Department Chair


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

 

Directors of Graduate Studies


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
Feng Wang
  • Professor & Co-Director of Graduate Studies
     Ph.D.. Sociology,  University of Michigan, 1987

  • contemporary demographic, economic, and social processes, social inequality in state socialisms, contemporary china

  •  SSPB 4285 | 949-824-1417

  • fwang@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program


Andrew Penner
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies & Honors Program; Professor & Director of CADA
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008

  • education, inequality, gender, race, family

  •  SSPA 4181

  • penner@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

School of Social Sciences Graduate Advisor


Jennifer Gerson
  • Director, Graduate Affairs
    Ed.D., University of Southern California, 2020

  • educational counseling, graduate student exceptions/petitions, teaching assistant applications and assignments

  •  5210 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | (949) 824-4074

  • jennifer.gerson@uci.edu
  • For any administrative questions concerning the graduate application process, financial award opportunities, and/or other pre-enrollment matters, please contact the Graduate Studies Office.

 

Administrative Staff


Nicole Carpenter
  • Librarian Liaison for Sociology Department

  •  472 Langson Library | (949) 824-3275

  • ncarp@uci.edu
Alysha Casado
  • Department Manager

  •  4215 Social Science Plaza B | (949) 824-7637

  • acasado@uci.edu
Carolina Villegas
  • Department Analyst

  •  4211 Social Science Plaza B | (949) 824-6800

  • cvilleg1@uci.edu
Penni Vo
  • Department Analyst

  •  4221 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-2572

  • penniv@uci.edu

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mailing Address
Department of Sociology
4215 Social Science Plaza B
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100

Telephone: (949) 824-6800

Fax: (949) 824-4771

Email: socnet@uci.edu

Direction (UCI Campus)
The Department Administrative Suite is located on the 4th floor of the Social Science Plaza Building B.
See: SSPB Building (213)

Directions to the campus can be found here.

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