Department: Criminal Justice
Faculty Member: Zachary Powell
Topic/Area of Interest: policing, police reform, public policy
Title: Consent Decrees and Police Causalities
Abstract:
One of the chief barriers to police reform is the idea of "de-policing." Put simply, de-policing is a process where law enforcement officers disengage from proactive policing practices during times of intense external scrutiny. If true, crime rates and police casualties increase during and after police reform (one example of intense external scrutiny). The project, then, assesses whether police casualties and crime rates increase during major police reform efforts.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student:
Collect demographic data for a number of cities in the United States.
Hours per week: 6-10 hours per week
Days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Eligibility Requirements: Overall GPA of 3.0
Required Discipline: Typically only science majors only
Qualifications: Interest in policing and police reform Interest in using project findings for student research
Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Outlook
How to Apply: E-mail a resumé and a brief statement of interest to zachary.powell@csusb.edu. Describe why one is interested in the project and what one hopes to learn.
zachary.powell@csusb.edu
(973)-294-4332
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: David Chavez
Topic/Area of Interest: CBPR, Psychological Empowerment in Marginalized Populations
Title: Enhancing Psychological and Community Empowerment By Utilizing Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Abstract:
Currently, my research utilizes the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) paradigm to work with communities that have historically been marginalized in society due to a number of factors including but not limited to ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. CBPR seeks to work collaboratively with community members in a manner that is truly participatory thereby sharing power and resources. CBPR takes a perspective of recognizing community expertise in addition to academic expertise. Ideally, this work demonstrates co-learning, insuring that all members learn from each other. Finally, CBPR is typically action-oriented. It is my belief that research should lead to work that makes differences in the community. My work typically connects our research teams with community-based organizations (CBOs) providing service to community members. My expectation is that my research students will engage in service AND research. I am particularly interested in partnerships with CBOs that address factors that impact mental health. I am also interested in collaborative efforts that empower youth, families and communities.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student: My expectation is that my research students will engage in service AND research as members of a service/research team.
Opportunity Type: Lab Experience
Hours per week: 8-15 hours per week
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Graduation Date: Earliest Graduation Date: 6/15/2020, Latest Graduate Date: 2024-05-31
Eligibility Requirements: Degree
Required Discipline: Typically only science majors only
Qualifications: Target GPA is 3.0 but we look at students holistically. Experience with youth and good interpersonal skills are a plus.
How to Apply: Contact David Chavez at dchavez@csusb.edu
dchavez@csusb.edu
(973)-294-5572
Department: Criminal Justice
Faculty Member: Reveka Shteynberg
Topic/Area of Interest: Implementation and Evaluation of Legal Reforms in the Criminal Justice System
Title: Implementation and Evaluation of Legal Reforms in the Criminal Justice System
Abstract:
My research primarily examines how citizens and criminal justice actors navigate the legal system, particularly when new policies and practices are adopted. Current studies include examinations of reforms revolving around bail and pretrial detention, plea bargaining and adjudication, provision of indigent/public defense, and drug court. I also have a project examining sexual assault policies on college campuses.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student: The role may vary depending on the student's interests, skills, level of curiosity, time commitment, and available projects. Tasks vary term-to-term, but often include a combination of working with data (e.g., data entry, coding, transcription, analysis), legal research, and historical and media content analysis. This involves hands-on police-relevant research where students learn skills and gain experiences that they otherwise may not encounter in most classes or internships.
Opportunity Type: Research Assistant
Graduation Date: 5/31/2020-12/31/2023
Hours per week: 20-May
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Eligibility Requirements: Overall GPA of 3.3+
Qualifications: Desired qualifications: Successfully completed or currently enrolled in one or more Research Methods courses (preferably a course(s) within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences). Not necessary to be within the CJ department, but it is highly preferred if the student has successfully completed at least one of the following courses: Introduction to the Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, and Theories of Crime and Delinquency, Law and Courts. Students should be interested in engaging in policy-relevant research, curious, detail-oriented, dedicated, hardworking, and (most importantly) self-motivated. Students can be of any level, though typically I work with Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students; however, I have worked with a number of promising Freshmen and Sophomores who demonstrate a capacity for this level of responsibility. Students I have supervised have gone on to use their learned skills and experiences to obtain jobs in different capacities within the legal system (FBI, State Trooper, Police Officer, Correctional Facility Counselor, Social Work, Research Analysts for a variety of Think Tanks & Nonprofits, State Assembly, etc.) and/or successfully pursue graduate school if desired (M.A./M.S., Law School, and Doctoral Studies in a variety of fields).
How to Apply: Complete an application and email it to Professor Shteynberg: reveka.shteynberg@csusb.edu
Applications are available at: https://revekashteynberg.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/research-assistant-application-form_professor-shteynberg.doc
reveka.shteynberg@csusb.edu
(973)-294-4581
Department: Sociology
Faculty Member: Emily Carian
Topic/Area of Interest: Gender, Inequality, Beliefs, Social Change
Title: Understandings of Gender in and Beyond College
Abstract:
We track students' beliefs about gender difference and inequality throughout and beyond college using repeated yearly interviews and biyearly surveys. We evaluate how personal experience and identity impact these beliefs. We also analyze how students' gender beliefs impact their understandings of how to end gender inequality.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student: A student research assistant on this project would help us manage Qualtrics surveys and clean data in preparation for analysis in Stata. There would also be an opportunity for the research assistant to contribute to paper writing.
Opportunity Type: Research Assistant
Graduation Date: 5/31/2020-12/31/2023
Eligibility Requirements: Disciplines
Required Disciplines: Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Gender Studies
Funding Type: Faculty Research Funds
Hours per week: 20
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Qualifications: We prefer prior knowledge/skills in Qualtrics and Stata. We will accept research assistants without these previous skills, but comfort using another software (like SPSS) would be a good starting point.
How to Apply: Email emily.carian@csusb.edu describing your interest and any relevant skills you have.
emily.carian@csusb.edu
(973)-294-3894
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: Leslie Amodeo
leslie.amodeo@csusb.edu
(909) 537-4455
Topic/Area of Interest: Adolescent drug and alcohol abuse; cortical development; psychopharmacology; animal learning and cognition
Title: Long-term impact of pharmaceuticals and alcohol during development
Abstract:
Using a rodent model, our lab is currently investigating the impact of pharmaceutical drugs early in development on future risk-preference and behavioral flexibility in adulthood. Further, we are interest in the impact these pharmaceuticals might have on sleep and the mechanisms that underlies these changes.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: Ken Shultz
ken.schultz@csusb.edu
(909) 537-5484
Topic/Area of Interest: Industrial Organizational Psychology
Title: Successful Aging at work
Abstract:
I will be working with Irish colleagues to examine cross cultural comparisons of US and Irish mature workers and the key predictors and outcomes associated with successful aging at work.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Sociology
Faculty Member: Eric Vogelsang
eric.vogelsang@csusb.edu
(909) 537-5575
Topic/Area of Interest: Gerontology
Title: Various
Abstract:
I am currently the Director of the university's Center on Aging. If there are student RAs, I might be able to direct them to a faculty member affiliated with the Center who needs one. Currently, we have 10 TT faculty; with 2 more likely added this Fall
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Economics
Faculty Member: Dhruva Khurana
dhruv.khurana@csusb.edu
(909) 537-3591
Topic/Area of Interest: Public Economics (Health, Labor); Behavioral Public Economics (Nudges); Applied Microeconometrics
Title: Cost Effectiveness in the health care system
Abstract:
Multiple topics and subjects
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: History
Faculty Member: Cary Barber
cary.barber@csusb.edu
(909) 537-4352
Topic/Area of Interest: Ancient History; Roman History; Roman politics
Title: Politics in the Roman Republic, 230-130 BCE
Abstract:
Summary of research on the topic of Middle Republican politics (specifically 230-130 BCE). Thesis-driven narrative with critical reviews and suggestions for moving forward.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: Manijeh Badiee
mbadiee@csusb.edu
(909) 537-7305
Topic/Area of Interest: Women's empowerment/Ecological predictors of mental health
Title: Latina women's empowerment
Abstract:
I study women's empowerment, particularly the process of empowerment and predictors of empowerment. I also study how sociocultural factors (e.g., media, cultural beliefs) impact mental health and empowerment.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Anthropology and Ethnic Studies
Faculty Member: Hareem Khan
hareem.khan@csusb.edu
(909) 537-7900
Topic/Area of Interest: Gendered Labor; Racialization; Transnational Migration; South Asian Diaspora
Title: Shaping Faces: Migrant Women Negotiating Racialized Subjectivities in the South Asian Beauty Industry in Los Angeles
Abstract:
This project examines how complex and deeply racialized systems of labor, production, and consumer desires and practices converge in beauty market, through an ethnographic study of the women who participate in the South Asian beauty industry in the Greater Los Angeles area as clients, technicians, instructors, and business owners. The beauty industry, as both a corporate system and a set of everyday practices, becomes a site for the reassertion of racialized stereotypes through the products and services it provides and through the ways that South Asian migrant women themselves are racialized as “authentic” performers of these intimate services. Loosely defined, the South Asian beauty industry in the United States markets and sells services historically linked to an idea of India. This Indocentric conception of South Asia, which reproduces longstanding Orientalist conceptions of the “East,” is depicted as the birthplace for bodily aesthetic practices such as threading, a centuries-old hair removal practice, and henna art. Business owners, threading artists, and consumers transform these transnational traveling narratives of aesthetic practices, redefining the boundaries and reach of the beauty industry. My inquiries are located in the nebulous overlaps of migrant women’s lived experiences, individuals who must navigate both the discourse of deracialized cultural consumption
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Sociology
Faculty Member: Yeung King-To
kyeung@csusb.edu
(909) 537-5556
Topic/Area of Interest: news sources; journalism; wartime reports; government control
Title: Former officials in wartime news: New York Times and the Gaza War 2014
Abstract:
While media research has established that official (and elite) voices often predominate the news space, we know insufficiently about “former officials” as a new source. This paper explores such a news category, actors who draw their authority mainly from their past official titles and governmental experiences, while granted authority to address current, ongoing affairs. Using sixty-eight New York Times reports on the 2014 Gaza War, I find that former officials—especially former Israeli officials—tend to reinforce the official voice of their respective governments, not only in the contents of their messages but also in the sequencing of their appearance in the news space over a stretch of 29 news days.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: History
Faculty Member: Kate Liszka
Topic/Area of Interest: ancient Egypt, archaeology, mining, geology, mapping, jewelry, labor organization, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Nubia
Title: Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to Egypt
Abstract:
I run an archaeological expedition to Egypt at Wadi el-Hudi. This is an area of Ancient amethyst and gold mining. Next to the giant mines, there are settlements for the laborers, areas connected to the mining process, areas where police watched over their work, and nearly 280 inscriptions carved onto the rocks about this mining practice. I am always seeking students to help process archaeological material at CSUSB, especially those with special skills in ArcGIS, Agisoft Photoscan, Microsoft Access Database creation, Video Editing, Website creation, knowledge of geology, 3D modelling, knowledge of hieroglyphs, or more. There are also plenty of tasks for students who do not have those special skills but are meticulous, hardworking, and self motivated.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student: Depends on the qualifications
Opportunity Type: Volunteer
Eligibility Requirements: Overall GPA of 3.0
Hours per week: Depends on whether this is volunteer work or paid
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Required Discipline: Typically only science majors only
Qualifications: Students must be highly motivated and able to work on their own. Students must be meticulous and hardworking.
How to Apply: Talk to Kate Liszka about your interests and unique skills that may be helpful to see if this is a good fit.
kate.liszka@csusb.edu
(973)-294-5437
Department: Anthropology
Faculty Member: Arianna Huhn
Topic/Area of Interest: Slavery; History; Museum Studies; Curation; Material Culture; Tourism; Jamaica; Afro-Caribbean; Caribbean
Title: Level Crossing: Subversive Narratives at a Jamaican Great House
Abstract:
Inspired by a series of three visits to the Greenwood Great House in Jamaica, I am working on a project that will consider the politics of an historic plantation house presenting and averting a narrative that includes prominent attention to slavery. At Greenwood, slavery is almost completely erased from the presentation of artifacts and architecture, and the tone of the exhibition script is light. This seems shockingly offensive to visitors who seek a fuller history, and appears to be rooted in the aim to please cruise ship visitors, who make up the bulk of the revenue stream from the property. The specific aim of the piece is to outline a subversive counter-narrative that can be perceived when one pays attention to overlooked artifacts and subtle ironies, and to argue that by asserting the need for a slavery-focused tour, visitors stand the chance of replicating the very colonial power dynamics they critique.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student: Literature review; observation of great house tours; curatorial research on material culture objects; narrative analysis; interviews with tourists and great house owners
Opportunity Type: Study Abroad
Graduation Date: 12/1/2020
Eligibility Requirements: Overall GPA of 3.0
Funding Type: Anticipating Undergraduate Summer Research Program funding for 2020
Hours per week: 20 hours per week, summer 2020
Days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Qualifications: This project will overlap with the Jamaica study abroad program in summer 2020. Student must be willing and able to participate in this program overseas. Student interest, and ideally some experience, with related areas is a plus -- including slavery, Caribbean history and literature, and museum curation.
How to Apply: Contact Dr. Arianna Huhn at ahuhn@csusb.edu for an informational interview
ahuhn@csusb.edu
(973)-294-5505
Department: Anthropology
Faculty Member: Arianna Huhn
Topic/Area of Interest: Museums; Museum Studies; Curation; Native American Culture; Nepal; Material Culture; Archaeology; Anthropology; History; Art History
Title: Anthropology Museum Internship Program
Abstract:
The CSUSB Anthropology Museum is a small gallery on the third floor of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The museum has a collection of material objects from around the world. Students conduct research with museum objects and prepare their own exhibitions, which are displayed in the museum.
Looking for Research Assistant: Yes
Role of Student: Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for the on-campus Anthropology Museum Internship (AMI) Program. Interns spread out ~ 120 hours of work over 1, 2, or 3 quarters (or 1 or 2 semesters after fall 2020) researching 3-10 objects in the museum's collection, preparing a curatorial brief, developing an exhibition hierarchy, and then designing and installing their own exhibition in the Anthropology Museum. Course credit options, and sometimes stipends, available for students. 10 available positions per year. Work is conducted independently with faculty mentorship, and can be completed on your own schedule, mostly from the comfort of your own home.
Opportunity Type: Research Assistant
Eligibility Requirements: Overall GPA
Required GPA: 3.0 (exceptions with an explanation for lower GPA)
Funding Type: ASI
Hours per week: 6-20, dependent on length of internship
Days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Qualifications: Interest in museums, museum studies, curation, material culture, history, and/or anthropology
How to Apply: Find details and application form at https://csbs.csusb.edu/anthropology-museum/get-involved
ahuhn@csusb.edu
617-945-4612
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: Jacob Jones
jacob.jones@csusb.edu
(909) 537-5590
Topic/Area of Interest: Neuropsychology, neuroimaging, depression, dementia, gut-brain axis, microbiome, cognitive impairment
Title: Neuropsychological Laboratory
Abstract:
We have multiple projects investigating biological mechanisms and/or clinical outcomes of cognitive impairment and/or depression/anxiety. Common methods include 1) neuroimaging, 2) microbiome measures of the gut-brain axis 3) neuropsychological tests of attention, memory, executive functions, etc., 4) longitudinal statistical modeling. Common populations of interest in older adults, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: Kelly Campbell
kelly@csusb.edu
(909) 537-7687
Topic/Area of Interest: couple relationships and friendships including deceptive online romance (known as catfishing), infidelity, instant connections, and love
Title: Friendships and romantic relationships
Abstract:
I work with students who are admitted to the Psychology Honors Program and who are interested in working on topics related to what I study: https://csbs.csusb.edu/psychology/students/honors-program
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time
Department: Psychology
Faculty Member: Stacy Facino
sforcino@csusb.edu
(909) 537-5583
Topic/Area of Interest: Child Clinical Psychology
Title: Sibling Conflict Study
Abstract:
I am interested in the treatment of psychological disorders of childhood (e.g., Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Sleep Disorders, Enuresis/Encopresis), as well as effective solutions to more common problems of childhood (e.g., sibling conflict, noncompliance, bedtime problems, and difficulty with toilet training). Many of the therapeutic interventions we use rely on parents implementing specific behavioral interventions in the home. Therefore, we are also interested in how to best train parents and factors that affect treatment adherence and efficacy.
Looking for Research Assistant: Not at this time