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Sociology Department offers advising sessions to all the students. For advising, contact the Major Advisors during their Office hours. Please bring your unoffical transcripts including transcripts from the Junior College for the Advising Sessions.

 

Chair and Professor

 
Dr. Baba, Yoko

Yoko Baba

Department Chair
& Major Advisor

Office : DMH 241
Phone : 408-924-5334
email : babayoko@email.sjsu.edu

  • Criminology
  • Victimology
  • Youth gangs


Office Hours:
TTH - 3:00-4:00pm (For Soci 200A only)
MW - By appointment.
(Call the Sociology Office at 408-924-5320)


Furlough Days:
August 28, 31
September 22, 30
October 15, 19
November 13, 19, 25, 30
December 7, 14

 

 

 

Professors (Full)

 
Asquith

Asquith, David

Part-time Major Advisor

Office: DMH 237A
Phone: 408-924-5338
Email:DGAsquith@aol.com

  • Urban
  • Research
  • Immigration
  • Data collection & analysis

 


Office Hours:
MW - 10:30-11:30AM
MW - 7:00-7:30am by appt
MW - 11:00-12:00 by appt


Furlough Days:
August 27
September 17, 22
October 1, 19
November 5, 13
December 3, 15
Wendy Ng 2008

Ng, Wendy

Major Advisor

Office: DMH 223
Phone: 408- 924-5594
Email: wendyng@email.sjsu.edu

  • Race
  • Urban
  • Ethnic relations
  • Community research

 


Office Hours:
M - 8:00-9:00am; 1:15-1:45pm
W - 8:30-9:00am; 1:30-2:45pm
W - 5:30-6:00pm; 8:45-9:00pm


Furlough Days:
August 31
September 22, 30
October 12, 19
Noveber 6, 13, 24, 25

 

 

 

Associate Professors

 
Chua

Chua, Peter

Major Advisor

Office: DMH 223
Phone: 408-924-5330
Email: pchua@sjsu.edu

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

 


Office Hours:
TR - 2:00-3:00pm
TR - 4:20-5:20pm
R - 8:45-9:45pm


Furlough Days:
August 31
September 22, 30
October 19, 28
November 2, 13
December 2, 7
Hebert

Hebert, Christopher

Major Advisor

Office: DMH 216
Phone: 408-924-1363
Email: cghebert@email.sjsu.edu

  • Criminology
  • Youth Offenders
  • Arrest/Incarceration by Race/Ethnicity

 


Office Hours:
TR - 9:30-10:15am
T - 1:00-1:15pm
R - 2:45-4:00pm
R - After Soci 154 (i.e. after 8:45pm)


Furlough Days:
August 28
September 4, 22
October 19, 29
November 13, 24
December 1, 11
Lee

Lee, James

Major Advisor

Office: DMH 224
Phone: 408-924-5866
Email: james.lee@sjsu.edu

  • Self and Identity
  • Deviance and Criminology
  • Gender,Method & Statistics
  • Childhood and Adolescence
  • Science,Technology & Education
  • Social Psychology

 


Office Hours:
T - 11:15-1:15pm
T - 5:00-6:00pm
W - 1:30-3:30pm


Furlough Days:
September 8, 21, 22, 30
October 6, 19
November 13, 19
December 3
Murray

Murray, Susan B.

Major Advisor

Office: DMH 211
Phone: 408-924-5327
Email: smurray@email.sjsu.edu

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

 


Office Hours:
TR - 8:00-9:00am
T - 12:00-1:00pm
R - 4:15-6:15pm


Furlough Days:
August 24, 31
September 4, 22
October 2, 19
November 13, 24
December 11
Scott Myers-Lipton

Myers-Lipton, Scott

Major Advisor

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

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

 


Office Hours:
TR 2:00-3:00pm
TR 4:20-5:20pm


Furlough Days:
August 28
September 4, 21A
October 15, 19
November 13, 24
December 11, 23

 

 

 

Assistant Professors

 
Boero

Boero, Natalie

Major Advisor

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

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

 


Office Hours:
M - 11:45-1:00pm
M - 2:45-3:30pm
M - 8:45-9:30pm (For Soci 105 only)
W - 2:45-4:00PM


Furlough Days:
August 25
September 22, 30
Oct 19, 30
November 13, 16, 25
December 3
Garcia

Garcia, Carlos

Major Advisor

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

  • Immigration
  • Race/Ethnicity
  • Quantitative Methods

 


Office Hours:
T - 4:00-6:00pm
F - 9:00-12:00 noon

Furlough Days:
August 28
September 16, 22
October 7, 19
November 13, 18
December 3, 10
Leisenring

Leisenring, Amy

Major Advisor

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

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

 


Office Hours:
M - 8:45-9:15pm (Soci 223 only)
T - 10:15-12:00noon
T - 2:30-3:00pm
R - 10:15-12:00noon
R - 2:30-3:00pm


Furlough Days:
August 28
September 22, 29
October 19, 27
November 13, 24
December 18, 21
Preston

Rudy, Preston

Graduate Advisor
(For Master's Students)

Office: DMH 237A
Phone: 408-924-5333
Email: porudy@sjsu.edu

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

 


Office Hours:
TR - 10:30-11:30am
T - 4:00-5:00pm
W - 4:00-5:15pm


Furlough Days:
August 31
September 16, 22
October 19, 29
November 13, 24
December 7, 14
Vera Sanchez

VeraSanchez, Claudio

Major Advisor

Office: DMH 222
Phone: 408-924-5337
Email: Claudio.VeraSanchez@sjsu.edu

  • Policing
  • Latino Youth
  • Corrections
  • Youth Offender
  • Research Methods
  • Statistics to the Specialties

 


Office Hours:
MW - 3:00-5:00pm


Furlough Days:
August 28
September 11, 22
October 7, 19, 30
November 5, 13, 25

 

 

 

Lecturers

 
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Bautista, Jose

Office:DMH 237A
Phone:408-924-5332 or 831/338-0879
Email: jbautista@prodigy.net

 

 


Office Hours:
T - 5:30-6:00pm


Furlough Days:
September 16, 22
October 6, 19
November 3, 13, 18, 24
December 1

 

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Brook, Daniel

Office: BT 562
Phone: 408-924-5331
Email: brook@brook.com

  • Political
  • Environmental
  • Global & Global Sociology

 


Office hours:
R - 11:15-1:15pm


Furlough Days:
August 28, 31
September 18, 22
October 19, 27
November 13, 25
December 3

Cox


Cox, Christopher

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

Office Hours:
MW - 10:00-10:30am
MW - 2:00-3:00pm
F - 8:00-9:00am


Furlough Days:
August 27
Sep 22, 28
October 19, 30
November 13, 25
December 8, 17




Dexheimer


Dexheimer, Daniel

Office: DMH 212
Phone: 408-924-5325
Email: daniel.dexheimer@sjsu.edu

  • Criminology
  • Corrections
  • Deviance

 


Office Hours:
MW - 11:30-12:00am
MW- 3:00-4:15pm
or by appointment


Furlough Days:
August 28
September 18, 22
October 2, 19
November 13, 25
December 3, 8
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Durden, Michelle

Office: DMH 237A
Phone: 408-924-5335
Email: durdensjsu@yahoo.com

  • Gender
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Symbolic Interactionism

 


Office Hours:
TR - 1:25-2:45pm
T - 5:55-6:15pm


Furlough Days:
August 28
September 8, 22
October 15, 19
November 13, 25
December 3, 11


Fallon



Fallon, Michael

Office: DMH 210
And CALL OFFICE CLARK 203
Email: mfallon@sjsu.edu

  • Community
  • Service-Learning / National Service
  • Religion

 


Office Hours:
TR - 8:45-9:30am
TR - Drop-in CL 203



Gomez

 


Gomez, John

Office: DHM 222
Phone:408-924-5336
Email: john.gomez@sjcc.edu

Office Hours:
M - 3:00-6:00pm
W - 3:00-4:00pm


Furlough Days:
September 10, 14, 22, 30
October 5, 19
November 13, 23
December 8

 


Morewitz,Stephen



Morewitz, Stephen J.

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

Office Hours:
M - 7:45-8:45am


Furlough Days:
September 22, 28
October 12, 19, 27
November 13, 16
December 4, 8

 



Pekarthy



Pekarthy, Julianne

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

  • Family
  • Gender
  • Socialization
  • Stratification

 


Office Hours:
MW - 10:30-11:30am
TR - 9:30-10:30am


Furlough Days:
September 14, 22
October 8, 12, 19
November 5, 13
December 3, 7
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Rokni, Mitra

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

  • Global Society
  • Critical Theory

 

 


Office Hours:
TR - 1:30-3:00pm


Furlough Days:
September 8, 22
October 8, 19
November 5, 13
December 1, 10, 16

 

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