Edwin Amenta
  • Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1989

  • political sociology, historical and comparative sociology, social movements, social policy, media, and American political development

  •  SSPA 4101 | 949-824-6800

  • ea3@uci.edu
  • CV
Alejandro Camacho
Peter Ditto
David Feldman
Mark Fisher
David John Frank
  • Professor & Chair
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995

  • globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

  •  SSPA 4107 | 949-824-1117

  • frankd@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Julian Gerez
  • Social Ecology (Starts - July 1, 2025)
Howard Gillman
Christopher Harris
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Politics and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research 

  • black studies, black political thought, black critical theory, black culture and aesthetics, social movements, political theory, ethnography, cultural studies

  •  535 Social Science Tower

  • christopher.paul.harris@uci.edu
Richard Matthew
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
David S. Meyer
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Boston University, 1988

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

  •  SSPB 4207 | 949-824-1475

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

  • Website
Gregory Shaffer
  • Chancellor's Professor
     J.D.,  Stanford Law 

  • international law, international trade, investment law

  •  LAW 4500D | 949-824-4794

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

  • economic theory, political economy

  •  SSPA 3123 | 9498244167

  • sskaperd@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Rodolfo David Torres
  • Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning | UCI School of Social Ecology
    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 of History
    Ph.D., History, UC Berkeley 

  • china, protest, globalization, gender, urban

  •  Murray Krieger Hall 300H | 949.824.2865

  • jwassers@uci.edu
  • Website
Christopher Whytock
  • Professor, School of Law
    Ph.D. in Political Science, Duke University, 2007

  • International relations, international law, transnational litigation, conflict of laws

  •  LAW 3800E | 949-824-0496

  • cwhytock@uci.edu
  • Website
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • Black political thought; Pan African and third world feminist thought; politics of knowledge; political education, youth led politics, poetics and politics, revolutionary women, humanistic social science, african feminisms; african politics

  • twilloug@uci.edu

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