College of Behavioral and Social Science: Sociology

Faculty Expert Database List

College of Behavioral and Social Science

Phone: 530-898-6171

Sociology

Phone: 530-898-6384

Andrew J. Dick

Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD, Utah State University
Juvenile Delinquency, Crime/Criminology, Adolescence/Youth, Gangs, Social Problems, Deviance

Phone: 530-898-5076
Email: ADick@csuchico.edu

Carol Edelman

Professor, Sociology
PhD, University of Arizona
Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Persuasion

Phone: 530-898-6171
Email: CEdelman@csuchico.edu

Liahna E. Gordon

Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD, Indiana University
Sociology of Sexuality, Conformity and Resistance (“Deviance”) Especially in Regards to Gender, Femininities, Body Image, Sexual Orientation, Glbt Communities

Phone: 530-898-6040
Email: LEGordon@csuchico.edu

Kathleen Kaiser

Professor, Sociology
PhD, Duke University
Former Trustee, California State University
Deviance, Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Sexuality, Applied Sociology Internship Program

Phone: 530-898-6397
Email: KKaiser@csuchico.edu

Janja Lalich

Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD, Fielding Graduate University
Cults, extremism (groups and ideologies), new religious movements, undue influence, coercive persuasion (“brainwashing”), sociology of family and work and family, unconventional therapies, abusive relationships

• Book: Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults

Phone: 530-898-5542
Email: JLalich@csuchico.edu

Paul Lopez

Associate Professor, Chicano Studies/Sociology
PhD, Northeastern University
Chicano/Latino Studies, Labor Markets, Inequality, International Migration (Mexican Braceros), Race and Ethnic Relations, and Public Policy

Phone: 530-898-4375
Email: PLopez@csuchico.edu

Jerry Maneker

Professor Emeritus, Sociology
PhD, New York University
Deviant Behavior, Social Theory

Phone: 530-898-5443
Email: JManeker@csuchico.edu

Dan Pence

Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
Popular Culture, Gender (With and Emphasis on Men and Masculinity), Social Inequality, Including Ethnicity and Race Relations

• Book: American Prejudice: With Liberty and Equality for Some (Prestige Books, 1995)

Phone: 530-899-5828
Email: DPence@csuchico.edu

Cynthia Siemsen

Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD, University of California Santa Cruz
Gender, Crime, and Criminal Justice; Social Psychology; Emotional Conflicts; Social Theory; Sociology of Law; World-Systems Analysis

• Book: (I) Emotional Trials: The Moral Dilemas of Women Criminal Defense Attorneys (2004)

Phone: 530-898-6200
Email: CSiemsen@csuchico.edu

Chunyan Song

Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD, Arizona State University
Demography, Research Method, Statistical Analysis, Asian American Studies, Immigrant Youth and Education

Phone: 530-898-4980
Email: CSong3@csuchico.edu

Tony Waters

Professor, Sociology
PhD, UC Davis
Migration, Economic Development and Social Change, Refugees, East Africa, Criminology

• Book: Crime and Immigrant Youth (Sage 1999)
• Book: Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan: The Limits of International Refugee Relief (Westview 2001)
• Book: The Persistance of Subsistance Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace (Lexington 2006)

Phone: 530-898-6384
Email: TWaters@csuchico.edu

Laurie Wermuth

Professor, Sociology
PhD, UC Berkeley
Political sociology, sociology of inequality and health, sociology of family

• Book: Global Inequality and Basic Human Needs: Health and Illness in an Increasingly Unequal World (Allyn and Bacon, 2003)

Phone: 530-898-5691
Email: LWermuth@csuchico.edu