Faculty
Tenure Track
Associate Professor of Sociology & American Studies and Ethnicity
Email: vallejoj@usc.edu
Research Areas: immigrant integration; race/ethnicity; minoritized middle classes; minoritized entrepreneurs; wealth attainment
Associate Professor of Sociology & Gender Studies
Sociology Department Chair
Email: biblarz@usc.edu
Research Areas: family sociology; stratification and social mobility; gender and sexuality; demography; statistics
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: breweral@usc.edu
Research Areas: medical sociology; work, organizations, and occupations; economic sociology; social inequalities; race, gender, and class; qualitative methods
Professor of Sociology
Email: lcasper@usc.edu
Research Areas: family sociology; family demography; work, family and health; gender, work, and family; family change and variation; social demography; quantitative methods
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: deisydel@usc.edu
Professor of Sociology
Email: eliasoph@usc.edu
Research Areas: political sociology and communication; cultural sociology; ethnography; sociolinguistics; social theory; emotions; organizations; nonprofits/NGOs
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: brittany.friedman@usc.edu
Research Areas: punishment and social control; institutional predation; race and ethnicity; inequality; access to justice; qualitative methodology; comparative-historical
Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow
Provost Postdoctoral Scholar for Faculty Diversity (starting Fall 2024)
Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2026)
Email: lgose@usc.edu
Florence Everline Professor of Sociology and Professor of Sociology
Email: hook@usc.edu
Research Areas: family demography; gender; inequality; work-family; social policy; comparative sociology
Professor of Sociology
Email: ekaplan@usc.edu
Research Areas: race and ethnic relations; social inequality; youth; gender; qualitative methodology; visual sociology; education
Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
Email: lakoff@usc.edu
Professor of Sociology & Religion
Email: lichterm@usc.edu
Research Areas: culture (public culture, civic and political culture, organizational culture); religion; political sociology; civic engagement; theory; qualitative methodology; ethnographic methods
Professor of Sociology, Public Policy & Spatial Sciences
Email: annowens@usc.edu
Research Areas: urban sociology; sociology of education; social stratification; social policy; quantitative analysis; spatial analysis
Distinguished Professor of Sociology & American Studies and Ethnicity
Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change
Email: mpastor@college.usc.edu
Research Areas: urban poverty and regional economies; Latinos in the urban U.S.; environmental justice; labor markets and low-wage workers; social movements and social justice
Professor of Sociology & American Studies and Ethnicity
Email: lsaito@usc.edu
Research Areas: race and ethnic relations; urban politics; community studies; gentrification; Asian American studies; qualitative research methods
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: dschrage@usc.edu
Research Areas: racial inequality; labor-market inequality; organizations; economic sociology; statistical and computational methods
Professor of Sociology & Spatial Sciences
Email: smithgre@usc.edu
Research Areas: demography; health; mortality; family; inequality
Provost Postdoctoral Scholar for Faculty Diversity
Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2024)
Email: urbinaju@usc.edu
Research Areas: family demography; gender; education; quantitative methods; Latin America
Professor of Sociology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Architecture & Preventive Medicine
Email: jpwilson@usc.edu
Research Areas: GIS; spatial analysis; environmental modeling; mapping
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: hyazdiha@usc.edu
Research Areas: social movements; race and ethnicity; immigration; culture, law and society; political sociology; collective memory; imagined futures
Teaching
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Sociology
Email: lainer-vos@usc.edu
Research Areas: nationalism (Jewish and Irish); diaspora politics; economic sociology; sociological theory; historical comparative methods; science and technology studies; charisma; conscientious objection
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Sociology
Email: mcgene@usc.edu
Professor (Teaching) of Sociology
Email: sternhei@usc.edu
Research Areas: moral panics; social problems; popular culture
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Sociology
Email: rwerth@usc.edu
Research Areas: punishment and the carceral continuum; parole and post-prison experiences; technologies and algorithms; law and legality; ethnography; how individuals navigate punishment
Research
Professor (Research) of Sociology
Email: brian.finch@usc.edu
Research Areas: social demography; population health and health disparities; quantitative methods
Affiliated
Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy
Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology & Environmental Studies
Email: padler@usc.edu
Areas of Expertise: business of sustainability; collaboration; democracy; environmental sustainability; labor economics; macroeconomics; platforms; R&D; socialism; sustainability; value-rational organization
Professor of Public Policy & Sociology
Email: cbeckman@usc.edu
Areas of Expertise: social innovation and inequality; organizational learning and interorganizational networks; entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship; technology and work; organizational control
Associate Professor of Sociology, Journalism & American Studies and Ethnicity
Email: carringb@usc.edu
Research Areas: civic engagement; social justice; culture and media
Areas of Expertise: gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; sports
University Professor & Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society
Professor of Communication, Sociology, Planning & International Relations
Email: castells@usc.edu
Research Areas: civic engagement; social justice organizations; networks and group persuasion; politics science; technology and innovation
Areas of Expertise: education; global; politics; social media; technology and innovation
Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair in Business Administration
Professor of Management and Organization & Sociology
Email: fiss@marshall.usc.edu
Research Areas: organization theory; framing and categorization; social inequality; set-analytic methods, such as fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)
Professor of Public Policy and Sociology
Email: dowell@usc.edu
Research Areas: immigration; ethnic change/demographic diversity and trends; growth management; housing & urban development; real estate market analysis; local census data analysis
Professor of Education and Sociology
Email: pnoguera@usc.edu
Areas of Expertise: sociology; race; equity; urban education
Lecturers
Lecturer
Email: levydani@usc.edu
Dornsife Fellow in General Education
Email: eshimada@usc.edu
Emeritus
Professor Emerita of Sociology
Email: sotelo@usc.edu
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: messner@usc.edu
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Email: jonmill@usc.edu