George William "Bill" Domhoff (born August 6, 1936) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and research professor of psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a founding faculty member of UCSC's Cowell College.

[4] Domhoff was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and raised in Rocky River, 12 miles from Cleveland.

[2][6] Domhoff was an assistant professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, for three years in the early 1960s.

In 1965, he joined the founding faculty[7] of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), as an assistant professor at Cowell College.

[2] In 2007, he received the University of California's Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, which honors the post-retirement contributions of UC faculty.

[2] It argues that the United States is dominated by an elite ownership class both politically and economically.

[11] This work was partially inspired by Domhoff's experience of the Civil Rights Movement and projects that he assigned for his social psychology courses to map how different organizations were connected.