Social Ecology Faculty

The School of Social Ecology consists of the following full-time faculty:

M. Victoria Basolo, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
housing and community development policy within the context of governmental relations

Victoria A. Beard, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of British Columbia
planning in developing countries, community-based planning, poverty reduction, planning theory and population studies

Arnold Binder, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology
Stanford University
research methodology, juvenile delinquency, police organization and methods

Marlon G. Boarnet, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Economics
Princeton University
urban economics, urban planning, urban economic development

Scott A. Bollens, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation
University of North Carolina
ethnicity and urban planning, urban growth policy, metropolitan governance, intergovernmental approaches to planning

Kitty C. Calavita, Ph.D. Chancellor's Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
University of Delaware
sociology of law, criminology, social deviance, immigration, and inequality

Elizabeth E. Cauffman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology and Education
Temple University
adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy

Susan Turk Charles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of Southern California
emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion

Chuansheng Chen, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Education
University of Michigan
cross-cultural psychology, socialization of achievement, adolescent development

Kenneth S. Chew, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Social Ecology
University of California, Berkeley
social demography, epidemiology and public health

K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Social Ecology
Yale University
development in early childhood and the effects of variation in the social environment

Peter Clecak, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology
Stanford University

Simon A. Cole, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
Cornell University
science, technology, law, and criminal justice

Ross F. Conner, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology
Northwestern University
evaluation research and social psychology, health promotion, community-based planning for health

Susan Bibler Coutin, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Anthropology
Stanford University
law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, Central America

Thomas J. Crawford, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Ecology
Harvard University
attitude theory and social problems research

Elliott P. Currie, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Berkeley
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

Kristen Day, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
urban issues in environment-behavior studies

Sally S. Dickerson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
health psychology, stress physiology, effects of social and emotional processes on physiology and health

Joseph F. DiMento, Ph.D., J.D. Professor of Social Ecology, School of Law, and Management
University of Michigan
planning, land use and environmental law, use of social science in policy making, legal control of corporate behavior

Peter H. Ditto, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Princeton University
social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology

John D. Dombrink, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
crime and criminal justice, deviance and social control

C. David Dooley, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
community psychology, epidemiology, economic change

Jonathon E. Ericson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
environmental health science, archaeological chemistry

Ilona S. Federenko, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology
University of Trier, Germany
psychobiology of stress, developmental psychobiology, behavioral genetics

Martha S. Feldman, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology, Management, Sociology, Political Science, and Roger W. and Janice M. Johnson Chair in Civic Governance and Public Management
Stanford University
organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing

David L. Feldman, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Planning, Policy and Design and Professor of Social Ecology and Political Science
University of Missouri
water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development

Joanne Frattaroli, Ph.D. Lecturer with Potential Security Of Employment in Social Ecology
University of California, Riverside
expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology

Ajay Garde, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology
University of Southern California
urban design, urban form, sustainable growth

Gilbert L. Geis, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology
University of Wisconsin, Madison
crime and criminal justice

Wendy A. Goldberg, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Education
University of Michigan
developmental psychology, children and their families, transition to parenthood, social policy

Michael R. Gottfredson, Ph.D. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
State University of New York, Albany
criminology, theory, crime and policy

Ellen Greenberger, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Social Ecology
Harvard University
developmental psychology, adolescence and social institutions, work and the family, social policy

Sora Han, Ph.D., J.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology
Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz; J.D., UCLA
law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis

Jutta Heckhausen, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain
life-span developmental psychology, primary and secondary control, cultural universals and differences

John R. Hipp, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
community context of crime, household decisions and neighborhood change, research methods

C. Ronald Huff, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Social Ecology and Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
Ohio State University
criminology and public policy

Helen Ingram, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Social Ecology
Columbia University
public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management

Mireille Jacobson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology and Economics
Harvard University
labor economics, health economics, economics of crime and drug policy

Larry Jamner, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Pharmacology
State University of New York at Stony Brook
health psychology, psychophysiology, algology

Valerie Jenness, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
links between divorce and social control, especially law, gender, and social change and social movements

Paul D. Jesilow, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
crime and criminal justice

Eric D. Knowles, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Berkeley
culture, identity, social perception, and ideology

Raul Perez Lejano, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
collaborative planning, environmental decision making, planning theories

Linda J. Levine, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of Chicago
relations between cognitive and emotional development, how emotions influence attention and memory, the development of children's strategies for coping with negative emotions

Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, School of Law, and Cognitive Science
Stanford University
cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

Mona Lynch, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
UC Santa Cruz
law and society, psychology and law, punishment and society, race and criminal justice

Salvatore R. Maddi, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Harvard University
personality, psychopathology, health psychology, creativity

Richard Matthew, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology and Political Science
Princeton University
international relations, environmental policy, ethics

Cheryl Maxson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of Southern California
crime and delinquency, youth violence, juvenile justice system and policing street gangs

Sanjoy Mazumdar, M.Arch., A.S., M.C.P., Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
environmental studies and design, organizational analysis, management and planning, and social and behavioral aspects of architecture

Richard McCleary, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Northwestern University
criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

James W. Meeker, Ph.D., J.D. Associate Dean of Student Services and Computing, School of Social Ecology, and Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
State University of New York, Buffalo
sociology of law, criminal justice, research methodology, statistics

Raymond W. Novaco, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Indiana University
human stress, aggression, community psychology

Candice L. Odgers, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology
University of Virginia
developmental psychopathology; longitudinal analysis of growth and change; effects of externalizing disorders on health

Oladele Ogunseitan, Ph.D. Professor in the Program in Public Health and the School of Social Ecology
University of Tennessee
environmental health, microbiology, molecular ecology, environmental biotechnology, applied microbiology

Joan Petersilia, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
program evaluation, public policy, juvenile justice

Henry N. Pontell, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
State University of New York, Stony Brook
criminal justice, sociology of law, medical sociology

JoAnn Prause, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
statistics, quantitative epidemiology, employment typology

Jodi Quas, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Davis
memory development, children's involvement in the legal system

Justin B. Richland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Social Ecology and Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
legal discourse analysis and semiotics, anthropology of law, contemporary Native American law and politics, the history, structures, and practices of North American (post)colonialism.

Karen S. Rook, Ph.D. Associate Dean of Research, School of Social Ecology and Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
gerontology, social support systems, subjective well-being and health

Donna C. Schuele, Ph.D. Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in Social Ecology
University of California, Berkeley

Carroll Seron, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
New York University
sociology of law, sociology of professions, law and society

Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Northwestern University
stress and coping, social psychology, health psychology

Jennifer L. Skeem, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
University of Utah
psychopathology and violence, mandated psychiatric treatment, psychology and law

Daniel Stokols, Ph.D. Chancellor's Professor of Social Ecology, Public Health and Epidemiology
University of North Carolina
health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior

Luis Suarez-Villa, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Cornell University
planning and public policy, regional science, technological change and regional development

William C. Thompson, Ph.D., J.D. Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and Professor of Social Ecology
Ph.D. Stanford University, J.D. University of California, Berkeley
psychology and law, criminal justice, human judgment and decision making, use of social science in appellate litigation

George E. Tita, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Ecology
Carnegie Mellon University
criminology, community context of violence, urban youth gangs, homicide studies

Rudolpho D. Torres, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology and Political Science
Claremont Graduate University
urban political economy, Latino politics

Susan F. Turner, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
sentencing and corrections, applied research methods

Elaine Vaughan, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Social Ecology
Stanford University
environmental assessment, risk perceptions, research methodology, social psychology

James Diego Vigil, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
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

Sara Wakefield, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
University of Minnesota
Criminology, crime and public policy, life course sociology and stratification, incarceration, prison reentry.

Geoff Ward, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Ecology and Sociology
University of Michigan
Race relations, courts and sentencing, juvenile justice, social movements, justice workers

Carol K. Whalen, Ph.D. Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Los Angeles
developmental psychopathology, childhood behavior disorders, child therapies, health psychology

John M. Whiteley, Ed.D. Professor of Social Ecology
Harvard University
moral development, late adolescence to early adult development, social ecology of peace