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
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
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