Community Studies
2015-16 General Catalog
213 Oakes Academic Building
(831) 459-2371
http://communitystudies.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
William H. Friedland, Emeritus
Nancy Stoller, Emerita
David T. Wellman, Emeritus
Carter Wilson, Emeritus
Deborah A. Woo, Emerita
Lecturer
Leslie Lopez
Political economy of education and cultural production, social movements in Latin America/U.S., journalism and oral history, literacy and language, immigration, youth
Andrea Steiner
Health policy, critical public health, social gerontology, ageism, women’s health activism, numeracy education in social justice
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Professor
David Brundage (History)
American immigration history, with particular focus on the Irish in America and on transnational immigrant politics; U.S. labor and social history; modern Irish history
Heather E. Bullock (Psychology)
Poverty and economic inequality, welfare policy, feminist psychology, intersections of classism, racism, and sexism
Nancy N. Chen (Anthropology)
Medical anthropology, visual anthropology, urban anthropology, Asian American identity, mental health, food, China
Dana Frank (History)
Late 19th- and 20th-century U.S. social history, including women's, labor, and working-class history, race and ethnicity; modern Honduras; U.S. history in transnational perspective
Julie Guthman (Social Sciences)
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography
Craig W. Haney (Psychology)
Applications of social psychological principles to legal settings, assessment of the psychological effects of living and working in institutional environments, social contextual origins of violence, development of alternative legal and institutional forms
David E. Kaun, Emeritus
Regina D. Langhout (Psychology)
School-community-university collaboration; how schooling and neighborhood experiences are informed by social class, race, and gender; young people and empowerment; participatory action research
Craig Reinarman (Sociology)
Political sociology; law, crime, and social justice; drugs and society
Patricia Zavella, (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Transnational migration by Mexicans, poverty, family, sexuality, labor, social networks, feminist studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, ethnographic research methods
Associate Professor
Eva Bertram, (Politics)
American politics, public policy, political economy, and political history, including social policy and the welfare state , and the changing character of work and labor markets in the United States.
Miriam Greenberg (Sociology)
Urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, political economy, globalization, and urban political ecology
Steven McKay (Sociology)
Work and labor markets; globalization and social change; political sociology; race; masculinity; migration; ethnography/qualitative methods
Mary Beth Pudup (Social Sciences)
Urban and regional political economy, historical geography of the U.S., public policy, community gardening and urban agriculture, non-profit sector
Assistant Professor
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Anthropology)
Anthropology and history of medicine and public health, science studies, American studies, popular culture, the United States and the United Kingdom
Revised: 09/01/15
