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![Kristin Barker Photo: Kristin Barker](faculty profile/k.-barker-img_8930.jpg)
Kristin Barker
Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1072
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Gender, Science and Knowledge
Qualitative Methods
Lisa Broidy
Distinguished Professor
Department Chair
Co-editor, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Office:
- SSCI 1055
Crime, Law, and Social Control, Gender, Criminology
Criminological Theory, Female Offending, Developmental Criminology, Collateral Consequences of Incarceration, Domestic Violence
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Georgiann Davis
Associate Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1078
- Personal website
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Gender, Inequality
Sociology of the Body, Intersectionality
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Jessica Goodkind
Professor
Associate Chair
- Office:
- SSCI 1082
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Race and Ethnicity, Community-based Participatory Research
Social determinants of health/mental health, Community-based mental health interventions, Native American, refugee, and immigrant populations, Mixed methods research, Cultural competency/humility
Ryan Goodman
Principal Lecturer III
- Office:
- SSCI 1057
Social Movements, Education, Gender, Political Sociology, Culture
Nancy López
Professor
Director and Co-founder, Institute for Study of "Race" & Social Justice (race.unm.edu)
Advisor, Race and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate
- Phone:
- (505) 277-3101
- Office:
- SSCI 1053
Race and Ethnicity, Education, Gender, Community-based Participatory Research, Inequality, Latino/a Studies
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, Intersectionality, Education, Health, Community Based Participatory Research, Africana Studies, Latino/a Studies, Public Sociology
Christopher J. Lyons
Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1074
Crime, Law, and Social Control, Race and Ethnicity, Deviance and Social Control
Urban and Community Sociology, Hate Crime
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Sharan Kaur Mehta
Visiting Scholar
Post Doctoral Fellow
- Phone:
- 505-277-2501
- Personal website
Race and Ethnicity, Racism, Racialization, Religion, Gender, Intersectionality, Asians and Asian Americans, Identity, Collective Action
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Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Distinguished Professor
Associate Dean for Student Success, College of Arts and Sciences
- Office:
- SSCI 1066
Social Movements, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Peace Studies
Colin Olson
Principal Lecturer III
- Office:
- SSCI 1059
Crime, Law, and Social Control, Social Networks, Deviance and Social Control
Mass Media, Political Culture, Social Theory
Noah Painter-Davis
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Director
- Office:
- SSCI 1080
Crime, Law, and Social Control, Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods
Race/Ethnic Differences in Crime and Punishment, Demography and Crime, Courts and Sentencing
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Kiwoong Park
Assistant Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1068
- Personal website
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Quantitative Methods, Social Stratification
Life Course Perspective
Daniel Ragan
Associate Professor
- Phone:
- 505-277-6469
- Office:
- SSCI 1054
Crime, Law, and Social Control, Quantitative Methods, Social Networks
Adolescent Delinquency and Drug Use, Life Course Criminology
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Ranita Ray
Associate Professor
Baca Zinn Professor of Sociology
- Office:
- SSCI 1062
- Personal website
Race and Ethnicity, Education, Gender, Inequality
Children and Youth
Reuben (Jack) Thomas
Associate Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1070
- Personal website
Social Networks
Interpersonal Relationships, Homophily/Segregation/ Boundaries
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George Weddington
Visiting Scholar
PostDoc
Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements
Race, Antiblackness, Social Movements, Organizational Sociology
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Owen Whooley
Professor
Graduate Director
Regents Lecturer
- Office:
- SSCI 1060
- Personal website
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Social Movements, Science and Knowledge
Sociology of Mental Health , Sociology of Ignorance
Eli Wilson
Assistant Professor
Organizations, Information & Learning Sciences, University of New Mexico
- Office:
- SSCI 1076
- Personal website
Race and Ethnicity, Inequality, Culture
Work and Occupations, Immigration, Ethnography
![Richard Wood Photo: Richard Wood](faculty profile/richard-wood-photo_outdoors_oct2019_cut.jpeg)
Richard L. Wood
Professor
Director of the Southwest Institute on Religion, Culture, and Society
- Office:
- SSCI 1104-B
Religion, Social Movements, Global/Transnational Sociology
Community Organizing, Comparative Civil Societies (United States and Latin America), Culture in Social Movements, Democratic Theory
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Assata Zerai
Professor
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
- Office:
- Scholes Hall Suite 203
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Race and Ethnicity, Global/Transnational Sociology, Inequality
Decolonial Feminist Methodologies, Black Feminist Thought, Gender Equity and Development Effectiveness, Maternal and Child Health, Sociology of Religion