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Areas of expertise: Social Movements, Social Theory, Political Theory, Affect Studies, Activism, Sexuality, Queer Studies


Biography, Education and Training

2000 - Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago1989 - M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago1986 - B.A., in Government, Wesleyan University with High Honors Deborah Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz (and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Political Science in 2000 and was a post-doctoral Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts a... more »


Areas of expertise: Political Theory, History of Philosophy, Capitalism, Democracy


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Political Science. University of California at Berkeley, 2003 M.A., Political Science. University of California at Berkeley, 1996 B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Economics and Political Science. University of Minnesota, 1995


Areas of expertise: Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Critical Theory, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Thomas Serres is a specialist of North African and Mediterranean politics and his scholarship focuses on questions of crisis, economic restructuring and authoritarian upgrading. His first book studies the politics of catastrophization in post-civil war Algeria. This forthcoming monograph is entitled Managing the Crisis, Blaming the People: The Suspended Disaster in Bouteflika's Algeria (Gérer la Crise, Blâmer le Peuple: De la Catastrophe Suspendue dans l'Algérie de Bouteflika... more »


Areas of expertise: Political Theory, Middle East Studies


Biography, Education and Training

My areas of expertise are Arab and Islamic political thought, postcolonial theory, critical theory, comparative political theory, and Middle East politics.  I earned my MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley, and BA in Political Science from Cairo Univeristy. My research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the University of California President's Faculty Research Fellowship.  I am interested in studying how... more »


Areas of expertise: Science and Technology, Social Theory, Social Movements, Science Studies, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Activism, Environmental Justice, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Visual Culture


Biography, Education and Training

Before joining the History of Consciousness Department I was Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Director of the Institute for Science and Society, and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Priority Cluster EcoSocieties at the University of Nottingham, UK, following appointments at the University of Leicester, Cardiff Universty, and the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where I also earned his PhD.   I have been a Leverhulme Fellow in the UK and an Alexander-von-... more »

Michael A. McCarthy

Michael A. McCarthy

Director of Community Studies

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Social Theory, Political Theory, Capitalism, Democracy, Community Studies, Class, Personal and Social Identities, Labor and Social Movements, Finance


Biography, Education and Training

2021-23, Berggruen Institute Research Fellow, University of Southern California   2014, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany   2013 PhD Sociology, New York University   2005 BA Sociology (Political Science minor), University of California, Los Angeles   2003 AA Sociology, Fullerton College  

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