Edwin Amenta
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1989

  • political sociology, historical and comparative sociology, social movements, social policy, media, and American political development

  •  4101 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6800

  • ea3@uci.edu
Nina Bandelj
  • Chancellor's Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003

  • economic sociology, culture, organizations, globalization, social networks, political economy, globalization, central and eastern europe

  •  4263 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8872

  • nbandelj@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Matthew Beckmann
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., University of Michigan 

  • American governing institutions, presidency, executive leadership

  •  2253 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6219

  • beckmann@uci.edu
  • Website
Graeme Boushey
  • Associate Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle 

  • california politics and statewide elections, american politics, state and federal policy-making, ballot measures and the initiative process

  •  5203 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1950

  • gboushey@uci.edu
  • Website
Simone Chambers
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., Columbia University 

  • democratic theory, ethics, secularism, rhetoric, civility and the public sphere

  •  5269 Social Science Plaza B

  • sechambe@uci.edu
  • Website
Linda Cohen
  • Professor
    Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 

  • political economy, social choice, government regulation, government policy toward research and development

  • lrcohen@uci.edu
  • Website
Louis DeSipio
  • Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and Political Science
    Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1993

  • ethnic politics, latino politics, immigration, naturalization, u.s. electoral politics

  •  5283 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1420

  • ldesipio@uci.edu
  • Website
Martha Feldman
  • Professor, Urban Planning, Policy and Design

  • organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organization, decisions making and information processing, public management, qualitative research methods

  •  226G Social Ecology I | 949-824-4252

  • feldmanm@uci.edu
  • Website
David John Frank
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

  • globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

  •  4107 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-1117

  • frankd@uci.edu
  • Website
Amihai Glazer
Sara Wallace Goodman
  • Professor of Political Science; Chair, Department of Political Science
    Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2009

  • citizenship, immigrant integration, identity

  • swgood@uci.edu
  • Website
Richard Hasen
Marek Kaminski
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland, 1997

  • voting models, democratization, political consequences of electoral laws

  •  2283 Social Science Plaza B

  • mkaminsk@uci.edu
  • Website
Claire Kim
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., Yale University 

  • race, asian american politics, black politics, social movements, immigration, human-animal studies

  •  2251 Social Science Plaza B

  • cjkim@uci.edu
  • Website
Jeffrey Kopstein
  • Chancellor's Professor of Political Science; Chancellor's Fellow
    Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1991 

  • comparative politics, dictatorship and democracy, ethnic politics, political violence, post-communism

  •  5265 Social Science Plaza B

  • kopstein@uci.edu
  • Website
Ines Levin
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2012

  • elections, voting, statistics

  •  5239 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8731

  • i.levin@uci.edu
  • Website
Erin Lockwood
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., Northwestern University,  2017

  • international political economy, financial regulation and governance, derivatives, politics of risk and uncertainty, global economic inequality, corporate power

  •  5279 Social Science Plaza B

  • eklockwo@uci.edu
  • Website
Richard Matthew
  • Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Public Policy

  •  212C Social Ecology I | 949-824-4852

  • rmatthew@uci.edu
  • Website
Bill Maurer
  • Professor of Anthropology; Dean, School of Social Sciences
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994

  • money and finance, law and culture, caribbean

  •  5218 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-6802

  • wmmaurer@uci.edu
  • Website
Michael McBride
  • Professor of Economics
    Ph.D., Yale University 

  • game theory, experimental economics, political economy, social networks, religion

  •  3129 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-7417

  • mcbride@uci.edu
  • Website
Cailin O'Connor
  • Chancellor's Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science; Director of Center for Socially Engaged Philosophy
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2013

  • philosophy of biology, evolutionary game theory, philosophy of science

  •  793 Social Science Tower

  • cailino@uci.edu
  • Website
Davin Phoenix
  • Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of Graduate Admissions
    Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

  • Black politics, race and political behavior, political affect, political communication

  •  5201 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-5698

  • dphoenix@uci.edu
Francesca Polletta
  • Chancellor's Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology
    Ph.D., Yale University, 1994

  • social movements, democracy, culture, sociology of law, political sociology, social theory

  •  4183 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6800

  • polletta@uci.edu
  • Website
Charles Ragin
  • Chancellor's Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina

  • comparative and historical sociology, social inequality, political sociology, quantitative methodology, qualitative methodology

  • cragin@uci.edu
  • Website
Evan Schofer
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999

  • comparative political sociology, sociology of education, quantitative methods and statistics, globalization, sociology of the environment, organizations, sociology of science

  •  4271 Social Science Plaza B

  • schofer@uci.edu
  • Website
Stergios Skaperdas
  • Professor of Economics; Clifford S. Heinz Chair
    Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University 

  • economic theory, political economy

  •  3123 Social Science Plaza A

  • sskaperd@uci.edu
  • Website
Charles Smith
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., University of California - San Diego, 2004
    J.D., University of Florida, 1987

  • law and legal institutions, comparative and international law

  •  2279 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-5403

  • casmith@uci.edu
  • Website
David A. Smith
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984

  • world systems analysis, urbanization, development, comparative-historical sociology, dependent development in east asia

  •  4265 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-7292

  • dasmith@uci.edu
David Snow
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

  • collective behavior, protest, and social movements; framing processes, social psychology, and culture; homelessness and social problems; and qualitative methods

  • dsnow@uci.edu
  • Website
Dorothy Solinger
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975

  • chinese domestic politics and political economy, comparative politics, east asian politics

  • dorjsoli@uci.edu
  • Website
Judith Stepan-Norris
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1988

  • labor unions, sociology of work, political sociology, american society, research methods, historical-comparative methods, class formation

  • jstepann@uci.edu
  • Website
Yang Su
  • Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

  • social movements and collective action, political sociology, china's political transition

  •  4279 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6800

  • su.yang@uci.edu
  • Website
Rein Taagepera
Michael Tesler
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2011

  • american politics, race, ethnicity & politics, quantitative methods

  •  5251 Social Science Plaza B

  • mtesler@uci.edu
  • Website
Danielle Thomsen
  • Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., Cornell University 

  • american politics, u.s. congress, elections, gender and politics

  • dthomsen@uci.edu
  • Website
Carole Uhlaner
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978

  • comparative political behavior, formal theory/social choice

  • cuhlaner@uci.edu
  • Website
Samantha Vortherms
  • Associate Professor of Political Science
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 

  • comparative political economy, development, social welfare

  •  5253 Social Science Plaza B

  • s.vortherms@uci.edu
  • Website
Feng Wang
  • Distinguished Professor of Sociology
    Ph.D.. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1987

  • contemporary demographic, economic, and social processes, social inequality in state socialisms, contemporary china

  •  4285 Social Science Plaza B

  • fwang@uci.edu
  • Website
Marty Wattenberg
James Owen Weatherall
  • Chancellor's Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science; Chair, Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2012
    Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009

  • philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, mathematical physics

  •  781 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6656

  • weatherj@uci.edu
  • Website
Christopher Whytock
  • Professor, Law
    Ph.D. in Political Science, Duke University, 2007

  • International relations, international law, transnational litigation, conflict of laws

  •  3800E Law Building | 949-824-0496

  • cwhytock@uci.edu
  • Website