UNM's Sociology Faculty

Lisa Broidy, Associate Professor, criminology/delinquency, deviance, gender. 

Beverly H. Burris, Professor and Chair,  theory, sociology of higher education, sociology of work.

Richard M. Coughlin, Professor and Associate Chair, social welfare, comparative/macrosociology, economic sociology.

Robert A. Fiala, Associate Professor, political sociology, education, comparative/macrosociology.

Phillip B. Gonzales, Professor and Associate Dean, race/ethnic/minority relations, political sociology, interactional sociology, social movements.

Jane C. Hood, Associate Professor, family, gender, qualitative methodology, work and occupations.

George A. Huaco, Professor, Marx, sociobiology, general theory.

Robert A. Ibarra, Associate Professor, diversity, education, race/ethnicity, Latino studies.

Nancy López, Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor, race/ethnicity, education, gender, Latino studies and qualitative methods.

Christopher Lyons, Assistant Professor, criminology, deviance and social control, communities, hate crime, and social psychology.

Philip A. May, Professor, alcohol abuse, sociology of Native Americans, deviance, epidemiology (Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions).

Aki Roberts, Research Assistant Professor, crime, education, quantitative methods

John M. Roberts, Jr., Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor, mathematical sociology, statistics, social networks, organizations.

Wayne Santoro, Lecturer, social movements race/ethnicity.

Andrew Schrank, Assistant Professor,  comparative/macrosociology

Susan B. Tiano, Professor,  deviance, gender and development, globalization.

MarÍa Vélez, Lecturer, criminology, race/ethnicity.

Howard B. Waitzkin, Distinguished Professor  medical sociology, sociology of mental health, Latin America, social policy

Richard Wood, Associate Professor,  democratic theory, police and society, political sociology. 

Emeritus, Retired, and Adjunct Faculty

Dodd H. Bogart, Associate Professor,(Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1967)  
Social psychology, organizations.

Pedro David, Professor, (Ph.D, Indiana University)

Gary D. LaFree, Professor (Ph.D., Indiana-Bloomington, 1979)
Law and society, criminology/delinquency.

Gilbert W. Merkx,  Professor (Ph.D., Yale, 1968)
Theory, Latin America 

Keiko Nakao, Adjunct Professor (Ph.D., California-Irvine, 1984)
Quantitative methodology, social networks, stratification/mobility.

Paul D. Steele, Associate Professor, (Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1975)
Criminology/delinquency, penology/corrections, applied sociology/evaluation research.

Arthur W. St. George, Associate Professor,  (Ph.D., University of California - Davis)
Methods, Statistics (Computer and Information Research and Technology).

Bert Useem, Professor,  (PhD, Brandeis University, 1980)
Collective behavior/social movements, criminology.

Nelson Valdes, Professor,  (PhD, University of New Mexico)
Classical sociological theory, comparative/macrosociology, Latin America, race/ethnicity, rural sociology, urban sociology.

Charles Woodhouse, Associate Professor (Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1956)
Occupations and professions, political sociology, collective behavior/social movements.