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Zack Almquist

Assistant Professor
zalmquist@uw.edu / (206) 543-7290 / Savery 231
Office Hours: By appointment
Big Data, Computational Methods, Demography, Environment, Homelessness, Migration, Public Health, Social Movements, Social Networks, Statistics
Katherine Beckett

Katherine Beckett

Professor
kbeckett@uw.edu / (206) 543-4461 / Smith M260
Office Hours: by appointment
Criminal Law and Punishment, Deviance and Social Control, Human Rights, Incarceration, Justice, Law and Society, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity

Julie Brines

Associate Professor
brines@uw.edu / (206) 685-9067 / Savery 226
Office Hours: W 1:30-3pm
Family, Gender, Labor, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Sexuality
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Peter Catron

Assistant Professor
catron@uw.edu / Savery 232
Office Hours: By appointment
Historical Sociology, Immigration, Social Demography

Kyle Crowder

Blumstein-Jordon Professor of Sociology
kylecrow@uw.edu / (206) 616-1203 / Savery 225
Office Hours: By appointment
Demography, Environment, Neighborhoods, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies
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Sara Curran

Professor of Sociology, Professor of International Studies & Public Affairs, Professor of International Studies, Professor of Public Policy and Governance, Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Director, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology
scurran@uw.edu / Raitt 206
Heather Evans

Heather D. Evans

Lecturer
hdevans@uw.edu / (206) 616-5317 / SAV 273
Office Hours: Summer: by appointment
Disability, Law and Society
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Ann Frost

Lecturer
acfrost@uw.edu / (206) 543-9644 / Savery 236
Office Hours: By appointment
Incarceration, Justice, Law and Society, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity, Theory
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Kara Hannula

Lecturer
karavh@uw.edu / (206) 543-7088 / Savery M276
Office Hours: Mondays 11am-12pm and by appointment
Criminology, Forensic Psychology, Life Course, Murder, Quantitative Methods, Social Psychology, Statistics

Alexes Harris

University of Washington Presidential Term Professor  
yharris@uw.edu / (206) 685-4763 / Savery 241
Office Hours: Thurs 11:00-12:00 but by appt. Appts made at: http://tinyurl.com/Har
Deviance and Social Control, Juvenile Justice, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification/Inequality

Jerald R. Herting

Professor
herting@uw.edu / (206) 616-7778 / Savery 246
Office Hours: By appointment
Children, Youth, and Families, Demography, Deviance and Social Control, Ecology, Life Course, Mental Health, Research Methods

William Lavely

Professor
lavely@uw.edu / (206) 543-6805 / Savery 275
Office Hours: Fridays 11:00-12:00 in Savery 275
Social Demography
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Christine Leibbrand

Acting Assistant Professor
cleibb@uw.edu
Demography, Economic Sociology, Family, Gender, Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Demography, Statistics

Ross L. Matsueda

Professor
matsueda@uw.edu / (206) 616-2432 / Savery 227
Office Hours: Mon 2-3, Tue 5-5:30
Criminology, Deviance and Social Control, Juvenile Justice, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Social Psychology

Tyler McCormick

Associate Professor
tylermc@uw.edu / (206) 221-6981 / Savery 238

Steve Pfaff

Professor
pfaff@uw.edu / (206) 616-9377 / Savery 235
Office Hours: T TH 10:20-11:30
Collective Action, Comparative Sociology, East European, Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Religion, Social Movements, Theory

Susan Pitchford

Senior Lecturer
pitch@uw.edu / (206) 685-4223 / Savery 221
Office Hours: Mondays after classes (10:20, 2:20), outside the classrooms, and by ap
Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Social Stratification/Inequality
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Sarah Quinn

Associate Professor
slquinn@uw.edu / Savery 253
Office Hours: On Leave 2019-2020
Culture, Economic Sociology, Historical Sociology, Institutions, Organizations, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory

Adrian Raftery

Professor
raftery@uw.edu / (206) 543-4505 / Savery 242, Padelford C313
Office Hours: By appointment
Demography, Environment, Fertility, Immigration, Morbidity/Mortality, Population Health, Quantitative Methods, Statistics
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Pepper Schwartz

Professor
couples@uw.edu / (206) 543-4036 / Savery 239
Office Hours: By appointment
Family, Gender, Marriage/Unions, Media Studies, Sexuality, Women Studies

Katherine Stovel

Professor, Department Chair
stovel@uw.edu / (206) 616-3820 / Savery 211
Economic Sociology, Health, Organizations, Research Methods, Social Networks, Theory

Nathalie Williams

Associate Professor
natw@uw.edu / (206) 616-6270 / Savery 235
Office Hours: By appointment
Conflict, Demography, Migration, Research Methods, South and South East Asia