Faculty Profiles

Neerja Aggarwal
David Agrawal
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan 

  • public finance, tax competition, fiscal federalism, mobility, sales and excise taxes

  • 949-824-3521

  • david.agrawal@uci.edu
  • Website
Samar Al-Bulushi
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Yale University, 2017

  • surveillance, policing, and militarized urbanisms; Islam, Africa, and the racialized geopolitics of the war on terror; elites, diplomacy, and transnational governance

  •  3568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • samar.a@uci.edu
  • Website
Yousuf Al-Bulushi
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director (Acting Chair, Winter 2026)
    Ph.D., Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

  • political theory, racial regimes, political economy of globalization, urban geography, comparative global movements, africa and africana studies

  •  583 Social Science Tower

  • yalbulus@uci.edu
  • Website
Isabel F. Almeida
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2020

  • Latina pregnancy, reproductive health, pregnancy anxiety, stress, mental health, health psychology

  •  363 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6831

  • iframos@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
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
Mohammad Reza Amirkhizi
  • Lecturer
    Ph.D., Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1989

  • international law, international security, human rights, Middle East politics

  •  520 Social Science Tower

  • m.amirkhizi@uci.edu
  • Website
Marion Aouad
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UC Berkeley 

  • health economics, labor economics, economic demography

  • maouad2@uci.edu
  • Website
Vellore Arthi
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Oxford 

  • health, economic history, labor, development

  •  3209 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-2182

  • varthi@uci.edu
  • Website
Richard Arum
  • Professor, Education

  • socialization, social stratification, organizations, out-of-school development, technology, policy

  •  4169 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-2534

  • richard.arum@uci.edu
  • Website
Stanley R. Bailey
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002

  • race and ethnicity, religion, immigration, latin america

  •  4177 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6800

  • bailey@uci.edu
  • Website
Pierre Baldi
  • Chancellor's Professor Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science

  • deep learning, neural networks, reinforcement learning, and their theoretical foundations and applications

  •  4038 Bren Hall | 949-824-5809

  • pfbaldi@uci.edu
  • Website
Nina Bandelj
  • Chancellor's Professor
    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
Jeffrey A. Barrett
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia, 1992

  • philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; epistemology; game theory, decision theory, and rational choice

  •  765 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6491

  • j.barrett@uci.edu
  • Website
Matthew Beckmann
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan 

  • American governing institutions, presidency, executive leadership

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

  • beckmann@uci.edu
  • Website
Asia Bento
  • Assistant Professor and Dean's Fellow
    Ph.D., Rice University, 2022

  • race, ethnicity, inequality, economic sociology

  •  4259 Social Science Plaza B

  • abento@uci.edu
Aaron Berg
  • Lecturer
    Ph.D. Political Science, Claremont Graduate University, 2022

  • study of liberalism, democratic theory and American political thought; published research on Native American political behavior that examines the connection between trust and political engagement

  • berga1@uci.edu
Bruce Berg
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Indiana University, 1987

  • audition, auditory attention, psychophysics of complex sounds, computational models of hearing

  •  2548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • bgberg@uci.edu
Steven Bilakovics
  • Lecturer
    Ph.D. in Government and Law, University of Texas, Austin, 2008

  • political and social theory; liberalism and democracy; capitalism; theories of freedom and equality; political cynicism; race in America; American political thought

  • sbilakov@uci.edu
Tom Boellstorff
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford, 2000

  • digital culture, disability, globalization, HIV/AIDS, Indonesia, language, mass media, nationalism, postcoloniality, queer studies, Southeast Asia, video games, virtual worlds

  •  3322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • tboellst@uci.edu
  • Website
Daniel Bogart
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003

  • economic history, institutions, infrastructure, economic development

  •  3109 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-3191

  • dbogart@uci.edu
  • Website
Aaron Bornstein
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., New York University, 2013

  • memory, decision-making, reinforcement learning, neuroimaging, computational cognitive neuroscience

  •  2318 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | (949) 824-0628

  • aaron.bornstein@uci.edu
  • Website
Graeme Boushey
  • Associate Professor
    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
John Boyd
William Branch
  • Professor and Chair
    Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2001

  • macroeconomics

  •  3279 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-4221

  • wbranch@uci.edu
  • Website
Alyssa Brewer
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005
    M.D., Stanford University, 2007

  • visual, auditory, somatosensory/pain perception and attention, sensory deficits and neurological disorders, computational neuroimaging

  •  2304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-1501

  • aabrewer@uci.edu
  • Lab
Susan K. Brown
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001

  • immigration, inequality, urban sociology

  • skbrown@uci.edu
Win Brown
Jan Brueckner
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976

  • urban economics, public economics, industrial organization, housing finance

  •  3269 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-0083

  • jkbrueck@uci.edu
  • Website
Daniel Brunstetter
  • Professor and Graduate Program Director; Director, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding
    Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2005

  • just war, early modern thought, otherness/identity, new world discovery, montaigne, rousseau, french immigration

  •  5289 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-9752

  • dbrunste@uci.edu
  • Website
Long T. Bui
  • Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D.,  UC San Diego 

  • critical refugee studies, Global Asias and Vietnam studies, race gender sexuality studies, media cultural studies, critical university studies

  •  559 Social Science Tower

  • longb@uci.edu
  • Website
Carter Butts
  • Chancellor's Professor
    Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

  • mathematical sociology, social networks, quantitative methodology, human judgment and decision making, economic sociology

  •  2145 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-8591

  • buttsc@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Belinda Campos
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003

  • culture, relationships, positive emotion, health

  •  395 Social Science Tower

  • bcampos@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Emily Carian
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching and Director, Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2019

  • gender inequality, masculinity, male supremacism

  •  4231 Social Science Plaza B

  • cariane@uci.edu
  • Website
Anita Casavantes Bradford
  • Professor, History; Director, Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program
    Ph.D. United States Latina and Latin American History, University of California, San Diego, 2011

  • post-revolutionary cuban migration to u.s., symbolic uses of childhood in cuba and cuban dispora, american politics and society

  • Website
Jeanett Castellanos
  • Associate Dean and Professor of Teaching, Social Sciences Undergraduate Student Affairs
    Ph.D., Washington State University

  •  SSPB 2231, SBSG 1231 | 949-824-6298, 949-824-9010

  • castellj@uci.edu
  • Website
Simone Chambers
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia University 

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

  •  5269 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-3187

  • sechambe@uci.edu
  • Website
Leo Chavez
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982

  • migration, media, discourse analysis, visual semiotics, medicine

  • lchavez@uci.edu
  • Website
Ricardo Chavira
Jiawei Chen
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University 

  • industrial organization, applied econometrics

  •  3187 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-3189

  • jiaweic@uci.edu
  • Website
Nadia Chernyak
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014

  • cognitive development, social cognition, prosocial behavior, moral cognition, agency and free will, conceptual development

  •  2334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-9788

  • nadia.chernyak@uci.edu
  • Lab
Natalia Chernyshoff
Michael Choi
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison 

  • macroeconomics, microeconomics, monetary economics, search and matching theory

  •  3181 Social Science Plaza A

  • michael.yfchoi@uci.edu
  • Website
Damon Clark
  • Associate Professor

  • economics of education, labor economics, econometrics

  •  3283 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-2056

  • clarkd1@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
Roxane Cohen Silver
Sylvia Croese
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Sociology, University of Stellenbosch 

  • political sociology, (everyday) urban politics/authoritarianism; urban planning, housing, mobility, finance, infrastructure; global urban development/policy/expertise; Southern urbanism, global urbanism; Angola, Africa, African cities; transdisciplinary research/ knowledge co-production/methods; (post)colonialism, decoloniality

  •  545 Social Science Tower

  • scroese@uci.edu
Eve Darian-Smith
  • Distinguished Professor and Chair (On Sabbatical, Winter 2026)
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
    M.A., Harvard University, 1991
    LLB, University of Melbourne, 1988

  • human rights, global governance, postcolonial and decolonial theory, rising authoritarianism, ethnographic approaches

  •  569 Social Science Tower

  • Website
Elizabeth Jordie Davies
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago 
    Affiliate Faculty, Culture & Theory | UCI School of Humanities 

  • Black politics and political thought, U.S. social movements, solidarity, Black feminism

  • ejdavies@uci.edu
  • Website
Louis DeSipio
  • Professor
    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
Rina Dechter
  • Chancellor's Professor, UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science

  • artificial intelligence and machine learning

  •  DBH 4232 | (949) 824-6556

  • dechter@ics.uci.edu
  • Website
Joseph Devoy
  • Lecturer, SPPS
    Registered Prof Industrial Eng, State of California 
    BS, Mechanical Engineering 

  • US demographics, mass transit, GIS

  • 562-310-3120

  • devoyj@uci.edu
William Dewan
  • Lecturer, SPPS
    Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2010

  • media and social problems, digital culture, cultural studies, folklore and religion, social movements, conspiracy theories, moral panics

  •  SSPA 5157

  • wdewan@uci.edu
Peter Ditto
Yingying Dong
  • Professor
    Ph.D. Economics, Boston College, 2009

  • econometrics, labor, health, education

  •  3297 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-4422

  • yyd@uci.edu
  • Website
Barbara Dosher
  • Distinguished Professor and Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
    Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1977

  • human information processing, memory retrieval, attention, visual perception

  •  2564 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-7373

  • bdosher@uci.edu
  • Website
John Duffy
  • Professor and Director, Graduate Admissions
    Ph.D., UCLA 

  • behavioral and experimental economics, game theory, macroeconomics

  •  3285 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8341

  • duffy@uci.edu
  • Website
Robert Henry Duncan
Kenny Easwaran
  • Professor and Director, Graduate Studies; Director, Colloquium and Events
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

  • formal epistemology (esp. philosophy of probability and decision theory), epistemology, mathematical logic (esp. set theory), philosophy of mathematics

  •  759 Social Science Tower

  • k.easwaran@uci.edu
  • Website
James Egan
  • Lecturer

  •  3343 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • jaegan@uci.edu
Laura Enriquez
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

  • undocumented 1.5 generation young adults, immigration, citizenship, Latino families

  •  387 Social Science Tower

  • laura.enriquez@uci.edu
  • Website
David Eppstein
  • Chancellor's Professor, UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
    B.S. Subject, University Name, 1983

  • algorithms and complexity computer graphics and visualization

  •  DBH 4082 | (949) 824-6384

  • eppstein@ics.uci.edu
  • Website
Corina A. Espinoza
  • Lecturer, SPPS
    Ed.D., University of Southern California 

  • college access, education policy, Latino/a education attainment, the role of adult agents in learner identity, possible selves

  •  SST 447

  • corinae@uci.edu
Jean-Claude Falmagne
  • Research Professor
    Ph.D., University of Brussels, 1965

  • mathematical behavioral sciences

  • jcf@uci.edu
  • Website
Katherine Faust
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1985

  • social networks, animal social organization, population processes and social networks, research methods

  • kfaust@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
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
Sherelle Ferguson
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2021

  • education, race and ethnicity, social stratification, social capital and social networks, qualitative methods

  •  4257 Social Science Plaza B

  • sherellf@uci.edu
Katelyn Finley
  • Lecturer
    Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Irvine, 2017
    M.A. Political Science, University of California, Irvine, 2014
    M.A. Demographic and Social Analysis, University of California, Irvine, 2014
    B.A. Economics and Politics, Washington And Lee University, 2008

  • East European discontent, conflict resolution, nationalism, socialism, role of ethnic/national and racial identity, GIS

  •  520 Social Science Tower

  • katelynf@uci.edu
Glenda M. Flores
  • Professor and Chair
    Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2011

  • latino sociology, latina professionals, work and occupations, education, middle-class minorities, qualitative methods

  •  371 Social Science Tower

  • gmflores@uci.edu
  • Website
Kelley Fong
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2020

  • poverty, inequality, social policy, children and youth, education, family life

  •  4189 Social Science Plaza B

  • kelley.fong@uci.edu
  • Website
Kim Fortun
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Rice University, 1993

  • environmental problems and science, science and technology, environmental health, disaster, india

  •  3302 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • kfortun@uci.edu
Michael Fortun
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993

  • anthropology of science, air pollution science, data science, genetics, history of science, united states, iceland

  •  3308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • mike.fortun@uci.edu
  • Website
Charless Fowlkes
  • Professor and UCI Chancellor's Fellow, Computer Science
    Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley, 2005 

  • computational vision, both in understanding the information processing capabilities of the human visual system and in developing machine vision systems

  •  4076 Donald Bren Hall | 949-824-6945

  • fowlkes@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Roy Fox
  • Assistant Professor, UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

  • artificial intelligence and machine learning

  •  DBH 4064

  • royf@uci.edu
  • Website
Sofia Franco
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching
    Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara 

  • urban economics, real estate

  • sofiaf1@uci.edu
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
Matthew Freedman
  • Professor
    Ph.D. Economics, University of Maryland-College Park, 2007

  • labor economics, public finance, urban economics

  •  3211 Social Science Plaza B

  • matthew.freedman@uci.edu
  • Website
Richard Futrell
  • Associate Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

  • linguistics, natural language processing, bayesian modeling

  •  2215 Social Science Plaza B

  • rfutrell@uci.edu
  • Website
Henri Galinon
Michelle Garfinkel
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Brown University 

  • macroeconomics, political economy, conflict

  • mrgarfin@uci.edu
  • Website
Margaret Gilbert
  • Distinguished Professor and the Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy
    Ph.D., Oxford University 

  • topics in social, political, and moral philosophy, rights theory, and philosophy of law

  •  HIB 94 | 949-824-6520

  • mpgilber@uci.edu
  • Website
Samuel Gilmore
Amihai Glazer
David Theo Goldberg
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., The City University of New York, Graduate School and Center 

  • race and racism, social and political theory, social-legal studies/law and society, South Africa, social impacts of digital technology

  •  3338 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • goldberg@uci.edu
  • Website
Rachel Goldberg
  • Associate Professor and Director, DASA
    Ph.D., Brown University, 2012

  • health, social demography, family, children and youth, gender, migration

  •  4289 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-9683

  • goldber1@uci.edu
Wendy Goldberg
Isaac Goldbring
  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics

  • pure and applied model theory, nonstandard analysis, model theory for metric structures, lie theory, geometric group theory, operator algebras, and combinatorial number theory

  •  410J Rowland Hall

  • isaac@math.uci.edu
  • Website
Sara Wallace Goodman
  • Professor and Department Chair
    Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2009

  • citizenship, immigrant integration, identity
Bernard Grofman
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972

  • public choice, mathematical models of collective decision making, formal democratic theory, politics of small groups, representation, voting rights

  • bgrofman@uci.edu
  • Website
Emily Grossman
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2002

  • visual perception, neuroimaging

  •  2558 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-1530

  • grossman@uci.edu
  • Lab
John Hagedorn
Sherine Hamdy
  • Professor
    Ph.D., New York University, 2006

  • medical anthropology, science, technology and society, bioethics, comics, islam, egypt, middle east

  • shamdy@uci.edu
  • Website
Paul Hanselman
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014

  • stratification/inequality, education, quantitative methods, treatment effect heterogeneity, data visualization

  •  4251 Social Science Plaza B

  • paul.hanselman@uci.edu
  • Website
Matthew Harding
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007

  • big data, econometrics, machine learning, consumer finance, sustainability, health, leisure consumption

  •  3207 Social Science Plaza B

  • harding1@uci.edu
  • Website
Heidi Hardt
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., International Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva 

  • NATO, transatlantic security, European security, defense, international organizations, crisis management, military operations, knowledge, learning, change, gender, climate security

  • hhardt@uci.edu
  • Website
Rahul R.A. Hari
  • Lecturer
    J.D., New York University School of Law 

  • trial advocacy, evidence, legal writing

  • rhari@uci.edu
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 Hasen
Jeremy Heis
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 

  • history and philosophy of mathematics and logic, kant, early analytic philosophy

  •  763 Social Science Tower | 949-824-5442

  • jheis@uci.edu
  • Website
Jeffrey Helmreich
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law

  • ethics, action theory, jurisprudence

  •  71 Humanities Instructional Building

  • jhelmrei@uci.edu
William Hernandez
  • Lecturer
Gregory Hickok
  • Distinguished Professor and Chair
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1991

  • neural architecture of speech and language, evolutionary origins of music and speech, aphasia

  •  2341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • gshickok@uci.edu
  • Lab
John Hipp
  • Professor, Criminology, Law and Society

  • community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods

  •  3311 Social Ecology II | 949-824-8247

  • hippj@uci.edu
  • Website
Ann Hironaka
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998

  • political sociology, war and peace, environmental sociology, ethnic and racial conflict

  •  4269 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6800

  • hironaka@uci.edu
  • Website
Alexander David Huezo
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University 
    M.A., Latin American Studies, UCLA 
    B.A., Political Science, UCLA 

  • environmental justice studies, war on drugs, u.s. militarism, latin american studies, ethnography, geospatial analysis, migration

  •  593 Social Science Tower

  • huezoad@uci.edu
  • Website
Matt Huffman
  • Professor and Associate Dean, Student Programs
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997

  • inequality, organizations, work and employment, social demography

  •  4229 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6460

  • mhuffman@uci.edu
  • Website
Anneeth Kaur Hundle
  • Associate Professor and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies
    Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2013

  • Sikhism and Sikh Studies; race, religion and minoritization; violence, citizenship and decolonization; Afro-Asian entanglements; feminist anthropology, gender and sexuality; critical university studies; Uganda, Africa, South Asia

  •  3554 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-1624

  • ahundle@uci.edu
  • Website
Simon Huttegger
  • Chancellor's Professor
    Ph.D., University of Salzburg, 2006

  • game and decision theory, philosophy of biology, philosophy of science

  •  785 Social Science Tower | 949-824-3220

  • shuttegg@uci.edu
  • Website
David Inman
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Washington 

  • languages, grammatical systems, computational modeling

  • d.inman@uci.edu
Mahtab Jafari
Kimberly Jameson
Ivan Jeliazkov
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Washington University 

  • econometrics, simulation-based inference, computation

  •  3175 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-1581

  • ivan@uci.edu
  • Website
Brian Jenkins
  • Associate Professor of Teaching and Director, Undergraduate Studies
     Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2011 

  •  3133 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-0640

  • bcjenkin@uci.edu
  • Website
Jade V. Marcus Jenkins
  • Associate Professor, School of Education, UC Irvine
    Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2013

  • public policy

  • jvjenkin@uci.edu
Angela Jenks
  • Professor of Teaching
    Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, 2009

  • medical anthropology, race and ethnicity, urban ethnography, united states

  •  3304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-3188

  • ajenks@uci.edu
  • Website
Priyaranjan Jha
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia University 

  • international trade

  •  3265 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1926

  • pranjan@uci.edu
  • Website
Marek Kaminski
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland, 1997

  • voting models, democratization, political consequences of electoral laws

  •  2283 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-2744

  • mkaminsk@uci.edu
  • Website
L. Robin Keller
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Management Science, UCLA 

  • decision analysis, Chinese consumers’ use of online streaming (and tipping streamers) and counterfeit products, Chinese consumer product and safety risks, corporate apologies

  •  SB2 327 | 949-824-6348

  • lrkeller@uci.edu
  • Website
Pauline Ketelaars
  • International Visitor
    B.S. Subject, University Name, 1983

  •  SSPB 5211

  • pketelaa@uci.edu
Pramod Khargonekar
  • Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

  • systems and control theory; learning and intelligent systems; applications to renewable energy and smart grid, neural engineering and economics; leadership and creativity; technology and society

  • 949-824-5796

  • pramod.khargonekar@uci.edu
  • Website
Yatta Kiazolu
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UCLA 

  • 20th century US and African American history, women and gender, modern Africa and the African diaspora, black internationalism, African decolonization, black feminisms

  •  579 Social Science Tower

  • ykiazolu@uci.edu
Claire Kim
  • Professor, Asian American Studies
    Ph.D., Yale University 

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

  •  3251 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-3192

  • cjkim@uci.edu
  • Website
Eleana Kim
  • Professor and Director, Graduate Admissions
    Ph.D., New York University, 2007

  • kinship, transnationalism, environment, korea

  •  3332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • eleanak@uci.edu
  • Website
Julie Kim
Natalia Komarova
  • Professor of Mathematics

  • mathematical and life sciences; modeling of cancer and evolution of language

  •  540J Rowland Hall | (949) 824-1268

  • komarova@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Jeffrey Kopstein
  • Professor and 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
Igor Kopylov
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Rochester 

  • microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory

  •  3177 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6182

  • ikopylov@uci.edu
  • Website
Allison Koslow
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy
    Ph.D., MIT 

  • philosophy of language, metaphysics, feminism, history of analytic, philosophy of linguistics

  • akoslow@uci.edu
  • Website
Jeffrey Krichmar
  • Professor
    Ph.D., George Mason University, 1997

  • computational neuroscience, robotics, artificial intelligence, neural networks

  •  2328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • jkrichma@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Génesis Lara
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Davis 

  • African diaspora studies, Caribbean history and diaspora studies, postcolonial and revolutionary studies

  •  355 Social Science Tower

  • genesil1@uci.edu
Alana LeBron
  • Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., Public Health, University of Michigan, 2015

  • Racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic health inequities, health outcomes of Latino populations

  •  369 Social Science Tower

  • alebron@uci.edu
  • Website
Michael Lee
  • Professor and Chancellor's Fellow
    Ph.D., University of Adelaide, 1997

  • computational models and bayesian methods in decision making, representation, categorization, individual differences, and the wisdom of the crowd

  •  2302 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • mdlee@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Ying-Ying Lee
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013

  • econometrics, empirical microeconomics

  •  3271 Social Science Plaza B

  • yingying.lee@uci.edu
  • Website
Julia C. Lerch
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford, 2017

  • Sociology of education, global and transnational sociology, education and citizenship, higher education, refugees and humanitarian emergencies, international organizations, globalization

  •  4145 Social Science Plaza A

  • lerchj@uci.edu
  • Website
Anna Leshinskaya
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2015

  • learning, relational reasoning, computational cognitive neuroscience, semantic memory, artificial intelligence alignment/interpretability

  •  2554 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • aleshins@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
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
Daniel Levine
  • Lecturer
    M.A. Jewish History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017
    Rabbinic Ordination , Yeshiva Pirchei Shoshanim, 2016

  • Rabbinic Literature/Talmud, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Evolution of Jewish Law, American Judaism

  • levinemd@uci.edu
Linda Levine
Jacklyn Lewis
  • Lecturer

  •  2311 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • jlewis@uci.edu
Jack Liebersohn
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., M.I.T. Sloan School of Management 

  • corporate finance, banking, real estate

  • cjlieber@uci.edu
Mimi Liljeholm
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2006

  • agency, causal induction, compositionality, motivation, compulsion, social transmission

  •  2312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-8444

  • m.liljeholm@uci.edu
  • Lab
Erin Lockwood
  • Assistant Professor
    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
Elizabeth Loftus
  • Distinguished Professor, Social Ecology and Professor of Law
    Ph.D., Stanford University 

  • cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

  •  2393 Social Ecology II | 949-824-3285

  • eloftus@uci.edu
  • Website
Calvin Love
  • Lecturer
    J.D., University of California, Los Angele | School of Law, 2015

  • trial advocacy, evidence, legal writing

  • cflove@uci.edu
Christopher Lowman
  • Assistant Professor of Teaching
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

  • historical archaeology, race, gender, immigration

  •  3326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • clowman@uci.edu
Jonathan Lui
  • Lecturer, SPPS
    Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine 
    MA, Demographic and Social Analysis, University of California, Irvine 
    BA, Social Science, University of California, Irvine 

  • marriage and family, probability and statistics

  •  5123 Social Science Plaza A

  • luij@uci.edu
Cecelia Lynch
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Columbia University, 1993

  • international relations (theory, organization, law), religion and ethics, social movements and civil society actors (on peace, security, globalization, humanitarianism, and religion)

  • clynch@uci.edu
  • Website
Penelope Maddy
  • Distinguished Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Princeton University 

  • philosophy of mathematics and logic, meta-philosophy, skepticism

  • pjmaddy@uci.edu
  • Website
Lilith Mahmud
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • Europe, feminist ethnography, elites, race, the Right, liberalism, migration, secrecy

  •  3312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • lmahmud@uci.edu
  • Website
Olga Malkova
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Education, University of Michigan 
    M.A., Economics, University of Michigan 
    B.A., Economics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley 

  • labor economics, demography and health

  • 949-824-3545

  • omalkova@uci.edu
  • Website
JB Manchak
  • Professor and Director, Graduate Admissions
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2009

  • space and time, philosophy of physics, philosophy of science

  •  757 Social Science Tower | 949-824-7374

  • jmanchak@uci.edu
  • Website

  • (Sabbatical 2024-25)
Constantine Manda
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Yale University 

  • African politics, identity, religion, political behavior, social norms, political economy of development, program evaluation

  • cmanda@uci.edu
  • Website
George Marcus
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976

  • elites, ethnography, and cultural critique, pacific

  •  3566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • gmarcus@uci.edu
  • Website
Raffaele Mari
Mirian Martinez-Aranda
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

  • international migration, immigration detention, law and society, race and ethnicity

  •  4223 Social Science Plaza B

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

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

  • rmatthew@uci.edu
  • Website
Bill Maurer
  • Professor and Dean
    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
Connor Mayer
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UCLA, 2021

  • linguistics, phonology, phonetics, computational linguistics, speech motor control

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2211

  • cjmayer@uci.edu
  • Website
Shampa Mazumdar
Bhash Mazumder
  • Professor

  • labor economics, education, health, economic history

  •  Social Science Plaza A 3183

  • bmazumde@uci.edu
Michael McBride
  • Professor and Acting Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
    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
Philip McCarty
  • Associate Professor of Teaching
    Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2007

  • global & international studies, interdisciplinary analytical frameworks, global media, mediated ideologies

  •  595 Social Science Tower

  • philip.mccarty@uci.edu
  • Website
Mary McThomas
  • Professor and Director, Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,  2007

  • immigration, theories of citizenship, feminist political theory, gender and politics

  •  5285 Social Science Plaza B

  • mary.mcthomas@uci.edu
Toby Meadows
  • Associate Professor and DECADE Mentor
    Ph.D., University of Melbourne,  2011

  • mathematical logic, set theory and its philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics

  •  755 Social Science Tower

  • meadowst@uci.edu
  • Website
Sara Mednick
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003

  • memory consolidation, sleep, pharmacology, aging, brain stimulation

  •  2546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • mednicks@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Amalia Mejia
Richard Mendelsohn
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
Fabio Milani
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006

  • macroeconomics, monetary economics, time-series econometrics, international macro

  •  3145 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-4519

  • fmilani@uci.edu
  • Website
Benjamin Alexander Mis
Lora Mjolsness
  • Lecturer
Kristen Monroe
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1974

  • ethics, international relations, political and moral psychology, normative political theory, politics of difference, conflict resolution

  •  4103 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6092

  • krmonroe@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Maria Montenegro
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 
    M.A., Museum Studies, New York University 

  • Critical archival theory, Indigenous and Native American studies, critical Latinx Indigeneities, Indigenous law and politics, settler and internal colonialism, critical human rights, plurinationality, anticolonial praxis, community-based research, archival ethnography

  •  521 Social Science Tower

  • memonte2@uci.edu
  • Website
Jeffrey B. Mulligan
  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1986

  • human vision and eye movements, visual displays, computational modeling

  • Website
Keith Murphy
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008

  • linguistics, design, aesthetics and morality, sweden

  •  3306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • kmmurphy@uci.edu
  • Website
Tiara R. Na'puti
  • Associate Professor and Acting Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity
    Ph.D., Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 

  • communication studies, rhetoric, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Oceania, militarism, empire, indigenous environmental justice

  •  533 Social Science Tower

  • tnaputi@uci.edu
Teresa Neighbors
  • Lecturer, Social Science; Director, Deconstructing Diversity Initiative; Co-Director, Center for Racial Justice

  •  SBSG 1507 | 949-824-9229

  • tneighbo@uci.edu
David Neumark
  • Distinguished Professor and Co-Director, Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • labor economics

  •  3219 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8496

  • dneumark@uci.edu
  • Website
Cherlyn Ng
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2010

  • visual perception, neuroplasticity, physiological optics, psychophysics, computational modeling

  •  2326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • cherlyjn@uci.edu
  • Lab
Brenda Nicolas
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 
    M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego 
    B.A., Latin American Studies and Sociology, University of California, Riverside 

  • global Indigeneities, Latin America, Latinx Studies, transborder and migration studies, Indigenous intellectual thought, settler colonialism, Native ethnography

  •  539 Social Science Tower

  • nicolasb@uci.edu
Andrew Noymer
  • Associate Professor, Public Health

  • health and mortality, especially selective mortality and multi-cause interaction; the 1918 influenza pandemic; demography; methods; mathematical sociology

  • (949) 824–6620

  • noymer@uci.edu
  • Website
Pamela Nwakanma
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • political economy of development, africana studies, comparative politics, identity, gender, entrepreneurship

  • pnwakanm@uci.edu
  • Website
Chuck O'Connell
Cailin O'Connor
  • Chancellor's Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2013

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

  •  793 Social Science Tower

  • cailino@uci.edu
  • Website
Kevin Olson
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Northwestern University 

  • political theory, insurgent and popular politics, postcoloniality, cultural politics, poststructuralism, critical theory

  •  5207 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8335

  • kevin.olson@uci.edu
  • Website
Valerie Olson
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Rice University, 2010

  • environmental systems, science and technology, u.s., extreme environments

  •  3334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-9737

  • olsonv@uci.edu
  • Website
Fantasia Painter
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley 
    M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley 
    B.A., Ethnic Studies, Columbia University 

  • native american and indigenous studies, research methodologies, land and law

  •  555 Social Science Tower

  • fpainter@uci.edu
  • Website
Lisa Pearl
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2007

  • language development, linguistics, computational sociolinguistics, cognitive modeling

  •  2219 Social Science Plaza B

  • lpearl@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Andrew Penner
  • Professor and Director, CADA
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008

  • education, inequality, gender, race, family

  •  4181 Social Science Plaza A

  • penner@uci.edu
  • Website
Megan Peters
  • Associate Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

  • perception, metacognition, subjective experience, computational modeling, computational cognitive neuroscience

  •  2568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • megan.peters@uci.edu
  • Lab
Kristin Peterson
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Rice University, 2004

  • science and technology, feminism, pharmaceuticals, west africa

  •  3336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-9652

  • kris@uci.edu
  • Website
Bojan Petrovic
  • Lecturer, Social Policy and Public Service
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 

  • Middle East politics, global Islam, Muslims in the West, cyberwarfare

  •  520 Social Science Tower

  • bojan.petrovic@uci.edu
Davin Phoenix
  • Associate Professor and Director, 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
Zygmunt Pizlo
  • Professor and Falmagne Endowed Chair
    Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991

  • human and machine vision, 3D shape, symmetry, virtual reality, robotics, problem solving

  •  2187 Social Science Plaza A

  • zpizlo@uci.edu
  • Website
Francesca Polletta
  • Chancellor's Professor
    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
Mamyrah Prosper
  • Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Racial Justice
    Ph.D., Florida International University 

  • social movements, caribbean and latin america

  •  557 Social Science Tower

  • mprosper@uci.edu
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
Vibhuti Ramachandran
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Anthropology,  New York University 
    M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago 
    M.A., Sociology, University of Delhi 
    B.A., (Hons.) Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College 

  • law, gender and sexuality, South Asia, postcolonial law, state practices, human rights, humanitarianism, development, nongovernmental organizations, trafficking,sex work, labor and migration, childhood

  •  563 Social Science Tower

  • vibhutir@uci.edu
  • Website
Gary Richardson
  • Professor and Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
    Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 

  • economic history, macroeconomics, great depression, industrial revolution, property rights, economic development

  •  3127 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-5089

  • garyr@uci.edu
  • Website
Justin Richland
  • Professor and Chair
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 
    J.D., University of California, Berkeley

  • legal discourse analysis and semiotics; anthropology of law; contemporary native american law, politics, art and ethnographic museology

  • jbrich@uci.edu
Hidemi Riggs
Katherine Claire Ritchie
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy, UCI School of Humanities
    Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 2013

  • metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, social philosophy

  • ritchiek@uci.edu
  • Website
Annie Ro
  • Associate Professor, Health Sciences/Public Health

  • social disadvantage and immigrant and minority health; nativity advantage and health decline among immigrants

  •  2036 Anteater Instruction and Research Building (AIRB) | 949-824-6185

  • annie.ro@uci.edu
  • Website
Ty Robbins
Crystal Robertson
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 

  • race, ethnicity, and politics; gender and politics; political psychology

  •  5221 Social Science Plaza B

  • crystdr1@uci.edu
  • Website
Guillaume Rocheteau
  • Professor and Placement Director
    Ph.D. University of Paris II, Pantheon-Assas 

  • monetary theory, macroeconomics, labor economics, search theory

  •  3263 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-7053

  • grochete@uci.edu
  • Website
Christofer A. Rodelo
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., American Studies, Harvard University, 2022

  • latinx and black latinx studies, theater and performance studies, pre-1900 u.s. literary and cultural history, relational studies of race and ethnicity, disability studies, archival theory, feminist and queer of color critique, digital humanities

  •  359 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6798

  • crodelo@uci.edu
  • Website

  • Pronouns: they / he
Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

  • international macroeconomics

  •  3291 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-5366

  • jantonio@uci.edu
  • Website
Rocío Rosales
  • Inclusive Excellence Professor and Active Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2012

  • international migration, immigrant and ethnic economies, urban sociology, qualitative methods, ethnography, latino/a studies, race and ethnicity, immigrant detention

  •  4109 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-5859

  • r.rosales@uci.edu
  • Website
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
  • Associate Professor, History
    Ph.D. in History, University of Southern California, 2006

  • chicana/o/x history, emotive history, film and media studies, gender studies, latina/o/x studies, oral history, u.s. history

  •  391 Social Science Tower

  • arosas1@uci.edu
  • Website
Shawn Rosenberg
  • Professor
    M. Litt., University of Oxford 

  • political psychology, populism, deliberative democracy, ideology, social theory, social and development psychology

  •  5253 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-7143

  • swr@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Lauren Ross
  • Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow; Director, Summer Diversity Program
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2016
    M.D., University of California, Irvine, 2011

  • general philosophy of science; philosophy of biology, neuroscience, and medicine

  •  791 Social Science Tower

  • rossl@uci.edu
  • Website
Jeffrey Rouder
  • Professor and Falmagne Endowed Chair
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1995

  • mathematical and statistical models of perception and cognition, bayesian mixed models, psychometrics

  •  2322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • jrouder@uci.edu
  • Lab
Luis Sánchez-López
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • race, Indigeneity, settler colonialism, customary law, autonomy, and social movements

  •  393 Social Science Tower

  • sanchezlopez.luis@uci.edu
  • Website
Donald Saari
  • Distinguished Research Professor
    Ph.D. Purdue University  

  • mathematics and applications of dynamical systems to social sciences

  • dsaari@uci.edu
  • Website
Kourosh Saberi
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993

  • auditory perception, conscious systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence

  •  2332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • saberi@uci.edu
  • Lab
Kamal Sadiq
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., The University of Chicago 

  • comparative politics, international relations, immigration and citizenship in developing countries, asian security, india and southeast asia

  •  5263 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-3126

  • kamal@uci.edu
Barbara Sarnecka
  • Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004

  • cognitive development, language and conceptual change, writing and scientific communication

  •  2562 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • sarnecka@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
George Sarraf
Timothy Satalich
Michael Scavio
  • Lecturer, SPPS
    Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of Iowa 

  •  SSPA 5117

  • mjscavio@uci.edu
David Schaefer
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2006

  • social networks, social psychology, criminology, health, adolescent development

  •  4253 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6245

  • drschaef@uci.edu
  • Website
Seymour Schlosser
Evan Schofer
  • Professor
    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 | 949-824-1397

  • schofer@uci.edu
  • Website
Tonya Schuster
Gregory Scontras
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director; Associate Director, C-ALPHA
    Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University, 2014

  • semantics, pragmatics, cognitive modeling, philosophical logic

  •  2221 Social Science Plaza B

  • g.scontras@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Sherilyn Sellgren
  • Lecturer
    J.D., University of California, Davis, School of Law, 1995
    M.B.A., University of California, Irvine, 2000

  • constitutional law, freedom of expression, intellectual property, legal writing

  •  555 Social Science Tower

  • s.sellgren@uci.edu
Johanna Shapiro
Paul Shirey
  • Lecturer, SocSci
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1989

  •  4245 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8754

  • prshirey@uci.edu
  • Website
Sameer Singh
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science
    Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2014

  • large-scale machine learning, information extraction/nlp, probabilistic programming, interactive machine learning, distributedd and parallel inference, semi-supervised learning

  •  4204 Donald Bren Hall

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

  • economic theory, political economy

  •  3123 Social Science Plaza A | 9498244167

  • sskaperd@uci.edu
  • Website
Brian Skyrms
  • Distinguished Professor and Director, Salzburg Exchange Program; Director, History and Philosophy of Science IDP; Director, History and Philosophy of Science Minor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 

  • philosophy of science, metaphysics

  •  767 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6495

  • bskyrms@uci.edu
  • Website
Charles Smith
  • Professor
    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
    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
Padhraic Smyth
  • Professor
    Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1988

  • machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics

  •  4216 Bren Hall | (949) 824-2558

  • p.smyth@uci.edu
  • Website
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
Damien Sojoyner
  • Professor (Ph.D. and M.A. in Medicine, Science and Technology Studies (MSTS))
    Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009

  • prisons; public education; urban anthropology; race; african diaspora theory; public policy and law; gender; united states

  •  3546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • damien.sojoyner@uci.edu
  • Website
Etel Solingen
  • Distinguished Professor
    Thomas T. And Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies  
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 

  • international relations theory, international political economy, international cooperation, macropolitics/institutions, comparative politics, world politics and regional orders

  •  5259 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6732

  • esolinge@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
George Sperling
  • Distinguished Research Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1959

  • empirical and theoretical studies of human information processing: visual perception, attention, and short-term memory systems; computational and neural models of motion and depth perception, and of feature, spatial, and temporal attention processes

  • sperling@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Ramesh Srinivasan
  • Professor and Undergraduate Director
    Ph.D., Tulane University, 1995

  • brain networks, decision making, attention, coordination, multi-brain dynamics

  •  2336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • r.srinivasan@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
P. Kyle Stanford
  • Professor and Director, PPE MA Program
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics, history of modern philosophy

  •  769 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6398

  • stanford@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
Hal Stern
  • Professor, Statistics
    Ph.D., Stanford University 

  •  6215 Donald Bren Hall | 949-824-7405

  • sternh@uci.edu
  • Website
Mark Steyvers
  • Professor and Chair
    Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000

  • human-AI collaboration, higher-order cognition, learning, metacognition, computational modeling

  •  2566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-7642

  • mark.steyvers@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Ian Straughn
  • Associate Professor of Teaching and Director, Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2006

  • archaeology, cultural heritage, middle east and islamic studies, space and landscape, material culture

  •  3544 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • ian.straughn@uci.edu
  • Website
Yang Su
  • Professor
    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
Erik Sudderth
  • Associate Professor, UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

  • artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision, statistics and statistical theory

  •  DBH 4028 | (949) 824-8169

  • sudderth@uci.edu
  • Website
Eric Swanson
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University

  • macroeconomics, macro-finance, monetary economics, time series econometrics

  •  3259 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8305

  • eric.swanson@uci.edu
  • Website
Rein Taagepera
Rita Tamer
Edward E. Telles
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D.,  University of Texas at Austin,  1988

  • immigration, race, ethnicity, latin america, latinos

  •  4171 Social Science Plaza A | (949) 824-6800

  • e.telles@uci.edu
  • Website
Michael Tesler
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2011

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

  •  5251 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1869

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

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

  • dthomsen@uci.edu
  • Website
George E. Tita
  • Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society and Director, Livable Cities Lab
    Ph.D., H.J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon 

  • criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies

  •  2307 Social Ecology II | 949.870.6549

  • gtita@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Hector Tobar
  • Professor
    M.F.A., Creative Writing, Fiction, University of California, Irvine, 1995

  • storytelling, literature, history of los angeles, latin American history, latino history

  •  365 Social Science Tower

  • htobar@uci.edu
  • Website
António Tomás
  • Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., Columbia University 

  • colonialism, race and racism, social and political theory, african urbanism and cityness, Angola, cartography and graphic representation

  •  3552 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • aptomas@uci.edu
Keith Topper
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

  • political theory

  •  4143 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-4067

  • ktopper@uci.edu
Amjad Toukan
Tri C. Tran
  • Lecturer
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 

  •  309 Humanities Hall

  • tritran@uci.edu
Kristin Turney
  • Dean's Professor and Co-Director, Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009

  • social inequality; family demography; population health; incarceration and punishment; intergenerational transmission of disadvantage; child wellbeing

  •  4283 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8846

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

  • comparative political behavior, formal theory/social choice

  • cuhlaner@uci.edu
  • Website
Robert Uriu
  • Associate Professor

  • international relations, international political economy, international politics of east asia/japan, u.s. foreign policy toward east asia

  •  2275 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1868

  • rmuriu@uci.edu
  • Website
Joachim Vandekerckhove
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Leuven, Belgium, 2009

  • response time modeling, model fitting, computational statistics, psychometrics, bayesian statistics

  •  2324 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-5958

  • joachim@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Oliko Vardishvili
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., European University Institute 

  • macroeconomics, heterogeneity, income inequality, education, and taxation

  •  3117 Social Science Plaza A

  • ovardish@uci.edu
  • Website
Roxanne Varzi
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002

  • iran, war, islam, visual anthropology, film, art/popular culture in iran, social cultural anthropology, religious studies, visual culture

  •  3314 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • rvarzi@uci.edu
  • Website
Vijay Vazirani
  • Distinguished Professor

  • algorithmic problems in mathematical economics and game theory, design of efficient exact and approximation algorithms, computational complexity theory

  •  4032 Bren Hall

  • vazirani@uci.edu
  • Website
Irene Vega
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

  • international migration, racial group formation, socio-legal studies, educational inequality

  • ivega@uci.edu
  • Website
Tejaswi Velayudhan
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan 

  • public finance, development economics

  • tvelayud@uci.edu
Vincent Vigil
  • Lecturer, SPPS
    Ed.D., Associate Vice President - Student Affairs, Dena of Students CSUF 

  • student development theories, first amendment rights, civil discourse, leadership theories, LGBTQ+ politics and experiences, intersectionality of identities, first generation college student experiences, Title IX

  • vvigil@uci.edu
Samantha Vortherms
  • Associate Professor
    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
    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 | 949-824-1417

  • fwang@uci.edu
  • Website
Marty Wattenberg
James Owen Weatherall
  • Chancellor's Professor and Chair
    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
Kai Wehmeier
  • Dean's Professor and Director, C-ALPHA; Director, Undergraduate Studies
    Ph.D., Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster,  1996

  • logic, philosophy of logic and language, formal semantics, early analytic philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics

  •  783 Social Science Tower | 949-824-7792

  • wehmeier@uci.edu
  • Website
John Whiteley
Sarah Whitt
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UC Berkeley 

  • native american and indigenous studies, indigenous feminisms, indigenous women and globalization, settler colonial studies, gender and sexuality studies, history of science and medicine

  •  581 Social Science Tower

  • sawhitt@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
Kassia Wosick
Xin Xie
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2015

  • psycholinguistics, speech perception and production, cross-language communication, computational modeling, neuroimaging

  •  Social Science Plaza B, Room 2223

  • xxie14@uci.edu
  • Lab
Jack Xin
Michael Yassa
  • Professor and Chancellor's Fellow; Director, UCI Brain Initiative

  • learning, memory, aging, alzheimer's disease, neuroimaging, depression, anxiety, hippocampus

  •  1418 Biological Sciences 3 | (949) 824-1687

  • myassa@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Ka-eul Yoo
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz 
    M.A., English, Yonsei University 
    B.A., English, Yonsei University 

  • literary and cultural studies in global asias, disability justice, public health policy, war/empire studies, critical korean studies

  •  547 Social Science Tower

  • kaeuly1@uci.edu
Martin Zeman
  • Professor, Mathematics

  •  410E Rowland Hall | 949-824-1270

  • mzeman@uci.edu
Miguel Zerecero
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Toulouse School of Economics, France 

  • spatial and labor economics

  • mzerecer@uci.edu
  • Website
Mei Zhan
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002

  • medical anthropology, science and technology studies, theory and methodology, chinese medicine, globalization, china

  •  3316 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • mzhan@uci.edu
  • Website
Christoffer Zoeller
Salvador Zárate
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • race, gender, labor, and the environment; southern california domestic work and gardening labor; marxism and women of color feminism; historical methods and anthropology; ethnic studies

  • sezarate@uci.edu