
Sociology Seminar Series
Fall 2017
Professor Erika Robb Larkins
"The 'Vigi-licia:' Public/Private Security Identities in Rio de Janeiro"
Wednesday, October 18th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Professor Minjeong Kim
"SDSU CTL STEP Experience: A Reflection"
Wednesday, November 1st
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Professor Luigi Achilli
"Fleeing the War: Palestinian Refugees from Syria and Border Crossing Facilitation"
Wednesday, December 6th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Spring 2017
Professor Rebecca Bartel - Department of Religious Studies
“Microfinance and Religion”
Monday, February 20th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Professor Rosemary Serra, PhD - Universitá degli Studi di Triste, Italy
“The New Italian American Identity”
Tuesday, April 11th @ 11AM in Nasatir Hall, Room 229
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Professor Hae Yeon Choo - Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
"Selling Fantasies of Rescue: Intimate Labor, Filipina Migrant Hostesses, and US GIs
in a Shifting Global Order"
Monday, May 1st
2:00-3:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Fall 2016
Professor Ruth Liu
“Harsh Parental Discipline and Delinquency among Chinese Adolescents”
Monday, September 26th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Ietza Bojorquez*
“Deported Mexican Migrants: Mental Health and Access to Health Care Services”
Monday, October 24th
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Professor Emeritus Rolf Schulze
“Dangerous Delusions: Autobiography and Partial Family History”
Monday, December 12th
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229
*Note: Session organized in collaboration with the El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and the Center for Latin American Studies, SDSU.
Spring 2016
Jill Esbenshade, Ph.D., Associate Professor, SDSU ; Peter Brownell, Ph.D., Research
Director for the Center on Policy Initiatives; Matt Phutisatayakul; Juan Flores; Kat
Durant; Jennifer Renner; Lucas Lacerda
"Shorted: Wage Theft, Time Theft and Discrimination in San Diego County Restaurant
Jobs"
Monday, April 11, 2016
3:00-4:00 PM
Location: Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Justin Brooks, Professor, California Western School of Law and Director, California
Innocence Project
"Clinical Legal Education and Freeing the Innocent"
Monday, March 7, 2016
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Nasatir Hall, Room 229
Fall 2015
Jung Choi and Tom Semm – San Diego State University
"Tú eres mi otro yo: education as dialogue"
Monday, October the 5th
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Room: Physics 149
Sheldon Zhang – San Diego State University
"Labor trafficking and challenges in estimating its scope"
Monday November the 2nd
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Room: NH 229
Eunice Vargas V. and Rodrigo Aguilar Z. - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte *
"Educational continuity of recent migrants from the U.S. to the highly urban areas
of México"
Monday December the 7th
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Room: NH 229
*Note: Sessions organized in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies, SDSU.
Spring 2015
Audrey Beck, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"Racial Disparities in Health: Cohort Trends and Explanations."
February the 12th
Fall 2014
Angela Garcia, Ph.D. Candidate – University of California, San Diego
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Embodied Immigrant Assimilation in Restrictionist Destinations"
September 30th
Rodolfo Cruz, Ph.D. – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte*
"The Mexico – U.S. Migration: change and continuity"
October 28th
Silvia Mejia, Ph.D. – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte*
"Mental Health among Mexicans and Mexican Americans: the case of elderly"
November 18th
*Note: Sessions organized in collaboration with the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and the Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University.
Spring 2014
Michael Roberts, Ph.D. and Benjamin Wright, MA. – San Diego State University
"Reproducing Really Useful Workers: Children’s Television as an Ideological State
Apparatus"
March 3rd
Hank Johnston, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"Social Movements in Authoritarian Regimes"
April 22nd
Fall 2013
Jill Esbenshade, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"Taxi Drivers: Driven to Despair: A Survey of San Diego Taxi Drivers"
September the 24th
Enrico Marcelli, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"Foreign-born Stress in America: How ‘Home’ Influence the Health of Legal and Unauthorized
U.S. Migrants"
October the 29th
Charles Hohm, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"Sociological Associations"
November the19th
Audrey Beck, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"The Impact of Family Instability on Parenting Practices and Child Well-Being"
December the10th