Rate My Professor Vince Montes

Vince Montes, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at California State University, East Bay, where he teaches courses in medical sociology and urban sociology. His Spring Semester 2026 schedule includes SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology, SOC 315 Introduction to Disability Studies, SOC 413 Medical Sociology, and SOC 300 Sociological Theory. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology and Historical Studies from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, M.A. in Social Sciences from San Francisco State University, and B.A. in Sociology from San Francisco State University.

Montes' research interests are in the state, political economy, and social inequality. He has published extensively on U.S. capitalism, state control, COVID-19 responses, and the Puerto Rican national question. Key publications include the forthcoming book The US State, the Social Structure of Control, and the Puerto Rican National Question (Brill Publishers’ Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 2021); “The containment of COVID-19 is antithetical to the system of US capitalism” (Human Geography, 2020); “The Covid-19 Vaccines: A Quick and Temporary Fix for Capitalism’s Latent Functions” (Marxist Studies in Global and Asian Perspective, 2021); “COVID-19 Vaccines: The partiality of medicine in United States capitalism” (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, 2021); “Capitalism and Coercion: Crisis in the Legitimacy of the U.S. State” (Global Research, 2020); “Death from Covid-19, Collateral Damage, and the Capitalist-State” (Marxist Studies in Global and Asian Perspective, 2020); “Coercive Occupations as State Facilitation: Understanding U.S. State's Strategy of Control” (Radical Criminology, 2016); “The 2016 Presidential Election: The Political Process for the Taking” in The Two-Party System in the United States: Current Controversies (2019); “Economic and Social Crisis in Puerto Rico: ‘The Ugly American’ and the Puerto Rican National Question” (Global Research, 2019); and “The Web Approach to the State Strategy in Puerto Rico” in Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination (2009). His work elucidates mechanisms of control and inequality within capitalist frameworks.