• With Pitzer Since: 1991
• Field Group: Sociology/Chicano Studies
• Campus Address: Broad Center 216
• Phone: 909.607.2852

Education:

• M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• B.A., University of Colorado

Expertise Areas:
Urban and Political Sociology; Race and Ethnic Relations; Multi-Ethnic Coalitions; Urban Community Development; Critical Ethnography and Participant Observation; Language Rights; Experimental and Service Learning; Chicano and Latino Communities

Recent Publications, Appointments, and Awards

Recipient of 2004 Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education, presented by the California Campus Compact (CACC) to individuals who demonstrate excellence in building partnerships between communities and higher education.

“Partnership in Teaching and Learning: Combining the Practice of Critical Pedagogy
With Civic Engagement and Diversity,” in Peer Review, American Association of
Colleges and Universities, Spring 2003.

Resource Materials Manual for Teaching Latino/a Sociology, (edited with Gilda
Ochoa), American Sociological Association Teaching Resource Center, 2003.

Appointed member of the National Advisory Council of the New Institute on Liberal
Education and Civic Engagement of the American Association of Colleges and Universities and Campus Compact.

Appointed to three-year position, Distinguished Career Award Committee, American
Sociological Association.

Finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, Campus Compact

Presentations at the American Sociological Association in August 2003:

• “Teaching Chicana/o and Latina/o Sociology”
• “Connecting Research, Teaching, and Community Organizing,” to Sociology
  Honor’s students
• “Participatory Research in the Pomona Day Labor Center.”