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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

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

Assistant Professor
mboutros@uw.edu / Savery 235
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm
Criminology, Law and Society, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Sociology of Knowledge

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
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Ann Frost

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

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
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Jelani Ince

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

Lecturer
cflg@uw.edu / SAV (237)
Office Hours: By appointment
Collective Action, Culture, Education, Ethnic Identity, Field Research Methods, International migration and civic engagement, Language, Migration, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies

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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Patricia Louie

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

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
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Sarah Quinn

Associate Professor
slquinn@uw.edu / Savery 253
Office Hours: By appointment
Culture, Economic Sociology, Historical Sociology, Institutions, 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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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
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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
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Katherine Stovel

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

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