Jacqueline Chen
Assistant Professor
Psychology and Social Behavior
Chen received her Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara. She studies how people’s memberships in racial and cultural groups influence different stages of their social interactions, from categorization to impression formation to social support.
Joey Cheng
Assistant Professor
Psychology and Social Behavior
Cheng received her B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology (with a minor in Quantitative Methods) from the University of British Columbia. Her research examines the emergence, maintenance, and impact of hierarchies in social organizations, and the personality traits, emotions, and cognitions that contribute to attaining high rank.
Nicholas Marantz
Assistant Professor
Planning, Policy, and Design
Marantz received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the economic and social aspects of land-use regulation.
Elizabeth Martin
Assistant Professor
Psychology and Social Behavior
Martin received her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a predoctoral internship at Harvard Medical School / McLean Hospital and received a Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri. Her program of research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of emotional and social dysfunction in order to aid in prevention and intervention efforts.
Walter Nicholls
Associate Professor
Planning, Policy, and Design
Nicholls received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. His main area of research has been the role of cities in broad social movements. More recently, he has been studying how immigrants forge a political voice in hostile environments. His main teaching interests are urban sociology, immigration, and qualitative methods.
Paul Piff
Assistant Professor
Psychology and Social Behavior
Piff received his Ph.D. in 2012 in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also conducted research as a postdoctoral scholar. His research addresses how social hierarchy, inequality, and emotion shape the relations between individuals and between group.
Naomi Sugie
Assistant Professor
Criminology, Law and Society
Sugie received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, Demography from Princeton University. Her research examines the consequences of incarceration and other forms of criminal justice contact for individuals, their romantic partners, and their family members.
Bryan Sykes
Assistant Professor
Criminology, Law and Society
Sykes received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection of demography and criminology, broadly defined, with particular interests in fertility, health, mass imprisonment, and social inequality.