Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Anthony Ocampo winning the 2023 ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Founders Award for Scholarship and Service.

Dr. Anthony Ocampo is the co-winner of the 2023 ASA Section of Latina/o Sociology Award for his groundbreaking book "Brown and Gay in LA," a distinguished contribution to research in the field.

Book Talk at CPP, April 26, 2023

Dr. Anthony Ocampo, sharing his latest book Brown and Gay in LA.

The Department of Sociology welcomes five new faculty to Cal Poly Pomona: Dr. Caryn Bell Gerstenberger (Ph.D., UC Riverside), Dr. Bianca N. Haro (Ph.D., UCLA), Dr. Amanda Rodriguez-Newhall (Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Dr. Sekani Robinson (Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, and Dr. Alejandro Zermeño (Ph.D., UC Merced).

Dr. Caryn Gerstenberger
Assistant Professor, Criminology and Sociology

Dr. Bianca Haro
Assistant Professor, Sociology

Dr. Amanda Rodriguez-Newhall
Assistant Professor, Social Work

Dr. Sekani Robinson
Assistant Professor, Sociology

Dr. Alejandro Zermeño
Assistant Professor, Sociology

These new faculty bring intellectual diversity to our department, possessing a range of timely research interests, which include educational inequalities faced by Latina high school students (Dr. Haro), gender and intimate partner violence (Dr. Gerstenberger), indigenous resurgence and health outcomes among Mexican Americans (Dr. Zermeño), anti-racism and youth civic engagement (Dr. Rodriguez-Newhall), and the impact of race and gender on Black women in ballet (Dr. Robinson).