Sociology at California State University, Long Beach

41 faculty and 38 courses in Sociology at California State University, Long Beach.

Faculty

• Kerry Woodward, Faculty h-index 9
  Race, class, and gender; poverty and economic inequality; the child welfare system; public policy and the state; theory. Education: B.A., Women’s Studies, Smith College, 1995 M.A., Sociology, New School for Social Research, 1998 Ph.D., Soc
  Notable: “Doing the best I can: Fatherhood in the inner city” (2013) · 87 citations
• Shelley Eriksen, Faculty h-index 8
  Notable: “A Push or a Punch” (2008) · 119 citations
• Carole Campbell, Professor h-index 7
  Heterosexual AIDS Epidemic Women and HIV/AIDS Female Prostitution Male and Female Gender Roles and Sexuality Families & HIV/AIDS Education: Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1984 M.A., Sociology, University o
  Notable: “Male gender roles and sexuality: Implications for women's AIDS risk and prevention” (1995) · 280 citations
• Jeff Davis, Faculty h-index 6
  B.A., North Carolina Central University, 1987; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1997. Ethnic minority mental health; Occupational conditions and mental health; Social psychology of ethnic conflict. CSULB since 1997. Jeff Davis
  Notable: “WAIS-III Matrix Reasoning Test Performance in a Mixed Clinical Sample” (1999) · 44 citations
• Jan Haldipur, Faculty h-index 5
  Notable: “Researching at the community-university borderlands: Using public science to study policing in the South Bronx” (2019) · 43 citations
• Esa Syeed, Faculty h-index 5
  Notable: ““It just doesn’t add up”: Disrupting official arguments for urban school closures with counterframes” (2019) · 15 citations
• Leakhena Nou, Faculty h-index 4
  Dr. Nou is deeply committed to applied research and activism. Her primary research interests focus on the epidemiology of social stress and its relationship to health and illness, political sociology, the sociology of women, and issu
  Notable: “Anger, PTSD, and the nuclear family: A study of Cambodian refugees” (2009) · 135 citations
• Nielan Barnes, Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Is health a labour, citizenship or human right? Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in Leamington, Canada” (2013) · 20 citations
• Kristine Zentgraf, Faculty h-index 3
  Notable: “Transnational Family Separation: A Framework for Analysis” (2012) · 131 citations
• Steven Osuna, Faculty h-index 3
  Racism and political economy, globalization and immigration; policing and criminalization; social theory Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Black Studies Doctoral Emphasis, UC Santa Barbara, 2015 M.A., Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, 2011 M.A., Chi
  Notable: “Transnational moral panic: neoliberalism and the spectre of MS-13” (2020) · 40 citations
• Jake Wilson, Faculty h-index 2
  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, Algorithm
  Notable: “The Racialization of Global Labor” (2008) · 101 citations
• Chantrey J. Murphy, Faculty h-index 2
  Social Psychology, Group Processes, Self & Identity, Experimental Methods, Incarcerated Populations, Theory Development, Quantitative Methods. Education: B.A., Sociology, Winthrop University, 2008 M.A., Sociology, University of North C
  Notable: “A tale half told: State exclusionary and inclusionary regimes, incarceration of fathers, and the educational attainment of children” (2020) · 7 citations
• Kavitha Koshy, Faculty h-index 2
  Notable: “The “Becoming White Thesis” Revisited” (2016) · 15 citations
• Shae Miller, Faculty h-index 1
  Social movements; race, class, gender and sexuality; transgender and queer theory; identity theory; qualitative research methods Education: 2005 A.A Liberal Arts, Cabrillo Community College, Aptos, CA 2007 B.A. Sociology, University of Cal
  Notable: “Trans Aesthetics and Similes of Oppression” (2021) · 3 citations
• Alfonso Hernandez Marquez, Faculty
• Andrea Helzer, Faculty
• Andrew Lohmann, Faculty
• Anna Gluzman, Faculty
• Armando Mejia, Faculty
• Brian Wiley, Faculty
• Claudia Lopez, Faculty
  Global migration, displacement, citizenship, critical urban studies, housing crisis, political participation, ethnography, community-engaged research, Colombia, Southern California Current research: For more information about Dr. Lóp
• Guenevere Mead, Faculty
• Janet Muniz, Faculty
  Latino/a economic life; immigrant communities; ethnic Identity; qualitative methods Education: BA. Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara MA. Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University MA., Ph.D. Sociology, UC Irvine Selected publications
• Jose Tabares, Faculty
• Kalman Andrassy, Lecturer
• Kristina Brown-Arellano, Faculty
  First Generation College Students Higher Education Criminology and Deviance Social Justice Qualitative Methods Education: A.A. ( high honors ) Liberal Studies, Fullerton College. B.A. ( cum
• Leyenda Jacobson Harris, Faculty
• Martha Franco, Faculty
• Michael Barnes, Faculty
• Michael Lara, Faculty
• Nancy Martin, Department Chair
  Sociology of Gender; Sociology of Religion; Social Movements. Education: B.S. Engineering, Cornell University, 1986; M.A. Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2000; Ph.D. Sociology, University of Arizona, 2007. CSULB sin
• Nathan Horn, Faculty
• Noe Ramirez, Faculty
• Nora Griffin, Faculty
• Oliver Wang, Faculty
  Popular culture/music, race and ethnicity, identity and community formation. Education: B.A. Sociology, U.C. Berkeley, 1994 M.A., Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 2004 Selected publications: Wang, O. (2022). “Gerald Wilson—’Viva Tirado
• Robert Chlala, Assistant Professor
• Roberto J. Ortiz, Faculty
  Global Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Global Inequality, Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Latin American Studies Education: PhD., Sociology, Binghamton University – State University of New York, 2020 M.A. S
• Sabrina Alimahomed, Professor
  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 Main Courses: Race, Cla
• Stephanie Eaves, Faculty
• Vanessa Dixon, Faculty
• Varisa Patraporn, Faculty
  Race/Ethnicity and Immigration Asian American Places Community Engaged Research Housing and Community Economic Development Education: B.A. ( cum laude) in Political Science (Honors) and Sociology, UC Irvine Master of Public Policy, UCLA Ph

Courses

• Foundations Stats in Social Sciences SOC 90
• Principles of Sociology SOC 100
• Social Trends & Problems SOC 142
• Elementary Statistics SOC 170
• Intro to Research Methods SOC 270
• Problems International Social Conflict SOC 317
• Sociology of Families SOC 320
• Sociology of Gender SOC 325
• Social Psychology SOC 335
• Latino Population in the U.S. SOC 340
• Critical Criminology SOC 342
• Youth, Policing, and Justice SOC 345
• Race Gender and Class SOC 346
• Urban & Social Policy Analysis SOC 353
• Qualitative Methods Social Research SOC 354
• Quantitative Methods Social Research SOC 355
• Classical Sociological Theory SOC 356
• Modern Sociological Theory SOC 357
• Sociology of Migration & Immigration SOC 358
• Environmental Sociology SOC 410
• Sociology of Education SOC 415
• Sociology of Child Welfare System SOC 423
• Sociology of Sexualities SOC 426
• Social Movements and Activism SOC 427
• Sociology of Globalization SOC 430
• Racism, Power, and Inequality SOC 436
• Sociology of Popular Culture SOC 447
• Sociology Human Rights & Social Justice SOC 449
• Sociology of Health and Medicine SOC 462
• Mental Health and Society SOC 463
• Aging & Society SOC 464
• AIDS and Society SOC 466
• Religion and Social Change SOC 475
• Honors Thesis SOC 489H
• Special Topics Social Change Global Issues SOC 494
• Internship SOC 495
• Peer Facilitation in Sociology SOC 497
• Directed Studies SOC 499

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.