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Amandah Altamirano

Email: Altam011@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research specifically focuses on examining women of color鈥檚 experience in video game culture. I am currently looking into the negative experiences that women of color face online and in-person in this male dominated culture that also stems from my own personal experiences. Some of these experiences include sexual harassment, gamer abuse, toxic masculinity, racism, sexism, and the various 鈥渃oping鈥� mechanisms developed to survive in a community that is not welcoming to women. The aim of my research is to validate the experiences of women of color gamers that have traded their voice for a life sentence of silence in hopes to empower others to speak out and bring a sociological lens to an area that needs additional research.

Dulcinea Arroyo

Email: Arroy124@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research seeks to expound upon previous research from Black and Brown scholar-activists in their efforts to shift the power dynamics of a white capitalist academic institution to an institution where liberatory research and pedagogy is uplifted. I investigate how academia operates within a capitalist and colonial framework that alienates the intellectualism of scholars from oppressed communities because their intellectualism presents a threat to the capitalist intelligentsia. 

Joshua Brown

Email: Brown460@csusm.edu

 

Lauren Chambers

Email: Chamb101@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My past research includes student engagement in higher education as well as Black student engagement in higher education. My current research interests include community advocacy, and the intersectionality of the Black experience with gender and sexuality.

Niko Crumpton

Email: Crump011@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

In major pillars of our society, gender is being litigated in new and potentially harmful ways. My research focuses on understanding the impact of new public policies and legislation on transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse people in areas like education, sports, and healthcare. My primary interests are the sociology of sex, gender, and queerness, but I'm also interested in critical race theory, criminology, and the presentation of all these issues in media.

Valerie Dagnino

Email: Dagni002@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

Some sections that pique my interest are Children and Youth, Crime, Law and Deviance, Drugs and Society, Inequality, and Migration. My main interests are Juvenile Delinquency, Gangs, and Immigration. More specifically, the reasoning behind joining gangs with an emphasis on why undocumented individuals would put themselves under more extensive scrutiny by joining a gang.

Patrice Elise-Byrd

Email: Elise002@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

I have a Bachelors in Theatre Arts with Emphasis in Performance. I am researching Black reproductive experiences in San Diego. As a San Diego actor and mother of two, the subject is close to my heart. I am also interested in misogynoir in entertainment.

Simon Griffith

Email: Griff148@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research focuses on the sociology of queer life, cities, and human agency. I explore what happens to the collective identity of queer neighborhoods as society's perception of LGBTQ+people evolves. Additionally, I investigate the material impacts that arise for individuals within these communities. By analyzing the genealogies of queer neighborhoods, I aim to understand the consequences of changes to both the physical and social spaces that exist within them.

Mikel Luque Jimenez

Email: Luque011@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research is to explore why Latinx/Latine students want to pursue a career in law enforcement. This would include their motivations and backgrounds contributing to wanting to be a law enforcement agent. Emphasizing in male and female identifying is a priority, no voices will be left out. My other interests involve first-generation college students, immigration, criminalization toward our youth, racial inequality, and feminism.

David Zavala

Email: Zaval107@csusm.edu

Area of Interest:

My research studies include the impact of COVID-19 and the way it has impacted the landscape of education. Involving school curriculum, classroom settings, professors and students mental health. The pandemic forced many school institutions to transition into an online learning environment, but this transition caused many challenges for both professors, teachers, and students. With the transition that forced educators to implement an online or virtual learning environment, a rise in mental health issues rose significantly due to the major change in educational learning.