UNM Sociology Faculty

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)

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

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

Robert A. Fiala, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, 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 methods, education and juvenile justice.

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

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

Nancy López, Associate Professor, 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 of Sociology and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, alcohol abuse, sociology of Native Americans, deviance, epidemiology (Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions).

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 and Graduate Chair,  Comparative sociology: political, economic, historical.

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

Maria Vélez, Lecturer, criminology, race/ethnicity.

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

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

Yvonne Zylan, Associate Professor (Ph.D. New York City University, 1995)
Law & society, sexuality, gender, social theory, political sociology, social movements, the state and social policy.

 

Emeritus, Retired, and Adjunct Faculty

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

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.


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