DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Dr. Sukari Ivester is an urban sociologist with broad interests in urban development, the social determinants of health, the politics of resistance, and urban history. With a specialization as a Brazilianist, her recent work explores the social impacts of the World Cup 2014/ Olympics 2016.  In addition, Dr. Ivester is working on a US/Brazil comparative social historical project on slavery.

Dr. Ivester earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Following the completion of her PhD, Dr. Ivester was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Ivester teaches Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Travel and Tourism, Olympics and Urban Development, Research Methods, and Sociology of Brazil.