Sociology Faculty

Sociology Faculty

Affiliated Faculty


Sociology Faculty

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Juanita Díaz-Cotto

Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Areas Studies Program; Professor, Sociology

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program; Sociology

Research Interests

  • Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
  • Gender/Sexuality
  • Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
  • Latin American and Caribbean History
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Juliana Góes

LACAS Faculty Affiliate; Assistant Professor

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program; Sociology

Research Interests

  • Race and racism
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Social movements
  • Decolonial theory
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Global sociology
  • Urban sociology
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Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz

Associate Professor

Sociology

Research Interests

  • U.S. Women’s History
  • Latinas/os in the U.S.
  • Puerto Rican Women’s History
  • Feminist Theories
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critique of Coloniality
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Belinda C. Ramírez

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Research Interests

  • Latin America and the United States
  • Urban agriculture
  • Food justice and sovereignty movements
  • Environmental ethics
  • Community-based research
  • Political economy/ecology
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Marina Sitrin

Chair, Graduate Director, Associate Professor

Sociology

Research Interests

  • Abolition and Alternative Adjudication Processes
  • Collective Action, Social Movements/Societies in Movement
  • Commons, Commoning and Municipalism
  • Prefigurative and Affective Politics and Direct/Participatory Democracy
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George Ygarza

LACAS Faculty Affiliate; Postdoctoral Fellow

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program; Sociology

Research Interests

  • Latin American state formation
  • Race-making
  • Place-based and informed resistance
  • Otherwise politics
  • Abolition
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Affiliated Faculty