Faculty and Staff

Administrative Staff

Karen Tang: Karen.Tang@csulb.edu  

Gisselle Rodela: Gisselle.Rodela@csulb.edu 

Faculty

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Professor

Sabrina Alimahomed

Research Interests:

  • Race, gender, class, sexuality; race and racism;
  • Gendered Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism;
  • War on Terror; gender and counterterrorism;
  • Security and surveillance;
  • Transnational feminisms;
  • Women of color feminisms.

Office Location: PSY-134

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Email: kalman.andrassy@csulb.edu

Kalman Andrassy

Research Interests:

  • Research Methodology
  • Evaluative Research
  • Geopolitics
  • Social Impact of Political and Economic Change
  • Global Crisis Management.

Office Location: FO3-313

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Michael Barnes

Office Location: PSY-205A

 

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Email: Nielan.Barnes@csulb.edu Phone: (562) 985–4608 Office: PSY-145

Nielan Barnes

Research Interests:

  • Transnational Social Movements & Civil Society
  • Non-profit Organizations & Voluntary Sector
  • Sociology of Health and Medicine
  • Qualitative Methods & Community-Based Research
  • Health and Medicine in Latin America   
  • Sociology of the AIDS epidemic
  • Latino Health Beliefs and Practices
  • Gender, Sexuality and Health

Office Location: FO3-302

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Kristina Brown-Arellano

Kristina Brown-Arellano

Research Interests:

  • First Generation College Students
  • Higher Education
  • Criminology and Deviance
  • Social Justice
  • Qualitative Methods 

Office Location: TBD

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Email: Carole.Campbell@csulb.edu

Carole Campbell

Research Interests:

  • Heterosexual AIDS Epidemic
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Female Prostitution
  • Male and Female Gender Roles and Sexuality
  • Families & HIV/AIDS

Office Location: PSY-128

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Email: robert.chlala@csulb.edu

 

Robert Chlala

Research Interests:

  • Urban Sociology and Policy
  • Labor, Cooperatives & Solidarity Economics
  • Critical Cannabis & Drug Studies
  • Feminist & Black Radical Geography
  • Race, Gender and Sexuality
  • Political Economy & Movements
  • Community Engaged Methods.

Office Location: PSY-131

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Jeff Davis

Research Interests:

  • Ethnic minority mental health
  • Occupational conditions and mental health
  • Social psychology of ethnic conflict.

Office Location: PSY-137

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Vanessa Dixon

Office Location: FO3-302

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Email: stephanie.eaves@csulb.edu

Stephanie Eaves

Main Courses:

  • Social Psychology (SOC 335)
  • Sociology of Race, Class & Gender (SOC 346)
  • Sociology of Families (SOC 300)

Office Location: FO3-300

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Email:  shelley.eriksen@csulb.edu

Shelley Eriksen

Research Interests:

  • Medical sociology, research methodology
  • Intersectional feminist analysis of adult, children and family health
  • Public health, family violence, national and international medical markets, and violence studies and prevention
  • Systemic approaches to sexual assault advocacy services and gender/power-based violence prevention strategies on university campuses and communities

Office Location: LA3-103C

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Martha Franco

Research Interests:

  • Youth Studies
  • Unaccompanied Minors
  • Central American Studies
  • Latin American Youth Migration
  • Immigrant Communities
  • Education Inequality
  • Legal Sociology
  • Qualitative Methods, Archives

Office Location: PSY 133

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Email: annagluz@gmail.com

Anna Gluzman

Research Interests:

  • Work-family conflict and mental health
  • Inequality of opportunity in education
  • Sociology of immigration

Office Location: FO3-300

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Email: nora.griffin@csulb.edu

Nora Griffin

Main Courses:

  • Sociology of Families
  • Sociology of Gender

Office Location: FO3-300

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Email: Jan.Haldipur@csulb.edu

Jan Haldipur

Research Interests:

  • Urban Sociology
  • Crime, Law, and Deviance
  • Race and Ethnic Relations
  • Qualitative Methods

Office Location: PSY 139

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andrea.helzer@csulb.edu

Andrea Helzer

Main Courses:

  • SOC 335: Social Psychology
  • SOC 423: Child Abuse and Prevention
  • SOC 462: Sociology of Health and Medicine
  • SOC 464: Aging and Society

Office Location: PSY 205-A

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Email: alfonso.hm@csulb.edu

Alfonso Hernandez Marquez

Research Interests:

  • Social Stratification and Inequality
  • Labor, Urban Sociology
  • Sociological Theory

Office Location: PSY 123

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Email: nathan.horn@csulb.edu

Nathan Horn

Main Courses:

  • SOC 100
  • SOC 335
  • SOC 345

Office Location: PSY 205-B

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Email: Leyendai.JacobsonHarris@csulb.edu

Leyenda Jacobson Harris

Main Courses:

  • Intro to Research Methods
  • Principles of Sociology
  • Social Problems

Office Location: FO3-313

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Email: kavitha.koshy@csulb.edu

Kavitha Koshy

Research Interests:

  • Global Sociology
  • Transnational Feminism
  • Global Social Movements
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Office Location: MHB-811

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Michael Lara

Office Location: PSY-128

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Andrew Lohmann

Office Location: PSY-219

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Email: claudia.lopez2@csulb.edu

Claudia López

Research Interests:

  • Global migration, displacement, citizenship
  • Critical urban studies
  • Housing crisis
  • Political participation
  • Ethnography, community-engaged research
  • Colombia, Southern California

Office Location: PSY-127

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Email: Nancy.Martin@csulb.edu

Nancy Martin

Research Interests:

  • Sociology of Gender
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Social Movements.

Office Location: PSY-135

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Email: Guenevere.mead@csulb.edu

Guenevere Mead

Office Location: FO3-313

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Email: armando.mejia@csulb.edu

Armando Mejia

Research Interests:

  • Political Sociology, Social Movements and Activism
  • Urban Sociology and the Planning of Cities
  • Environment, Public Health, and Justice
  • Social Stratification and Inequality
  • Sociology and Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
  • Sociology and Politics of U.S Latino/a/x Populations and Latin America
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Globalization and Development Studies
  • Social Theory and Qualitative Research Methods.

Office Location: PSY-205-B

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Email: shae.miller@csulb.edu

Shae Miller

Research Interests:

  • Social movements
  • Race, class, gender and sexuality
  • Transgender and queer theory
  • Identity theory
  • Qualitative research methods

Office Location: PSY-122

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Chantrey J. Murphy

Research Interests:

  • Social Psychology
  • Group Processes
  • Self & Identity
  • Experimental Methods
  • Incarcerated Populations
  • Theory Development
  • Quantitative Methods

Office Location: PSY-126

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Email: janet.muniz@csulb.edu

Janet Muñiz

Research Interests:

  • Latino/a economic life
  • Immigrant communities
  • Ethnic Identity
  • Qualitative methods

Office Location: PSY-136

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leakhena.nou@csulb.edu

Leakhena Nou

Research Interests:

  • Child Abuse & Prevention
  • Global Health
  • Medical Sociology
  • Sociology of Human Rights & Social Justice
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology of Southeast Asian Health
  • Sociology of Women

Office Location: PSY-124

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Email: roberto.ortiz@csulb.edu

Roberto J. Oriz

Research Interests:

  • Global Sociology
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Political Economy
  • Global Inequality
  • Historical Sociology
  • Social Theory
  • Latin American Studies

Office Location: PSY-129

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steven.osuna@csulb.edu

Steven Osuna

Research Interests:

  • Racism and political economy
  • Globalization and immigration
  • Policing and criminalization
  • Sociological theory

Office Location: PSY-137

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Email: varisa.patraporn@csulb.edu

Varisa Patraporn

Research Interests:

  • Race/Ethnicity and Immigration
  • Asian American Places
  • Community Engaged Research
  • Housing and Community Economic Development

Office Location: PSY-138

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Email: noe.ramirez@csulb.edu

Noe Ramirez

Research Interests:

  • Chicana/o and Latinx Sociology
  • Globalization
  • Native American/Indigenous Sociology
  • Rebel Music and Art Activism
  • Sociological Theories
  • Social Movements
  • Sociology of Sport

Office Location: PSY-123

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Email: Esa.Syeed@csulb.edu

Esa Syeed

Research Interests:

  • Urban Education
  • Social Movements
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Race/Ethnicity

Office Location: PSY-125

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jose.tabares@csulb.edu

Jose Tabares

Office Location: PSY-121

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oliver.wang@csulb.edu

Oliver Wang

Research Interests:

  • Popular culture/music
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Identity and community formation.

Office Location: PSY-140

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Email: brian.wiley@csulb.edu

Brian Wiley

Research Interests:

  • Globalization
  • Inequality, Neoliberalism, Political Economy
  • Latin America
  • Research Methods
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Office Location: PSY-121

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Email: jake.wilson@csulb.edu

Jake Wilson

Research Interests:

  • Race, Racism, & Labor
  • Logistics, Ports, Warehouses & Supply Chains
  • Racialized Divisions in the Working-Class
  • Unions, Global Workers’ Struggles
  • E-commerce’s (Amazon’s) Impact on Work/Labor
  • The Gig Economy
  • Automation, Algorithmic Management & the Future of Work;
  • Whiteness, Masculinities & Labor

Office Location: PSY-132

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Email: Kerry.Woodward@csulb.edu

Kerry Woodward

Research Interests:

  • Race, class, and gender
  • Poverty and economic inequality
  • The child welfare system
  • Public policy and the state
  • Sociological theory.

Office Location: PSY-207

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Email: kris.zentgraf@csulb.edu

Kristine Zentgraf

Research Interests:

  • Migration and Immigration
  • Transnational families
  • Sociological Theory

Office Location: FO2-229