1998 - 1999 | Fellow, University
of California, Santa Cruz,
Monterey Bay Regional Studies program.
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1998 | Fellow,
University of California, Davis UC Toxic Substance Research and
Teaching Program administered by the
Marine Science Institute at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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1994 - 1998 | University of California,
Santa Cruz - Candidate for the Ph.D. in Sociology with a focus on environmental sociology.
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Summer 1996 - Summer 1997 | University of
California, Davis,
Toxics Substances Research and Teaching Program. Employed as a researcher to assist
Dr. Andrew Szasz
with our project, an historical analysis of environmental inequality in Santa Clara County.
Contact: Dr. Andrew Szasz,
[email protected], 831-457-2579.
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Fall 1995 - Spring 1996 | Independent research
in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Szasz
on the history of environmental inequality in Silicon Valley. Research tasks included gathering
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI); US Census
data and producing GIS maps of census tracts for each decade from 1960 through 1990
for the region; and compiling an environmental justice bibliography.
The WWW site,
https://mapcruzin.com/EI was established during this period
to encourage other researchers to
learn from our work and to share their work and ideas with us. The WWW site includes
demographic and toxic maps and an environmental justice bibliography. Research
for the publication, Environmental Inequalities: Literature Review and Proposals
for New Directions in Research and Theory, by Dr. Andrew
Szasz and Michael Meuser, Current Sociology , Volume 45(3) (July 1997), was
conducted during this period.
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Fall 1994 - Spring 1995 | Independent research
in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Szasz
on the conversion and environmental restoration of Fort Ord, Monterey, CA.
Research tasks included library research; on-line research and communication;
participant observation; attendance at related meetings in Monterey and San Francisco, CA; and
Reno, NV.
Research for the report
Stakeholder Participation in the Toxic Cleanup of Military
Facilities and its Relationship to the Prospects for Economic
Reuse: The Case of Fort Ord, California (prepared for
the Economic Development Administration, US Department of Commerce)
by Dr. Andrew Szasz and Michael Meuser and the article,
Public Participation in the Cleanup of Contaminated Military
Facilities: Democratization or Anticipatory Cooptation? by
Dr. Andrew Szasz and Michael Meuser, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology
(forthcoming), 1997, was
conducted during this period.
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Winter 1995 | Dr. Walter Goldfrank, UCSC.
Employed as researcher to perform statistical
analysis for Dr. Goldfrank's project on worker exposure to pesticides in Chile.
Contact: Dr. Walter Goldfrank,
[email protected], 831-459-2453
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Summer 1994 | UCSC Center for Global
Transformation. Employed as a researcher to assist Dr. Andrew Szasz.
Tasks included library research, field research, and participant observation as
preparation for grant proposals to provide funding for further research on the
conversion and environmental restoration of Fort Ord, Monterey, CA.
Contact: Dr. Andrew Szasz,
[email protected], 831-457-2579
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June 1994 | M.A in Sociology, University of California,
Santa Cruz
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Summer 1993 | Ms. Patricia Allen, Center for
Agroecology UCSC.
Employed as a programmer to develop a bibliographic retrieval database program.
Contact: Patricia Allen,
[email protected], 831-459-4243.
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Fall 1992 - Spring 1993 | Independent
research in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Szasz, Dr. Hiroshi Fukurai, and Hal Aronson
on environmental inequality in Los Angeles County. Research tasks included
gathering toxics release inventory (TRI) data; dbase programming; SAS statistical programming;
statistical output in the
form of maps, charts, and reports;
report writing; and the use of a GIS system to produce maps.
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Summer 1992 | University of California, Davis,
Toxics Substances Research and Teaching Program. Employed as a researcher to assist
Dr. Andrew Szasz
on our project,
The Demographics of Proximity to Toxic Releases: The Case of Los
Angeles County
; Research tasks included
gathering toxics release inventory (TRI) data; dbase programming; SAS statistical programming;
statistical output in the
form of maps, charts, and reports;
report writing; and the use of a GIS system to produce maps.
Contact: Dr. Andrew Szasz,
[email protected], 831-457-2579
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June 1992 | B.A. in Sociology with honors, B.A.
in Environmental Studies with honors, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Fall 1991 - Spring 1992 | Independent
research in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Szasz, Dr. Hiroshi Fukurai, and Hal Aronson
on environmental inequality in Los Angeles County. Research tasks included
gathering toxics release inventory (TRI) data; dbase programming; SAS statistical programming;
statistical output in the
form of maps, charts, and reports;
report writing; and the use of a GIS system to produce maps.
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1986 - 1991 | Independent Computer
Consultant. Developed computer database programs that allowed facilities to track
their inventories of toxic materials and produce the required government reports
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