College Of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences
Cal Poly Pomona

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Psychology and Sociology Department

Faculty

Laurie A. Roades (Ph.D., University of Missouri, St. Louis), Professor and Chair. Clinical, Multicultural Psychology: Psychology of women; gender & diversity; allies across demographic groups.

Nancy Alvarado (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine), Associate Professor. Cognitive, Experimental Psychology: Cognition and emotion, facial expression, categorization and naming, human-computer interaction and affective computing

Bettina Casad (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University), Assistant Professor. Social, Experimental, Applied Psychology : Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; race and gender stereotype violation; social norms; implicit attitudes; psychology of women/gender; work and family issues; and human sexuality.

Meg Clark (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine), Professor. Developmental Psychology: Friendship; sibling relationships; academic dishonesty.

Gary A. Cretser (Ph.D., University of Southern California), Professor. Sociology/General: Social policy; sociology of mental disorder; sociology of emotion, social stratification and inequality.

Mary K. Y. Danico (Ph.D., University of Hawaii), Associate Professor. Sociology/Social Work: Race relations; Asian American studies; Korean American family & community; ethnic identity, 1.5 and second generation issues; immigration; diaspora.

Erika DeJonghe (Ph.D., Michigan State University) Assistant Professor. Clinical Psychology: Child psychology; intimate partner violence; violent and aggressive behavior; psychotherapy with children and families.

Jack Fong (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz), Assistant Professor. Sociology/Ethnicity-Race: Ethnopolitics; sociology of development; nationalism; social movements; southeast asian geopolitics.

Juliana Fuqua (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine), Assistant Professor. Developmental, Health, Social Psychology: Adolescent risky behavior (e.g., substance use, adolescent pregnancy, identification with at-risk peer groups); evaluation of teams (e.g., adolescent health teams); Secondary interests: prenatal development and pregnancy (e.g., substance exposed babies); older adulthood; research methods.

Larry Goldman (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Professor. Physiological, Experimental Psychology: Developmental psychobiology; play behavior; animal intelligence.

Lori Barker Hackett (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles), Professor. Clinical, Multicultural Psychology: Child & adolescent psychology/psychotherapy; multicultural issues; community psychology.

David Horner (Ph.D., Indiana University), Assistant Professor. Cognitive, Experimental Psychology: Cognition and attention, perception and physiology, experimental methods and statistics, sensory systems.

Marcia E. Lasswell (M.A., University of Southern California), Professor Emeritus. Marriage and Family Therapy: Marriage, family; styles of loving; conflict resolution in marriage; child therapy and abuse.

Dennis D. Loo (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz), Associate Professor. Sociology/Criminology: Media & crime; social movements; social problems; social theory.

Stacy McGoldrick (Ph.D., New School University), Assistant Professor. Sociology/Criminology: Criminology, stratification, urban sociology, social theory, policing, Homeland Security, political culture, political violence.

Jeffery S. Mio (Ph.D., University of Illinois), Professor; Director of Graduate Studies. Clinical, Multicultural, Applied Psychology: Metaphor usage, particularly in politics; cross-cultural issues; development of allies across demographic groups.

Anjana Narayan (Ph.D., University of Connecticut), Assistant Professor. Sociology/Social Work: Gender, race/ethnicity, immigration and transnationalism.

Jill Nemiro (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University), Associate Professor. Organizational Psychology: Organizational and team creativity; high-performance teams; virtual teams; program evaluation; qualitative research methodology.

Jane Ollenburger (Ph.D., University of Nebraska), Professor. Sociology/General: Law and society; the family; methods and statistics of the social sciences, sociology of women.

Fernando Parra (Ph.D., M.S.W., University of California, Los Angeles), Professor. Sociology/Social Work: Ethnic, racial, and religious communities; criminal justice; social work practice; border studies.

Susan N. Siaw (Ph.D., University of Southern California), Professor. Developmental Psychology: Cognitive development during childhood; memory and mnemonic strategies; intelligence; academic dishonesty.

James W. Sturges (Ph.D., The University of Alabama), Associate Professor. Clinical Psychology: Clinical child psychology; pediatric psychology; health promotion; smoking prevention; HIV prevention; painful medical procedures.

Felicia F. Thomas (Ph.D., University of Southern California), Professor. Clinical, Multicultural Psychology: Post-traumatic stress disorder; child psychopathology; ethnic identity; Black psychology; school-based interventions; social perceptions and racism; complicated bereavement.

Faye L. Wachs (Ph.D., University of Southern California), Assistant Professor. Sociology/General: Social inequality, sport and the body, sexuality, gender, consumption and globalization.

Wayne S. Wooden (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Professor Emeritus. Sociology/Criminology: Juvenile delinquency; suburban youth cultures; rodeo-cowboy subculture; socialization; sociology of film.