Experts Directory: Los Angeles
Ronald A. Davidson
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3513
email: rdavids@csun.edu
- Public space
- California coast
- Metropolitan Los Angeles
- Geography education
- Humanistic geography
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Steve Graves
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3517
email: Steve.graves@csun.edu
- Popular culture
- Predatory lending
- Social justice
- Landscapes
- Geography education
- Author: “Landscapes of Predation, Landscapes of Neglect: An Analysis of Banks and Payday Lenders”
Learn more about Steve Graves:
- CSUN Creates Maps to Track COVID-19’s Progress Neighborhood By Neighborhood in L.A. County and County by County Across the U.S.
- CSUN Faculty Published in Comprehensive Historical Atlas of Los Angeles
Jacob C. Hale
Department of Philosophy
work: (818) 677-7202
email: jacob.hale@csun.edu
- Transgender studies
- Los Angeles area transgender history
Tom Hogen-Esch
Department of Political Science
work: (818) 677-3484
email: tom.hogen-esch@csun.edu
- Los Angeles politics
- Urban issues
- California politics
- American government
Jinah Kim
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email: jinah.kim@csun.edu
- Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
- Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
- Issues impacting undocumented Asian populations
- Author: “Postcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas”
Learn more about Jinah Kim:
CSUN Fellowship to Support Scholarship on Comfort Women
Stephanie Lim
Department of English
work: (818) 677-6915
email: stephanie.lim@csun.edu
- Broadway
- Musical theater
- Los Angeles theater
- Asian-American theater
- Deaf theater
- Performance and cultural/national identity
Marta Cristina López-Garza
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6488 / 4785
email: marta.lopez-garza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Economic development
- Ethnographic field research
- Formerly incarcerated women
- Immigration and public policy
- Race and class studies
- Urban sociology
- Women’s/feminist studies
- Documentary filmmaking from a social science perspective
- Visual sociology (photography)
- Member, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, South Los Angeles
- Member, Institute for the Renewal of the California Draw
- Co-author: “Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together”
- Co-editor: “Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles”
- Documentary: “ ‘When Will the Punishment End?’ Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives”
Theresa Montaño
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6801
email: theresa.montano@csun.eduor
Also speaks: Spanish
- Public education
- Teachers’ unions
- Privatization of public education
- Education in Los Angeles
- Bilingual education/duel immersion
- California politics
- Chicana/o studies
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