Faculty


 

    Jan Lin                                Richard Mora


    Dolores Trevizo                       Lisa Wade 
       
 Chair  

     John Lang                            Adjuncts

 

 

 

Jan Lin
Associate Professor
B.A. Williams College
M.S. London School of Economics
Ph.D. New School for Social Research
 

Office: North Swan 203

Phone: x2994

Email:jlin@oxy.edu

http://www.faculty.oxy.edu/jlin/
Curriculum Vitae

 

Office hours: 

Tu   10:00-12:00
W    1:00-3:00

 

Jan Lin started teaching at Occidental College in 1998. His teaching areas are in urban sociology, urban field methods, race and ethnic relations, globalization and the sociology of development, mass media and consumer society, and a freshman CSP course on Los Angeles. He is author of Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (on New York’s Chinatown) and co-editor of The Urban Sociology Reader (a textbook reader). He is currently engaged in research on spatial assimilation and social mobility issues in the Chinese “ethnoburb” of Los Angeles as well as comparative work examining ethnic enclaves, tourism and the arts in the global city, encompassing Asian, Latino and African American case studies. He was principal investigator on a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to Occidental College in 1999-2003 for a Northeast Los Angeles Community Outreach Partnership Center, which funded student and faculty fellowships that produced urban planning reports, economic development surveys, a community website and technology training workshops, oral history and public art projects, and a range of other community development initiatives.

 


 

 

John Lang
Assistant Professor
B.A., Rutgers University
M.A., Rutgers University
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Office:  Middle Swan 311
Phone:  x1310
lang@oxy.edu

Office hours:
Tu   11:45-1:15
Th   11:45-1:15

Before coming to Occidental College in Fall 2008, John taught at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His teaching and research interests include the environment, food, organizations, power, risk, technology, and trust. He is fascinated with controversies surrounding new technologies as proxy debates for broader issues of social and political power, cultural values, and corporate responsibility.

 

 

 

 

Richard Mora

Assistant Professor

B.A., Harvard College

M.A. (in Education), University of Michigan
M.A. (in Sociology), Harvard University

Ph. D., Harvard University

 

Office: Middle Swan 314

Phone: x2871

Email: rmora@oxy.edu


Office hours:

W   11:30-1:00

 

Richard has earned degrees in sociology and education and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at Harvard University, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology and Social Policy program. His academic interests include the investigation and analysis of youth cultures, youth violence, gender, education and urban poverty.  Richard teaches courses in youth cultures, sociology of education, social inequality, and ethnographic research methods.
 
 

 

Lisa Wade

Assistant Professor

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., New York University

M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Office: North Swan 309

Phone: x2900

Email: lwade@oxy.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Office hours:
on leave

 

Lisa has earned degrees in philosophy, human sexuality, and sociology.  Her areas of expertise include social inequality, the social construction of the body, sexuality as power, and the media, feminism, and medicine as social institutions.  Accordingly, she teaches courses in gender, race and ethnicity, sexuality, science and medicine, and the body.
 

 

 

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Dolores Trevizo
Associate Professor

Department Chair
A.B. Occidental College
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
 

Office: Middle Swan 311

Phone: x2943

Email: dtrevizo@oxy.edu
Curriculum Vitae

 

Forthcoming paper

 

Office hours:
by appt. only

 

Dolores returned to Oxy in 1997 as a Minority Dissertation Fellow and has been teaching as an Assistant Professor since 1998. She is a political sociologist and teaches courses in political sociology, social movements and revolutions, theory, immigration to the United States and quantitative research methods. Her research and writing focus on the relations between states (democratic and authoritarian) and civil societies. Recently, her work has focused on the causes and political consequences of peasant movements in Mexico.


 

 

   

Adjuncts - Spring 2009

Juan Santos
Office:   Middle Swan 312
Phone:   x2758
Office hours:


Steven Sherwood
Office:  Middle Swan 312
Phone:  x2758
Office hours:   

M   2:15-3:15
W   2:15-3:15
                         

 

 

 

Shane Latchman
Office:   South Swan 118
Phone:   2770
Office hours: