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

Rebecca Bales, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Native American history ~ United States history ~ the American West ~ race relations in the United States ~ women's history

Manuel Carlos, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
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., Associate 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., Associate 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.,  Professor
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