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Zack Almquist

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

Katherine Beckett

S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Law, Societies and Justice
kbeckett@uw.edu / (206) 543-4461
Office Hours: on sabbatical
Smith M260
Criminal Law and Punishment, Human Rights, Incarceration, Justice, Law and Society, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Welfare Reform

Julie Brines

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

Associate Professor
catron@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 232
Historical Sociology, Immigration, Social Demography
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Kyle Crowder

Department Chair
Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Sociology
kylecrow@uw.edu / (206) 543-5799
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 211
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
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Audrey Dorélien

Associate Professor
dorelien@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 230
Data Visualization, Demography, Environment, Fertility, Health, Life Course, Medical Sociology, Morbidity/Mortality, Population, Population Health
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Ann Frost

Associate Teaching Professor
acfrost@uw.edu / (206) 543-9644
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 236
Incarceration, Justice, Law and Society, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity, Theory
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Patrick Greiner

Assistant Professor
ptgrein@uw.edu
Savery 239
Computational Methods, Environment, Human Ecology, Political Economy, Public Policy, Quantitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Knowledge, Theory

Alexes Harris

University of Washington Presidential Term Professor  
yharris@uw.edu / (206) 685-4763
Deviance and Social Control, Juvenile Justice, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification/Inequality
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Jelani Ince

Assistant Professor
jince@uw.edu / (206)616-5317
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 223
Black Sociological Thought, Culture, Ethnography, Organizations, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Social Movements, Social Psychology
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Sasha Johfre

Assistant Professor
sjohfre@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 235
Aging, Environment, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Demography, Social Psychology
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Rosalind Kichler

Assistant Teaching Professor
rkichler@uw.edu / (206)685-9368
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 253

William Lavely

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

Assistant Professor
patlouie@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Health Disparities, Mental Health, Population Health, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Psychology

Tyler McCormick

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

Assistant Professor
afmess@uw.edu
Savery 224
Civil Society, Computational Methods, Housing, Neighborhoods, Political Economy, Urban Community
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Sarah Quinn

Associate Professor
slquinn@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 253
Culture, Economic Sociology, Historical Sociology, Institutions, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory
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Theresa Rocha Beardall

Assistant Professor
tyrb@uw.edu / (206) 543-6013
221 Savery Hall
Criminology, Ethnography, Indigenous Cultures/Peoples, Law and Society, Political Economy, Public Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Studies, Work and Occupations
Nathalie Williams

Nathalie Williams

Professor
natw@uw.edu / (206) 616-6270
Office Hours: By appointment
Savery 233
Conflict, Demography, Field Research Methods, Migration, Research Methods, South and South East Asia