Committees

2012-13 PSA Committees

The 2012-2013 membership of each of the Committees described are listed below.  The year following each name indicates the member will go off the committee immediately following the annual meeting in that year. Those who have a (13) following their names go off the committees at the end of the 2013 conference in Reno.  Those who have a (15) following their name are newly appointed or elected members.

For a list and information on the Elected Committees, click here.

Appointed Standing Committees

Awards Committee

• Sunil Kukreja, (13), University of Puget Sound (northern), chair 
• Roberta Espinoza (13), CSU Fullerton (southern)
• Jane Ward (13) UC Riverside (southern)
• Laura Earles (14) Lewis & Clark State College (northern) 
• Joanna Gregson (14) PLU (northern)  
• Glenn Tsunokai (14) Western Washington (northern) 
• Cherylynn Bassani (15) Univ. of the Fraser Valley (northern region) 
• Kassia Wosick (15) NM State Univ. (southern region) 
• Shari L. Dworkin (15) UC San Francisco (central)

Committee on Teaching

• Jo

  sh Meisel (13) Humboldt State (central), co-chair

• Pam McMullin-Messier (14) Central WA U (northern), co-chair 

• Nadia Raza, (13) Lane Community College (northern) 

• Anjana Narayan (14) Cal Poly Pomona (southern) 

• Megan Wright (14) U Arizona (southern)

• Adam Rafalovich (15) Pacific University (southern region) 

Committee on Race and Ethnic Minorities

• Latasha Warmsley (14) student Mills College (central), co-chair
• A. Carli Richie-Zavaleta (14) Mora Costa College (southern), co-chair 
• Lisa Catanzarite (13) Washington State University (northern)
• Gilberto Garcia (13) Central Washington University (northern)
• Anna Leon-Guerrero (14) PLU (northern) 
• Lori Freedman (14) UCSF (central) 
• Herman DeBose (14) CSU Northridge (southern) 

Committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

• Molly Talcott (14) CSULA (southern), chair 
• Akihiko Hirose (13) University of Colorado Denver (central)
• Anthony Sivaggio (14) Humboldt State (central) 
• Brian Wolf (14) University of Idaho (northern) 
• Alison Cliath (14) CSU Fullerton (southern) 

Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching

• Jeffrey Houser (13) University of Northern Colorado (central), chair
• Kooros Mahmoudi (13) Northern Arizona State (northern)
• Anthony Silvaggio (14) Humboldt State (northern) 
• Modhurima DasGupta (14) Santa Rosa Junior College (central)
• Susan A. Miller (15) Palomar College (southern region) 
• Ann Strahm (15) CSU Stanislaus (central region) 

Contract Monitoring Committee

• Valerie Jenness (13) UC Irvine
• Amy Wharton (14) WSU
• Charles Hohm, Executive Director, liaison from Council

Members for this committee are appointed by the PSA President.

 

Committee on the Status of Women

• Anna Sorenson (14) UC Santa Barbara (southern), chair
• Patricia Drew (13) CSU East Bay (central)
• Camilla Sears (13) Simon Fraser (northern)
• Judith Hennessy (13) Central Washington University (northern)
• Jennifer Jacobson (13) Yavapai College (southern)
• Megan Wright (14) U of AZ (southern) 
• Mary Virnoche (14) Humboldt State (central) 

Membership Committee

• Melissa Monson (14) (central region) Metro State College of Denver, chair 
• Gilberto Mireles (13) Whitman College (northern)
• Christy Glass (14) (central region) Utah State Univ.  
• Adalberto Aguirre Jr (14) (southern region) UCR 
• Jennifer Simmers (14) (southern region – grad student) UCR 
• Pat Hoffman (15) NM State U (southern region) 
• Chris Hardnack (15) (northern region – grad student) U of Oregon 

Audit Committee

• Dean Dorn, Treasurer 

Members of this committee are appointed by the PSA Treasurer.

Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in Sociology

• Ann Muraco (14) Loyola Marymount Univ., chair 
• Ann Travers (14) Simon Fraser University (northern region) 
• Miriam Abelson (14) U of Oregon (northern) (student)
• Jason Hopkins (14) UC Santa Barbara) (southern region) 
• Karl Bryant (15) SUNY New Paltz (northern region) 
• Liahna Gordon (15) CSU Chico (central region) 
• James Thing (15) USC (southern region)  (student)

Site Selection Committee

• Valerie Jenness (14) UC Irvine, President 2012
• Amy Wharton (15) WSU, President-Elect 2013
• Chuck Hohm, Executive Director, liaison from Council 

 There will be no openings on this committee in 2013 (constitution mandates composition). 

Student Affairs Committee 

• Ann Straham (13) CSU Stanislaus (central),chair
• Rayanne Streeter (13) PLU (northern - student)
• Shannon Bell (13) University of Oregon (northern)
• Becky Beal (14) CSU East Bay (southern) 
• Emily Johns (14) HSU (central – student)
• Susan Wurtzburg (14) University of Hawaii (central)
• Tommy Devers (15) CSU San Marcos (southern region – grad student)  

 

Committee on Practice, Applied, and Clinical Sociology

• David Musick (13) University of Northern Colorado (central), co-chair
• Don Winiecki (14) Boise State University (northern), co-chair 
• Darby Southgate (15) LA Valley College (southern)
• Jeffrey Houser (14) University of Northern Colorado (central)
• Wendy Ng (15) San Jose State University (central)

 

The PSA Endowment Committee

• Dean Dorn, Chair
• Melanie Arthur (13) University of Alaska Fairbanks (northern)
• Eileen Ie (13) East Los Angeles City College (southern)
• David Bogumil (13) CSU Northridge (southern)
• Mike Harrod (14) Central WAU (northern) 
• Ethel Nicdao (14) U of the Pacific 
• Arduizur Carli Richie-Zavaleta (14) Mira Costa College
• Gordon Clanton (15) SDSU

 

The Social Conscience Committee

We will need two new members, starting in the summer of 2013.

They must be from the Reno area, and serve one term only

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Committee on Community Colleges

• J. Vern Cromartie (13) Contra Costa College (central), chair 
• Carli Richie-Zavaleta (13) Mira Costa College (central)
• Amy Holzang (13) Cerritos College (southern)
• Nicholas Miller (13) Sacramento City College (central)
• Vivian Varela (13) Mendocino College (central)
• Curtis Phillips (15) Walla Walla Community College (northern)
• Kellie J. Hagewen (15) College of Southern Nevada (central) 
• Debjani Chakrabarti (15) Columbia Basin College (northern) 

 

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