Sociology - Faculty Highlights

Dr. Linda Weber

Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Coordinator of the BA in Sociology

Interests
Interpersonal trust, social capital, applied/clinical sociology, sociology of health and illness, symbolic interactionism

Select Publications
Weber L. (2012.) “Self at the Heart of Trust:  The Global Relevance of an Interactionist Understanding of Trust as a Form of Association.” Sasaki, Masamichi and Marsh, Robert M. (eds.) Trust: Comparative Perspectives. The Netherlands:Brill.

Weber, L.  (2013). Deep Learning in the Sociological Classroom:  Understanding Craving, Understanding Self.  Human Architecture:  Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge.  11 (1): 135-152.

Weber, L., and Mathews, K. (2012).  Beginning the Conversation on the Politics of Difference in the International Medical Graduate – Patient Relationship:  An Exploratory Study of Patients’ Perceptions of the Quality of Care Delivered by their “Foreign Doctor.” Ethnicity and Disease 22:79-84.

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David Pasick

David Pasick, MA

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminal Justice

College-in-Prison Program Coordinator

Interests
Theoretical and applied criminology, corrections, surveillance and society

Select Publications
Pasick, D. (2011). Education for some: The inadequacy of educational programs offered to youth offenders in adult and juvenile correctional facilities. The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 21(2), 56-69.

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Rose

Dr. Jarrett Robert Rose

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Community & Behavioral Health

Interests
Psychedelic science, culture, and medicine; mental health; social determinants of health; global health and the Ebola Virus Disease; surf culture

Select Publications
Neitzke-Spruill, Logan, and Jarrett Rose. 2026. “Capacity Building Through Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Navigating Social Determinants of Health.” Psychiatric Clinics 0(0). doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2026.02.002

Rose, Jarrett. 2025. “Becoming a Psychedelic User: Reflections on Howard Becker and the (Future) Sociology of Psychedelics.” Sociology Compass 19(8):e70096. doi:10.1111/soc4.70096

Rose, Jarrett. 2025. “From Isolation to Social (and Psychedelic) Integration: A Sociology of Collective Effervescence and Therapeutic Community in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.” Sociology of Health & Illness 47(1):e13872. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13872

Rose, Jarrett. 2024. “Memory, Trauma, and Self: Remembering and Recovering from Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.” Journal of Psychedelic Studies. doi:10.1556/2054.2024.00363

Rose, Jarrett, S. Harris Ali, Kathryn Wells, and Mosoka Fallah. 2024. “Postcolonial Riskscapes: Risk, Trust, and the Community-Based Response to Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia.” Social Theory & Health 22(2):101–18. doi:10.1057/s41285-023-00195-x

Ali, S. Harris, and Jarrett Robert Rose. 2022. “The Post-Colonialist Condition, Suspicion, and Social Resistance during the West African Ebola Epidemic: The Importance of Frantz Fanon for Global Health.” Social Science & Medicine 305:115066. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115066

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Dr. Kathryn Stam

Professor of Anthropology

Interests
Refugee studies, cross-cultural communication, cultural aspects of information technology, Asian studies.

Select Publications
Coughlan, R., Stam, K. & Kingston, L. (2015). “Struggling to Start Over: Human Rights Challenges for Somali-Bantu Refugees in the United States.” The International Journal of Human Rights. Publication Date 12 Aug 2015.

Kingston, L.  and Stam, K. (2017). “Recovering from Statelessness: Resettled Bhutanese-Nepali and Karen Refugees Reflect on Lack of Legal Nationality.” The Journal of Human Rights.

Kingston, L. & Stam, K. (2013). “Online Advocacy: Analysis of Human Rights NGO Websites,”  The Journal of Human Rights Practice, Jan. 22, 2012.

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Byeongdon

Dr. Byeongdon Oh

Assistant Professor of Sociology – Social Justice & Change; Founding Director of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Research Center

Byeongdon Oh is a first-generation immigrant scholar from South Korea. He is an assistant professor of sociology and the founding director of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Research Center at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as a visiting research professor at the Social Science D-Lab at the University of California-Berkeley. His research interests include social inequality and stratification, race and ethnicity, gender, education, STEM, quantitative methods, and mixed methods. For more information, visit https://byeongdonoh.com

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