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Faculty
Jan Lin, Chair
Richard Mora
Dolores
Trevizo
Lisa Wade
Shane Latchman
Office Hours -
Spring 2008
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Dolores
Trevizo
Associate Professor
A.B. Occidental College
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Office: Middle Swan 310
Phone: x2943
Email:
dtrevizo@oxy.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Forthcoming paper
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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
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Jan Lin
Associate
Professor
Department Chair
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
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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. |
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Richard Mora
Instructor
B.A., Harvard College
M.A. (in Education),
University of Michigan
M.A. (in Sociology), Harvard University
Ph. D., Harvard University
(in progress)
Office: Middle Swan 314
Phone: x2871
Email:
rmora@oxy.edu
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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.
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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
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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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Shane
Latchman
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Office: North Swan 311
Phone: x1310
slatchman@oxy.edu
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