Meet Us
Staff
Amy Liu
Department Chair
![Photo of Amy Liu](_internal/photos/liu-amy.jpg)
- Location: AMD 450
- Phone: (916) 278-6522
- liuqa@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Asian and Asian American Studies, Family and Aging, Health and Mental Health, Needs Assessment, Opinion Polls, Program Evaluations, Race Relations, Survey
Millicent Ballesteros
Administrative Support Coordinator
![Photo of Millicent Ballesteros](_internal/photos/ballesteros,-millicent.jpg)
- Location: AMD 450
- Phone: (916) 278-6522
- millicentballes@csus.edu
- Pronouns: She/Her
Alexa-Lynn Hylaris
Administrative Support Assistant
![Photo of Alexa-Lynn Hylaris](_internal/photos/aljhmeetus.jpg)
- Location: AMD 450
- Phone: (916) 278-6522
- soc-sc@csus.edu
- Pronouns: She/Her
Faculty
Ayad Al-Qazzaz
![Photo of Ayad Al-Qazzaz](_internal/photos/alqazzaz-ayad.jpg)
- Location: AMD 453B
- Phone: (916) 278-6267
- alqazzaz@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Zoom (http://csus.zoom.us/j/6498548748)
- Specialty & Interests: Arab American Community, Islamic Culture and Religion, Muslim American Community, Political Sociology Societies of the Middle East and North Africa (including the Arab World)
Manuel Barajas
![Photo of Manuel Barajas](_internal/photos/barajas-manuel.jpg)
- Location: AMD 454B
- Phone: (916) 278-7576
- barajasm@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 PM In Person or zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/j/8164446978) or email for appointment.
- Specialty & Interests: Race, Class, and Gender Inequalities, Labor Migration / Immigration / Transnationalism Studies, Chicana/o Sociology and Latino Studies, Ethnic & Race Relations, The Xaripu Community Across Borders
Ellen Berg
![Photo of Ellen Berg](_internal/photos/berg-ellen.jpg)
- Location: AMD 453A
- Phone: (916) 278-7577
- berge@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Wed. 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Family, Statistics
Jacqueline Brooks
![Photo of Jacqueline Brooks](_internal/photos/brooks-jacqueline.png)
- Location: AMD 455A
- Phone: (916) 278-3358
- jacqueline.brooks@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Research Methods, Race and Ethnic Minorities, Sociology of Gender, Sociological Stratification, Sociological Theory
Jacqueline Carrigan
![Photo of Jacqueline Carrigan](_internal/photos/carrigan-jacqueline.jpg)
- Location: AMD 454C
- Phone: (916) 278-6801
- carrigan@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Tues. 3 - 4:30 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Demography, Marxist Sociology, Research Methods
Gabrielle Gonzales
![Photo of Gabrielle Gonzales](_internal/photos/thumbnail_img-8306.jpg)
- Location: AMD 451C
- Phone: (916) 278-7575
- g.gonzales@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- Office Hours:
Mon. 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Tues. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Social inequality, Sociology of Health and the Body, Latin American Studies
Aya Kimura Ida
![Photo of Aya Kimura Ida](_internal/photos/kimura-aya.jpg)
- Location: AMD 451B
- Phone: (916) 278-3387
- kimuraa@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Social Psychology, Race and Ethnicity, Mental Health and Illness
Anne Luna
![Photo of Anne Luna](_internal/photos/luna-anne.jpg)
- Location: AMD 455B
- Phone: (916) 278-7961
- luna@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Social Theory, Social Inequalities, Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Gender, Native American Sociology
Patricia Morris
![Photo of Patricia Morris](_internal/photos/morris-patricia.bmp)
- Location: AMD 451A
- Phone: (916) 278-3616
- morris@csus.edu
- Office Hours: M/W/F on Zoom by appointment. Please email morris@csus.edu to schedule an appointment for office hours on zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Research Methods, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Work, Social Psychology
Amalia Pérez Martín
![Photo of Amalia Pérez Martín](../_internal/_images/perezmartin_pic.jpg)
- Location: AMD 451D
- Phone: (916) 278-7573
- a.perezmartin@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00AM-2:00PM In Person or Zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/j/87215950897) or email for appointment.
- Specialty & Interests: social movements in Latin America, legal mobilization, legal repression, authoritarianism, Latina/o political identities, and women's rights activism.
Lina Rincón
![Photo of Lina Rincón](_internal/photos/lina-rincon-headshot-20231.jpg)
- Location: AMD 553C
- lina.rincon@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Race and ethnic relations in the U.S., legality and migration, the migration of Latine professionals, Colombians in the US, DEI in higher education
Christopher Rogers
![Photo of Christopher Rogers](_internal/photos/3x3a3281.jpg)
- Location: AMD 453C
- Phone: (916) 278-6694
- c.rogers@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 4:30 - 6 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Critical Race Theory; Critical Criminology (Abolition); Care; Black Feminist & Black Queer Theory; Qualitative Methods; Black & Brown Liberation, Health Care System; Education System; Carceral System
Heidy Sarabia
![Photo of Heidy Sarabia](_internal/photos/sarabia-heidy.jpg)
- Location: AMD 455C
- Phone: (916) 278-7574
- heidy.sarabia@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Wed. 1 - 2 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Globalization, U.S.-Mexico Border, Immigration and Citizenship, Law and Society, Social Movements, Research Methods
Nitika Sharma
![Photo of Nitika Sharma](_internal/photos/picture-for-bio-1.jpg)
- Location: AMD 454A
- Phone: (916) 278-7578
- nitika.sharma@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Wed. 4 - 5 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Globalization, Postcolonial studies, Citizenship and Immigration, Qualitative Methods, Race and Immigration, Refugee studies; Migration studies, Menstruation studies
Amanda Shigihara
Graduate Coordinator
![Photo of Amanda Shigihara](_internal/photos/shigihara-amanda.jpg)
- Location: AMD 455D
- Phone: (916) 278-7572
- shigihara@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM In person or through Zoom by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Social Psychology; Deviance, Crime, and Law; Life Course; Work and Occupations; Qualitative Methods; Sociological Theory
Charles Varano
![Photo of Charles Varano](_internal/photos/varano-charles.jpg)
- Location: AMD 454D
- Phone: (916) 278-6675
- cvarano@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Education, Social Stratification, Urban Sociology, Work & Organizations
Kevin Wehr
![Photo of Kevin Wehr](_internal/photos/wehr-kevin.jpg)
- Location: AMD 453D
- Phone: (916) 278-4277
- kwehr@csus.edu
- Office Hours: E-mail for appointment.
- Specialty & Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Criminology, Social Movements, Social Theory
Lecturers
Paul Bianchi
![Photo of Paul Bianchi](_internal/photos/bianchi-paul-2.jpg)
- Location: HMB 211A
- pjb82@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mondays 10:00 - 11:00 AM In Person or zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/j/89849735248) or email for appointment.
- Specialty & Interests: American Individualism, Race and Ethnic Relations, Criminology, and Sociological Theory
Paul Burke
![Place holder image for faculty/staff member.](https://www.csus.edu/newcsus2019-global-assets/_internal/images/default-member-sq.jpg)
- Location: BNC 1017
- paulb@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Immediately following each class in the classroom (or via zoom for online courses)
- Specialty & Interests: Political Sociology, Race and Class Relations, Sociology of Law, Labor and the Sociology of Work and Organizations
Mark Carnero
![Photo of Mark Carnero](_internal/photos/carnero-mark.png)
- Location: BNC 1017
- mc3663@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 2:00 - 3:00 PM or by appointment through zoom ( tps://csus.zoom.us/j/81962904787?pwd=eDVJa0N6NVUrQ1Rnd0RsMVJoZC90dz09)
- Specialty & Interests: Social Justice, Education, Mass Media, Structural Racism, Colonization & De-Colonial Resistance
Courtney Caviness
![Photo of Courtney Caviness](_internal/photos/caviness-courtney.png)
- Location: BNC1017
- caviness@csus.edu
- Pronouns: She/Her
- Office Hours: In person before/after class or E-mail for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Theory, Social Psychology/Symbolic Interactionism, Gender & Sexuality, Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Work & Occupations
Yanyi Djamba
![Photo of Yanyi Djamba](_internal/photos/yanyi.png)
- Location: HMB 211F
- yanyi.djamba@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00 - 3:45 PM or email for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Demography, Gender, Marriage and the Family, Research Methods, Sociology of Health and Medicine
Danielle Duckett
![Photo of Danielle Duckett](_internal/photos/duckett-danielle.jpg)
- Location: HMB 211F
- danielle.duckett@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Wed. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Gender and Women's Studies, Social Methods Research, Social Inequalities and Stratification
Michelle Durden
![Photo of Michelle Durden](_internal/photos/durden-michelle.jpeg)
- Location: HMB 211A
- durden@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mondays 1:00 - 3:00 PM and Tuesdays 1:30 - 2:30 PM message via Canvas to make appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Sociology of Gender, Social Psychology, Social Problems, Identity
Melissa Gosdin
![Place holder image for faculty/staff member.](https://www.csus.edu/newcsus2019-global-assets/_internal/images/default-member-sq.jpg)
- Location: BNC 1017
- melissa.gosdin@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Meet Before/After class or E-mail to schedule an appointment.
Nathen Menard
- Location: BNC 1017
- n.menard@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Wed. noon - 1 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Disasters, Social Psychology, Social Inequality, Social Change Organizations, and Social Interactions.
Thien-Huong Ninh
![Photo of Thien-Huong Ninh](_internal/photos/ninh-2.jpg)
- Location: HMB 211F
- ninh@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:15 - 11:00 AM In Person or zoom and Fridays 5:30 - 7:00 PM via zoom (https://berkeley.zoom.us/my/ucbninh)
- Specialty & Interests: Statistics, Research Methods, Race & Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender & Family, Globalization, Religion
Christopher Pappas
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- Location: BNC 1017
- pappas@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Wed. 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Culture (including popular culture and music), Multicultural and Ethnic Studies, Stratification and Inequality, Sexuality, Sociology of Gender Sociological Theory
Miguel Ruiz
![Photo of Miguel Ruiz](../../meet-us/_internal/photos/ruiz-miguel.jpg)
- Location: HMB 211F
- miguel.ruiz@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 PM and Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 - 2:30 PM In Person or zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/j/6044581369) or by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Civil Rights Movements, Sociology of Sports, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Bernadette Tello
![Photo of Bernadette Tello](_internal/photos/bernadette-tello.jpg)
- Location: HMB 211A
- tello@csus.edu
- Office Hours:
Tues./Thurs. 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Tues./Thurs. 3 - 4:14 p.m. Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Social Theory, Race relations, and Gender Inequalities
Debra Welkley
![Photo of Debra Welkley](_internal/photos/welkley.jpg)
- Location: HMB 211A
- welkleyd@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00 - 3:00 PM and 12:00 - 1:30PM. Meet near Starbucks by Del Norte or email for appointment.
- Specialty & Interests: Critical Thinking; Ethnic and Race Relations; Gender Studies; Qualitative Research; Mentoring; Marriage and Family
Ayanna Yonemura
![Photo of Ayanna Yonemura](_internal/photos/yonemuraheadshot2022.jpeg)
- Location: HMB 211F
- yonemura@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Wed. noon - 1:30 p.m. Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Nationalism, Gender, American Studies/Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Immigration, Urban Planning/Urban Studies
Emeritus
Mridula Udayagiri
![Photo of Mridula Udayagiri](_internal/photos/mridula-udayagiri-headshot.jpg)
Rosemary Varesio
![Photo of Rosemary Varesio](_internal/photos/varesio-rose.png)
- Location: HMB 211A
- varesio@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Zoom office hours by appointment. Please email Prof. Varesio
- Specialty & Interests: Social Theory, Gender Inequalities, and Deviance.