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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

Georgiann Davis
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Director
- Office:
- SSCI 1078
- Personal website
Sociology of Health and Medicine, Gender, Inequality
Sociology of the Body, Intersectionality

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
Past Director & Co-founder, Institute of "Race" & Social Justice (2009-2024); Past Advisor, Race and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Graduate (2016-2020) and Undergraduate Certificate (2020-2024)
- 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

Kayla Martensen
Assistant Professor
- Phone:
- 505-277-2501
- Office:
- 1080
Punishment and Society, Juvenile Justice, Abolition, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, State Violence, Qualitative Methods

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

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

Kiwoong Park
Assistant Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1068
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

Ranita Ray
Associate Professor
Baca Zinn Professor of Sociology
- Office:
- SSCI 1062
- Personal website
Race and Ethnicity, Education, Gender, Inequality
Children and Youth

Andrea Roman Alfaro
Assistant Professor
- Phone:
- 505-277-2501
- Personal website
Sociology of Violence, Criminalization, Gender, Race, Narratives, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Participatory Action Research
Reuben (Jack) Thomas
Associate Professor
- Office:
- SSCI 1070
- Personal website
Social Networks
Interpersonal Relationships, Homophily/Segregation/ Boundaries
Diana Torrez
Lecturer III
- Phone:
- 505-277-2501
- Office:
- 1108
Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Aging, Health, Intersectionality

George Weddington
Assistant Professor
Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements
Race, Antiblackness, Social Movements, Organizational Sociology

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
Associate Professor
Organizations, Information & Learning Sciences, University of New Mexico
- Office:
- SSCI 1076
- Personal website
Work and Organizations, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Culture, Ethnography

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

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