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.

As an undergraduate, he also wrote for The Durham Sun and received his Phi Beta Kappa key.

[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.

[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.