FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Address : Box 23345, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3345

Telephone : (787) 764-0000, exts. 3105, 3626

Fax : (787) 764-0000, ext. 4325

Website: http://graduados.uprrp.edu/sociologia

DEGREE OFFERED

MA in Sociology

FACULTY

Juan José Baldrich, PhD, Yale University, 1981, Professor.
Quantitative methods; social classes; theory; historical sociology .

Jorge Duany, PhD, University of California, 1985, Professor.
Migration; ethnicity; popular culture .

Jorge Giovannetti, PhD, University of North London, 2002. Assistant Professor.
Race and ethnic relations; nationalism; popular culture; migration.

Luisa Hernández-Angueira, Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1983, Professor.
Gender and migration .

José Luis Méndez, Doctorate, Université de Paris VII , 1971, Professor.
Theory; sociology of knowledge; sociology of literature .

Miriam Muñiz-Varela, Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1982, Professor.
Political economics; Latin-American studies; theory and methodology .

Carlos Ramos, PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1976, Associate Professor.
Health anthropology; demographic sociology; sociology of the family .

Madeline Román, PhD, State University of New York, 1984, Professor.
Criminology; sociology of law; gender .

Jesús Tapia-Santamaría, Doctorate, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales , 1982, Professor.
Theory and methodology; sociology of culture; sociology of religion .

Lanny Thompson, PhD, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1989, Professor.
Methodology; family; historical sociology .

Arturo Torrecilla, Doctorate, Université de Paris VIII , 1981, Professor.
Theory; the state; urban studies .

Karin Weyland, PhD, New School for Social Research, 1999. Assistant Professor. Migration; transnationalism and globalization; ethnography and qualitative methods; participatory action-research in communities.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Alice Colón Warren, PhD, Fordham University, 1984. Researcher. (Gender, employment, poverty, health, reproductive health and rights.)

Liliana Cotto-Morales, PhD, Rutgers University, 1989, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, College of General Studies.
Urban sociology and politics .

Rubén Dávila-Santiago, Doctorate, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales , 1980, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, College of General Studies.
Sociological epistemology; sociology of knowledge and culture .

Humberto García Muñiz, PhD, Columbia University, 1997. Researcher. (International Relations in the Caribbean and the United States, military, socioeconomic history.)

Hernando Mattei, PhD, Unicersity of Texas, Austin, 1989. Associate Professor. (Demography, reproductive health, migration, population and development.)

Emilio Pantojas, PhD, University of Liverpool, 1983, Professor, Center for Social Science Research.
Sociology of development; political sociology; sociology of knowledge .

Angel Quintero-Rivera, PhD, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 1976, Professor, Center for Social Science Research.
Sociology of culture; social class and conflict; history of social analysis in the Caribbean .

Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, PhD, University of york, 1979. Professor. (Military, international relations in the Caribbean.)

Carlos Rojas, PhD, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, 1981. Professor. (Modern and post modern phylosophy.)

MASTERS PROGRAM

Requirements for Admission

In addition to the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus, applicants must meet the following additional requirements:

Requirements for Graduation

Students must fulfill the general requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus.

Program of Study

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