Sociology Faculty

Interested in learning more about our faculty who make this department run and succeed? Read a few of our faculty's short biographies that share their story and impact!

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Dr. Carlos E. Garcia has been teaching sociology classes since 2000 and teaching at SJSU since 2006. In that time he has taught 14 different classes (to over 3000 students) but his favorite classes to teach are Introduction to Sociology and Quantitative Research Methods. In the past he has done research on immigrant communities in the US, public opinion on immigration, and health disparities. Carlos has two children. His daughter Katherine is an artist living in NYC and his son Luke is a soldier stationed in South Korea.

William Armaline is a Professor of Sociology and founder of the Human Rights Minor Program and Human Rights Institute at San José State University.  His formal training and professional experience spans sociology, education, and human rights.  Dr. Armaline’s interests, applied work, and scholarly publications address social problems as they relate to political economy, politics, human rights, education, criminal justice, and public policy.  His most recent book with co-author Davita Silfen Glasberg (Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival, Routledge Press) examines the overlapping threats to human rights and survival posed by global capitalism in an increasingly turbulent and militarized world.

Outside of teaching and scholarship, Dr. Armaline serves as an Appointed California RIPA Board Member, an Executive Committee Member of the NAACP of SJ/SV, and as the Political Action Chair for the California Faculty Association (SJSU). 

Dr.  Mariana Manriquez was born and lived in Mexico, grew up in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands, went to graduate school at the University of Arizona, before moving to the Bay Area and becoming an Assistant Professor in Sociology at San José State University. Manriquez is passionate about teaching her students about how social theory can help us understand and make sense of the current world that we live in. Manriquez is particularly enthusiastic about understanding the relationship between work, humans and technology. She is currently working on a project about food delivery gig work in Mexico City, where she worked and hung out alongside couriers to understand their working lives in and through Internet-platforms.