Ph.D. Sociology, 2009

• Dissertation: “Landscapes of Spanish-Colonial Revival: Visual Culture & Urban Development in Southern California” (adviser: Martin J. Murray)

M.A. Sociology, 2005

University of California, Irvine

B.A. History, 2002
B.A. Sociology, 2002
Minor – Digital Arts

• Media Studies
• Urban Studies
• Historical Sociology

• Space & Visuality
• Global Cities
• Cultural Studies

• 2010 – Present: Assistant Professor @ Kutztown University (PA)
• 2009 – 2010: Visiting Assistant Professor @ Delaware County Community College (PA)
• 2009: Adjunct / Part Time Instructor @ Syracuse University (NY)
• 2004 – 2008: Teaching Assistant / Adjunct instructor @ SUNY Binghamton (NY)

• Environmental Sociology
• Experiences in Diversity
• Intro. to Human Geography
• Intro. to Sociology
• Intro. to Political Sociology
• Mass Media & Culture in the 20^th Century

• Media and Society
• Music, Literature & Visual Arts
• Race & Ethnicity
• Social Problems
• Sociology of Leisure
• Urban Sociology

Publications

•  (2011). “Contradictions in California’s Orientalist Landscape: Architecture, History & Spanish-Colonial Revival.” Cities. Vol. 28. No. 4. p. 240-346. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2010.09.003
• w/ Martin J. Murray. (2007). “Cinema and the Edgy City: Johannesburg, Carjacking, and the Postmetropolis.” African Identities. Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 279-289. DOI: 10.1080/14725840701403606

•  w/ Martin J. Murray. (2008). “Chapter 9: Cinema and the Edgy City: Johannesburg, Carjacking, and the Postmetropolis.” In Fassil Demissie (ed.). Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament (Routledge, NY). pp. 121-130.

• (2009). The Los Angeles Plaza. Southern California Quarterly.Vol. 91. No 1. pp. 121-22.(2008). Lynching in the West 1850-1935. Visual Studies. Vol. 23. No. 2. p. 179.

• Materializing Spanish-Colonial Revival: The Historical Landscape and Cultural Production in Southern California.
• Legitimizing Shelter-In-Place in Southern California: History, Landscape and the Fear of Fire.
• Wildfire and Urban Development: Comparing Southern California and Turkey.
• Glorified Fantasies and Masterpieces of Deception: Importing Las Vegas into the New South Africa.

• “London Gatwick Airport” in People and Neighborhoods. 2007. (Center for Educational Technology, Tel Aviv) [in Hebrew]

Funding

• 2008 – Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship: Autry National Center
• 2008 – Presenters Fellowship: Vernacular Architecture Forum
• 2008 – Department of Sociology Dissertation Fellowship: SUNY Binghamton
• 2008 – Binghamton Foundation Travel Grant: SUNY Binghamton
• 2004 – 2006: Department of Sociology Teaching Assistantship: SUNY Binghamton

 Professional Activities

• 2011: February 25 – Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting@ Philadelphia, PA – “Race & Southern California’s Cultural Landscape: From Zorro to Spanish-Colonial Revival Architecture”
• 2010: August 14 – American Sociological Association Annual Meeting @ Atlanta, GA – “Materializing Spanish-Colonial Revival: The Historical Landscape and Cultural Production in Southern California”
• 2009: August 9 – American Sociological Association Annual Meeting @ San Francisco, CA – “Spanish-Colonial Revival & Shelter-In-Place: History, Media and Contemporary Fear of Wildfires”
• 2009: April 9 – Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting @ San Diego, CA – “Materializing Fantasy: Myth & Home Construction in Southern California”
• 2008: May 10 – Vernacular Architecture Forum @ Fresno, CA – “Landscapes of Spanish-Colonial Revival Mythology: Popular Culture and Urban Development in Southern California”
• 2008: April 4 – Whitsett Graduate Seminar @ CSU Northridge – “Landscapes of Spanish-Colonial Revival Mythology: Mythology and Morphology”
• 2008: March 14 – Southwestern Social Science Association @ Las Vegas, NV – “Landscapes of Spanish-Colonial Revival Mythology: Popular Culture and Urban Development in Southern California”
• 2007: August 12 – International Visual Sociology Association Annual Meeting @ New York University – “Spanish-Colonial Revival and Private Space”
• 2007: March 28 – Graduate Student Research Day @ SUNY Binghamton – “Spanish-Colonial Revival and Social Boundaries”
• 2006: July 4 – International Visual Sociology Association Annual Meeting @ Università degli Studi di Urbino, Italy – “Fortification and Philip K. Dick: Southern California’s Boundaries”
• 2006: April 22 – Crossing the Boundaries XIV @ SUNY Binghamton – “Fortification and Visual Culture in Southern California”
• 2005: April 20 – Graduate Student Conference in Historical Social Science @ SUNY Binghamton – “Politics, Pictures, and Place in Southern California”
• 2004: October 30 – New York Conference on Asian Studies @ Bard College – “Rethinking Cinematic Boundaries in Hong Kong Cinema”

• 2009-2010: Organizer for “Scholarly Reflections on Traveling Abroad” speaker series @ Delaware County Community College
• 2007: Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Office Manager @ SUNY Binghamton
• 2007: Organizer for Graduate Student Conference in Historical Social Science @ SUNY Binghamton
• 2006 – 2007: President of Sociology Graduate Student Union (SGSU)
• 2006 – 2007: Web master for the Department of Sociology @ SUNY Binghamton (http://sociology.binghamton.edu)
• 2005 – 2006: Vice-President of Sociology Graduate Student Union (SGSU)
• 2005: Organizer for Graduate Student Conference in Historical Social Science @ SUNY Binghamton
• 2004 – 2005: Sociology senator for the Binghamton University Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
• 2001 – 2003: Field Office Scheduler @ Nielsen Media Research
• 2000 – 2002: Assistant wrestling coach @ Irvine High School

 Other Skills

• Course Management Systems: Blackboard, WebStudy, Desire2Learn, Moodle
• Software Packages: MS Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, OpenOffice.org
• Web Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver
• Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS, Linux (Ubuntu)