School of Social Ecology Faculty

Victoria Basolo

Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Phone:

(949) 824-3521

Email:

basolo@uci.edu

Office:

206D SEI

Specializations:

housing policy, community development, social inequality, urbanization, urban politics, regionalism, and environmental hazards

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Victoria A. Beard

Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D., Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia

Phone:

(949) 824-6484

Email:

vbeard@uci.edu

Office:

206B SEI

Specializations:

planning in developing countries, community-based planning, poverty reduction, planning theory and population studies

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Arnold Binder

Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., Stanford University

Email:

abinder@uci.edu

Specializations:

research methodology, juvenile delinquency, police organization and methods

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Scott A. Bollens

Professor of Planning, Policy and Design; Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation

Ph.D. University of North Carolina, AICP

Phone:

(949) 824-7696

Email:

bollens@uci.edu

Office:

226B SEI

Specializations:

ethnic/group disparities and urban planning, urban growth policy, metropolitan governance, intergovernmental approaches to planning

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Tim-Allen Bruckner

Assistant Professor, Public Health & Planning, Policy and Design

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

949 824 5797

Email:

tim.bruckner@uci.edu

Office:

Rm 218F, SE I

Specializations:

economic change and health; infant health disparities; mental health policy; biodemography

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Kitty C. Calavita

Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Delaware, 1980

Phone:

(949) 824-7610

Email:

kccalavi@uci.edu

Office:

2379 SEII

Specializations:

sociology of law, criminology, social deviance, immigration, and inequality

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Elizabeth Cauffman

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education

Ph.D. Temple University

Phone:

(949) 824-4075

Email:

cauffman@uci.edu

Office:

4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Susan Turk Charles

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Phone:

(949) 824-1450

Email:

scharles@uci.edu

Office:

4326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Chuansheng Chen

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Phone:

(949) 824-4184

Email:

cschen@uci.edu

Office:

4566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

cross-cultural psychology, adolescent development, cognitive neuroscience, genes and behavior

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Kenneth S. Chew

Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 824-6990

Email:

chew@uci.edu

Office:

Social Ecology Bldg I, room 218F

Specializations:

historical and applied population studies, demographic foundations of community and public health

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

K. Alison Clarke-Stewart

Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Yale University

Phone:

(949) 824-5574

Email:

acstewar@uci.edu

Office:

4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

development in early childhood and the effects of variation in the social environment

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Peter Clecak

Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology

Ph.D., Stanford University

Email:

peclecak@uci.edu

Specializations:

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM); Contact Reflex Analysis and Clarus subtle energy devices; theological and ideological perspectives on ecological issues.

Simon A. Cole

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University

Phone:

(949) 824-1443

Email:

scole@uci.edu

Office:

2357 Social Ecology II

Specializations:

science, technology, law, and criminal justice

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Ross F. Conner

Professor Emeritus of Planning, Policy & Design and Former Director, Center for Community Health Research

Ph.D. Northwestern University

Phone:

(949) 824-0563

Email:

rfconner@uci.edu

Office:

Rm 226J Bldg: SE1

Specializations:

evaluation research and social psychology, health promotion, community-based planning for health

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Susan Bibler Coutin

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology

Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, Stanford University

Phone:

(949) 824-1447; (949) 824-7816

Email:

scoutin@uci.edu

Office:

2369 SEII

Specializations:

law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Thomas J. Crawford

Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Harvard University

Phone:

(949) 824-5574

Email:

tjcrawfo@uci.edu

Office:

4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

attitude theory and social problems research

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Elliott P. Currie

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 824-1387

Email:

ecurrie@uci.edu

Office:

2301 SE II

Specializations:

criminal justice policy in the U.S. and other countries, causes of violent crime, social context of delinquency and youth violence, etiology of drug abuse and the assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Teresa A. Dalton

Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., J.D. University of Denver

Phone:

(949) 824-9206

Email:

tdalton@uci.edu

Office:

2357 SE II

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Sally S. Dickerson

Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Phone:

(949) 824-4556

Email:

sdickers@uci.edu

Office:

4558 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

health psychology, stress physiology, effects of social and emotional processes on physiology and health

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Peter H. Ditto

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Princeton University

Phone:

(949) 824-8168,1844

Email:

phditto@uci.edu

Office:

4209 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

social psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

John D. Dombrink

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Phone:

(949) 824-6223

Email:

jddombri@uci.edu

Office:

2315 SEII

Specializations:

crime and criminal justice, deviance and social control

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

C. David Dooley

Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Phone:

(949) 824-5293

Email:

cddooley@uci.edu

Office:

4336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

community psychology, epidemiology, economic change

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

David L. Feldman

Chair of the Department of Planning, Policy and Design and Professor Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science

Ph.D. University of Missouri

Phone:

(949) 824-4384

Email:

feldmand@uci.edu

Office:

202B SE I

Specializations:

water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Martha S. Feldman

Professor of Planning, Policy & Design, Management, Sociology, Political Science and Nursing Science; Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management

PhD, Stanford University

Phone:

(949) 824-4252

Email:

feldmanm@uci.edu

Office:

Social Ecology I, 226G

Specializations:

Organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Joanne Frattaroli

Lecturer with Potential Security Of Employment in Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of California, Riverside

Phone:

(949) 824-2784

Email:

jfrattar@uci.edu

Office:

4306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Ajay Garde

Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Phone:

(949) 824-9087

Email:

agarde@uci.edu

Office:

212D Social Ecology I

Specializations:

urban design, sustainable development, urban form

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Wendy A. Goldberg

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Phone:

(949) 824-5219

Email:

wendy.goldberg@uci.edu

Office:

4564 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

developmental psychology, work and family, infant sleep, transition to parenthood, autism

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Michael R. Gottfredson

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology

Ph.D. State University of New York, Albany

Email:

gottfred@uci.edu

Office:

509 Administration

Specializations:

criminology, theory, crime and policy

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Ellen Greenberger

Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Harvard University

Phone:

(949) 824-6328

Email:

egreenbe@uci.edu

Office:

4546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

developmental psychology, social and cultural influences on adolescent and young adult development, family relationships and consequences throughout the lifespan

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Sora Han

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz, J.D. UCLA

Phone:

(949) 824-0050

Email:

sora.han@uci.edu

Office:

2319 SEII

Specializations:

law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Jutta Heckhausen

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain

Phone:

(949) 824-9219

Email:

heckhaus@uci.edu

Office:

4316 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

life-span developmental psychology, primary and secondary control, cultural universals and differences

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

John R. Hipp

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Plannng, Policy & Design and Sociology

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Phone:

(949) 824-8247

Email:

hippj@uci.edu

Office:

3311 SEII

Specializations:

community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Douglas Houston

Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Email:

houston@uci.edu

Office:

226D Social Ecology 1

Specializations:

transportation, air pollution, urban inequality, environmental equity, spatial analysis

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

C. Ronald Huff

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology

Ph.D. The Ohio State University

Phone:

(949) 798-9281

Email:

rhuff@uci.edu

Office:

3309 Social Ecology II

Specializations:

criminology and public policy; wrongful convictions; gangs

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Helen Ingram

Research Professor and Professor Emerita in Planning, Policy, and Design and Political Science, and former Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology

Ph.D. Columbia University

Email:

hingram@uci.edu

Office:

226B SEI

Specializations:

public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Larry Jamner

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook

Phone:

(949) 824-8373, 7429

Email:

ljamner@uci.edu

Office:

4324 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

health psychology, psychophysiology, algology

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Valerie Jenness

Dean of the School of Social Ecology; Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Sociology, and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

Phone:

(949) 824-6094

Email:

jenness@uci.edu

Office:

5300 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy.

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Paul D. Jesilow

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Phone:

(949) 824-7195

Email:

paul.jesilow@uci.edu

Office:

2375 SEII

Specializations:

Regulation of healthcare and healthcare fraud.

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Jae Hong Kim

Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Phone:

(949) 824-0449

Email:

jaehk6@uci.edu

Office:

206E SEI

Specializations:

regional economic development, land use, economic–physical development nexus, location choice, urban system modeling

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Eric D. Knowles

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 824-1730

Email:

eknowles@uci.edu

Office:

4314 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

psychology of inequality, White identity, and religious prejudice

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Charis E. Kubrin

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Washington

Phone:

949-824-0704

Email:

ckubrin@uci.edu

Office:

3379 SEII

Specializations:

crime, neighborhood effects and social processes, race/ethnicity and violence, immigration and crime

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Raul Perez Lejano

Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D., D.Env. UCLA; M.S. UC Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 8249825

Email:

rplejano@yahoo.com

Office:

218G SE I, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7075 USA

Specializations:

policy analysis, environmental planning, collective action, risk and justice

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Linda J. Levine

Department Chair and Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior

Ph.D. The University of Chicago

Phone:

(949) 824-7692

Email:

llevine@uci.edu

Office:

4568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

cognitive and motivational processes that evoke emotions; how specific emotions influence the features of events people attend to, find important, and later remember; sources of bias in memory for past emotions; and the development of children’s ability to regulate emotions.

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law, and Cognitive Science

Ph.D. Stanford University

Phone:

(949) 824-3285

Email:

eloftus@uci.edu

Office:

2393 Social Ecology II

Specializations:

cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Angela Lukowski

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Phone:

949-824-7191

Email:

angela.lukowski@uci.edu

Office:

4332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

Memory development in infancy and early childhood, individual differences in long-term memory in infancy, the impact of sleep on cognitive functioning from infancy to adulthood

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Mona Lynch

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. Psychology, UC Santa Cruz

Phone:

(949) 824-0047

Email:

lynchm@uci.edu

Office:

2311 SE II

Specializations:

law and society, psychology and law, punishment and society, race and criminal justice

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Salvatore R. Maddi

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Harvard University

Phone:

(949) 824-7045

Email:

srmaddi@uci.edu

Office:

4302 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

personality, psychopathology, health psychology, creativity

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Richard Matthew

Professor of Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science

Ph.D. Princeton University

Phone:

(949) 824-4852

Email:

rmatthew@uci.edu

Office:

212C SEI

Specializations:

Environment, conflict and peacebuilding; transnational threat networks; international ethics

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Cheryl Maxson

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Phone:

(949) 824-5150

Email:

cmaxson@uci.edu

Office:

2309 SEII

Specializations:

crime and delinquency, youth violence,street gangs juvenile justice system and policing

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Sanjoy Mazumdar

Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phone:

(949) 824-5046

Email:

mazumdar@uci.edu

Office:

218H SEI

Specializations:

environmental studies and design, organizational analysis, management and planning, and social and behavioral aspects of architecture

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Richard McCleary

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D. Northwestern University

Phone:

(949) 824-7280

Email:

mccleary@uci.edu

Office:

260 SEI

Specializations:

criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

James W. Meeker

Associate Dean of Student Services and Computing, School of Social Ecology, and Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology

Ph.D., J.D., SUNY at Buffalo

Phone:

(949) 824-1463

Email:

jwmeeker@uci.edu

Office:

5300 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

sociology of law, criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Raymond W. Novaco

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Indiana University

Phone:

(949) 824-7206

Email:

rwnovaco@uci.edu

Office:

4343 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

anger, violence, stress, trauma, and interventions

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Candice L. Odgers

Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior, Education and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of Virginia

Phone:

(949) 824-8911

Email:

codgers@uci.edu

Office:

4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

developmental psychopathology; longitudinal analysis of growth and change; effects of externalizing disorders on health

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Oladele Ogunseitan

Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health; Professor of Social Ecology

Ph.D. University of Tennessee; M.P.H. University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 824-6350; 824-0611

Email:

Oladele.Ogunseitan@uci.edu

Office:

1365 SEII

Specializations:

environmental health and science, applied microbiology, molecular ecology

Joan Petersilia

Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Phone:

(650) 723 4740

Email:

petersilia@law.stanford.edu

Specializations:

program evaluation, public policy, juvenile justice

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Seth Pipkin

Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phone:

(949) 824-7695

Email:

spipkin@uci.edu

Office:

218E Social Ecology 1

Specializations:

economic development, labor, Latin America, U.S.-Mexico border, political economy, economic sociology

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Henry N. Pontell

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology

Ph.D. Stony Brook University

Phone:

(949) 824-6153

Email:

pontell@uci.edu

Office:

2389 SEII

Specializations:

white-collar and corporate crime, criminology, criminal justice, sociology of law

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

JoAnn Prause

Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Phone:

(949) 824-6435

Email:

japrause@uci.edu

Office:

4334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

statistics, quantitative epidemiology, employment typology

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Sarah Pressman

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Email:

sarah.pressman@uci.edu

Office:

4318 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Jodi Quas

Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science

Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Phone:

(949) 824-7693

Email:

jquas@uci.edu

Office:

4328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

memory development, children's involvement in the legal system

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Keramet Reiter

Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law

Ph.D., J.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

Phone:

(949) 824-9201

Email:

reiterk@uci.edu

Office:

3373 SEII

Specializations:

prisons, legal history, criminal justice policy, criminal and civil rights law, law and society

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Maria G. Rendon

Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Sociology

Ph.D. Harvard University

Phone:

(949) 824-5880

Email:

mgrendon@uci.edu

Office:

212B Social Ecology 1

Specializations:

urban inequality, immigration, race/ethnicity, youth violence, sociology of education and social policy

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Karen S. Rook

Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Phone:

(949) 824-7069

Email:

ksrook@uci.edu

Office:

4341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

gerontology, social relationships and health

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Donna C. Schuele

Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D., J.D. University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 824-4358

Email:

dschuele@uci.edu

Office:

2303 Social Ecology 2

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Nicholas Scurich

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Phone:

(949) 824-4046

Email:

nscurich@uci.edu

Office:

SBSG 4312

Specializations:

judgment and decision making; juridical proof; violence risk assessment

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Carroll Seron

Department Chair and Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology and Law; Social Ecology Equity Advisor; Department Chair

Ph.D. New York University

Phone:

(949) 824-6279

Email:

seron@uci.edu

Office:

2373 SE II

Specializations:

sociology of law, sociology of professions, law and society, Sociology of Legal Profession, Methods and Police Misconduct

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Roxane Cohen Silver

Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, Medicine, and Public Health

Ph.D. Northwestern University

Phone:

(949) 824-2192

Email:

rsilver@uci.edu

Office:

4336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

coping with traumatic life events (personal losses and collective traumas), stress, social psychology, health psychology

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Jennifer L. Skeem

Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior

Ph.D. University of Utah

Phone:

(949) 824-3782

Email:

skeem@uci.edu

Office:

4322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

mental illness, criminal behavior, policy/intervention

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Daniel Stokols

Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Phone:

(949) 824-5294 PPD / (949) 824-7983 PSB

Email:

dstokols@uci.edu

Office:

206C SEI-PPD / 4556 SBS-PSB

Specializations:

health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, science of team science

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

Luis Suarez-Villa

Professor of Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D. Cornell University

Phone:

(949) 824-6323

Email:

lsuarez@uci.edu

Office:

218C SEI

Specializations:

Technology, international development, political economy

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

William C. Thompson

Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society and Psychology & Social Behavior and Law

Ph.D. Stanford University, J.D. University of California, Berkeley

Phone:

(949) 824-6156

Email:

wcthomps@uci.edu

Office:

3301 SE II

Specializations:

forensic science; expert evidence; human judgment and decision making

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

George E. Tita

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Planning, Policy & Design

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Phone:

(949) 824-4927

Email:

gtita@uci.edu

Office:

2307 SEII

Specializations:

criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Rodolfo D. Torres

Professor of Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science

Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School

Phone:

(949) 824-7680

Email:

rodolfo@uci.edu

Office:

218D Building Social Ecology 1

Specializations:

radical urbanism, urban policy, cultural political economy, , Chicano/Latino politics, urban restructuring, comparative racism, sociology of education, class analysis, and state theory

Department:

Planning, Policy and Design

Susan F. Turner

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society

Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Phone:

(949) 824-6943

Email:

sfturner@uci.edu

Office:

Social Ecology II, Room 3336

Specializations:

sentencing and corrections, applied research methods

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society

Elaine Vaughan

Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior

Ph.D. Stanford University

Phone:

(949) 824-7184

Email:

evaughan@uci.edu

Office:

4544 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Specializations:

psychological responses to extreme risk events, culture and risk perceptions, risk communication, research methodology, social psychology

Department:

Psychology and Social Behavior

James Diego Vigil

Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Phone:

(949) 824-6113

Email:

vigil@uci.edu

Office:

2355 SEII

Specializations:

urban research, urban poverty, culture change, socialization and education, psychological anthropology, street gangs in cross-cultural perspective, Mexico and U.S. southwestern ethnohistory, and comparative ethnicity

Department:

Criminology, Law and Society