Dr. Byeongdon (Don) Oh
Assistant Professor of Sociology – Social Justice & Change Founding Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Research Center Coordinator, Sociology B.A. Program
Byeongdon Oh is a first-generation immigrant scholar from South Korea. He is an assistant professor of sociology and the founding director of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Research Center at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as a visiting research professor at the Social Science D-Lab at the University of California-Berkeley. His research interests include social inequality and stratification, race and ethnicity, gender, education, STEM, quantitative methods, and mixed methods.
For more information, visit Byeongdon Oh's website .
Dr. Jarrett Robert Rose
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Community & Behavioral Health
Interests
Psychedelic science, culture, and medicine; mental health; social determinants of health; global health and the Ebola Virus Disease; surf culture
Select Publications
- Neitzke-Spruill, Logan, and Jarrett Rose. 2026. “Capacity Building Through Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Navigating Social Determinants of Health.” Psychiatric Clinics 0(0). doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2026.02.002
- Rose, Jarrett. 2025. “Becoming a Psychedelic User: Reflections on Howard Becker and the (Future) Sociology of Psychedelics.” Sociology Compass 19(8):e70096. doi:10.1111/soc4.70096
- Rose, Jarrett. 2025. “From Isolation to Social (and Psychedelic) Integration: A Sociology of Collective Effervescence and Therapeutic Community in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.” Sociology of Health & Illness 47(1):e13872. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13872
- Rose, Jarrett. 2024. “Memory, Trauma, and Self: Remembering and Recovering from Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.” Journal of Psychedelic Studies. doi:10.1556/2054.2024.00363
- Rose, Jarrett, S. Harris Ali, Kathryn Wells, and Mosoka Fallah. 2024. “Postcolonial Riskscapes: Risk, Trust, and the Community-Based Response to Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia.” Social Theory & Health 22(2):101–18. doi:10.1057/s41285-023-00195-x
- Ali, S. Harris, and Jarrett Robert Rose. 2022. “The Post-Colonialist Condition, Suspicion, and Social Resistance during the West African Ebola Epidemic: The Importance of Frantz Fanon for Global Health.” Social Science & Medicine 305:115066. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115066
David Pasick, MA
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminal Justice College-in-Prison Program Coordinator
Interests
Theoretical and applied criminology, corrections, surveillance and society
Select Publications
- Pasick, D. (2011). Education for some: The inadequacy of educational programs offered to youth offenders in adult and juvenile correctional facilities. The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 21(2), 56-69.
Dr. Kathryn Stam
Professor of Anthropology
Interests
Refugee studies, cross-cultural communication, cultural aspects of information technology, Asian studies.
Select Publications
- Coughlan, R., Stam, K. & Kingston, L. (2015). “Struggling to Start Over: Human Rights Challenges for Somali-Bantu Refugees in the United States.” The International Journal of Human Rights. Publication Date 12 Aug 2015.
- Kingston, L. and Stam, K. (2017). “Recovering from Statelessness: Resettled Bhutanese-Nepali and Karen Refugees Reflect on Lack of Legal Nationality.” The Journal of Human Rights.
- Kingston, L. & Stam, K. (2013). “Online Advocacy: Analysis of Human Rights NGO Websites,” The Journal of Human Rights Practice, Jan. 22, 2012.
Dr. Linda Weber
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Interests
Interpersonal trust, social capital, applied/clinical sociology, sociology of health and illness, symbolic interactionism
Select Publications
- Weber L. (2012.) “Self at the Heart of Trust: The Global Relevance of an Interactionist Understanding of Trust as a Form of Association.” Sasaki, Masamichi and Marsh, Robert M. (eds.) Trust: Comparative Perspectives. The Netherlands: Brill.
- Weber, L. (2013). Deep Learning in the Sociological Classroom: Understanding Craving, Understanding Self. Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. 11 (1): 135-152.
- Weber, L., and Mathews, K. (2012). Beginning the Conversation on the Politics of Difference in the International Medical Graduate – Patient Relationship: An Exploratory Study of Patients’ Perceptions of the Quality of Care Delivered by their “Foreign Doctor.” Ethnicity and Disease 22:79-84.
