Sheila Steinberg, Humboldt State University
Present Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,
Humboldt State University and Director, Community Research, California Center
for Rural Policy, 2000-present
Former Positions Held: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences,
Western New Mexico University, 1997-2000; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine
University, 1997, 1998 (Summers)
Education: Ph.D., 1996, Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State
University
M.S., 1990, Wildland Resource Science, University of California-Berkeley
B.A., 1988, Communication Studies and Environmental Studies, University
of California-Santa
Barbara
Offices Held in Other
Organizations: Chair, Diversity
Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2008-2009
Advisory Board Member,
California Center for Rural Change, 2008-present
Vice-President, Arcata
Economic Development Corporation, 2007-present
Offices, Committee
Memberships and Editorial Appointments Held in PSA: Applied Sociology Committee, 2004-2005
Publications: S.L. Steinberg and Steinberg, S.J., 2009. “Global
Women Superheroes: Place, Space and Action,” Book Chapter in: Globalization,
Power and Women, Samir Dasgupta,
Editor. SAGE Publications. Forthcoming 2009.
S.L. Steinberg and
Steinberg, S.J., 2008. “A Sociospatial Approach to Globalization: Mapping
Ecologies of Inequality,” Book Chapter in: Understanding Global Environment, Samir Dasgupta, Editor. Pearson Education.
Steinberg, S.J. and S.L.
Steinberg. 2006. Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences:
Investigating Space and Place.
Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. ISBN: 0761928723.
Steinberg, S.L. 2004.
“Undocumented Immigrants of Illegal Aliens: Southwestern Media Portrayals of
Latino Immigrants.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Vol. 28.No. 1 Pp. 109-133.
Professional
Contributions: PSA Session
Organizer, 2008
The California Endowment, “Agricultural Worker Health Initiative, GIS Mapping
in Monterey and Tulare Counties, CA” (Co-Investigator with S.J. Steinberg)
Project involved combining social and spatial research methods to assess
farmworkers and pesticide drift in Tulare and Monterey counties. California Center
for Rural Policy and Institute for Spatial Analysis.
PSA Session Organizer, 2005
Visiting Scholar, Simon
Fraser University, Department of Sociology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,
2005.
Honors and Awards: 1999, Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. Western New Mexico University. Silver City, New
Mexico.
1993-1996, Pennsylvania
State University Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantship. 10 semester award, full tuition and support.
1990, Friends of Forestry
Award. University of California,
Berkeley. Received for developing an extension education program with a local
underprivileged Oakland, California school.
1988, Distinction in the
Major Award. University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Paper, Panel and Workshop
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Associations: S.L. Steinberg, Steinberg, S.J., Kauffman, J.L. and
J.E. Eckert. 2008. Public Participation GIS Research and Agricultural
Farmworkers in California. Twenty
Eighth Annual ESRI Internation User Conference, San Diego, CA, August 4-8,
2008.
Steinberg, S.L. 2008. Rural
California Latino Health: A Qualitative Spatial Perspective. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Rural
Sociological Society Meeting. Manchester, New Hampshire. July 30, 2008.
Eckert, J.R., Steinberg S.J.
and S.L. Steinberg. 2008. Public Participation GIS and Agricultural Workers’
Health. Presented at the annual
Pacific Sociological Association Meeting. Portland, OR.
Steinberg, S.L., S.J.
Steinberg and J.E. Pollom, Mapping Social Inequalities in Health: Examining
the Role of Poverty, 77th
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA, April
2006.
Susan Murray, San Jose State University
Present Position: Associate Professor, San Jose State University,
2004-present
Former Positions Held: Assistant Professor, Sociology, San Jose State
University, 1998-2004
Lecturer, Sociology,
UC Santa Cruz, 1997-1998
Instructor, Sociology
and Women’s Studies, De Anza Community College, 1996-1998
Education: Ph.D., 1995, University of California Santa Cruz,
Sociology
M.A., 1988, University of California Santa Cruz, Sociology
B.S., 1984, Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Sociology
Offices Held in Other
Organizations:
Offices, Committee
Memberships and Editorial Appointments Held in PSA: 2000/2004 Committee on Freedom of Research and
Teaching, PSA
Publications: Murray, Susan B. 2003. “A Spy, A Shill, A Go-Between,
or a Sociologist: Unveiling the Observer in Participant Observer,” Qualitative
Research, 3(3): 379-397.
Baba, Yoko, Murray, Susan B.
2003. “Spousal Abuse: Vietnamese Children’s Reports of Parental Violence,” Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare, 30(3): 97-122.
Baba, Yoko, Murray, Susan B.
2002. “Race and Domestic Violence: A Comparative Study of African-American,
Latina, and White Women,” Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 30(2):
165-175.
Murray, Susan B. 2001.
“’When a Scratch Becomes a Scary Story’ The Social Construction of Micro Panics
in Center-Based Child Care,” The Sociological Review, 49(4): 512-529.
Professional
Contributions: Session Organizer,
“Global Forces in Women’s Lives,” at the Annual Meetings of the PSA, Portland,
OR, 2008.
Session Organizer, “Critical
Issues in Domestic Violence,” at the Annual Meetings of the PSA, Oakland, CA
2007.
Panel Organizer, “Issues of
freedom in teaching during the war years: Vietnam, Iraq, and…,” at the Annual
Meetings of the PSA, San Francisco, CA 2004.
Panel Organizer, “Ratcheting
up the Teaching and Research Requirements at Educational Institutions,” at the
Annual Meetings of the PSA, Vancouver, BC, 2002.
Honors and Awards:
Paper, Panel and Workshop
Presentations at Professional Meetings and Associations:
Murray, Susan and Baba,
Yoko. “Home is Where Injustice Begins: A Pedagogy of Intimate Violence,” Annual
meetings of the PSA, Hollywood, CA, 2006.
Baba, Yoko, Boswell,
Matthew, Murray Susan B. “New Questions About the Batterers Intervention
Program,” Annual meetings of the PSA, Portland, OR, 2005.
“A Spy, A Shill, A
Go-Between, or a Sociologist: Unveiling the Observer in Participant Observer,”
Annual Meetings of the PSA, Pasadena, CA, 2003.
“’When a Scratch Becomes a
Scary Story:’ the Social (Re)Construction of Child Care Work as a Deviant
Activity.” Rethinking Gender, Work, and Organization Conference – Keele,
University, Staffordshire, England: 2001.
