Experts Directory: Urban Issues
Alejandra Acu帽a
Department of Social Work
work: (818) 677-7798
email: aacuna@csun.eduaacunalcsw@gmail.com
Also speaks: Spanish
- Urban youth and families
- Traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Resilience
- Mental health in schools
- School social work
- Family communication
- Family engagement in children鈥檚 mental health
- Evidence-based mental health practices
- Cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools
- Parenting and family therapy
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Child welfare
- Program evaluation
- Cultural/traditional mental health practices
- Social marketing campaigns for mental health
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Peter Bellin
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
work: (818) 677-4719
email:
- Industrial hygiene
- Safety
- Indoor air quality
- Toxic chemicals
- Hazardous waste management
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Kenya Covington
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
work: (818) 677-6463
email:
- Urban and social policy (geared at addressing poverty)
- Child care supply/geography
- Welfare reform
- Geography of opportunity
- Coping with poverty
Learn more about Kenya Covington's work:
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Ronald A. Davidson
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3513
email:听rdavids@csun.edu
- Public space
- California coast
- Metropolitan Los Angeles
- Geography education
- Humanistic geography
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Priya M. Ganguli
Department of Geological Sciences
work: (818) 677-4669
email:
- Mercury cycling in the environment
- Mining impacts
- Environmental remediation/restoration
- Groundwater-surface water interaction
- Contaminant transport and fate
- Technical consultant in 2010-2011 to the EPA Klau/Buena Vista Mercury Mine Superfund Site, specifically riparian and reservoir sampling design and remediation strategies
- From 1999-2006 served as engineering geologist and environmental specialist for the San Francisco Bay Water Board, specifically for environmental remediation for such areas as mine sites, streams, groundwater, wetlands/slough
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Steve Graves
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3517
email:
- Popular culture
- Predatory lending
- Social justice
- Landscapes
- Geography education
- Author: 鈥淟andscapes of Predation, Landscapes of Neglect: An Analysis of Banks and Payday Lenders鈥�
Learn more about Steve Graves's work:
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Scott Hauswirth
Department of听Geological Sciences
work: (818) 677-4880
email: scott.hauswirth@csun.edu
- Groundwater contamination
- Contaminated site remediation
- Contaminant fate and transport
- Hazardous waste
- Groundwater
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Tom Hogen-Esch
Department of Political Science
work: (818) 677-3484
email: tom.hogen-esch@csun.edu
- Los Angeles politics
- Urban issues
- California politics
- American government
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Marta Cristina L贸pez-Garza
Department of Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6488 / 4785
email:marta.lopez-garza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Economic development
- Ethnographic field research
- Formerly incarcerated women
- Immigration and public policy
- Race and class studies
- Urban sociology
- Women鈥檚/feminist studies
- Documentary filmmaking from a social science perspective
- Visual sociology (photography)
- Member, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, South Los Angeles
- Member, Institute for the Renewal of the California Draw
- Co-author: 鈥淩egions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together鈥�
- Co-editor: 鈥淎sian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles鈥�
- Documentary: 鈥溾�榃hen Will the Punishment End?鈥� Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives鈥�
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Antonio F. Machado
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
work: (818) 677-2065
email:听amachado@csun.edu
- Teratology (birth defects)
- Toxicology
- Environmental health
- Genes and development
- Gene/environmental interactions and chemical interactions in the causation of birth defects
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Hillary Miller
Department of Theatre
work: (818) 677-7712
email:听hillary.miller@csun.edu
- Theater and performance power World War II
- Urban development and the arts
- Fiscal crises and theater
- Community-based performance
- Sociology of culture
- Theater and culture of the 1970s
- Dramatic structure and playwriting
- Author: 鈥淒rop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York City鈥�
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Henrik P. Minassians
Department of Urban Studies & Planning
work: (818) 677-5115
email: henrik.minassians@csun.edu
Also speaks: Armenian, Farsi
- Public policy and public administration
- County government
- Local politics
- Performance management and governance issues related to the public sector
- Author: Performance Reporting in Higher Education
- Author:听Reporting Higher Education Results: Missing Links in the Performance Chain
Learn more about Henrik P. Minassians' work:
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Amalie J. Orme
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3864
email:听
- Flooding
- 奥别补迟丑别谤鈥攕迟辞谤尘蝉
- Landslides
- Beach erosion
- Fire
- Gang prevention
- Earthquakes and climate change in Owens Valley
- Learn more about Amalie J. Orme's work:
- 快活林性息 Geography Students Take to the Sky to Better Study the Ground
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Boris E. Ricks
Department of Political Science
work: (818) 677-5133
email:听boris.ricks@csun.edu
- Racial and ethnic politics
- Political leadership
- Black politics
- Urban politics
- California politics
- Local politics
- Black elected officials
- County government
- Public policy
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Martin Saiz
Department of Political Science
Center for Southern California Studies
work: (818) 677-7236
email:听martin.saiz@csun.edu
- City politics
- Urban politics
- State politics
- California politics
- Economic development policy
- Urban planning and development
- Community organizing
- Voting and elections
- Author: 鈥淟ocal Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective鈥�
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Victor N. Shaw
Department of Crime and Justice Studies
work: (818) 677-7311
email:
Also speaks: Chinese
- Drug abuse
- AIDS
- Crime
- Deviancy
- Criminal justice
- Social control
- Organizational behavior
- Academic careers
- Teaching research
- Public policy
- Economic reform
- China/Asia issues
- Social control in China
- Chinese work units
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Kathryn Sorrells
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2853
email: kathryn.sorrells@csun.edu
- Intercultural communication
- Intercultural conflict
- Gender, race, class and sexuality
- Feminism
- Globalization
Learn more about Kathryn Sorrells' work:
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Yifei Sun
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3524
email:听
- Geographic information science
- Quantitative methods
- Innovation, urban and regional development
- Innovation and development in China
Learn more about Yifei Sun's work:
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Zeynep Toker
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
work: (818) 677-2872
email: zeynep.toker@csun.edu
Also speaks: Turkish, German
- Community participation in urban planning
- Urban design
- Feminist approaches in urban planning
- Qualitative research methods
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Ashwani Vasishth
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
work: (818) 677-6137
email:听vasishth@csun.edu
- Environmental planning
- International development
- Sustainability
- Regional planning听
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Kathleen Young
Department of Health Sciences
work: (818) 677-4725
email:
- Women's health prevention education
- Cultural competency in healthcare
- Health policy
- Health policy development
- Community health advocacy
- Health inequities
- Comprehensive breast cancer prevention education/screening programming
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