Associate Professor, Sociology and Int. Social Sciences
Director, SJSU Human Rights Collaborative
[SJSU Human Rights Institute under formal review]
Founding Director, SJSU Human Rights Minor Program

Email

Preferred: william.armaline@sjsu.edu

Telephone

Preferred: (408) 924-2935

Office Hours

Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 p.m. in DMH 216 (Fall 2018)

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology from the University Of Connecticut (2007)

Bio

Dr. William Armaline is the founding Director of the Human Rights Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences [SISS] at San José State University.  His formal training spans sociology, education, and human rights. As an interdisciplinary scholar and public intellectual, Dr. Armaline’s interests, applied work, and scholarly publications address social problems as they relate to political economy, environmental sustainability, racism and anti-racist action, critical pedagogy and transformative education, inequality and youth, mass incarceration, and drug policy reform.

Links

• Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
• The Human Rights Enterprise: State power and social movements (2015, Polity Press)
• Human Rights in Our Own Backyard:  Injustice and resistance in the U.S.  (2011, UPenn. Press)
• W. Armaline, C. Vera Sanchez, and M. Correia.  "The Biggest Gang in Oakland:  Rethinking police legitimacy."  (2014, Contemporary Justice Review)
• W. Armaline and D. Glasberg.  "What will states really do for us?  The human rights enterprise and pressure from below."  (2009, Societies Without Borders)
• Academia.edu Page