Geoffrey Raymond

Geoffrey Raymond is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara specializing in conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. His research examines how talk-in-interaction constitutes institutional practices, with current focus on policing encounters, emergency service coordination, and social categorization processes.

He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses covering conversation analysis methods, medical communication, and ethnomethodology. Recent publications analyze interactional trajectories toward violence (2025), categorical practices in social interaction (2024), and racialized spatial policing (2023). His methodological innovations include developing approaches to analyze categorial phenomena in naturally occurring interactions.

Current projects investigate how inequality is produced through emergency service allocation decisions (2024) and how 'resistance' is interactionally accomplished in institutional settings (2023). His work integrates video analysis of police encounters with conversation analytic methods to understand authority negotiation and de-escalation practices.