Meet Us
Staff
Amy Liu
Department Chair
- 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
- Location: AMD 450
- Phone: (916) 278-6522
- millicentballes@csus.edu
- Pronouns: She/Her
Alexa-Lynn Hylaris
Administrative Support Assistant
- Location: AMD 450
- Phone: (916) 278-6522
- soc-sc@csus.edu
- Pronouns: She/Her
Faculty
Ayad Al-Qazzaz
- Location: AMD 453B
- Phone: (916) 278-6267
- alqazzaz@csus.edu
- 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
- Location: LIB 67
- Phone: (916) 278-7576
- barajasm@csus.edu
- Website
- 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
- Location: AMD 453A
- Phone: (916) 278-7577
- berge@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Weds. 12:00 - 1:30PM or by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Family, Statistics
Jacqueline Brooks
- Location: AMD 455A
- Phone: (916) 278-3358
- jacqueline.brooks@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Research Methods, Race and Ethnic Minorities, Sociology of Gender, Sociological Stratification, Sociological Theory
Jacqueline Carrigan
- Location: AMD 454C
- Phone: (916) 278-6801
- carrigan@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Weds. 11:00AM - 2:00PM or by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Demography, Marxist Sociology, Research Methods
Gabrielle Gonzales
- Location: AMD 451C
- Phone: (916) 278-7575
- g.gonzales@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- Office Hours: Weds. 11:30AM - 1:15PM in person or zoom ( https://csus.zoom.us/j/3718156804) or email for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Social inequality, Sociology of Health and the Body, Latin American Studies
Aya Kimura Ida
- Location: AMD 451B
- Phone: (916) 278-3387
- kimuraa@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Mon./Weds./Fri. 9:00 - 10:00AM (walk-ins welcome but appointments appreciated) or schedule through EAB
- Specialty & Interests: Social Psychology, Race and Ethnicity, Mental Health and Illness
Anne Luna
- 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
- Location: AMD 451A
- Phone: (916) 278-3616
- morris@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. 1:30 - 2:45PM and 4:30 - 5:30PM, Thurs. 1:30 - 2:45PM or email for zoom or appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Research Methods, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Work, Social Psychology
Amalia Pérez Martín
- Location: AMD 451D
- Phone: (916) 278-7573
- a.perezmartin@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Weds. 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM in person or zoom ( https://csus.zoom.us/j/87215950897)
- Specialty & Interests: social movements in Latin America, legal mobilization, legal repression, authoritarianism, Latina/o political identities, and women's rights activism.
Lina Rincón
- 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
- Location: AMD 453C
- Phone: (916) 278-6694
- c.rogers@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 11:00AM - 1:30PM
- 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
- Location: AMD 455C
- Phone: (916) 278-7574
- heidy.sarabia@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Globalization, U.S.-Mexico Border, Immigration and Citizenship, Law and Society, Social Movements, Research Methods
Nitika Sharma
- Location: AMD 454A
- Phone: (916) 278-7578
- nitika.sharma@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Globalization, Postcolonial studies, Citizenship and Immigration, Qualitative Methods, Race and Immigration, Refugee studies; Migration studies, Menstruation studies
Amanda Shigihara
Graduate Coordinator
- Location: AMD 455D
- Phone: (916) 278-7572
- shigihara@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Social Psychology; Deviance, Crime, and Law; Life Course; Work and Occupations; Qualitative Methods; Sociological Theory
Charles Varano
- Location: AMD 454D
- Phone: (916) 278-6675
- cvarano@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 9:30 - 10:30AM or email for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Education, Social Stratification, Urban Sociology, Work & Organizations
Kevin Wehr
- Location: AMD 453D
- Phone: (916) 278-4277
- kwehr@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Criminology, Social Movements, Social Theory
Lecturers
Paul Bianchi
- Location: HMB 211A
- pjb82@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 12:45 - 1:30PM and Tues. 1:30 - 2:15PM in person or zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/launch/chat?src=direct_chat_link&email=pjb82@csus.edu) or by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: American Individualism, Race and Ethnic Relations, Criminology, and Sociological Theory
Paul Burke
- Location: BNC 1017
- paulb@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Political Sociology, Race and Class Relations, Sociology of Law, Labor and the Sociology of Work and Organizations
Mark Carnero
- Location: BNC 1017
- mc3663@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 2:00 - 4:00 PM through zoom (Meeting ID: 566 445 1362 Passcode: 347472) or by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Social Justice, Education, Mass Media, Structural Racism, Colonization & De-Colonial Resistance
Courtney Caviness
- Location: BNC1017
- caviness@csus.edu
- Pronouns: She/Her
- Specialty & Interests: Theory, Social Psychology/Symbolic Interactionism, Gender & Sexuality, Mental Health, Qualitative Methods, Work & Occupations
Yanyi Djamba
- Location: HMB 211F
- yanyi.djamba@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Demography, Gender, Marriage and the Family, Research Methods, Sociology of Health and Medicine
Danielle Duckett
- Location: HMB 211F
- danielle.duckett@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 12:00 - 1:30PM through zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/my/ndduckett) email for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Gender and Women's Studies, Social Methods Research, Social Inequalities and Stratification
Michelle Durden
- Location: HMB 211A
- durden@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 1:00 - 4:00PM email for appointment and zoom link
- Specialty & Interests: Sociology of Gender, Social Psychology, Social Problems, Identity
Nathen Menard
- Location: BNC 1017
- n.menard@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Disasters, Social Psychology, Social Inequality, Social Change Organizations, and Social Interactions.
Thien-Huong Ninh
- Location: HMB 211F
- ninh@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Statistics, Research Methods, Race & Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender & Family, Globalization, Religion
Christopher Pappas
- Location: BNC 1017
- pappas@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Weds. 3:00 - 5:00PM or email for zoom or
- Specialty & Interests: Culture (including popular culture and music), Multicultural and Ethnic Studies, Stratification and Inequality, Sexuality, Sociology of Gender Sociological Theory
Miguel Ruiz
- Location: HMB 211F
- miguel.ruiz@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon./Wed. 1:30 - 2:30 PM and Tues./Thurs. 3:00 - 4:00 PM in-person or zoom (https://csus.zoom.us/j/6044581369) or email for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Civil Rights Movements, Sociology of Sports, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Bernadette Tello
- Location: HMB 211A
- tello@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Social Theory, Race relations, and Gender Inequalities
Debra Welkley
- Location: HMB 211A
- welkleyd@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. 3:00 - 4:30PM through zoom (check canvas for link) and Weds. 12:00 - 1:30PM or email for appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Critical Thinking; Ethnic and Race Relations; Gender Studies; Qualitative Research; Mentoring; Marriage and Family
Ayanna Yonemura
- Location: BNC 2014
- yonemura@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: White Supremacy, Public Policy, Black Sociology, Comparative Black & Asian American Studies, African Studies, Comparative Migration Studies, Nationalism, Urban Planning, Patriarchy, and Feminism
Emeritus
Mridula Udayagiri
