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.

 

Armando Arias, Ph.D.
Social psychology ~ global networking ~ social design engineering ~ virtual learning and research
George Baldwin, Ph.D.
Sociology ~ psychology ~ manpower economics ~ crime and deviance ~ contemporary American Indian policy ~ research methodology and grantsmanship
Rebecca Bales, Ph.D.
Native American history ~ United States history ~ the American West ~ race relations in the United States ~ women's history
Juan Jose Gutierrez, Ph.D.
Mexican studies ~ cultural anthropology ~ rural development ~ immigration ~ qualitative methods for data collection and analysis ~ curriculum development ~ web-based teaching and assessment
Yong Lao, Ph.D.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ~ cultural geography ~ geography of Asia ~ spatial modeling and analysis
Ruben Mendoza, Ph.D.
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
Gerald Shenk, Ph.D.
Social history ~ African American history ~ Chicano history ~ immigration ~ California ~ war and American society ~ American political institutions ~ race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality
Angie Tran, Ph.D.
Political economy ~ Vietnam, East and Southeast Asia ~ labor and industrial relations ~ division of labor ~ role of the state, media, labor unions ~ transitional economy of socialist Vietnam ~ transnational assembly aork ~ diaspora (Vietnamese Americans) ~ gender, class and migrant labor (Vietnam, Malyasia, California) ~ ethical consumerism and corporate social responsibility
Jill Yamashita, Ph.D.
Cognitive Psychology ~ Experimental Psychology/Perception ~ Statistics