For a list of faculty organized by areas of specialty, please see this page.

Richard Santos, Interim Department Chair, Professor of economics, labor, health and hispanic issues

Lisa Broidy, Associate Professor and Director of Institute for Social Research, Criminology (gender and crime/female offending, etiology of crime, crime through the life course, domestic violence, offender re-entry)

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

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

George A. Huaco, Professor, Marx, general theory, sociology of philosophy, literature, religion.

Kimberly  R. Huyser, RWJF Postdoctoral Fellow & Assistant Professor, Racial & Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Health & Mental Health, and Sociology & Demography of American Indians.

Robert A. Ibarra, Associate Professor, Graduate Chair, Race & Ethnicity; Sociology of Education, Diversity in Higher Education, Latina/o societies & cultures.

Nancy López, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Institute for the Study of "Race" & Social Justice, RWJF Center for Health Policy, "race," ethnicity, education, gender, Latina/o Studies, qualitative methods.

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

Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Professor and Director of Religious Studies, social movements, religion, peace studies, comparative sociology.

Aki Roberts, Research Assistant Professor,Crime clearance, policing, property recovery, National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data, Japanese crime, comparative criminology, and police networks.

John M. Roberts, Jr., Professor, social networks, quantitative methods, mathematical sociology.

Wayne Santoro, Lecturer, social movements race/ethnicity.

Andrew Schrank, Associate Professor,  Comparative sociology: political, economic, historical.

Susan B. Tiano, Professor and Director of Latin American & Iberian Institute,  deviance, gender and development, globalization.

Maria Vélez, Assistant Professor, criminology, race/ethnicity.

Richard Wood, Associate Professor and Director of Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society,  sociology of religion, democratic theory, political sociology, social movements.  

Kelly Socia, Assistant Professor

Emeritus, Retired, and Adjunct Faculty

Tomas Atencio, Lecturer, (Ph.D., New Mexico, 1985) 
Social welfare/social work, race/ethnic/minority relations, development.  

Beverly H. Burris, Professor, Theory, classical and contemporary; Sociology of Work; Sociology of Higher Education.

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

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

Pedro David, Professor, (Ph.D., Indiana University) Social psychology, organizations.

Jane C. Hood, Associate Professor, family, gender, qualitative methods, education and juvenile justice.

Philip A. May, Professor, (Professor of Sociology and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, alcohol abuse, sociology of Native Americans)

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.

Howard Waitzkin, Distinguished Professor, (Ph.D, M.D., Harvard University, 1972) Medical sociology, sociology of mental health, Latin America, social
policy.