Sociology Alumni
The Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz granted its first Ph.D. to Ilene J. Philipson. After completing her degree here, Dr. Philipson earned a second doctorate in clinical psychology, authored Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths and On The Shoulders of Women: The Feminization of Psychotherapy, and coedited Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination. In addition to having a private practice in Berkeley, Dr. Philipson is an affiliated scholar at the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and a clinical psychologist at Pacific Applied Psychology Associates.
2009
Berna Arslan: Lecturer, Sociology Department, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Joshua Hendrick: Visiting Lecturer, Department of International Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene
Tanya McNeill: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
John Moss: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
2008
Brian Gareau: Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Boston College
Sarita Gaytan: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin College
Lesleigh Owen: Lecturer in Sociology, Chaffey College
Sadie Reynolds: Instructor, Sociology and Digital Bridge Academy, Cabrillo College
2006
John Ackerman: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Institute for Legal Research, National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM)
Barbara Barnes: Lecturer, Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Julie Beck: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, California State University East Bay
Claudia Chaufan: Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences/Institute for Health & Aging in the School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Sudarat Musikawong: Lecturer, Asian Pacific-American Studies, Arizona State University (Beginning Fall 2009, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Siena College, Albany, NY)
2005
Jack Fong: Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Jennifer Reck: Lecturer in Sociology and Human Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University
Clare Sears: Assistant Professor in Sociology, San Francisco State University
Sara Sutler-Cohen: Chair, Sociology Program, Bellevue Community College, and Programmer, American Indian Film Festival
2004
Ernest Bustillos: Sociology Instructor,
Pasadena City College
Kyle Eischen: Assistant Dean for Academic Planning and Research, Division of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
Macarena Gomez-Barris: Assistant Professor of American
Studies, Ethnicity and Sociology, University of Southern California
2003
Andrew Jolivette: Associate Professor, American Indian Studies Department,
San Francisco State University
Deborah Vargas: Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies,
University of California, Irvine
2002
Akiko Naono: Associate Professor, Graduate School
of Social and Cultural Studies Kyushu University, Japan
2001
John Gulick: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University
of Tennessee, Knoxville
Celine-Marie Pascale: Assistant Professor of Sociology,
American University
2000
Marc Flacks: Assistant Professor of Sociology, California
State University, Long Beach
Cynthia Siemsen: Associate Professor of Sociology,
California State University, Chico
1999
Patricia Allen: Senior Analyst, Center for Agroecology
and Sustainable Food Systems, UCSC
Lynn Fujiwara: Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies,
University of Oregon
Zsuzsanna Gille: Assistant Professor of Sociology,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Robert S. Oden: Assistant Professor of Sociology,
California State University, Sacramento
Gaspar Rivera: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University
of Southern California
1998
Richard Gendron: Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Assumption College,Worcester, MA.
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi: Assistant Professor of History and Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dennis Loo: Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Elizabeth Wheatley: Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Grand Valley State University
Hal Aronson: Assistant Professor of Sociology, San
Francisco State University
1997
Robert Thompson: Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies,
Oregon State University
1996
Valerie Kuletz: Lecturer, American Studies, Canterbury
University, New Zeland, and Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California,
Berkeley
David Sonnenfeld: Professor and Chair, Dept of Environmental Studies, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York (SUNY-ESF)
1995
Wendy Chapkis: Associate Professor of Sociology and
Women's Studies, University of Southern Maine
Laura Corradi: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University
de Trieste, Italy
Jennifer Eichstedt: Associate Professor of Sociology,
California State University, Humboldt
Edward McCaughan: Associate Professor of Sociology
and Chair, San Francisco State University
Josee Mendez-Negrete: Associate Professor of Bicultural-Bilingual
Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio
Alan Rudy: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan
State University
1994
Michael Goldman: Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of Minnesota
Amanda Konradi: Associate Professor of Sociology,
Ohio University
Shunta Mori: Associate Professor, Shizuoka Institute
of Science and Technology, Japan
1993
Christy Ponticelli: Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of South Florida
Lynet Uttal: Professor, Human Development and Family
Studies, and Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M. Yegenoglu-Mutman: Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
1992
Hulya Gurtuna: Assistant Professor of Sociology, San
Francisco State University
Peter Ibarra: Associate Professor of Criminal Justice,
University of Illinois, Chicago
Susan Murray: Associate Professor of Sociology, San
Jose State University
Mahmut Mutman: Assistant Professor and Chair, Communication
and Design, Bilknet University, Turkey
1991
Satish Deshpande: Professor of Sociology, Dehli School of Economics,
Delhi University
Bristow Hardin: Adjunct Professor of Sociology, American
University
Margaret Villanueva: Professor of Community Development,
St. Cloud State Univeristy, Minnesota
1990
Daniel Faber: Professor of Sociology and Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, Northeastern
University
Michael Webber: Associate Dean of Academic Program Review, Assessment and Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco
1989
Angela Garcia: Associate Professor of Sociology, University
of Cincinnati
1988
Scott Coltrane: Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology, University
of Oregon
Karen Hossfeld: Associate Professor of Sociology,
San Francisco State University
Michael Omi: Associate Professor of Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
1986
Bruce Luske: Associate Professor of Sociology, Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Carol Ray: Professor and Chair of Sociology, San Jose
State University
Garry Rolison: Associate Professor of Sociology, California
State University, San Marcos
1985
Laura Enriquez: Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of California, Berkeley
1984
Wendy Luttrell: Associate Professor in Human Development and Education, Harvard
University
1983
Herman Gray: Professor of Sociology, University of
California, Santa Cruz
Douglas Murray: Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
Sociology has graduated over 2,800 majors. A substantial number of our undergraduate alumni have become counselors, lawyers, managers and social workers. The largest number have become public school teachers, most in California (statistics from UCSC Alumni Office, 2000). Others have pursued a variety of notable careers. Some of their achievements are as follows:
Peter Adeney: Social Sciences
Dean's Undergraduate Award for senior thesis, "Forgetting The Body: The Impossible Dream Of The Information Age" (Spring 2001).
Stephanie Casher: Social Sciences Dean's Undergraduate
Award for senior thesis, "Negotiating Identity and Cultural Capital:
The Social and Structural Factors Affecting the Educational Attainment
of Bi-Racial Men of African-American Descent".
Nicole Dunas: Social Sciences Dean's Undergraduate Award for senior
thesis, "Self in Flux: Dialogue on the Life of an Eating Disorder Patient".
Beth Martel: Chancellor's Award for senior thesis, "Women in the Military: Bridging the Gap" (Spring 2000).
Adele Barrett: Stanford University;
Educational Policy Program (2000).
Carrie Lee: Vanderbilt University, organizer of the American Sociological Association's Sex and Gender Section's Roundtable Session (1997).
Nili Kirschner: University of California, Berkeley (1997).
Paz Oliverez: University of Southern California; Educational Policy,
Planning and Administration, full-tuition & stipend (1999).
Sarah Rodriguez: University of California, Santa Barbara (1997).
Adalberto Aguirre Jr.: Professor of Sociology, University of California-
Riverside (1973; Ph.D. Stanford University, 1977).
Scott Coltrane: Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, University
of California-Riverside (1974; Ph.D. University of California-Santa Cruz, 1988).
Timothy McDaniel: Professor of Sociology, University of California-San
Diego. Author of The Agony of the Russian Idea ( Princeton University
Press, 1996); Autocracy, Modernization and Revolution in Russia and Iran (Princeton University Press, 1991); Autocracy, Capitalism and Revolution
in Russia (University of California Press, 1988). (1972; Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley,
1979).
Denise A. Segura: Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Center for Chicano Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara (1976;
Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1986).
Victoria Smith: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California-Davis. Author of Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in
an American Bank (University of California Press, 1990). Recipient
of the UC-Davis 1998 Outstanding Mentor Award and the Society for the Study
of Social Problems Labor Studies Division's 1999 Distinguished Publication
Award for "The Fractured World of the Temporary Worker: Power, Participation,
and Fragmentation in the Postindustrial Workplace," (Social Problems, 1998).
(1979; Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1987).
Paul Almeida: Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
(1991; Ph.D. University of California-Riverside, 2001).
Trudie Coker: Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University
(1980; Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1991).
Gloria Cuadraz: Associate Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University
West (1980; Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1993).
Rosemary Gartner: Professor of Sociology and Law, and Director, Centre
of Criminology, University of Toronto. Recipient of UT's 1991 Oswald
Hall Outstanding Teaching Award. Appointed to the
United States' National Consortium on Violence Research in 1999 (1974;
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1985).
Steven J. Gold: Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology, Michigan State
University, (1977; Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1985).
Sharon Ruth Hays: Associate Professor of Sociology and Studies in Women
and Gender, and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology,
University of Virginia; recipient of American Sociological Association's
Culture Studies 1997 Distinguished Book Award for her book, The Cultural
Contradictions of Motherhood, Yale, 1996 (1977; Ph.D. University of California-San
Diego 1993).
Richard Hogan: Professor of Sociology, Purdue University (1974; Ph.D. University
of Michigan, 1982).
Anne E. Kane: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas (1978;
Ph.D. University of California-Los Angeles, 1994).
Roberto P. Korzeniewicz: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of
Maryland (1980; Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton, 1989).
Robert K. Schaeffer: Professor of Sociology, San Jose State University
(1975; Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton, 1985).
Carol Schmid: Professor of Sociology, Guilford Technical Community College,
North Carolina (1969; Ph.D. McMaster University, 1978; J.D. North Carolina
Central University, 1991).
Margaret R. Somers: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
(1971; Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986).
Robert C. Bulman: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Saint Mary's College of California (1989; PhD University of California Berkeley, 1999).
James Robert Elliott: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
(1989; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997).
Betty Farrell: Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College (1971; Ph.D. Harvard
University, 1982; Fall 2000 University of Chicago Visiting Professor).
Thomas H. Koenig: Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University (1971;
Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara, 1979).
Annette Lareau: Associate Professor of Sociology, Temple University. Recipient
of the American Sociological Association's Willard Waller Award for Distinguished
Scholarship for her book, Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention
in Elementary School (1974; Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 1984).
Bruce Podobnik: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis and Clark University
(1991; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2000).
Becky Thompson: Associate Professor of Sociology, Simmons College, Boston,
MA (1982; Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1991).
Ronald Weitzer: Associate Professor of Sociology, The George Washington
University (1975; Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1985).
Laura Allen: Attorney, Feminist Majority Foundation (1986).
Philip K. Armour: Associate Professor of Social Science, University of
Texas at Dallas (1970).
Deborah Faye Carter: Assistant Professor of Education, Indiana University
(1991).
Kenneth J. Doctor: Vice President for News Editorials, Knight-Ridder, Inc.
(1971).
Geoff Dunn: Director, Community Television, Santa Cruz; currently completing a Ph.D. in Sociology at UCSC (1977).
Elaine P. Enarson: Applied Sociologist, British Columbia (1971; Ph.D. University
of Oregon, 1981).
Jon M. Hussey: Research Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health,
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (1985;
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1995).
Stephanie Linkogle: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
(1988; Ph.D. Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, UK).
Kay Mohlman: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, National University of
Singapore (1979; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994).
Kent Nagano: Music Director and Conductor, The Berkeley Symphony (1974).
Ronald Elliott Pomerantz: Captain, San Jose Fire Department (1973).
Jennifer Prado: Deputy Public Defender, Riverside County Public Defender's
Office (1994).
Scott Roseman: Founder and Owner, New Leaf Community Markets, Santa Cruz
County (1979).
Judy Rothschild: Director of Research, The National Jury Project (1976;
Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley).
Stephen I. Schwartz: Director and Head of The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists
(1987).
Julia Sokoloff: Physician, Family Practice, Group Health Co-op (1982).
David L. Talbot: Managing Editor, Image magazine, San Francisco Examiner
(1973).
Steven P. Wallace: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of
California-Los Angeles (1979). Ph.D. University of California-San Francisco,
1987. Formerly Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri.
Please note: If you are a graduate of our program and would like to add your achievements to our webpage, or if you would like to make changes to your current listing, please contact the Sociology Department Manager, Marilyn Chapin (mchapin@ucsc.edu).