Teaching Faculty
Wendie N. Choudary
Lecturer
Sociology
Research Interests
- Community and urban sociology
- U.S. immigration and integration
- Population and society
Juanita DÃaz-Cotto
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Areas Studies Program; Professor, Sociology
Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program; Sociology
Research Interests
- Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
- Gender/Sexuality
- Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
- Latin American and Caribbean History
Pierce Dignam
Lecturer
Sociology
Research Interests
- Collective behavior and social movements
- Digital sociology
- Masculinity
- Political sociology
- Qualitative research methods
Leslie C. Gates
Professor; Undergraduate Director
Sociology
Research Interests
- Politics
in Latin America
- Historical sociology
- State-business relations
Juliana Góes
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- Race and racism
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Social movements
- Decolonial theory
- Gender and sexuality
- Global sociology
- Urban sociology
Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz
Associate Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- U.S. Women’s History
- Latinas/os in the U.S.
- Puerto Rican Women’s History
- Feminist Theories
- Cultural Studies
- Critique of Coloniality
Jason W. Moore
Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- Capitalism as World-Ecology
- Environmental History
- Agrarian Change
Heidi Nicholls
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- Settler colonial whiteness
- U.S. empire
- Militarism in Oceania
- Anti-racism beyond the state
- Indigenous and settler solidarities
Belinda C. RamÃrez
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- Urban agriculture
- Food justice and sovereignty movements
- Environmental ethics
- Community-based research
- Political economy/ecology
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- African Diaspora
- The Americas
- The Caribbean Within World-system
Marina Sitrin
Chair, Graduate Director, Associate Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- Abolition and Alternative Adjudication Processes
- Collective Action, Social Movements/Societies in Movement
- Commons, Commoning and Municipalism
- Prefigurative and Affective Politics and Direct/Participatory Democracy
George Ygarza
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sociology
Research Interests
- Latin American state formation
- Race-making
- Place-based and informed resistance
- Otherwise politics
- Abolition
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