afiske@ucla.edu Haines 308 (310) 206-7719 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/ |
| Caroline | Ford | Professor | History | Modern France, environmental history; urban and architectural history , Europe | cford@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5254 (310) 206-9607 |
| Jacob | Foster | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Science and Technology, Theory, Computational Social Science, Networks, Complex Systems, Cultural Evolution; birth, life , and death of ideas | foster@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 204 (310) 825-1031 |
| Molly Mauer | Fox | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | Biological anthropology; female reproductive life-history; evolutionary medicine; depression; dementia; longevity; endocrinology; fetal programming; metabolism; acculturation; Hispanic Americans; minority health disparities | mollyfox@anthro.ucla.edu Haines Hall 381 http://mollyfox.strikingly.com/ |
| Stephen | Frank | Associate Professor | History | Russian History; Peasant Studies; European Social History; Popular Culture; Crime, popular festivity, violence, and social reform in the Russian countryside from the early 19th century to the 1920s, Russia, Europe, early modern-20th century | frank@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5345 (310) 825-1921 |
| Lorrie | Frasure-Yokley | Associate Professor | Political Science | Race, Ethnicity and Politics and American Politics, racial/ethnic political behavior, immigrant political incorporation, African American politics, women and politics, and state and local politics | lfrasure@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3278 (310) 825-7829 http://lorriefrasureyokley.com/ |
| S. Michael | Gaddis | Assistant Professor | Sociology | inequality, race and ethnicity, education, mental health, discrimination, experiments | mgaddis@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 285 (310) 206-6362 http://www.stevenmichaelgaddis.com |
| Tao | Gao | Assistant Professor | Communication | human social perception and cognition, with a special focus on aspects of the human mind that can inspire the development of artificial intelligence that is communicative and trustworthy , Communications, Statistics | tao.gao@stat.ucla.edu MS 8917 (310) 825-8497 http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~tao.gao |
| Linda | Garro | Anthropology, American Indian Studies | "Health care decision making; health and illness in everyday life contexts; cultural models; narrative and illness; remembering"; Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology, Socio-Cultural Anthropology | lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 316A (310) 206-6249 | |
| Alicia | Gaspar De Alba | Professor | Chicana/o Studies, Gender Studies | Chicano/a art; Popular culture; Border studies; Gender and sexuality; The Maquiladora murders; Femicide; Creative Writing,border consciousness, bilingual creative writing, Chicana lesbian literature, and barrio popular culture, Chicana feminist theory, aesthetics of place, and Latin@ noir | agdealba@chavez.ucla.edu Bunche 7367 (310) 206-3491 http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/10/13/7-chicana-feminist-authors-you-should-be-reading/#card_2520_5 |
| Barbara | Geddes | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, democratization, authoritarian transitions, and political development, Latin American politics | geddes@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3373/4289A (310) 794-5484 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=248&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Gilbert Chee-Leung | Gee | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Structural and interpersonal racism; health inequalities; racial, ethnic, and immigrant populations; life course; stress; neighborhoods; Asian Americans | gilgee@ucla.edu CHS 46-081C (310) 825-8838 |
| Francois | Geerolf | Assistant Professor | Economics | Macroeconomics, Finance, Power Laws in Economics, macro-finance models of asset pricing and investment with financial frictions, the microfoundations of Pareto distributions and models of low interest rates and excess savings, Macroeconomics, Finance, Monetary Economics | fgeerolf@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8389 (310) 794-5342 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/fgeerolf/ |
| Hanay | Geiogamah (Member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma) | Professor | American Indian Studies | Playwriting, Theater history and critical studies; Native American theater and its history; Native American ceremonial performance: theory and practice; Native American literature and cultural world views, American Indian Dance and Theater, Playwriting | hgeiog@ucla.edu Macgowan 1355 (310) 206-1536 http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2011/09/faculty-hanay-geiogamah/ |
| James | Gelvin | Professor | History | Social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, particularly Greater Syria (the area of present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , Middle East | gelvin@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7377 (310) 206-4854 |
| Sharon E.J. | Gerstel | Professor | Archaeology | Art history; religious studies; intersection of ritual and art; monumental painting | gerstel@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 247H (310) 206-8981 https://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/sharon-gerstel/ |
| Thomas | Gillespie | Professor | Geography | geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing data for predicting patterns of species richness and rarity for plants and birds at a regional spatial scale and biogeography, Biogeography, Forest Ecosystems, Remote Sensing, Geography of the tropics | tg@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1818 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/tdfpacific/ |
| Michela | Giorcelli | Assistant Professor | Economics | labor economics and the economics of innovation, determinants of productivity and innovation in the 20th century, Economic History, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics | mgiorcelli@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9357 (310) 825-1011 http://www.giorcellimichela.com/ |
| Richard Von | Glahn | Professor | History | Economic and social history of China, 10th-18th centuries; monetary history; comparative economic history; global economic integration, 1000-1800; East Asian maritime history, 1000-1800, China, World | vonglahn@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9278 (310) 825-3087 |
| Mishuana | Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca ) | Associate Professor | Gender Studies, American Indian Studies | American Indian Literatures; Cultural Geographies; Gender; Native Feminisms; Visual Culture; Literary discourse; Spatial analysis; Native and Indigenous Feminisms; thinking through colonialism, geography and literature in ways that generate anti-colonial tools in the struggle for social justice, Native American Literature, Native Feminisms, Settler Colonialism, Native American Film, Native Geographies, Race and Ethnicity, Women of Color Feminisms | goeman@gender.ucla.edu Rolfe 2225 (310) 825-3275 |
| Carole | Goldberg | Professor | American Indian Studies | Civil Procedure, Law, Federal Indian Law, Tribal Legal Systems | goldberg@law.ucla.edu https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/carole-e-goldberg/ |
| Jessica | Goldberg | Associate Professor | History | history of medieval trade, business, and industry, definitions of regions and regional identity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, epistolographic culture, and the idea and practice of law in medieval societies, digital humanities, Medieval, Jewish | goldberg@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6254 (310) 267-5942 |
| Miriam | Golden | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, partisan and electoral bases of political corruption in rich and poor democracies | golden@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3262 (310) 206-8166 https://www.golden.polisci.ucla.edu/ |
| Andrea | Goldman | Associate Professor | History | cultural and social history of early modern and modern China, urban history, performance, the politics of aesthetics, and gender studies, China, survey of early modern and modern China, ca. 1000-2000 (11B), as well as seminars in early modern and modern Chinese history & historiography, popular culture, and gender & sexuality | goldman@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5355 (310) 825-3368 |
| Laura E. | Gomez | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | Race and the law, law and society; Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, and Constitutional Law | lgomez@college.ucla.edu Murphy Hall 2300 (310) 794-7245 |
| Laura E. | Gomez | Professor | Sociology | Race and the law, law and society; Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, and Constitutional Law | lgomez@college.ucla.edu Murphy Hall 2300 (310) 794-7245 |
| Jamie | Goodwin-White | Assistant Professor | Geography | migration and immigration, inequality, labor markets, and social statistics, Populations Geography, Social Geography, Migration, Immigration, Inequality, Labor Markets, Race and Ethnicity, Social Statistics | goodwin-white@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1071 |
| Yogita | Goyal | Associate Professor | African American Studies | black nationalism, slavery, the modern novel, and race in a global frame | ygoyal@humnet.ucla.edu Humanities 228 (310) 825-4820 |
| Nile | Green | Professor | History | Global history; early modern & modern history of India/Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia; Muslims in global history; Muslim interactions with the non-Muslim world; Sufism; the Indian Ocean; Persian & Urdu travel writing; Islamic printing , World; South Asia; Islamic | green@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7256 (310) 825-9498 |
| Patricia | Greenfield | Professor | American Indian Studies | relationship between culture and human development, Developmental Psychology; relationship between culture and human development; social change and human developments, human development in Latino contexts, and media and human development | greenfield@psych.ucla.edu Franz 2279C (310) 825-7526 https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/page/pmgreen |
| Tim | Groeling | Professor | Communication | partisan news and the impact of new technologies on communication | groeling@commstds.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2322 (310) 267-4646 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/groeling/web/Home.html |
| Jeffrey | Guhin | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Religion, Education, Theory, Culture, Islam, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, science, gender, economic equality; moral concernworks on the individual and collective | guhin@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 296 (310) 206-8660 http://www.jeffguhin.com |
| Akhil | Gupta | Professor | Anthropology | Ethnography of information technology, the state and development, anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, space and place, history of anthropology, applied anthropology; India and South Asia , Sociocultural Anthropology | akgupta@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 324A (310) 794-7969 |
| Joshua | Guzman | Assistant Professor | Gender Studies | Performance studies, Latina/o cultural studies, sexual cultures, aesthetics and queer theory | joshuaguzman@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1314 |
| Martin B. | Hackmann | Assistant Professor | Economics | industrial organization and health economics, Industrial Organization, Health Economics | hackmann@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8283 (310) 825-1011 https://martinhackmann.wordpress.com/ |
| Jinyong | Hahn | Professor | Economics | Panel data analysis; semiparametric Inference, Econometrics | hahn@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8383 (310) 825-2523 |
| Sarah | Haley | Associate Professor | African American Studies, Gender Studies | black feminism, gender history, carceral studies, labor, and black radicalism U.S. Women's and Gender History, African American History 1865-Present, Critical Prison Studies, Social Movements, Labor & Working Class Studies | shaley@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1117 (310) 206-5228 |
| Ju Hui Judy | Han | Assistant Professor | Gender Studies | judyhan@ucla.edu | |
| Gary D. | Hansen | Professor | Economics | Macroeconomic theory and policy; equilibrium business cycles; aggregate labor markets., Macroeconomics | ghansen@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9369 (310) 825-3847 |
| Kevan | Harris | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Historical Sociology, Welfare States, Sociology of West Asia and North Africa, Business-state relations in Iran, Ocuupational and Class mobility in Iran, Social Policy | kevanharris@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 284 (310) 206-1247 http://kevanharris.com |
| Laurie Kain | Hart | Professor | Anthropology | Civil war, violence, segregation, borders; urban anthropology; space, architecture, art, material and visual culture; medical and psychoanalytic anthropology; ethnicity and religion; kinship, gender and social theory; Greece, circum-Mediterranean area, inner-city US, Sociocultural Anthropology | lkainhart@ucla.edu Haines 307 (310) 206-3652 |
| Erin | Hartman | Assistant Professor | Political Science | studies the methods under which experimental findings can be extrapolated beyond the experimental sample, survey design methodologies, focuses on creating new methods–including both theoretical approaches and new estimation strategies–for identifying and validating causal effects | ekhartman@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3270 (310) 825-4331 |
| Martie | Haselton | Professor | Communication | the study how evolution has shaped the social mind | haselton@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2325 (310) 206-7445 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/ |
| Chad | Hazlett | Assistant Professor | Political Science | machine learning, developing and extending approaches to causal inference, and using these tools to study civil war and mass violence | chazlett@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3264 (310) 825-4331 https://www.chadhazlett.com/ |
| Susanna B. | Hecht | Professor | Geography | Agroecology, Climate Change, Environmental History, Ethnicity and Development Politics, Food Systems, Forest Transition, Gender and Development, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Latin America Matrix Ecology, Political Ecology, Tropics | sbhecht@ucla.edu Public Affairs 5270 (310) 779-5654 http://luskin.ucla.edu/susanna-hecht |
| Kelly Lytle | Hernandez | Professor | History, African American Studies | race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States | hernandez@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6238 (310) 825-3884 |
| Ruben | Hernandez-Leon | Professor | Sociology | International Migration, Borders, Race and Ethnicity, Labor, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Mexico, Latin America | rubenhl@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 247A (310) 825-3059 |
| Juan | Herrera | Assistant Professor | Geography | race, social movements, queer of color critique, spatial theory, and women of color feminisms, space and power, race, Latinx geographies, and migration | jherrera@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1165 http://www.jcherrera.net/ |
| Patrick | Heuveline | Professor | Sociology | Children and the Family, Cambodia, Formal Demography; childhood family structures affect child wellbeing and the transition to adulthood | heuveline@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 214 (310) 825-6380 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=4794 |
| Toby | Higbie | Professor | History | United States social history, labor and working class history, digital humanities and public history | higbie@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5242 (310) 794-9331 |
| Raúl | Hinojosa-Ojeda | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies | political economy of regional integrations in various parts of the world, including trade, investment and migration relations between the U.S., Mexico, Latin American and the Pacific Rim | hinojosa@ucla.edu Bunche A241 (310) 206-4609 |
| Katsuya | Hirano | Associate Professor | History | intersection between history and critical theory with a focus on questions of ideology, political economy, and subject/subjectivity, Early modern and modern Japan, Colonialism, Racism, Critical Theory, Marxian Theory of History | hirano@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5238 (310) 825-1235 |
| Gil | Hochberg | Professor | Gender Studies | Francophone North African literature, Palestinian literature, the modern Levant, gender and nationalism, cultural memory and immigration, memory andgender, Language Politics, Hebrew Literature, Mediterraneanism, and Minority literatures | hochberg@humnet.ucla.edu Kaplan Hall 340 (310) 825-3209 |
| Felicia | Hodge (Wailaki) | Professor | American Indian Studies | developing and testing culturally sensitive intervention models for vulnerable populations, environmental contamination on American Indian/Alaska Natives' reservations and in urban communities, Random Control Trials (RCT)InterviewsFocus Groups, Behavioral health and chronic health issues among American Indians and Alaska Natives | fhodge@sonnet.ucla.edu Factor 5-940 (310) 267-2255 |
| Douglas W. | Hollan | Professor | Anthropology | Ethnopsychology and psychoanalysis; psychiatric and medical anthropology; person-centered ethnography; Indonesia, Oceania. , Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology | dhollan@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 316B (310) 825-3366 |
| Grace Kyungwon | Hong | Professor | Asian American Studies, Gender Studies | women of color feminism, Western liberal humanism and capital, contemporary neoliberalism, contemporary necropolitics, race, colonialism, gender, sexuality, women of color feminism and Asian American culture, Women of Color Feminism, Comparative & Relational Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Economies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Race and Neoliberalism | gracehongucla@gmail.com Rolfe Hall 3329 (310) 206-8006 |
| Hugo | Hopenhayn | Professor | Economics | industry dynamics and the the optimal design of unemployment insurance, theory of dynamic optimal contracting and mechanism design with important applications to patent design and the impact of financial frictions on firm dynamics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Microeconomics, Microeconomic Theory | hopen@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9377 (310) 206-8896 http://hopenhayn.weebly.com |
| Tyrone C. | Howard | Professor | African American Studies | Multicultural education, Social and political context of schools, Urban education, Social studies education, Educational experience of African American students, Educational Reform, Education Policy, Education Law, Teaching | thoward@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 1022B (310) 267-4824 |
| Peter James | Hudson | Associate Professor | African American Studies | Intersection of African Diaspora and Caribbean Studies and modern United States history, with a particular focus on the intertwined histories of white supremacy, capitalism, and empire, intersection of US history and African Diaspora and Caribbean cultural studies | pjhudson@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5351 (310) 825-2347 |
| Peter | Hudson | Associate Professor | History | intersection of US history and African Diaspora and Caribbean cultural studies, intertwined histories of white supremacy, capitalism, and empire, U.S. History, African Diaspora and Caribbean Cultural Studies | pjhudson@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5351 (310) 825-2347 http://thepublicarchive.com/ |
| Darnell Montez | Hunt | Professor and Dean of Social Sciences | Sociology, African American Studies | African American studies, race and ethnic relations, mass media, cultural studies, diversity in Hollywood entertainment | dhunt@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 255 (310) 267-4304 |
| Marcus | Hunter | Associate Professor | Sociology, African American Studies | Urban Sociology; Sexuality; Culture; Race, Class, and Gender; Racial and Ethnic Relations; Social Theory; Historical Sociology; Qualitative Methods | hunter@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 266 (310) 825-7865 |
| Margaret | Jacob | Professor (Emeritus) | History | History of Science, Intellectual History, Europe | mjacob@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6260 (310) 794-4432 |
| Scott C. | James | Associate Professor | Political Science | American Politics, influence of electoral institutions on American political development, focusing in particular on Electoral College competition and it's impact on legislative choice, federal law enforcement, presidential leadership, and patterns of American state-building | scjames@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3343 (310) 825-4442 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/james/ |
| Leslie | Johns | Associate Professor | Political Science | International Relations, Methodology, international organizations to resolve interstate disputes | ljohns@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3381 (310) 825-1662 http://www.lesliejohns.me/ |
| Gaye Theresa | Johnson | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies, African American Studies | race and racism, cultural history, spatial politics, and political economy | gayetheresaj@chavez.ucla.edu Bunche 7343 (310) 267-4983 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275287 |
| Kerri | Johnson | Professor | Communication | interested in how cues in the face and body communicate social identities to observers | kerri.johnson@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2330 (310) 825-3303 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/kjohnson/Lab/Home.html |
| Jungseock | Joo | Assistant Professor | Communication | multimodal communication in mass media by computational methods | jjoo@commstds.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2318 http://home.jsjoo.com/ |
| Ioanna | Kakoulli | Professor | Archaeology, Getty Conservation Program | Archaeological materials from the macro to the micro and to the nano length scale; forensic analytical imaging & conservation; materials science; Hellenistic and Roman painting; technology and synthesis of pigments; materials reverse engineering processing and diagenesis | kakoulli@ucla.edu Fowler A410 (310) 794-4915 https://archaeomaterialsgroup.wordpress.com/ |
| Jerry | Kang | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Civil procedure, race, and communications, behavioral realsim, Asian American communities, hate crimes, affirmation action, Japanese American internment | kang@law.ucla.edu Murphy Hall 2255 (310) 206-7298 http://jerrykang.net/ |
| Kelly | Kay | Assistant Professor | Geography | nature/society geography, political economy, social theory, land conservation and natural resource industries, Political Ecology and North America | kkay@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1174 |
| Terence | Keel | Associate Professor | African American Studies | history of racism and its connections to science, religion, politics, and modern life, historian, scholar of religion, critical race theorist | tdkeel@g.ucla.edu |
| Robin D.G. | Kelley | Professor | History, African American Studies | the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music; visual culture; contemporary urban studies; historiography and historical theory; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; constructions of race; Surrealism, Marxism, nationalism | rdkelley@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5383 (310) 825-3469 |
| Douglas M. | Kellner | Professor | Gender Studies | Exploration of the disciplines of cultural studies and the philosophy of education, examining the relationships among technology, education, and society; Utilizing print literacy as a focus for literacy skills, the need for other basics in education, including media literacy and computer and information literacy, to better enable students to read and creatively interact with emergent technologies such as the Internet; social theory, politics, history and culture | kellner@ucla.edu Moore Hall 3022B (310) 825-0977 https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/ |
| Christopher M. | Kelty | Professor | Anthropology | Science and technology studies, specifically internet culture and history; intellectual property; the public sphere; free and open source software; public domains; commons; authorship and ownership; the history and philosophy of science and technology in the US, Europe and India | ckelty@socgen.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1315 (310) 267-4775 |
| Georgia | Kernell | Assistant Professor | Communication | political communication, party strategy, voter behavior, and electoral competition both in the U.S. and in advanced parliamentary democracies | gkernell@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2323 (310) 206-9404 http://gkernell.bol.ucla.edu/ |
| Cheryl L. | Keyes | Professor | African American Studies | African American music, gender, and popular music studies; rap/hip-hop music; gender in jazz and popular music studies; vernacular music analysis; performance theory | clkeyes@ucla.edu (310) 206-8644 |
| Gail | Kligman | Professor | Sociology | Comparative/Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Ethnography, Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism, Trafficking and Migration | kligman@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 251A (310) 206-7277 |
| Zeynep | Korkman | Assistant Professor | Gender Studies | transnational feminisms; cultural politics; gender, labor, and affect; and religion, secularism, and the public sphere, with a regional focus on Turkey and the larger Middle East, transnational feminisms; cultural politics; gender, labor, and affect; and religion, secularism, and the public sphere, with a regional focus on Turkey and the larger Middle East | korkman@ucla.edu Public Affairs 6238 |
| Paul | Kroskrity | Professor | Anthropology, American Indian Studies | Language and culture; language contact, identity, and ideologies; anthropology and verbal art; ethnography of communication; American Indian Languages (especially the Kiowa-Tanoan and Uto-Aztecan families); the Pueblo Southwest, Central California, Anthropology, Native American Languages (esp. Pueblo SW and California); Native American and other Indigenous Language Ideologies; Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization; Native American Storytelling | paulvk@ucla.edu Haines 329A (310) 825-6237 |
| Edward | Kung | Assistant Professor | Economics | Applied Microeconomics, Public Finance, Finance, Urban/Regional, urban economics, real estate and real estate finance, household finance, and applied microeconomics more broadly, Applied Microeconomics, Public Finance, Finance, Urban/Regional Economics | ekung@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8343 (310) 825-4387 https://sites.google.com/site/edwardkung/ |
| Vinay | Lal | Professor | History, Asian-American Studies | Indian history, comparative colonial histories, subaltern history and Indian historiography, contemporary politics of knowledge, postcolonial theory, and the politics of culture; British India, Contemporary South Asia, the Indian Diaspora, and the Moral and Political Thought of Mohandas Gandhi; Politics of Religion and Ethnicity in South Asia; Hindu-Muslim Encounters in South Asia; "The Woman Question" in Colonial India; The Life of Krishna in Indian Art, History, and Culture; History and the Novel; the Partition of India; Violence in Contemporary Indian Society; and History and Popular Cinema | vlal@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5240 (310) 825-8276 |
| PJ | Lamberson | Assistant Professor | Communication | social networks, social influence, and collective intelligence | lamberson@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2321 (310)794-4179 http://social-dynamics.org/ |
| Hannah | Landecker | Professor | Sociology | Science and technology studies, sociology and history of the life and biomedical sciences | landecker@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 268 (310) 825-1517 |
| Deborah | Larson | Professor | Political Science | International Relations, draws upon historical, psychological, and political evidence to understand foreign policy decision-making; American foreign policy, foreign policy and peace and war | dlarson@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4355 (310) 267-5411 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=830&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Anna Shan-Lai | Lau (Chung) | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Mental health care for Asian American families, culture and child psychopathology, and parent-child relations in immigrant families, parent training interventions to families from diverse cultural backgrounds | alau@psych.ucla.edu Franz Hall 1243B (310) 206-5294 |
| Edward E. | Leamer | Professor | Economics | International economics, econometric methodology, North American Free Trade Agreement, dismantling of the Swedish welfare state, economic intergration of Eastern Europe, Taiwan and the Mainland, impact of globalization on the U.S. economy | edward.leamer@anderson.ucla.edu Entrepreneurs Hall 507C (310) 206-1452 https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/edward.leamer/ |
| Rachel C. | Lee | Professor | Gender Studies | Asian American literature, Asian American performance culture, Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, gender, science and technology studies | rlee@humnet.ucla.edu Humanities 234 (310) 825-7515 |
| Ching Kwan | Lee | Professor | Sociology | Labor, Development, Political Sociology, Global and Comparative Ethnography, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Africa, platform capitalism | cklee@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 270 (310) 206-2691 |
| Helga | Leitner | Professor | Geography | international migration, politics of immigrations and citizenship, urban development and sustainability, global urbanism, urban social movements, socio-spatial theory, Political and urban geography; international migration, immigrant incorporation, politics of immigration and citizenship, urban development and sustainability, urban social movements, and socio-spatial theory; regional foci USA, Europe, and SE Asia | hleitner@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1144 (310) 825-1071 |
| Richard G. | Lesure | Professor | Archaeology, Anthropology | Archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica | lesure@ucla.edu Fowler A343/ Haines 324B (310) 825-4614 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php |
| Dennis | Lettenmaier | Professor | Geography | hydrologic modeling and prediction, hydrology-climate interactions, and hydrologic change | dlettenm@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1145 (310) 794-4327 http://hydro.ucla.edu/ |
| Nancy E. | Levine | Professor | Anthropology | Kinship and domestic economy, demography, social change, gender; Tibet and Central Asia , Sociocultural Anthropology | nelevine@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 395 (310) 825-2134 |
| Jeffrey B. | Lewis | Professor | Political Science | Methodology, quantitative methodology and American politics | jblewis@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3271 (310) 206-5295 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/lewis/ |
| Zhipeng | Liao | Assistant Professor | Economics | Model Selection and Model Averaging, Robust Inference of Semi/Nonparametric Models, Modelling and Inference of Nonstationary Time Series, develops methods to use data to select among different economic models, and to make inferences from nonstationary time series data, and to make robust inferences from nonparametric models, Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics | zhipeng.liao@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8379 (310) 794-5427 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/liao/ |
| Jinqi | Ling | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Asian American novel and short fiction; critical theory (including Continental traditions and perspectives) that concerns the following: relationship between the modern and the postmodern, philosophical discourse on mimesis and human cognition, secular criticism, and historicized aesthetics, Asian American literary studies within the larger context of cultural and racial formations in the United States, of Asians’ migration and diaspora on a global scale | jling@humnet.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3333 (310) 206-5412 |
| Ka-Yuet | Liu | Associate Professor | Sociology | Social Networks; Social Epidemiology; Spatial Analysis | ka@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 272 (310) 267-4967 https://sites.google.com/view/kayuet-liu |
| Omar | Lizardo | Professor | Sociology | Culture, Networks, Cognition, Consumption, Social Theory, historical sociology, social movement | olizardo@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 290 (310) 267-5438 http://olizardo.bol.ucla.edu |
| Adriana | Lleras-Muney | Professor | Economics | The relationships between socio-economic status (in particular education) and health; the effect of disease on income and economic development; the determinants of fertility, Health Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics | alleras@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9373 (310) 825-3925 https://adriana-llerasmuney.squarespace.com/ |
| Michael | Lofchie | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, politics of economic reform in Africa | mlofchie@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4347 (310) 794-5493 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/lofchie/ |
| Susanne | Lohmann | Professor | Political Science | Methodology, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, political economy of research universities and higher education, ethics and governance | lohmann@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4343 (310) 794-5860 |
| Jay | Lu | Assistant Professor | Economics | decision theory, information economics and behavioral economics, Economic Theory, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory | jay@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9258 (310) 825-7380 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/jay/ |
| Aliza | Luft | Assistant Professor | Sociology | War and Violence; Political Sociology; Cognition; Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Comparative/Historical Sociology; Collective Action and Social Movements; social boundary processes; causes and consequences of violence | aluft@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 291 (310) 206-2724 http://www.alizaluft.com/ |
| Ghislaine | Lydon | Associate Professor | History | Western African History, Economic History, History of Muslim Societies and World History | lydon@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7248 (310) 825-4214 |
| Jessica W. | Lynch-Alfaro | Associate Professor | Anthropology | Evolution of diversity in socially learned behaviors, mating strategies and social structuring in Neotropical primates; capuchin monkeys | jlynchalfaro@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1323 (310) 206-1889 |
| Glen | Macdonald | Professor | Geography | climatic and environmental change including the impacts of human produced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gasses, water resources, coastal marsh systems, vegetation and fire, and the geography and history of the North American West, Biogeography, Physical Geography, Climate Change, Environmental Change, Human Impacts and Responses | macdonal@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1071 https://glenmmacdonald.com/ |
| Reynaldo F. | Macías | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | bilingual education, teacher supply and demand, Chicanos and schooling, adult literacy, language choice, analyses of national language survey data, population projections, language policies, and media research, language policy/politics/demography, adult literacy and teacher studies | reynaldo@chavez.ucla.edu Bunche 7337 (310) 206-4573 |
| Ben | Madley | Associate Professor | History, American Indian Studies | Native American labor in the making of the western United States, Archival historian , Native American History, California and Oregon Indians, Genocide and American Indians, Unfree Native American Labor, Colonial Genocide and Indigenous peoples | madley@ucla.edu Bunche 5371 (310) 825-4601 |
| Neil | Malamuth | Professor | Communication | violence and conflict, including an emphasis on mass media effects | nmalamut@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2327 (310) 206-8868 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/malamuth/ |
| Purnima | Mankekar | Professor | Gender, Asian-American Studies | Feminist Media Studies, Post-9/11Public Cultures, Affect Thoeries, Outsourcing and Information Technology, Transnational Cultural Studies; South Asian America, South Asia | mankekar@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1120 (310) 206-8101 |
| Joseph | Manson | Professor | Anthropology | Primate social behavior; human ethology and evolutionary psychology; personality; psychopathy; life history , Biological Anthropology | jmanson@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 389 (310) 267-4337 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/jmanson/ |
| Elizabeth | Marchant | Associate Professor | Gender Studies | contemporary Afro-Brazilian expressive culture, re-conceptualizing notion of the "Black Atlantic", Latin American Cultural Studies, Comparative Race and Feminisms in the Americas, 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Literature and Film | marchant@gender.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2222 (310) 206-8101 |
| Ananda | Marin | Assistant Professor | American Indian Studies | Qualitative and participatory research methods; Nature-culture relations; Socio-cultural dimensions of human development and learning; Learning and educational equity; Indigneous epistemologies and STEM learning; Video ethnography; Interaction analysis; Studies of everyday cognition; Community-based design research, Education | marin@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 3341 (310) 206-1877 https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/ananda-marin/ |
| Katherine | Marino | Assistant Professor | History | twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American history; histories of women, gender, sexuality, and race in the Americas; human rights; and transnational feminism, United States and Latin America; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History | kmarino@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5343 (310) 825-4570 |
| William | Marotti | Associate Professor | History | post-WWII Japan, global history, the 1960s, Cold War, comparability, critical theory, everyday life, art and politics, performance, law and legitimation, and protest movements, Japan | marotti@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5365 (310) 825-4368 |
| Natalie | Masuoka | Associate Professor | Political Science, Asian-American Studies | Racial and ethnic politics, immigration, political behavior and public opinion | nmasuoka@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3244 |
| Valerie | Matsumoto | Professor | History, Asian-American Studies | Asian American History; U.S. 20th Century, Women's History, Oral History, food studies, History | matsumot@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6265 (310) 825-4508 |
| Rosa | Matzkin | Professor | Economics | creating a tight connection between econometrics and economic theory, relaxing, at the same time, ad-hoc parametric restrictions on functions and distributions, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Nonparametric Methods | matzkin@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8349 (310) 825-7371 http://sites.google.com/site/econrlm2010 |
| Kyle T. | Mays | Assistant Professor | African American Studies, American Indian Studies | Indigenous studies, Afro-Indigenous studies, Indigenous popular culture, Critical Ethnic studies, Comparative race and ethnicity, Urban history | mayskyle@ucla.edu Rolfe 1328 (310) 825-5621 |
| Vickie | Mays | Professor | American Indian Studies | underserved populations, ethnic minority communities and women, Psychology | maysv@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu FH 1189 (310) 206-5159 https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/page/helenofpeel |
| Maurizio | Mazzocco | Associate Professor | Economics | Household Decision, Intertemporal Collective Models, Risk Sharing, Consumption, family intertemporal decisions; heterogeneity in risk preferences and decisions under uncertainty; political economy and development economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Economic Development, Political Economy | mmazzocc@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8377 (310) 825-6682 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/mazzocco |
| Teresa | McCarty | Professor | American Indian Studies | Anthropology & Education; Indigenous education, language planning and policy, Indigenous language revitalization, ethnographic studies of education in and out of school, Social Research Methodology: Educational-linguistic anthropology, Indigenous/minority education, educational language policy, youth language practices, education equity, ethnographic studies of education, and language endangerment, revitalization, and rights | teresa.mccarty@ucla.edu Moore Hall 1026 (310) 206-2569 |
| Muriel C. | McClendon | Associate Professor | History | Tudor-Stuart England, Europe | mcclendo@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5341 (310) 825-3918 |
| Kirstie | Mcclure | Professor | Political Science | Political Theory, Greek and Roman literatures, modern and contemporary political theory, the history and historiography of political literatures, contemporary literary theory, and feminist theory | kmmac@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3333 (310) 825-3650 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=193&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Kathleen | McGarry | Professor | Economics | Economics of aging, health economics, public economics, insurance, well-being of the elderly with particular attention paid to public and private transfers, including the Medicare and SSI programs, and the transfer of resources within families, Economics of aging, health economics, public economics, insurance | mcgarry@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9268 (310) 825-1011 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/mcgarry/ |
| Kathleen A. | Mchugh | Professor | Gender Studies | Contemporary critical and feminist theory; film and visual culture; industrial media feminism; prose and visual autobiography and self-narration | mchughla@humnet.ucla.edu Kaplan Hall 244 (310) 825-4173 |
| Uri | Mcmillan | Associate Professor | African American Studies, Gender Studies | nineteenth and twentieth-century performance cultures, and their particular intersection with literary cultures and visual art, with a particular emphasis on black performance art, English | umcmillan@ucla.edu Humanities 210 (310) 825-4173 |
| Norma | Mendoza-Denton | Professor | Anthropology | Sociophonetics; language and Identity; multimedia ethnography; experimental writing; visual anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology | nmd@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 382 (310) 825-3274 http://www.norma-mendoza-denton.com/ |
| Cecilia | Menjivar | Professor | Sociology | International migration, immigrant families, immigration law, gender violence, state violence, Latin America, Central America | menjivar@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 218 (310) 267-4928 |
| Michael | Meranze | Professor | History | United States intellectual and legal history, early America, United States, U.S. Intellectual and Legal History, emphasis on early America | meranze@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6240 (310) 825-2671 |
| Moritz | Meyer-ter-Vehn | Associate Professor | Economics | Reputation, Information Aggregation, Robust Mechanism Design, Multi-Object Auctions, pure and applied economic theory, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory | mtv@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9365 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/mtv/ |
| Li | Min | Associate Professor | Anthropology, Archaeology | Social archaeology and cultural history of continental East Asia focusing on emergence early civilizations in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Historical anthropology, material culture, and conceptions of the past in early modern China. Landscape archaeology, integrating systematic survey, analysis of archaeological ceramics, remote sensing imagery, traditional studies of stone inscriptions and numismatics , Archaeology | limin@humnet.ucla.edu Haines 304 (310) 267-4588 |
| Eric | Min | Assistant Professor | Political Science | interstate diplomacy, information gathering and sharing during crises, and applications of machine learning and text analysis techniques to declassified documents related to conflict and foreign policy | eric.min@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3254 |
| Nancy Marie | Mithlo | Professor | Gender Studies | visual anthropology, Indigenous visual arts and curation, gender analysis, film studies, photographic archives, museum critique, arts education and Indigenous knowledge production; Native North America, globalized popular culture | mithlo@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1120 (310) 206-8101 http://www.nancymariemithlo.com/ |
| Ailee | Moon | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies | Aging/Gerontology, Finance Welfare, welfare policy, program evaluation, family preservation and support programs | aileem@ucla.edu Public Affairs 5220 (310) 825-6219 |
| Adam | Moore | Associate Professor | Geography | Southeast European politics, ethnic conflict and intra-state war, post-war peacebuilding, cultural diversity and the state, military logistics outsourcing, geographic theory, and qualitative methods , Political geography | adam.moore@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 https://conflictgeographies.com/ |
| Michael | Morony | Professor | History | Near Eastern History, Near East | morony@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6242 (310) 825-1962 |
| Sarah | Morris | Professor | Archaeology | Prehistoric (Bronze Age Aegean) through classical archaeology of Greece; relations with the Near East; Greek literature | sarahm@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 247N (310) 206-7369 https://classics.ucla.edu/person/sarah-morris/ |
| Vinit | Mukhija | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Low-Income/Affordable Housing, Politics, Poverty, Urban Design, Urban Redevelopment | vmukhija@ucla.edu Public Affairs 3357A (310) 794-4478 |
| Pam | Munro | Professor | American Indian Studies | Indigenous languages of the Americas, language preservation and revitalization, dictionaries, syntax, historical linguistics, phonology | munro@ucla.edu Rolfe 3326 https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/munro/munro.htm |
| David | Myers | Professor | History | Jewish, Europe, Modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history | myers@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5387 (310) 825-3780 http://www.davidnmyers.com |
| Peter | Nabokov | Professor | American Indian Studies | World Arts and Cultures, Ethnographic and ethnohistorical research with Native American communities throughout North America | pnabokov@arts.ucla.edu Kaufman 211 (310) 825-3089 http://www.wacd.ucla.edu/people/28-people/faculty/140-peter-nabokov |
| Stella | Nair | Associate Professor | Archaeology, American Indian Studies | Indigenous Art, Architecture, and Urbanism of South America. Material Culture Studies, Artistic Exchange, Hemispheric Networks, Landscape Transformations, Spatial Theory, Construction Technology and Post Colonial Theory Material culture studies; cross-cultural exchange; hemispheric networks; landscape transformations; spatial theory; construction technology; design of Inca royal estates; Tiahuanaco stone carving; colonial Andean paintings; Brazilian urbanism | snair@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd 247 J (310) 825-8232 https://ucla.academia.edu/StellaNair |
| Minayo | Nasiali | Associate Professor | History | social and cultural historian of modern France and empire, Europe | mnasiali@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5274 |
| Steven D. | Nelson | Professor | African American Studies, Archaeology | Contemporary and historic arts, architecture and urbanism of Africa and its diasporas, African American art history, and queer studies | nelsons@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 212C (310) 206-6905 https://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/steven-nelson/ |
| Pedro Antonio | Noguera | Professor | Sociology, Chicana/o Studies, African American Studies | Focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts; Schools and the urban environment; Education and economic and social development; Education in other countries; Race and schooling; Immigration/migration; Parents and schools; Leadership and school reform; Student achievement | pnoguera@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 1041 (310) 206-9208 http://www.pedronoguera.com/bio/ |
| Kathryn | Norberg | Associate Professor | History, Gender Studies | history of prostitution, European women pre-1800, material culture, fashion, furniture, women of the French court, History of Prostitution, European Women Pre-1800, Material Culture: Fashion and Furniture, Women of the French Court | knorberg@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1120 (310) 825-7317 |
| Barry | O'Neill | Professor | Political Science | International Relations and Methodology, studies decision-making in social and political contexts, game theory to study foreign policy decisions, with a view to preventing war, governance of international organizations, and examining the role of national prestige as a motive for countries seeking weapons of mass destruction | barry.oneill@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4242 (310) 794-5862 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/boneill/ |
| Ichiro | Obara | Professor | Economics | Private information in repeated games; dynamic oligopolistic competition with imperfect or private information; theory of experts and information transmission., Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization | iobara@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9381 (310) 794-7098 https://sites.google.com/site/ichiroobara/ |
| Lee E. | Ohanian | Professor | Economics | Macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles, growth, economic crisis, Macroeconomics, International Economics | ohanian@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8391 (310) 825-0979 http://www.leeohanian.com |
| Gregory | Okin | Professor | Geography | geomorphology, plant-soil interactions, arid environments, nutrient cycling, spatial modeling, and remote sensing, Physical Geography, Soils, and Remote Sensing | okin@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1071 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/faculty/okin/Gregory_S_Okin/Home.html |
| Karen | Orren | Professor | Political Science | American Politics, American political institutions and social movements, analyzed in historical perspective | orren@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3337 (310) 794-5871 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=835&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Vilma | Ortiz | Professor | Sociology | Latina/o Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender | vilma@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 241B (310) 206-5218 |
| Sule | Ozler | Associate Professor | Economics | Psychoanalytic studies of Adam Smith's works, Inequalities/differences in a globalizing world as manifested in gender relations, productivity growth, and international private capital markets, Psychoanalysis, history of economic thought, economics of gender, international economics, moral philosophy | ozler@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9361 (310) 206-6031 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/ozler/index.html |
| Anthony | Pagden | Professor | Political Science, History | Political Theory and Race, Ethnicity and Politics, relationship, cultural, political and legal, between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world from the Atlantic to the Pacific, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, internationalism and about the history and the future of the European Union Relationship, cultural, political and legal, between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Political Theory and Race, Ethnicity and Politics | pagden@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4244 (310) 825-9984 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=1347&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Davide | Panagia | Professor | Political Science | contemporary political theory, aesthetics and politics, affect theory, political theory and cinema, political theory and algorithmic cultures, and theories of textual interpretation, addresses how values emerge from, and organize, political societies and the forms of association that result from these dynamics of valuation, aesthetics and politics focus on relations of immigration, equality, solidarity, and political participation in democratic societies | davidepanagia@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4345 (310) 825-4331 https://ucla.academia.edu/DavidePanagia |
| Aaron L. | Panofsky | Associate Professor | Sociology | Sociologist of science, knowledge, and culture; history, intellectual organization, and social implications of genetics | apanofsky@socgen.ucla.edu Life Sciences 3323D (310) 206-9362 |
| John K. | Papadopoulos | Professor | Archaeology | Aegean prehistory; Greek and Italian archaeology; history and culture of the Classical and later periods; the archaeology of colonialism; the integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past | jkp@humnet.ucla.edu Fowler A422 (310) 206-4997 https://classics.ucla.edu/person/john-k-papadopoulos/ |
| Kyeyoung | Park 박계영 | Associate Professor | Anthropology, Asian-American Studies | Social Inequality, Identity, Migration and Transnationalism, Political Economy and Globalization, Critical and Multicultural Theory, Korean/Asian American Community, Korean/Asian Diaspora, and Koreans/Asians in Latin America, Anthropology, Korean studies Inequality (e.g., race, class, and gender); identity; migration/diaspora; transnational and global processes; critical and multicultural theory; Korean/Asian American Community; Korean/Asian Diaspora; Koreans/Asians in Latin America , Sociocultural Anthropology | kpark@anthro.ucla.edu Haines Hall 383 (310) 206-3363 |
| Ellen | Pearlstein | Professor | Getty Conservation Program, American Indian Studies | Plant materials used as paint binders or patination materials on archaeological and ethnographic objects; the developing role of preventive conservation; and conservation education, Conservation Conservation and preservation practices in tribal museums; inclusion of community principles in conservation practice | epearl@ucla.edu Fowler A410/GSE&IS 219 (310) 794-4940 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=4058 |
| Ellen | Pearlstein | Professor | Archaeology | Plant materials used as paint binders or patination materials on archaeological and ethnographic objects; the developing role of preventive conservation; and conservation education | epearl@ucla.edu Fowler A410 (310) 794-4940 https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/ellen-pearlstein/ |
| Anne R. | Pebley | Professor | Sociology | Social demographer; social inequality and the determinants of health, both globally and in the United States; immigration from Mexico and Central America and its consequences for health; social stratification in labor force history and Latino-white differences in old age functional limitations; neighborhood change in Los Angeles and family and child well-being; reproductive health in the Tibetan region of China | pebley@ucla.edu Public Affairs 4284 (310) 825-5935 http://bixby.ucla.edu/anne-r-pebley/ |
| Efren | Perez | Professor | Political Science | political psychology, racial and ethnic politics, language and political thinking, implicit political cognition, and the measurement of political concepts | perezeo@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3284 https://eoperez.com/ |
| Fernando | Perez-Montesinos | Assistant Professor | History | Social, economic, and political transformations of Mexico and Latin America in the second half of the nineteenth-century and the early twentieth century, indigenous people, land tenure, land-use, commodities, and the environment, Purépecha people of Michoacán, Mexico, Latin America | fperez@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5280 |
| Rafael | Perez-Torres | Professor | Gender Studies | Intersection of contemporary U.S. culture with social configurations of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. He is particularly interested in the intersection between contemporary multicultural production and theories of postcoloniality and postmodernity | perezt@ucla.edu Kaplan Hall 246 (310) 825-4338 |
| Susan | Perry | Professor | Anthropology | Primate social relationships, primate social cognition, communication; capuchins, macaques , Biological Anthropology | sperry@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 330B (310) 267-4338 http://lbmp.anthro.ucla.edu/ |
| Carla | Pestana | Professor | History | early American history, the history of American religion, piracy, and the history of the early modern world, United States (early period to 1800), Atlantic World, Caribbean | cgpestana@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5391 (310) 825-1883 |
| Margaret | Peters | Associate Professor | Political Science | international political economy, politics of migration | margaret.peters@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3389A (310) 825-4331 http://www.maggiepeters.com/ |
| Mark Alex | Peterson | Professor | Political Science | Aging/Gerontology, American Politics, HIV/AIDS, Health Care, Political Leadership, Politics | markap@ucla.edu Public Affairs 6315 (310) 794-4270 |
| David | Phillips | Professor | History | Greek history; Greek law, Ancient Greece | phillips@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5246 (310) 825-4715 |
| Meredith | Phillips | Associate Professor | Sociology | Children and Families, Education, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity | Meredith.Phillips@ucla.edu Public Affairs 6323 (310) 794-5475 |
| Jemima | Pierre | Associate Professor | Anthropology, African American Studies | overlap between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies, race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora Race/racial formation; race and political economy; cultural politics of decolonization in Africa; history and theory of anthropology; African diaspora studies and theory, Sociocultural Anthropology | pierrej@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 1350 (310) 825-0029 |
| Rodrigo | Pinto | Assistant Professor | Economics | Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Early Childhood, modeling, inference, cost-benefit analysis, external validity and treatment effect estimation of social experiments. Among the experiments he has analyzed are the Perry Pre-school Intervention, High/Scope Comparison Study, Abecedarian Project, Nurse-Family Partnership, Moving to Opportunity, and Primeira Infancia Melhor (in Brazil), Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Early Childhood, Applied Econometrics | rodrig@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8385 (310) 825-0849 |
| Maria Cristina | Pons | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies | intersections of Latin American Literature and culture, and Chicano Studies, with especial focus on cultural production and representations | mcpons@ucla.edu Bunche 7355 (310) 206-3568 |
| Theodore | Porter | Professor | History | history of science, human sciences, diverse sites of knowledge-making at universities and academics, mining boards, statistical agencies (notably census offices), engineering corps, and mental hospitals, statistics, calculation, numbers, measures, and data, History of Science | tporter@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5256 (310) 206-2352 |
| Daniel | Posner | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, ethnic politics, research design, distributive politics and the political economy of development in Africa | dposner@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3248 (310) 825-3626 http://danielnposner.com/ |
| Shaina | Potts | Assistant Professor | Geography | post-colonial sovereign debt relations, transnational legal-financial geographies, and the politics of territory, Financial, legal and political geography; development studies; critical global studies | spotts@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1158 |
| Jeffrey | Prager | Professor | Sociology | Theory/Psychoanalysis, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Cultural Sociology,racism, trauma, and memory, South Africa and United States | jprager@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 257 (310) 825-3743 http://www.jeffreyprager.com/ |
| Marilyn | Raphael | Professor | Geography | The Santa Ana Winds of California, Global Climate Change and Variability, Climate Modelling, Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics, Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation and Climate, Antarctic Sea Ice Variability, Tropical climatology, Boundary Layer Climates and Environmental Impact Analysis | raphael@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 206-4590 |
| Sherene | Razack | Professor | Gender Studies | racial violence | sherenerazack@ucla.edu Public Affairs 6240 |
| Lucia | Re | Professor | Gender Studies | Modern and contemporary literature and culture; poetry and the novel, women writers and artists, feminist theory, modernism, futurism and the avant-garde, Italy, the Mediterranean and Africa, race studies, and literary translation | re@humnet.ucla.edu Royce Hall 354 (310) 794-8907 https://ucla.academia.edu/LuciaRe |
| Shana L. | Redmond | Associate Professor | African American Studies | Music, race, and politics; racial formation, political cultures, nationalism, labor, and decolonization; Focus has been to understand the ways in which music is used as a strategy within the liberation politics and social movements of the African world; Black Studies, Performance Studies, History, Critical Ethnic Studies, Sound Studies, English and Literature, Cultural Studies, and (Ethno)Musicology | shana.redmond@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu Schoenberg Hall 2414 http://drshanaredmond.com/ |
| Nancy | Reifel (Rosebud Sioux) | Professor | American Indian Studies | Public Health and Community Dentistry | nreifel@dentistry.ucla.edu |
| Janice | Reiff | Professor | History | United States, Digital Humanities, Urban History, Social History, 20th Century, Historical Methods | jreiff@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9252 (310) 825-5029 |
| David | Rigby | Professor | Geography | evolutionary economic geography, geographies of innovation and knowledge flow, technological change and regional economic growth, Geographies of Invention and Knowledge Flow, Analysis of Impacts of trade on U.S. Labor Markets, Analusis of the Micro-Economics of Agglomeration, Evolutionary Economic Geography, Geographies of Invention and Knowledge Flow, Technological Change and Regional Economic Growth/Uneven Development, Impacts of Trade | rigby@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-7334 |
| John G. | Riley | Professor | Economics | Theory of contests; economics of incentives., Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Information, Game Theory, Industrial Organization | riley@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8367 (310) 825-1541 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/riley/ |
| Angela | Riley (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) | Professor | American Indian Studies | Legal scholar of indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance; Law | riley@law.ucla.edu Law 3248 (310) 206-3760 http://www.angelarriley.com/ |
| Geoffrey | Robinson | Professor | History | history of political violence, genocide, human rights, and mass incarceration, primarily in Southeast Asia, South and Southeast Asia | robinson@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5361 (310) 825-3563 |
| Raymond | Rocco | Professor | Political Science | Political Theory and Race, Ethnicity and Politics, focuses on the relationships between globalization, democracy, citizenship and marginalized communities, Latin American communities in the U.S. | rocco@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3357 (310) 825-9282 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=494&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Ronald | Rogowski | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, design of electoral systems affects a nation's economic policies, globalization, capital mobility, and the sources of price differentials across national boundaries, international trade shapes domestic political coalitions | rogowski@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3369 (310) 825-4371 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=59&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Robert Chao | Romero | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies, Asian-American Studies | Asian-Latinos in the United States; Asians in Latin America; Chicano/Latino legal history | rcromero@chavez.ucla.edu Bunche 7353 (310) 206-2813 http://www.chavez.ucla.edu/people-faculty-and-staff/core-faculty-1/faculty-files/RomeroCV.pdf |
| Michael | Ross | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, political and economic problems of resource-rich countries, civil war, democratization, and gender rights | mlross@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3375 (310) 267-5409 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/ross/ |
| Peter E. | Rossi | Professor | Economics | Pricing and promotion, target marketing, direct marketing, micro-marketing, limited dependent variable models and Bayesian statistical methods; electonic couponing web-based retailers, economics, statistics, econometrics | perossichi@gmail.com Entrepreneurs Hall 515B (773) 294-8616 http://www.perossi.org/ |
| Giovanni | Rossi | Assistant Professor | Sociology | Conversation analysis, language, gesture, comparative study of social interaction, linguistic, social, and cultural | rossi@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 207 (310) 267-4832 |
| Gabriel | Rossman | Associate Professor | Sociology | Culture, Economic Sociology, cultural industries (radio and film); diffusion and disreputable exchange | rossman@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 287 (310) 206-8904 http://codeandculture.wordpress.com/ |
| Ananya | Roy | Professor | Geography | Critical Poverty Studies, Gender Studies, Global Urbanisms, International Development, Postcolonial Theory | ananyaucla@ucla.edu Public Affairs 5367 |
| Teofilo | Ruiz | Professor | History | social and popular cultures of late medieval and early modern Spain and the Western Mediterranean, Medieval, Early Modern Europe | tfruiz@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6258 (310) 825-3194 https://teofiloruiz.wixsite.com/teoruiz |
| Tomasz | Sadzik | Assistant Professor | Economics | Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Finance | tsadzik@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9359 (310) 206-2833 |
| Abigail | Saguy | Professor | Sociology, Gender Studies | Gender, culture, law, politics, comparative sociology Investigates contested public debates as a prism to examine how culture shapes and is shaped by institutional dynamics, including the mass media, mobilization of social movements, and pre-existing cultural legacies; sexual harassment and obesity | saguy@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 264 (310) 794-4979 http://www.abigailsaguy.com |
| Michael | Salman | Associate Professor | History | South and Southeast Asia, United States | salman@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9339 (310) 825-0893 |
| Otto | Santa Ana | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | Language and social hierarchies; Mass media representation of Latinos; Political humor | otto@ucla.edu Bunche 7361 (213) 590-3798 |
| Andres | Santos | Professor | Economics | theoretical econometrics, with an emphasis on estimation and inference in nonstandard problems, Econometrics | andres@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8283 (310) 825-9528 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/andres/ |
| Brooke | Scelza | Associate Professor | Anthropology | Human behavioral ecology, life history theory, reproductive ecology, maternal and child health; Australia, Namibia. , Biological Anthropology | bscelza@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 396 (310) 825-1437 http://bscelza.weebly.com/ |
| Gregson | Schachner | Associate Professor | Anthropology, Archaeology, American Indian Studies | North American archaeology; population movement; origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies; settlement systems and analysis; ceramic analysis; social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest Archaeology and history of Native American communities of the Southwest; cultural heritage and repatriation; social context of modern archaeological practice; Anthropology | gschachner@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 302 (310) 825-5302 https://anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/gregson-schachner |
| William M. | Schniedewind | Professor | Archaeology | Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages; Hebrew Bible, Northwest Semitics; Second temople Judaism; Social and Cultural History of Ancient Israel; Inner-biblical and Early Jewish Interpretation; Sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew Language | williams@humnet.ucla.edu Humanities 380 https://ucla.academia.edu/httpwwwnelcuclaedupeoplefacultywilliams |
| Thomas | Schwartz | Professor | Political Science | Methodology, social choice theory and mathematical political science, philosophy, mathematics, and economics to study problems of collective choice, institutional design, and constitutional politics | tschwartz@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3240 (310) 825-1972 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=738&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Gary M. | Segura | Professor | Political Science, Chicana/o Studies | Issues of political representation and social cleavages, the domestic politics of wartime public opinion and the politics of America’s growing Latino minority | segura@luskin.ucla.edu Public Affairs 3250 (310)206-8858 |
| Judith | Seltzer | Professor | Sociology | Demography; Family; Stratification/Mobility; Life Course, Inequality, marriage, cohabitation | seltzerj@ucla.edu Haines Hall 212A (310) 825-5646 |
| Jennifer A. | Sharpe | Professor | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Theory, Caribbean Literature; Archive Studies; Black Atlantic | sharpe@ucla.edu Kaplan Hall 274 |
| Shuyang | Sheng | Assistant Professor | Economics | empirical models of social interactions, Econometrics, Social Networks, Applied Econometrics | ssheng@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8357 (310) 825-8018 |
| Yongwei | Sheng | Professor | Geography | remote sensing, photogrammetry, geographic information systems (GIS), and their applications in large-area environmental monitoring and assessment, GIS; Remote Sensing; Photogrammetry; Environmental Studies; Forestry; Global Lake Dynamics; Global Change | ysheng@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1415 |
| Eric | Sheppard | Professor | Geography | Geographical political economy, Trade and uneven geographies of globalization, Out-of-equilibrium spatial capitalist economic dynamics, Great transformations of Asian cities: Contesting global urbanism, Urban sustainability and environmental justice ,Critical geographic information technologies, globalization, economic geography, urban and political geography, development geographies, geographic thought, geographic information technologies | esheppard@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1912 |
| Shu-Mei | Shih | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Sinophone studies, modern Chinese literature, modern Taiwan literature, minority discourse, critical theory, postcolonial studies, feminism, transnationalism, and world literature | shih@humnet.ucla.edu Royce Hall 241B (310) 794-8944 |
| Michael | Shin | Associate Professor | Geography | geographic information systems (GIS), political and economic geography, and Italian politics and society, reconciling universal (global) assumptions about political and economic patterns with particular (regional/local) outcomes and processes, geographical data analysis and visualization, GIS, political geography and spatial analysis, cartography | Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-3727 |
| David Delgado | Shorter | Professor | Anthropology, Gender Studiees, American Indian Studies | Religious Studies, Ethnography, ritual/myth/symbol, globalization, digital and filmic representations, qualitative research methods, paranormal studies, Yoeme (Yaqui) Religious Traditions, Ethnography, Theories of Colonialisms, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Indigenous “Webresentations” Black Atlantic oral narrative traditions, myths, rituals and popular cultures, indigenous lifeways, other-than-human relations, history of science, ethnography, colonialism, healing | shorter@ucla.edu Kaufman 130F (310) 206-6699 http://www.davidshorter.com/ |
| Debora | Silverman | Professor | History | Europe | silverma@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9337 (310) 825-5066 |
| Giulia | Sissa | Professor | Political Science | Political Theory, history, anthropology and philosophy of the ancient world, feminism, sexuality, addiction, democratic theory, utopian thinking, and political emotions, ancient democracy and imperialism, on politics and the passions, and on the political pursuit of pleasure, from Athens to Utopia | sissa@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4238 (310) 825-4294 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=1348&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Susan | Slyomovics | Professor | Anthropology | Gender; human rights; folklore and material culture; visual anthropology; Middle East and North Africa , Sociocultural Anthropology | ssly@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 312 (310) 206-3702 |
| Laurence C. | Smith | Professor | Geography | Arctic, Hydrology and Remote Sensing technologies, Environmental science, satellite imaging, and physical geography | lsmith@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1127A (310) 825-1071 |
| Monica L. | Smith | Professor | Anthropology, Archaeology | Urbanism; economic networks; consumption and material culture; anthropology of food; comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S., Archaeology | smith@anthro.ucla.edu Fowler A351/A148 (310) 794-9179 http://ucla.academia.edu/MonicaLSmith |
| Daniel G. | Solorzano | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | Critical race and gender theory in education; Critical race pedagogy; Racial microaggressions in education; Educational access, persistence, and graduation of Students of Color in the United States | solorzano@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 2022C (310) 206-7855 |
| Shannon | Speed (Chickasaw) | Associate Professor | American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Gender Studies | indigenous politics, legal anthropology, human rights, neoliberalism, gender, indigenous migration, and activist research, indigenous Latin American women migrants and gender violence Legal anthropology; indigenous rights; human rights; indigenous migration; gender; neoliberalism, race and ethnicity; sovereignty/autonomy; activist research methodologies, Sociocultural Anthropology | sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu Campbell Hall 3220A (310) 206-9673 |
| Steven L. | Spiegel | Professor | Political Science | International Relations, American foreign policy in the Middle East | spiegel@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3385 (310) 825-1276 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=66&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Ramesh | Srinivasan | Associate Professor | American Indian Studies | relationship between technology, politics and societies across the world, Information Studies and Design; Media Arts | srinivasan@gseis.ucla.edu |
| Peter | Stacey | Associate Professor | History | Renaissance philosophy, political theory and intellectual history, 1200-1600, Renaissance political thought between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, Europe. European intellectual history, 1200-1600; History of European political thought and philosophy from classical antiquity to early modernity | pstacey@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5373 (310) 825-1567 |
| Charles | Stanish | Professor | Archaeology | Andean anthropology; settlement archaeology; evolution of social complexity | stanish@anthro.ucla.edu Fowler A207/A322-A (310) 267-5579 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php |
| Francis | Steen | Associate Professor | Communication | how people use the multimodal information in mass media to form complex and integrated models of reality, using language, images, gesture, and emotion | steen@commstds.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2328 (310) 825-3147 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/steen/ |
| Sarah Abrevaya | Stein | Professor | History | Jewish, Sephardic Studies | sstein@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6296 (310) 825-4153 |
| Arthur | Stein | Professor | Political Science | International Relations theory, international cooperation and conflict, ethnic conflict, terrorism, economic relations, and global governance | stein@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3389B (310) 825-1173 http://www.grandstrategy.net/ |
| Richard H. | Steinberg | Professor | Political Science | International law and international relations, with a focus on international economic law, international criminal law, and human rights | steinberg@law.ucla.edu (310) 267-2064 |
| Brenda | Stevenson | Professor | History, African American Studies | race, slavery, gender, family and racial conflict, comparative, historical experiences of women, family, and community across racial and ethnic lines, intersection of race and gender, United States, African American, Southern, U.S. Women and Family | stevenso@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 6274 (310) 825-9420 https://www.drbrendastevenson.com/ |
| James W. | Stigler | Professor | Anthropology | Understanding processes of teaching and learning, especially of mathematics and science, from kindergarten through college; Re-thinking the role of research and development in education, and in particular, how researchers can work with designer/developers and practitioners to build and improve education interventions | stigler@psych.ucla.edu Franz Hall 2279B (310) 206-9494 |
| Tanya | Stivers | Professor | Sociology | Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology | stivers@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 244 (310) 825-3840 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/stivers/Home_Page.html |
| Katherine | Stone | Professor | Sociology | Labor and employment law in the United States; employment law, labor and social policy, contract law, and arbitration law | stone@law.ucla.edu |
| Michael C. | Storper | Professor | Geography | Cities and New Technologies, Economic Development, Global Public Affairs, Innovation, Regional Political Economy, Urban Economics | storper@ucla.edu Public Affairs 5288 (014) 549-7772 |
| Sanjay | Subrahmanyam | Professor | History | economic history and comparative economic development, medieval and early modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history, the history of European expansion, the comparative history of early modern empires, South and Southeast Asia, Europe, World | subrahma@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9347 (310) 825-3376 |
| William | Summerhill | Professor | History | sovereign debt, credit markets, schooling and human capital, railroads and infrastructure, and inequality, Brazil, Latin America, Economic History, Atlantic History | wrs@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9256 (310) 206-7600 |
| Megan | Sweeney | Professor | Sociology | Family, Demography, Contraception / Reproductive Health, Social economic underpinnings of family life | msweeney@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 202 (310) 206-7290 |
| Renee | Tajima-Peña | Professor | Asian-American Studies | Social documentary film, video and transmedia production, focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, race, gender, and social change., filmmaker, documentaries, documentary, and transmedia projects | rtajima@asianam.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3336 (310) 267-5592 |
| Mariko | Tamanoi 玉野井 麻利子 | Professor | Anthropology | Sociocultural anthropology, historical anthropology, political economy, gender studies; colonialism and nationalism; Japan and East Asia; Mexico and Spain (Catalonia) , Sociocultural Anthropology | mtamanoi@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 325 (310) 206-8399 http://mtamanoi.bol.ucla.edu/ |
| Chris | Tausanovitch | Assistant Professor | Political Science | American Politics, Methodology, Representation, American Politics, Public Opinion, Congress, and Methodology, mechanics of democratic representation | ctausanovitch@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3383 (310) 825-6392 http://www.ctausanovitch.com/ |
| Kevin | Terraciano | Professor | History, American Indian Studies | Colonial Latin American history, Mexico and the indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern Mexico, History Latin American history, Mexico and the Indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern Mexico (Nahuatl, Mixtec, and Zapotec) in the colonial period, Latin America | terra@history.ucla.edu Bunche 5353 (310) 825-8410 |
| Mary | Terrall | Professor | History | History of Science | terrall@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5276 (310) 825-2013 |
| Michael | Thies | Associate Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, theoretical knowledge of legislative institutions, electoral systems, and party competition to the study of Japanese politics, political institutions, delegation, and policy-making | thies@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4335 (310) 825-1976 http://thies.bol.ucla.edu/Home.html |
| Russell | Thornton | Professor | Anthropology | American Indian historical demography, American Indian revitalization movements, American Indian winter counts, contemporary American Indian issues , Sociocultural Anthropology | rthornto@ucla.edu Haines 306 (310) 825-7080 |
| C. Jason | Throop | Professor | Anthropology | Psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, sensorial anthropology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain, emotion/mood, morality, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia) , Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology | jthroop@ucla.edu Haines 388 (310) 794-2190 http://www.jasonthroop.com/about/ |
| Nguyễn-võ | Thu-hương | Associate Professor | Asian-American Studies | Alternative epistemologies, time, and the human in relation to necroeconomics and necropolitics. Futurist visions at intercolonial moments in early 20th century, the 1960s, and after. Intersections between Vietnamese and Black Studies, critical theory, Vietnamese and Vietnamese American politics and culture | nguyenvo@humnet.ucla.edu Royce Hall 248B |
| Christopher C. | Tilly | Professor | Sociology | Community Development, Labor and Employment, Latin America Social Movements/Labor Unions | tilly@ucla.edu Public Affairs 5358 (310) 206-7150 |
| Stefan | Timmermans | Professor | Sociology | Ethnography, sociology of health and illness, science and technology, the body, death and dying | stefan@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 216 (310) 206-6526 http://www.stefantimmermans.com/ |
| James | Tong | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics and political violence, civil society, gender and political participation, agency problems and control in China, and the Asian financial crisis | jtong@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3377 (310) 825-3464 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=845&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Aaron | Tornell | Professor | Economics | Lending booms and financial crises, Robust forecasting and Asset pricing, Financial liberalization, dynamic models of rent-seeking and reform, International Economics, Political Economy, Robust Control | tornell@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8387 (310) 794-1686 http://www.aaron-tornell.com/ |
| Robert | Trager | Associate Professor | Political Science | International Relations, how states form beliefs about the intentions of other states, and in particular on the role of diplomacy, determinants of coercive success and international terrorism | rtrager@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 4349 (310) 825-8809 http://www.roberttrager.com |
| Sharon | Traweek | Associate Professor | History, Gender Studies | cultural studies of science, technology, medicine 20th and 21st century “technosciences,” attending to their embodied gendered performance of subject formation of expertise, knowledge crafting, migration, and narrative practices, including their strategic engagements with the global political economies in which they are embedded | traweek@history.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2214 (310) 825-2884 |
| Daniel | Treisman | Professor | Political Science | Comparative Politics, Russian politics and economics and comparative political economy | treisman@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3365 (310) 794-5875 https://www.danieltreisman.org/ |
| Patricia A. | Turner | Professor | African American Studies | Racial dynamics as they surface in folklore and popular culture; African American quilters | pturner@college.ucla.edu Murphy Hall 2300 (310) 206-3961 |
| Stefania | Tutino | Professor | History | Early Modern Europe | tutino@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7389 (310) 825-8909 |
| Karen | Umemoto | Professor | Asian-American Studies | issues of democracy and social justice in multicultural societies with a focus on US cities, planning processes, social inclusion, participatory democracy and political transformation | kumemoto@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3336 |
| Dell | Upton | Professor | Archaeology | history of architecture, cities, and material culture | dupton@humnet.ucla.edu Dodd Hall 200B (310) 206-8370 https://arthistory.ucla.edu/faculty-profiles/dell-upton/ |
| Albion | Urdank | Associate Professor (Emeritus 6/30/19) | History | British social and economic history, local and regional communities of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Europe/Britain | aurdank@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5284 (310) 825-8888 |
| Concepcion | Valadez | Associate Professor | American Indian Studies | Language education, bilingualism, literacy, curriculum design, testing and linguistic minorities, education | valadez@gseis.ucla.edu Moore Hall 2119 |
| Jose Luis | Valenzuela | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | Directed theater plays, Latino theater, The Mother of Henry, Destiny of Desire, Dimentia, A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story, La Olla, Premeditation, Solitude, La Victima and La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin | Macgowan Hall 2335 (310) 206-7291 |
| Abel | Valenzuela Jr. | Professor | Chicana/o Studies | Immigration and labor markets, poverty and inequality, immigration settlement patterns | abel@irle.ucla.edu Bunche 7365 (310) 206-8224 |
| Lynn | Vavreck | Professor | Communication | Campaigns, elections, public opinion | lvavreck@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3351 (310) 825-4855 lynnvavreck.com |
| Jonathan | Vogel | Professor | Economics | international trade and industrial organization, impact of trade liberalization between countries that differ in the quality of their institutions; liberalization impact on the distributions of income and human capital‚ both within nations and across their boundaries‚ skill premium and immigration in the context of trade, International Trade, Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics | jvogel@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9290 (310) 794-7104 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/jvogel/ |
| Till Von | Wachter | Professor | Economics | unemployment insurance, employment transitions of workers and the impact of job loss, Labor Economics, Economics of Aging, Personnel Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics | tvwachter@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9367 (310) 825-5665 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/tvwachter |
| Roger | Waldinger | Professor | Sociology | International migration; race and ethnicity; social, political, and economic consequences | waldinger@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 253A (310) 206-9233 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/waldinger/index.html |
| Brian Esparza | Walker | Associate Professor | Political Science | American political theory, European social theory and comparative political theory, cross-national analysis of theories of civic responsibility | bwalker@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3347 (310) 825-1064 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=1092&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Edward | Walker | Professor | Sociology | Political Sociology, Social Movements, Organizations, the Nonprofit Sector | walker@soc.ucla.edu Haines Hall 235 (310) 206-2918 http://www.edwardwalker.org |
| Anne | Warlaumont | Associate Professor | Communication | early development and evolution of human vocal signals | warlaumont@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2316 |
| Joan | Waugh | Professor | History | nineteenth-century America, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras, United States | jwaugh@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 9351 (310) 825-1865 |
| Scott L. | Waugh | Professor | History | The Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost serves as the chief operating and academic officer for the campus. He works closely with the Chancellor and an extensive group of campus colleagues in guiding strategic planning and policy development, in promoting campus-wide academic initiatives and in defining budgetary and development priorities; history | Murphy Hall 2147 (310) 825-2052 |
| Pierre-Olivier | Weill | Professor | Economics | Search frictions in asset markets, quantitative models of economic geography, information transmission, analysis and regulation of Over-the-Counter (OTC) markets, the measurement of the financial soundness of U.S. firms, and the design of monetary policy in incomplete markets, intersection of macroeconomics and finance, Macroeconomics, Finance, Real Estate, Monetary Economics | poweill@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8355 (310) 794-6495 http://sites.google.com/site/pierreolivierweill/ |
| Willeke Z. | Wendrich | Professor | Archaeology | Social context of crafts organization and specialization, ethnoarchaeology, practical use of symbolic space, visual archaeology and the study of regionality versus long distance contacts | wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu Fowler A207 (310) 206-1496 https://nelc.ucla.edu/person/willeke-wendrich/ |
| David | Wilkinson | Professor | Political Science | International Relations, long-term and large-scale phenomena in world politics, including empires and systems of independent states, fluctuations in the power structures of civilizations and world systems on very long time scales, multipolarity, unipolarity and hegemony | dow@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3280 (310) 825-3450 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=70&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| Juliet A. | Williams | Professor | Gender Studies | feminist theory, masculinity studies, gender and the law, gender and education, feminist cultural studies, Gender and the Law; Feminist Political Theory; Masculinity Studies; Gender and Education; Feminist Cultural Studies; Socio-Legal Research Methods | jawilliams@gender.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 2201 (310) 794-7954 |
| R. Bin | Wong | Professor | History | Chinese patterns of political, economic and social change, Asia eighteenth century, contemporary conditions of globalization, China | wong@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7262 (310) 267-5462 |
| Brian | Wood | Assistant Professor | Anthropology | Hunter-gatherers; human behavioral ecology; evolutionary demography; foraging theory; movement ecology; social organization, Biological Anthropology | bwood@ucla.edu Haines 384 (310) 794-7157 |
| William | Worger | Professor (Emeritus 6/30/19) | History | social and economic history of southern Africa, contestations between African and European over the meaning of colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African | worger@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 2221C |
| Yongkang | Xue | Professor | Geography | climatology, atmosphere-land surface modeling and dynamics, regional dynamic downscaling, meteorological prediction, and remote sensing | yxue@geog.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 1255 (310) 825-1122 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/faculty/yxue/ |
| Yunxiang | Yan 阎云翔 | Professor | Anthropology | Social change and development, family and kinship, cultural globalization, morality, the individual and individualization , Sociocultural Anthropology | yan@anthro.ucla.edu Haines 366 (310) 267-4336 |
| Richard | Yarborough | Professor | African American Studies | English and African American Studies and also a Faculty Research Associate with the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies | yarborou@humnet.ucla.edu Humanities 201 (310) 825-2914 |
| Mary | Yeager | Professor (Emeritus) | History | American Economic History, United States | yeager@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 7381 (310) 825-3489 |
| Craig | Yirush | Associate Professor | History | development of political ideas in the early modern British Atlantic, church-state relations in colonial America, the question of Amerindian rights in the first British Empire, and the connection between law and political theory in early modern Europe, United States | yirush@history.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 5270 (310) 825-3078 |
| Lorrie Frasure | Yokley | Associate Professor | African American Studies | Racial/ethnic political behavior, immigrant political incorporation, African American politics, women and politics, and state and local politics | lfrasure@polisci.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3278 (310) 825-7829 http://lorriefrasureyokley.com/ |
| David K. | Yoo | Professor | Asian-American Studies, History | Asian American history, United States history, religion and Asian Americans | dkyoo@ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3336 (310) 267-5592 |
| John | Zaller | Professor | Political Science | American Politics, Theory of Media Politics, public opinion, statistical methods | zaller@ucla.edu Bunche Hall 3355 (310) 825-7527 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classes/profbylid.php?lid=889&order=term&dept=POL+SCI |
| William R. | Zame | Professor | Economics | Incomplete markets; bankruptcy; continuous and non-standard models in game theory; economic geography, impact of culture on economic outcomes in diverse societies, informational asymmetries in macroeconomics. experimental financial markets, and a number of topics in electrical engineering, Mathematical Economics, Economic Theory, Game Theory, Finance, Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory | zame@econ.ucla.edu Bunche Hall 8359 (310) 206-9463 http://www.econ.ucla.edu/zame/ |
| John Christopher | Zepeda-Millán | Associate Professor | Chicana/o Studies | czm@ucla.edu (310) 825-3675 | |
| Min | Zhou | Professor | Sociology, Asian-American Studies | International Migration, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Asia/Asian America, Community and Urban Sociology, immigrant adaptation, the new second generation, Asian American communities, ethnic entrepreneurship, immigrant transnational organizations, ethnic language media, ethnic language schools, and ethnic systems of supplementary education, China's housing reform, internal migrant workers' adaptation to urban life, and migrant-sending communities, as well as on African migration to China and intra-Asian migration, Sociology | mzhou@soc.ucla.edu Rolfe Hall 3336/Haines Hall 241A (310)825-3532 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/zhou/ |
| Lynne | Zucker | Professor | Sociology | Rational Choice, Organizations--Formal/Complex, Science and Technology, Theory, Organization theory, institutional structure and process, knowledge generation and transfer, comparative international institutions, industrial productivity | zucker@ucla.edu Haines Hall 241C (310) 825-9155 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/zucker/ |
