Edwin Amenta
  • Professor and Co-Director, Graduate Studies
    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
Peter Ditto
David Feldman
Mark Fisher
David John Frank
  • Professor and Chair
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

  • globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

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

  • frankd@uci.edu
  • Website
Julian Gerez
Howard Gillman
Christopher Paul Harris
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Politics and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research 

  • Abolition and/as Worldmaking, Global Critical Theory, Black Studies and Black Political Thought, Marxism, Revolution and Revolutionary Movements, Culture and Cultural Studies, Political Aesthetics, Ideology and Desire, Writing as Form and Method

  •  535 Social Science Tower

  • christopher.paul.harris@uci.edu
Richard Matthew
  • Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Public Policy

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

  • rmatthew@uci.edu
  • Website
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
David S. Meyer
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Boston University, 1988

  • social movements, public policy, peace and war, social justice

  •  4207 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1475

  • dmeyer@uci.edu
Denise Payan
  • Associate Professor, Public Health

  • Website
Stergios Skaperdas
  • Professor and Clifford S. Heinz Chair
    Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University 

  • economic theory, political economy

  •  3123 Social Science Plaza A

  • sskaperd@uci.edu
  • Website
Rodolfo David Torres
  • Professor Emeritus, Urban Planning and Public Policy
    Ph.D. Administration, Planning and Social Policy, Claremont Graduate School, 1983

  • heterodox political economy, the impact of climate change on refugees and asylum seekers, Mexican American Labor and Class politics, U.S. urban economic restructuring, cooperatives, and Los Angeles Studies

  •  232C Social Ecology 1

  • rudolphd@uci.edu
  • Website
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  • Chancellor's Professor, History
    Ph.D., History, UC Berkeley 

  • china, protest, globalization, gender, urban

  •  300H Murray Krieger Hall | 949.824.2865

  • jwassers@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
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • South Africa, black political thought, third world feminism, decolonizing theory, community and civic engagement, youth led politics, poetics, humanistic social science, participatory action research, African Studies

  • twilloug@uci.edu