People Group Archives: Faculty

Dr. Yiwen Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Rice University. Her research explores how social inequality shapes family life and health across the life course. […]

Doris Stanley is a Sociology Instructor with 12 years of experience teaching various topics in Sociology. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Central Florida in 2011 and pursued a career teaching Sociology soon after. She has taught at multiple institutions since then, in both adjunct and visiting instructor roles, including Valencia College, […]

Eaven Holder, PhD is a criminologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology. Having earned his doctorate in criminology, law, and society from the University of Florida in 2023, his research and teaching interests are focused on hate crime and formal social control. His studies have mostly examined the spatial dynamics of identity motivated violence as well […]

Cassandra Philippon, Ph.D. is a criminologist and professor of sociology. She earned her Doctorate in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland – College Park in 2023. Her research is focused on the experiences of people with criminal legal system experience. Dr. Philippon’s dissertation examined life inside a women’s prison via virtual qualitative […]

Dr. Stephanie Nairn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. Her current and past research spans several areas in Sociology including medical sociology, science and technology studies, and consumption and food studies. She earned her doctoral degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her methodological expertise […]

Dr. Jackie Woerner is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Psychology at the University of Central Florida and is a core member of the Violence Against Women Faculty Cluster. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Wayne State University in 2017, and subsequently completed a 2-year NIDA postdoctoral fellowship at the […]

Fernando I. Rivera, PhD, is a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida. He has established an ongoing research program in the fields of medical sociology/sociology of health, race and ethnicity, and the sociology of disasters. In the area of health, he has studied the differential patterns of health among Puerto Ricans in […]

Dr. Amy Reckdenwald is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida and a member of the Violence Against Women Cluster. She is also a member of the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention’s National Advisory Committee. Her research interests include violent victimization and offending, as it relates to domestic violence […]

Dr. Park received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007.

Dr. Li’s primary research areas include Geographical Information Systems (GIS), spatial statistics, environmental health, and social inequality. Her research involves topics on socioeconomic inequalities, health and health care disparities, obesity, retail location analysis, environmental pollution and cancer outbreak, as well as geospatial modeling. Her current research focus on: 1) the interactions between social and environmental […]