# UC Davis Graduate Studies

**Source**: https://grad.ucdavis.edu/programs/gsoc
**Parent**: https://grad.ucdavis.edu/graduate-programs

# Sociology

## About the Program

### Learn More About the Program

[Visit the Program](http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate)

[Email the Program](mailto:jjleaver@ucdavis.edu)

The Ph.D. program in Sociology at UC Davis emphasizes rigorous preparation in sociological theory and research methodologies as the basis of sound scholarship. Sociology graduate students are encouraged to begin active research early in their academic careers.
Students gain advanced knowledge of collective behavior and social movements; comparative/ historical culture; gender; development; economic sociology; law, deviance and social control; political sociology; social psychology; race and ethnicity, and immigration; and community and urban sociology. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in sociology.

Degree Type

Departmentally-Based Graduate Program

Degrees Offered

M.A. Plan II \
Ph.D. Plan B

Lead Dean

College of Letters and Science

Degree Requirements

[2025](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/4538)

[2016](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/3325)

[2012](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/3242)

[2006](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/3241)

Administrative ByLaws

[2016.](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/3244)

Major Code

GSOC

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## Admissions and Fellowship Information

Admission Requirements

[UC Davis General Admission Requirements](https://grad.ucdavis.edu/applying-uc-davis)
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[Program Admissions Requirements](https://sociology.ucdavis.edu/graduate/admission)

Admission Deadlines

Priority: Dec 15, 2025\

Internal Fellowship Deadlines

Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec 15, 2025\
Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec 15, 2025

### Admissions Actions

[Request Admissions Info](https://apply.grad.ucdavis.edu/register/?id=9c9a7154-1f83-4dfa-a1c8-e60f719b1b81)

[Apply for Admission](https://grad.ucdavis.edu/node/841)

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## Program Contact Information

### Primary Program Contacts

Graduate Program Coordinator

**Program Coordinator**\
 Jacqueline Leaver
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530-752-5015 | [jjleaver@ucdavis.edu](mailto:jjleaver@ucdavis.edu)

Graduate Program Chair

**Department Chair**\
 Robert Faris
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[rwfaris@ucdavis.edu](mailto:rwfaris@ucdavis.edu)

**Graduate Program Chair**\
 Erin Hamilton
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(530) 754-0786 | [erhamilton@ucdavis.edu](mailto:erhamilton@ucdavis.edu)

### Additional Contacts

Program Contacts

**Advisor: Admissions and General**\
 Thomas Beamish
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Sociology \
(530) 574-1036 | [tdbeamish@ucdavis.edu](mailto:tdbeamish@ucdavis.edu)

**Advisor: Admissions and Primary Contact**\
 Robert Faris
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Sociology \
[rwfaris@ucdavis.edu](mailto:rwfaris@ucdavis.edu)

**Advisor: Admissions and General**\
 Erin Hamilton
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Sociology \
(530) 754-0786 | [erhamilton@ucdavis.edu](mailto:erhamilton@ucdavis.edu)

**Advisor: General**\
 Eddy U
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Sociology \
(530) 754-0790 | [eu@ucdavis.edu](mailto:eu@ucdavis.edu)

Graduate Studies Contacts

**Internal Fellowship Analyst**\
 Heidi West
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(530) 754-9473 | [hewest@ucdavis.edu](mailto:hewest@ucdavis.edu)

**Senior Academic Advisor**\
 Sarah Hamid
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(530) 754-2355 | [shamid@ucdavis.edu](mailto:shamid@ucdavis.edu)