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Sociology Department offers advising for all the students. For advising, contact the Major Advisors during their office hours.

Last day of advising Tuesday, May 15, 2012

What to bring to your major advising session?

  • "My Academics" Homepage (print screen)
  • Unofficial transcripts from MySJSU
  • Course History (via "My Academics")
  • Unofficial transcripts form previous college(s)[i.e. community college] or print a copy of the "Transfer Credit" report from MySJSU "My Academics" section
 
Boero
 

Boero, Natalie

Assistant Professor
Office: DMH 211
Phone: 408-924-5345
Email: natalie.boero@sjsu.edu

  • Gender
  • Socialization
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Sociology of health and illness

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

M: 2:45-3:45pm
(Graduate Students Only) 8:45-9:45pm
W: 11:45am-12:15pm

Chua
 

Chua, Peter

Associate Professor
Office: DMH 223
Phone: 408-924-5330
Email: peter.chua@sjsu.edu

  • Race/Ethnicity/Gender/Class inequalities
  • Southeast Asian studies
  • Human rights, Social justice
  • Sociology of the Third World
  • Global gender and sexuality issues

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

M/W: 9:30am-10:15am
M: 5:00-7:00pm
T: 8:45-9:15pm

Garcia
 

Garcia, Carlos

Associate Professor
Office: DMH 216
Phone: 408-924-5804
Email:carlos.e.garcia@sjsu.edu

  • Immigration
  • Race/Ethnicity
  • Quantitative Methods

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

T/Th 9:25-10:25am
& by appointment

Leisenring
 

Leisenring, Amy

Associate Professor
Office: DMH 224
Phone:408-924-5756
Email: amy.leisenring@sjsu.edu

  • Gender
  • Family
  • Identity
  • Feminist theory
  • Domestic violence
  • Education
  • Qualitative research methods

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

T/Th: 10:15-11:45am

 

Murray
 

Murray, Susan B.

Associate Professor
Office: DMH 211
Phone: 408-924-5327
Email: sumurray@email.sjsu.edu

  • Sociology of Gender
  • Social Psychology
  • Child Care Workers
  • Violence in Families
  • Families in Modern Society
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Immigration
  • Immigrant Families

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

T/Th: 8:00-9:00am
T: 12:00-1:00pm
Th: 4:15-6:15pm

 

 

 

 

Scott Myers-Lipton
 

Myers-Lipton, Scott

Department Associate Chair

Full Professor
Office: DMH 210
Phone:408-924-5761
Email: smlipton@sjsu.edu

  • Social Inequality
  • Service Learning
  • Community Action
  • Poverty, Race and Gender

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

M: 10:30am-12:15pm
2:00-3:00pm
W:10:30am-12:15pm
2:00-6:00pm
(5-6pm @ Pomegranate Cafe)
& by appointment

 

 

Wendy Ng 2008
 

Ng, Wendy

Department Chair
& Major Advisor

Full Professor
Office : DMH 241
Phone : 408-924-5594
email : wendy.ng@sjsu.edu

  • Race
  • Urban
  • Ethnic relations
  • Community research

 DEPARTMENT CHAIR
AND MAJOR ADVISOR

 

Office Hours:

By appointment only

 

Preston
 

Rudy, Preston

Graduate Advisor

Assistant Professor
Office: DMH 222
Phone: 408-924-5333
Email: preston.rudy@sjsu.edu

  • Labor and Social Movements
  • Political Sociology
  • Economic Sociology
  • Social Change
  • Oral Histories
  • Historical and Comparative methods

MAJOR ADVISOR

Office Hours:

Undergradate Advising
T/Th: 10:30-11:30am
T: 3:00-4:00pm & by appointment

Graduate Advising
M: 5:15-6:15pm
T: 4:30-5:30pm
W: 3:35-4:45pm & by appointment

 

Lecturers

Note: Lecturers Do Not Provide Major Advising

 
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Bautista, Jose

Office:DMH 216
Phone:408-924-4336 or 408-741-2492
Email: jbautista@prodigy.net


Office Hours:

W: 5:30-6:30pm

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Brook, Daniel

Office: DMH 237A
Phone: 408-924-2914
Email: brook@brook.com

  • Political
  • Environmental
  • Global & Global Sociology

Office hours:

T/Th: 10am-12pm

Rachel Bryant-Anderson
 

Bryant-Anderson, Rachel

Office: DMH 222
Phone: 408-924-5336
Email: rbryanta@ucsc.edu


Office hours:

M/W: 10:15-11:45am


 
Saul Ury Cohn
 

Cohn, Saul

Office: DMH 212
Phone: 408-924-5325
Email: saul.cohn@sjsu.edu

 Office Hours:

M/W 12:00pm-1:00pm

 

 

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Cormier, Jeffrey

Office: BT 465
Phone: 408-924-5365
Email: TBA


Office hours:

F: 8:15-9:15am
& by appointment


Cox
 

Cox, Christopher

Office: DMH 210
Phone: 408-924-5326
Email: cj373@hotmail.com

Office Hours:

T/Th: 12:00-1:30pm
Th: 5:00-6:00pm

 
 
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Durden, Michelle

Office: DMH 237A
Phone: 408-924-5344
Email: durdensjsu@yahoo.com

  • Gender
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Symbolic Interactionism


Office Hours:

M: 3:00-4:15pm
    5:45-6:10pm
W: 3:00-4:15pm

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Fallon, Michael

Office: DMH 212
Phone: 408-924-5440
Email: Michael.Fallon@sjsu.edu


Office Hours:

T/Th: 10:15-11:00am
& by appointment



Gomez
 

Gomez, John

Office: BT 562
Phone:408-924-5331
Email: john.gomez@sjsu.edu

Office Hours:

T/Th: 1:30-3:00pm

Tara Hardinge
 

Hardinge, Tara

Office: DMH 224
Phone: 408-924-2975
Email: tara.hardinge@sjsu.edu


Office hours:

T: 10:30-11:00am
T/Th: 3:00-4:00pm

  



Morewitz,Stephen
 

Morewitz, Stephen J.

Office: BT 465
Phone: 408-924-5365
Email: stephen.morewitz@sjsu.edu


Office Hours:

M: 7:45am-8:45am

 

 

 

 

Nava, Steve

Office: DMH 223
Phone: 408-924-2942
Email: steve.nava@sjsu.edu

 

 

Office Hours:

M/W: 7:50-8:50am

 



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Pasion, Mark

Office: DMH 237A
Phone: 408-924-5335
Email:soc1@sbcglobal.net


Office Hours:

M/W: 7:50-8:50am



Pekarthy
 

Pekarthy, Julianne

Office: BT 464
Phone: 408-924-5329
Email:jpekarthy@juno.com

  • Family
  • Gender
  • Socialization
  • Stratification

Office Hours:

M: 4:30-6:00pm

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Rattan, Neelam

Office: DMH 318
Phone: 408-924-5653
Email: neelam.rattan@sjsu.edu


Office hours:

W: 5:30-6:30pm

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Rokni, Mitra

Office: DMH 210
Phone:48-924-5788
Email: myth_ra@yahoo.com

  • Global Society
  • Critical Theory


Office Hours:

T/Th: 1:30-3:00pm

 

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