Scott Brooks studies gender naturalistically, through fieldwork and participant observation. Professor Brooks is currently engaged in making sense of the role and use of basketball for young men in urban settings and the role of adult males in the lives of young basketball players. Moreover, Professor Brooks is interested in how individuals play and use gender roles via interaction to define themselves and others.

Scott Coltrane (PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988) conducts research on gender, families and the reproduction of social inequality. He focuses on the allocation of care work and the inter-relationships among fatherhood, motherhood, marriage, parenting, domestic labor, popular culture, ethnicity, and gender equity. He is Associate Director of the UCR Center for Family Studies and is a principal investigator on two federally funded projects looking at Mexican American and European American families and stepfamilies. Results of his research have been published in book form (Family Man, Gender & Families); in scholarly journals (e.g., American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Family Issues, Gender & Society); and as chapters in edited collections (e.g., Theorizing Masculinities, Men's Lives, Fatherhood).

Masako Ishii-Kuntz (PhD, Washington State University, 1987) focuses on gender inequality in families. In particular, she has studied gendered division of household labor and childcare using data collected in the U.S., Japan and Norway. She is also interested in how gendered housework and childcare are influenced by societal and structural factors such as workplace environments and legal systems including tax laws. Currently, she is studying how masculinities and femininities are constructed by individual and familial factors as well as by political and social structures using data collected from Japanese men who belong to an advocacy group for shared parenting. Her publications have appeared in, among others, the Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, Journal of Family Issues, Sex Roles, Sociological Perspectives, Asian Cultural Studies, and International Journal of Japanese Sociology.

Toby Miller 's teaching and research cover the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby edits the journal Television & New Media (Sage Publications), is the author and editor of over 20 books, and has published essays in more than 30 journals and 50 books. He is Editor and Co-Editor of book series Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Peter Lang) and Sport and Culture (University of Minnesota Press), and has also been Editor and Co-Editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues (Sage Publications) and Social Text (Duke University Press) and the book series Cultural Politics (University of Minnesota Press). His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism.

Alfredo Mirandé (PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1967) has published two books and a number of articles that focus on gender. La Chicana: The Mexican American Woman, co-authored with Evangelina Enriquez, was the first work on Chicanas published by a major press (University of Chicago). Mirandé is also the author of Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture, Westview Press. Mirandé has published a number of articles focusing on the intersection of race, class, gender, and law, and teaches graduate and undergraduate in these areas.

Karen Pyke (PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1993) studies the gendered and racial experiences of second generation Asian Americans, “parachute” children from Asia who live in the U.S. apart from their parents, and multiracial and biracial Asian Americans. She is especially interested in gendered racism, internalized oppression and the reproduction of inequality, and the co-construction of gender and ethnic identity. Pyke has also done research on gender, class, and power dynamics in marriage. She has published research in Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Family Issues, and Qualitative Sociology.

Ellen Reese (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998) examines the politics of welfare in the United States, past and present. She is currently writing a book comparing the 1950s welfare backlash with the present one. Her book focuses on how race, class, and gender interests conspired to limit poor mother’s welfare rights in both periods, and why welfare retrenchment has worsened in recent years. Her latest research project examines contemporary women’s mobilization to improve their welfare rights and public childcare policies. Her research has been published in Gender & Society, Work and Occupations, Social Politics: International Journal on Gender, State, and Society, Journal of Poverty, and Race, Gender, and Class.

Jan Stets (PhD, Indiana University, 1987) works in the area of the social psychology of gender. She examines male/female self-conceptions, gender identity, gender differences in emotion, gender interaction patterns, and gender socialization. In general, her research attempts to show how gendered social structural conditions (that are often inequitable) infiltrate interaction and actors' self-views, and how actors' self-views and interaction patterns operate to sustain gendered structural arrangements. Her research has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Family Issues, and Sociological Perspectives.

The Department of Sociology has slated its next available faculty position to be for a specialist in the area of Gender and Criminology.