July 2015
The School of Social Ecology is pleased to announce that Professor Carroll Seron has been named interim dean starting this fall quarter. Seron will be leading the School while a search continues for a permanent dean.
Seron joined UCI in 2005 as a full professor, and is currently serving as Associate Dean of Academic Programs for the School of Social Ecology. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and a NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in Deviant Behavior, Social Control, and Law from Yale University. She was a judicial fellow in the United States Supreme Court and a research associate for the Federal Judicial Center.
Over the course of her career, Seron has conducted sociological and policy-related research with a focus on legal institutions. She has published extensively on legal practice, professional organizations, federal courts, and police misconduct. Her recent scholarship presents new insight into the remarkable and persistent gender gap in engineering. This study investigates the factors that make women and members of the ethnic and racial minority groups less upwardly mobile in the engineering professions than in some other professions, such as law and medicine. A considerably experienced teacher, Professor Seron received the 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education.