Adalberto Aguirre has teaching interests are in social inequality, the sociology of education, formal organizations, critical race theory and sociolinguistics. Professor Aguirre's research has focused on workplace issues for women and minority faculty, the relationship between race and death sentencing, the role of the master narrative in the social sciences, and the association between bilingual proficiency and grammatical knowledge.

Scott Brooks studies the intesectionality of race, class and gender in urban contexts. Professor Brooks' research has focused on interaction and social order in predominantly male environments such as basketball. He is concerned with how individuals go about meeting the daily demands of life and negotiate social status and position within the broader structural dynamics of inequality.

Augustine J. Kposowa focuses on the consequences of race and inequality on infant and child mortality, on labor market outcomes, and on crime and deviance. His earlier work investigated ethnic competition and ethnic nationalism as sources of political and civil strife in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Kposowa is currently doing research on the role played by ethnicity and ethnic inequality in infant and child survival in Africa. Other areas of research consider disparities in labor market outcomes between immigrants and non-immigrants, especially Blacks in the Diaspora. Recent works have also investigated risk factors for suicide and homicide.

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 was born in Mexico City and came to the United States at age nine. He is the father of three children--Michele, Lucia, and Alejandro ("Mano"). He is also Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies, and past Chair of Chicano Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Social Relations. Mirandé's teaching and scholarly interests are at the intersection of Sociology, Law, and Race and Ethnic Theory. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Nebraska and JD from Stanford University, and taught at the Texas Tech University School of Law. Mirandé's areas of interest include Law, Race and Ethnic Theory, Chicano Sociology, and Race, Class, and Gender. He has been a National Research Council Fellow and a Rockefeller Fellow and was in residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Karen D. Pyke examines internalized racial oppression, gender, identity, adaptation, and family relations among second-generation Asian Americans using qualitative interview methods. She has recently begun a new interview project on multiracial Asian Americans, with a special focus on Asian-African Americans. She is a co-principal investigator on two other projects: a study of Mexican American children and their families, and a study of Parachute Children from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea who live in the U.S. without their parents. Professor Pyke is currently working on a book titled, “Learning Self-hatred: The Hidden Injuries of Race for Asian Americans.”

Ellen Reese 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 mothers' welfare rights in both periods, and why welfare retrenchment has worsened in recent years. Her research also focuses on how poor people and their allies have mobilized to expand and improve their rights to welfare and social services in the current era of welfare retrenchment.