Department of Sociology Faculty

From both local and global vantage points, our faculty provide students with a broad foundation in theory and methods of sociological research.

Sun-Ki Chai

Professor
Office: Saunders 237
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7234
Email: sunki@hawaii.edu
Social Computing, Identity and Behavior

Jennifer Darrah

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Chair
Office: Saunders 235
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7950
Email: jdarrah@hawaii.edu
Race/Ethnicity, Urban and Community Sociology

Katherine Irwin

Professor
Office: Saunders 238
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7257
Email: kirwin@hawaii.edu
Criminology, Intersecting Inequalities, Youth

David Johnson

Professor
Office: Saunders 217
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8462
Email: davidjoh@hawaii.edu
Criminology, Law & Society, Japan

Aya Kimura

Professor
Office: Saunders 240
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-2706
Email: kimuraa@hawaii.edu
Environment, STS, Feminist Studies, Asia

Le Lin

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 212
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8451
Email: lelin@hawaii.edu
Organizations, Economic Sociology, China

Krysia Mossakowski

Professor, Graduate Chair
Office: Saunders 215
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8416
Email: krysiam@hawaii.edu
Medical Sociology, Stress and Mental Health

Eunjeong Paek

Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 214
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-4772
Email: ejpaek@hawaii.edu
Inequality, Gender, Work, Family, Social Policy

Colleen Rost-Banik

Instructor
Office: Saunders 210
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-4861
Email: mcrb@hawaii.edu
Education, Gender, Civic Engagement

Ashley Rubin

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 213
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8321
Email: atrubin@hawaii.edu
Law, Punishment, Organizations, Methods

Nandita Sharma

Professor
Office: Saunders 205
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8438
Email: nsharma@hawaii.edu
Migration, Nationalism, Racism, State Power

Manfred B. Steger

Professor, Department Chair
Office: Saunders 236
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7117
Email: manfred@hawaii.edu
Globalization, Social Theory, Pol. Sociology

Myungji Yang

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 216
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8362
Email: myang4@hawaii.edu
Social Classes, Social Movements, Korea

Wei Zhang

Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Office: Saunders 239
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7689
Email: weizhang@hawaii.edu
Medical Sociology, Aging/Health, Res. Methods

Retired and Emeritus Faculty

Hagen Koo

Professor Emeritus
Email: hagenkoo@hawaii.edu
Social Inequality, Sociology of East Asia

Patricia Steinhoff

Professor Emeritus
Email: steinhof@hawaii.edu
Japanese Radical Left, Social Movements

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Eldon Wegner

Professor Emeritus
Email: wegner@hawaii.edu
Medical Sociology, Aging

Affiliate Graduate Faculty

Michael Delucchi, PhD (delucchi@hawaii.edu) — sociology of education

Cullen T. Hayashida, PhD (cullen@hawaii.edu) — gerontology; medical sociology; social stratification; comparative race & ethnic relations; systems planning elderly services; Japanese society

Yean-Ju Lee, PhD (yjlee@hawaii.edu) — quantitative methodology, demography, gender stratification, aging and health

Ann Pobutsky, PhD (pobutsky@hawaii.edu) — social epidemiology and health disparities in the Pacific