Interests: Visions of Power, Immigration, Race, and Gender in the Media; Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. and in Comparative Perspective; U.S. Power Elite; Educational Inequalities; International Political Economy
Projects: 1. Life in Racially Integrated Neighborhoods 2. Latino Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in New High Immigration States (focus: Pacific Northwest) 3. Hidden Curriculum of Power, Immigration, Race and Gender in Conservative Talk Radio All of this research offers the choice of working with quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. 4. Government Distrust and Alienation Among Gillnetters and Trollers in Oregon: Overcoming Barriers to Cooperation in Resource-Based Coastal Communities. This research addresses the gap in our understanding of the causes of trust and distrust of government in general, and of management agencies in particular, among groups of community stakeholders whose cooperation is essential to the success of strategies for sustainable fisheries management. Joint project with Veronica Dujon.
Courses Taught:
SOC 337U: Minorities
SOC 423/523: Stratification
SOC 444/544: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality
SOC 591: Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology