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Amandah AltamiranoAmandah Altamirano

Email: Altam011@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research is to learn more about how social media has contributed to the rise of mass shootings we see in the United States. This would include exploring how social media has developed significantly and has opened doors for harmful content to be shared and inspire others to conduct a similar crime to either go viral, prove a point, seek revenge, fame, etc. Other interests include exploring mental health issues caused by social media, first generation latinx students in higher education, popular culture, climate justice, and gentrification.

Dulcinea Arroyo

Email: Arroy124@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research seeks to expound upon previous research from Black and Brown scholar-activists in their efforts to shift the power dynamics of a white capitalist academic institution to an institution where liberatory research and pedagogy is uplifted. I investigate how academia operates within a capitalist and colonial framework that alienates the intellectualism of scholars from oppressed communities because their intellectualism presents a threat to the capitalist intelligentsia. 

Alfredo Bello

Email: Bello014@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research is focused on how success inside and outside the academia is being pursued and measured by new generation Latino men from the “Barrio” The aim of my research is to bring the different perspectives of system impacted Latino men who are pursuing a traditional higher educational degree and those who are outside of the academia pursuing upward-mobility. I seek to re-imagine the common stereotypes of what it means to attain success inside and outside the academia as it pertains to Latino experience. Other areas of interest include mental health, barrio culture, popular media, and family dynamics.

Joshua Brown

Email: Brown460@csusm.edu
 

Cameron Bunton

Email: Bunto002@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

Critical analysis of the justice system, colonialism, and capitalism
Critical analysis of underserved communities
Sociology of Black studies and community

Lauren Chambers

Email: Chamb101@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My past research includes student engagement in higher education as well as Black student engagement in higher education. My current research interests include community advocacy, and the intersectionality of the Black experience with gender and sexuality.

Niko Crumpton

Email: Crump011@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

In major pillars of our society, gender is being litigated in new and potentially harmful ways. My research focuses on understanding the impact of new public policies and legislation on transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse people in areas like education, sports, and healthcare. My primary interests are the sociology of sex, gender, and queerness, but I'm also interested in critical race theory, criminology, and the presentation of all these issues in media.

Valerie Dagnino

Email: Dagni002@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

Some sections that pique my interest are Children and Youth, Crime, Law and Deviance, Drugs and Society, Inequality, and Migration. My main interests are Juvenile Delinquency, Gangs, and Immigration. More specifically, the reasoning behind joining gangs with an emphasis on why undocumented individuals would put themselves under more extensive scrutiny by joining a gang.

Patrice Elise-Byrd

Email: Elise002@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

I have a Bachelors in Theatre Arts with Emphasis in Performance. I am researching Black reproductive experiences in San Diego. As a San Diego actor and mother of two, the subject is close to my heart. I am also interested in misogynoir in entertainment.

Simon GriffithSimon Griffith

Email: Griff148@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research focuses on the sociology of queer life, cities, and human agency. I explore what happens to the collective identity of queer neighborhoods as society's perception of LGBTQ+people evolves. Additionally, I investigate the material impacts that arise for individuals within these communities. By analyzing the genealogies of queer neighborhoods, I aim to understand the consequences of changes to both the physical and social spaces that exist within them.
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Mikel Luque Jimenez

Email: Luque011@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research is to explore why Latinx/Latine students want to pursue a career in law enforcement. This would include their motivations and backgrounds contributing to wanting to be a law enforcement agent. Emphasizing in male and female identifying is a priority, no voices will be left out. My other interests involve first-generation college students, immigration, criminalization toward our youth, racial inequality, and feminism.

jelger kalmijnJelger Kalmijn

Email: Kalmi001@cougars.csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

Why do workers become active in their union and how can unions encourage more activism? That questioned bedevilled me for the decades I have spent as a union leader at the University of California. Now I am turning to sociological inquiry to understand how the employment conditions, the union behavior, and other social factors stimulate individual agency in the workplace. My research has a strong focus on the intersectional role of race in encouraging or discouraging labor activism.
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Michaela Old

Email: Old001@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research interests focus is on digital technologies and online communication, specifically how Queer individuals create imagery of the self and build community with the assistance of communities on social media. I am also interested in the emergence of artificial intelligence technology and its implementation to our everyday lives.

Melvin SenMelvin Sen

Email: Sen001@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My primary research interests analyze federal immigration policy and its impact on Latinx immigrants. My other areas of interest include critical race theory, mass incarceration, racial discrimination in modern-day policing strategies, and racial inequality.

David Zavala

Email: Zaval107@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research studies include the impact of COVID-19 and the way it has impacted the landscape of education. Involving school curriculum, classroom settings, professors and students mental health. The pandemic forced many school institutions to transition into an online learning environment, but this transition caused many challenges for both professors, teachers, and students. With the transition that forced educators to implement an online or virtual learning environment, a rise in mental health issues rose significantly due to the major change in educational learning.