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Beverly Bondad-Brown has a B.A. degree
in Communication from UC San Diego and
an M.A. degree in Communication and
Education from Columbia University.
She is currently a doctoral candidate
in the Department of Communication and
her research explores the social and
psychological effects of the media. She
is particularly interested in
pro-social media effects, media
enjoyment, media literacy and narrative
persuasion. Under the mentorship of
senior faculty member Ronald E. Rice,
Beverly is working on her dissertation
which explores traditional and internet
television (ITV) use.
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Jose G. Anguiano Cortez, a UC Berkeley alumnus, recently completed his third year as a graduate student in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. His research interests include Chicano/Latino musical production and fandom of the Rock en Español, and alternative rock scenes. Jose’s research and development has been assisted by the mentoring of Horacio N. Roque Ramirez and Delores Ines Casillias. |
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Diana T. Dyste Anzures, a third-year graduate student in Anthropology, is pursuing a Ph.D. in Archaeology. Her research focuses on the interplay between gender roles, diet and settlement patterns of the prehistoric Salian who occupied the inland Santa Lucia mountains near Big Sur between the middle to late Holocene period (600 BC- AD 1769). Under the expert mentoring of senior faculty member Michael Glassow, Diana utilizes methods from cultural ecology, feminist and gender theory to better understand past environmental change and its relationship to socio-political and economic organizational change. |
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Bernadette Gailliard, originally from Albany, New York, received her B.S. in Business Administration from American University in Washington D.C. and is a third-year graduate student in the Department of Communication. Aided by the committed mentoring and support of Dave Siebold and Karen Myers, Bernadette’s cutting-edge research explores organizational communication, with an emphasis on issues of diversity, identification, and assimilation within corporate organizations. |
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Christina Jackson, currently a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, comes from Philadelphia, where she completed a B.A. degree at Temple University. This summer she served as a research assistant for her mentor, Nikki Jones, on the Pathways to Freedom project. Christina's ethnographic and historical community research explores how, through urban renewal projects and changes in housing policy over the course of the last six decades, black flight from the city was accomplished and resisted by community inhabitants. |
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Monica Lomeli, an alumna of California State University Dominguez Hills, is beginning her second year of graduate study in the Department of Sociology with the skilled mentoring support of Denise Segura. Monica was the co-founder of her high school college scholarship fund and actively provides mentoring support for first-generation, college-bound high school seniors. Her research interests explore the sociology of education, race and ethnicity and Chicano/Latina/o culture. Monica intends to write her dissertation on how scholars of color establish bridges of service and leadership between the academy and their communities. |
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Alexis S. McCurn, a fourth-year ABD Sociology graduate student and future urban ethnographer, is currently writing her dissertation on the interactions and experiences of Black women in public spaces. With the academic mentoring offered by Nikki Jones and George Lipsitz. Alexis recently completed her Master’s research which critically detailed the collective and historical identity of social movements fostered by Black women in the United States. In 2005, Alexis graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in African American Studies. |
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Verónica Montes, a transfer student from Santa Monica Community College, completed her B.A. in Economics and Political Science at UC Santa Barbara. In 2005, Veronica became the first in her family to begin the pursuit of a doctoral degree. William Robinson, John Foran, and Fenando Lopes-Alves have supported Veronica’s goal of becoming a college professor. In the fall of 2009, Veronica will be attending the first International Sociological Association conference which is scheduled to be held in Barcelona, Spain. She will present her M.A. thesis research work as part of the panel: Global Labor Changes and Its Impacts on the Family Structure. |
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Cesar Rodriguez, a former UC Berkeley Psychology and Sociology undergraduate and McNair Scholar, will begin his third year as a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. His research interest evolves around the concept of youth cultural reproduction. With the academic mentoring of Avery Gordon and Victor Rios, Cesar will complete his M.A. research on how youth of color navigate a neoliberalist prison industrial complex which has developed in Oakland, CA. |
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Rebecca Romo researches comparative race relations, multi-raciality, gender and class inequities within the United States. Specifically, her dissertation research focuses on the experiences of multiracial Black-Chicano/Chicanas ("Blaxicans"). With the academic mentoring of Denise Segura and G. Reginald Daniel, Rebecca hopes to reveal how Blacks, Chicanas/Chicanos, and Mexicans forge alliances through encounters facilitated by class and labor and that ultimately culminate into the Blaxican experience. Her research will also address how “dual-minorities” self-identify in a society that privileges whiteness and monoraciality and how Blaxicans blend Black and Chicana/o social and historical culture to craft an identity. |
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Rachel Renee Sarabia, a former UC Los Angeles undergraduate and McNair Scholar, is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology. Her research has focused on how Chicanas/Latinas who participated in softball during high school self-identify in terms of race, class, gender and sexuality. With the mentoring talents of Beth Schneider and Denise Segura, Rachel’s research aims to contribute to the literature in the sociology of sport, U.S. Latina embodiment, Latinas and sexuality, feminism and sports and Chicana feminism. |
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Greg Prieto, a California native and Whittier College graduate, studies sociology with an emphasis in race, gender and the law. With the specialized mentoring of Jennifer Earl and Howie Winant, Greg is conducting his M.A. research on Latina/o immigration officers and their understanding of their role in immigration enforcement and racial identity. |
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