Social and Behavioral Sciences, B.A.~ Faculty
The SBS faculty reflects the diversity of California. Your professors have studied nationally, yet have impeccable international credentials. They publish and speak in a number of languages.
George Baldwin, Ph.D., Chair and Professor
Sociology ~ psychology ~ manpower economics ~ crime and deviance~ contemporary American Indian policy ~ research methodology and grantsmanship
Armando A. Arias Jr., Ph.D., Professor
Social psychology ~ global networking ~ social design engineering ~ virtual learning and research
Manuel Carlos, Ph.D., Professor
Chicanos and Latinos in California ~ cultural anthropology ~ contemporary Mexican society and culture ~ social sciences theory and methods ~ globalization and local communities ~ ethnographic field methods ~ multimedia applications in anthropology
Jennifer R. Dyer-Seymour, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Developmental psychology ~ cross-cultural psychology ~ cognitive psychology ~ language development ~ communication ~ situational and verbal irony ~ children's books ~ theory of mind ~ narrative
Juan J. Gutierrez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Mexican studies ~ cultural anthropology ~ rural development ~ immigration ~ qualitative methods for data collection and analysis ~ curriculum development ~ web-based teaching and assessment
Yong Lao, Associate, Ph.D., Professor
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ~ cultural geography ~ geography of Asia ~ spatial modeling and analysis
Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D., Professor
Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest ~ California missions ~ Hispanic colonial archaeology ~ American Indian science, technology, and medicine ~ Mesoamerican militarism and ritual human sacrifice ~ historical archaeology ~ ethnohistory ~ cultural resources management ~ lithics and flintknapping ~ modern material culture studies ~ photography and technical imaging ~ wireless technologies, distributed learning, and multimedia applications in archaeology
J. Ken Nishita, Ph.D., Professor
Biopsychology ~ psychopharmacology ~ health psychology (eating disorders) ~ applied statistics
Gerald Shenk, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Social history ~ African American history ~ Chicano history ~ immigration ~ California ~ war and American society ~ American political institutions ~ race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality
Angie Ngoc Tran, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Political economy ~ comparative political economies of East and Southeast Asia transitional and socialist economies ~ transitional and socialist economies ~ Vietnamese political economy ~ research methodology and data analysis ~ gender and labor studies ~ transnational and diaspora studies
Revised 6/28/05