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Gloria Vaquera, PhD

Associate Professor - Sociology and Criminology

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eMail

gvaquera@jcu.edu

Phone Number

216-397-4379

Location

Saint Ignatius Hall 343

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Expertise:听Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Education, Diversity in Higher听Education and Latina/o Studies.

Biography

Dr. Vaquera specializes in Race and Ethnicity and Sociology of Education. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New Mexico. In the course of her career, she has worked from various vantage points (community organizer, mentor, instructor, administrator, and researcher), on the issue of educational attainment with particular interest in how exposure to social capital facilitates access.听 She has also been actively involved in evaluation on various programs that have focused on educational access and retention in both community college and university level populations in New Mexico, Texas, and Missouri.听 In Ohio, she has been an evaluator for a National Institute of Jusitice grant awarded to the Greater Cleveland Drug Court and 芭乐大人版app约炮鈥檚 own, Project 驴Q.U.E.? (a middle school math and science program).听 Thus, her interest in this field is informed from first-hand experiences as well as traditional academic training.听

Dr. Vaquera regularly teaches the following courses:

SC 1010: Foundations of Sociology

SC 2550: Prejudice and Discrimination

SC 2571: Social Inequalities in Society

SC 3530: Latina/o Transnational Experience

SC 3510 Sociological Data Analysis听

SC 3520 Research Lab

Degrees

Ph.D, University of New Mexico