Sociology Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-4376
albartlett@usfca.edu

Anne Bartlett

Assistant Professor

Anne Bartlett received her Ph.D. from the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago. She is a director of the Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (www.drdoafrica.org). Bartlett has worked on Darfur related issues for many years. Bartlett was the chair of the United Nations hearing on the Darfur crisis, UN commission on Human Rights, 60th Session, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2004. Bartlett has published extensively on the Darfur crisis and has given numerous talks on the subject worldwide. Bartlett is also the Director of the Master's Program in International Studies at USF.

Tel:(415) 422-6619
edwardsw@usfca.edu

William Edwards

Associate Professor

William A. Edwards received his B.A. from Virginia Union University, his M.A. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to USF he taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was also a Fellow at the Center for Black Studies. His research interests include: Urbanization, consumer credit, sociology and the mystery novel, and globalization and development.

Tel:(415) 422-4960
vfrancisco@usfca.edu

Valerie Francisco

Assistant Professor

Valerie Francisco is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Francisco's academic interests include transnationalism and diaspora with a special interest on the Philippine migration, family, gender and labor, and globalization. Her dissertation research is with Filipino migrant women working as domestic workers in New York City and their families in the Philippines. In journals like The Philippine Sociological Review and International Review of Qualitative Research, Francisco writes about how families are changing under neoliberal immigration policies and what types of political subjectivities emerge from those conditions. In the 2011-2012 academic year, Francisco is teaching and completing her dissertation as the Dissertation Writing Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-5217
gamson@usfca.edu

Joshua Gamson

Professor

Joshua Gamson received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and taught for nine years at Yale University before joining the USF faculty. Among his publications are the books Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America; Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity; and The Fabulous Sylvester.  

Tel:(415) 422-4365
gjgmelch@usfca.edu

George Gmelch

Professor

George Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Francisco. He is a cultural anthropologist who studies tourism, sport, migration, and environmental anthropology with most of his fieldwork concentrated in Ireland, the Caribbean, and Alaska. He is the author of eleven books and has also written widely for general audiences.

Tel:(415) 422-4453
sbgmelch@usfca.edu

Sharon Gmelch

Professor

Sharon Bohn Gmelch earned her Ph.D in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Her interests include visual anthropology, gender, ethnicity, and tourism.  She is the author of eight books, most recently Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley.

Tel:(415) 422-5760
raeburnn@usfca.edu

Nicole Raeburn

Associate Professor

Nikki Raeburn received her B.S from Miami University, and her M.A. and Ph.D.from Ohio State University. Her research interests include social movements, gender, sexualities, and organizational change. Her current research project, which formed the basis of her doctoral dissertation, focuses on the rise of lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights in the workplace.

Tel:(415) 422-5414
kdrichman@usfca.edu

Kimberly Richman

Associate Professor

Kimberly Richman received her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include law and society, crime and deviance, family law, gender and sexuality, and reintegrative programming for prison inmates. She is the author of the book Courting Change (NYU Press) and multiple articles and book chapters. She is also President of the non-profit Alliance for C.H.A.N.G.E.

Tel:(415) 422-5173
drickard@usfca.edu

Diana Rickard

Assistant Professor

Diana Rickard received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She earned her BA at Bard College.  She has previously taught Criminology and Deviance at Brooklyn College, and The Body and Society and Crime and Punishment in Documentary and Feature Film at Baruch College.  Professor Rickard is a scholar of punishment whose research interests include the intersections of social control and subjective and social identity.

Tel:(415) 422-6112
erodriguez4@usfca.edu

Evelyn Rodriguez

Associate Professor

Professor Rodriguez graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from UC San Diego as a Sociology major/Ethnic Studies minor; and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Sociology program. She has taught Sociological Methods, Asian and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Society, People of Mixed Descent, U.S. Immigration and Settlement, and Community Organizing.

Tel:(415) 422-5624
santos@usfca.edu

Cecília Santos

Associate Professor

Cecília MacDowell Santos received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses on gender and development, globalization, sociology of law, and Brazilian culture and society. Her research focuses on legal mobilization within and across national borders, violence, memory, and women's and human rights. She is interested in investigating how legal mobilization relates to politics and shapes the recognition of violence and subjects of rights on the basis of gender, race, class, and/or sexual orientation. This was examined in her book, Women's Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in São Paulo, and guides her current projects on transnational legal mobilization and human rights in Brazil and in Portugal.

Tel:(415) 422-5482
sdsears@usfca.edu

Stephanie Sears

Associate Professor

Stephanie Sears is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the African American Studies Program at USF. Professor Sears received her Ph.D. from Yale University's joint program in African American Studies and Sociology. Her research interests include gender, race and ethnicity, youth cultures, and dance. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research examines the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, and generation intersect and interact in complex and contradictory ways often simultaneously reproducing oppression and facilitating empowerment. These theoretical concerns and interdisciplinary approach formed the basis of her book, Imagining Black Womanhood, and drive her current research project on girlhood, identity, and dance.

Tel:(415) 422-4375
hshin2@usfca.edu

Hwaji Shin

Assistant Professor

Hwaji Shin joined the Sociology Department at the University of San Francisco as a full-time Assistant Professor in 2007 after completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook. Between 2008 and 2010, she was a visiting assistant professor and Japan fund fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stanford University where she researched and lectured on the race and ethnic relations in modern Japan.

Tel:(415) 422-4898
jastover@usfca.edu

John Stover

Adjunct Professor

John Stover is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago, having earned his Bachelor's (Xavier University) and Master's (Loyola) in Sociology in years prior. John's current dissertation research highlights how documentary filmmaking provides a unique form of social activism that not only exposes audiences to the goals and values of the movements being filmed, but also engages filmmakers in a process of socially constructing realities that are aligned, or misaligned, with the movements and issues they seek to advance.

Tel:(415) 422-2492
lkthomson@usfca.edu

Katherine Thomson

Adjunct Professor

Katherine Thomson teaches a variety of courses at USF, including:  Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociological Methods, Social Worlds of Children, Environmental Justice, and Senior Capstone.  She also heads many directed studies, especially with students wishing to pursue independent research on topics pertaining to health and medicine.

Tel:(415) 422-6136
turpinj@usfca.edu

Jennifer Turpin

Professor

Jennifer Turpin became Academic Vice President and Provost on June 1, 2010. She previously served as Dean of USF's College of Arts and Sciences from 2003-2010, having previously served as Associate Dean for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She joined USF's faculty in 1991 after receiving her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. During her years on the USF faculty, she received USF's Distinguished Teaching Award and the College Service Award. She founded USF's Women's Studies Program and served as Chair of the Sociology Department.

Tel:(415) 422-2648
webberm@usfca.edu

Michael Webber

Dean

Tel:(415) 422-5485
smzavestoski@usfca.edu

Stephen Zavestoski

Associate Professor

Stephen Zavestoski teaches courses in the area of Environmental Sociology. Dr. Zavestoski's research areas include environmental sociology, social movements, and sociology of health and illness. His current research focuses on the strategies that disease sufferers take to demonstrate that their conditions are caused by environmental contamination. This work also looks at how citizens engage in the scientific process and policymaking in order to shape research and policy agendas.