Department Chair

Anthony Silvaggio

Anthony Silvaggio

Associate Professor & Chair

Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Cannabis Studies, and Survey Research Methods

 

Office Hours: MW 11:00am-12:00PM and by appointment

Faculty

Karen August

Karen August

Internship Coordinator & Lecturer

Marijuana, Prison Industrial Complex, Quantitative Research Methods

Currently Retired. Please email Anthony Silvaggio avs1@humboldt.edu for help with any incompletes.

Dominic Corva

Dominic Corva

Assistant Professor

Cannabis Studies, Law and Society, Political Geography, Rural Development, Social Movements

Office Hours: MW 2:30-3:30 or by appointment

Caglar Dolek

Caglar Dolek

Assistant Professor

Critical Criminology, Political Economy, Social History, Qualitative Methods, Urban Marginality & Contentious Politics

office Hours: MW 3:00-5:00pm or online by appointment.

Jennifer Eichstedt

Jennifer Eichstedt

Professor

Sociology of Race/Ethnicity, Critical White Studies, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Social Movements, Stratification/Inequality, Gender Theory

On Leave Fall 2023

Catey Hoehn

Catey Hoehn

MA Student - Teaching Associate

Office Hours: Email for appointment

Israel de Souza

Stefanie Israel de Souza

Assistant Professor

Urban Marginality, Critical Criminology, Qualitative Methods, Cultural Sociology, Social Change

On Leave Fall 2023

Christina Martinek

Christina Martinek

Lecturer

Sociology of Aging/Social Gerontology, Senior Social Services, and Senior/ Community Needs Assessments

Office Hours: Email for Appointment 

Josh Meisel

Josh Meisel

Professor

Critical Drug Studies, Cannabis Studies, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Criminology, Deviance and Social Control

Recent Publications:
2023. With Amanda Reiman,Rielle Capler, and Darcey Paulding McCready. “Medical Cannabis

Identity and Public Health Paternalism.” Public Health in Practice 5:1-9.

2023. With Dominic Corva and Ara Pachmayer. “Cannabis, Communities, and Place: (Re)constructing Humboldt’s Post-Prohibition Present.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 45(1):152-168.

2023. With Daniel Bear. "A tale of two cannabis legalization experiments." Policy Options. October 17.

Office Hours: M 11:00am-12pm by Zoom and T 1:30-2:30pm or by appointment

James Ordner

James Ordner

Lecturer

Social Movements, Environmental Sociology, Social Theory, and Qualitative Methods

Office Hours: F 9:00am-11:00am or Email for appointment

Aaron  Perez

Aaron Perez

MA Student - Teaching Associate

Office Hours: Email for Appointment 

Elizabeth Rienzi

Elizabeth Rienzi

Lecturer

Race/Ethnicity, Transracial and Transnational Adoption, Asian American Studies, Identity, Sociology of the Family, Feminist Theory, Qualitative Research Methods

Office Hours: Email for Appointment 

Michihiro Clark Sugata

Michihiro Clark Sugata

Associate Professor

Social Inequalities, Financial Governance and Cartographies of Debt, International Human Rights, Critical Theory

Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:30pm and by appointment

Mary Virnoche

Mary Virnoche

Graduate Coordinator & Professor

Technology and Society, Gender, Qualitative Methods and Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research

Office Hours: T 12:00pm -2:00pm/ W 3:00pm -4:00pm or Email for Appointment

Staff

Mireya Ortega

Mireya Ortega

Administrative Support Coordinator II

Students if you need a new advisor or have questions about forms for your success, email me and I will be happy to help.  MA Public Sociology support.

Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM