Experts Directory: Politics and Government: California
Michael Franklin
Department of Biology
work: (818) 677-7145
email: Michael.franklin@csun.edu
- Los Angeles politics
- Urban issues
- California politics
- American government
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
Learn more about Tom Hogan-Esch:
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
- CSUN Prof Receives NEH Grant for Book on Comfort Women
- Learning Lessons from the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to Improve Lives of Asian Americans Today
Robert Krol
Department of Economics
work: (818) 677-2430 / 2462
email: robert.krol@csun.edu
- International economics
- State budget and tax issues
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”
Learn more about Marta Cristina López-Garza:
Henrik P. Minassians
Department of Urban Studies & Planning
work: (818) 677-5115
email: henrik.minassians@csun.edu
Also speaks: Armenian, Farsi
- Public policy and public administration
- County government
- Local politics
- Performance management and governance issues related to the public sector
- Author: Performance Reporting in Higher Education
- Author: Reporting Higher Education Results: Missing Links in the Performance Chain
Learn more about Henrik P. Minassian work:
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Theresa Montaño
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6801
email: theresa.montano@csun.edu or
Also speaks: Spanish
- Public education
- Teachers’ unions
- Privatization of public education
- Education in Los Angeles
- Bilingual education/duel immersion
- California politics
- Chicana/o studies
Read more about Theresa Montaño:
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- What is critical race theory? Professor Theresa Montaño explains
Boris E. Ricks
Department of Political Science
work: (818) 677-5133
email: boris.ricks@csun.edu
- Racial and ethnic politics
- Political leadership
- Black politics
- Urban politics
- California politics
- Local politics
- Black elected officials
- County government
- Public policy
Read more about Boris E. Ricks:
- CSUN Political Science Professor Part of Effort to Re-Imagine City Governance
- Science to Play Key Role in Future Elections, CSUN Prof Says
Amalie J. Orme
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3864
email: Amalie.orme@csun.edu
- City politics
- Urban politics
- State politics
- California politics
- Economic development policy
- Urban planning and development
- Community organizing
- Voting and elections
- Author: “Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective”
Read more about Amalie J. Orme:
- CSUN Geography Students Take to the Sky to Better Study the Ground
- Science to Play Key Role in Future Elections, CSUN Prof Says
Martin Saiz
Department of Political Science
Center for Southern California Studies
work: (818) 677-7236
email: martin.saiz@csun.edu
- City politics
- Urban politics
- State politics
- California politics
- Economic development policy
- Urban planning and development
- Community organizing
- Voting and elections
- Author: “Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective”
Read more about Martin Saiz:
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