Senior Sequence

Finding Experts

Check out what the experts have to say

To be successful in this admittedly difficult research and writing process, it is crucial to communicate with people knowledgeable   about your subject (area of concentration). You need to be assertive about seeking out and getting input from experts or specialists (individuals willing   to give you feedback on your initial research topic in the form of suggestions,  contacts, academic sources, insights, etc.). There are several ways to find experts.
First, you can get in touch with the mentors we’ve lined up for the year. The list of mentors and their contact info is on the pdf form we distributed in class (click here )
Second, consider areas in which USP has continuing ties to the San Diego Community. USP maintains close contact with various agencies of the City and County of San Diego, Industrial Environmental Association, Regional Technology Alliance, TELESIS, Center on Policy Initiatives, San Diego Fair Housing Commission, among many others. You can contact these organizations and ask to speak with someone knowledgeable about their policies, projects and/or research.

You can also contact faculty affiliated with our Urban Studies     and Planning Program: (for email addresses see: http://usp.ucsd.edu/faculty/faclist.html

• Urban planning theory and practice (Calavita, Herzog, Pezzoli)
• Health care policy (Brody, Kronick, Kaplan)
• Third World urban and regional development (Pezzoli, Evans)
• Urban politics and urban political history (Bridges, Erie,    Parrish)
• Growth Conflicts, New Urbanism (Calavita)
• Urban labor markets; causes of labor market racial and     ethnic inequality (White)
• Political Sociology, Sociology of Language, Migration, Globalization,    and Development (Linton)
• Urban economics (Engle, White)
• Housing policy, history of suburbanization ( Calavita)
• Education: inequality; stratification; work-school relations     (Mehan)
• Industrial ecology, environmental management systems (Pezzoli)
• Social inequality, poverty and public policy (Nicolaides,    Catanzarite, Erie, Bridges)
• Ethnic studies and minority politics (Dexter, Erie, Bridges,    Gutierrez, Walcott)
• Water and political economy of California; Federalism-Inter     governmental relations; land use issues, environmental law (Parrish)
• Information and communications technology; planning support systems, topic   maps and knowledge networking (Marciano, Zaslavsky, Pezzoli).
• Social Movements, Welfare States, Urban Politics, Comparative Political   Sociology, Special Interest in Sociology of Taxation (Martin)
• Social and cultural values shaping our understandings   of disease and health, especially in regards to how they intersect with race   and gender (Molina)
• Asian American Studies, Globalization and Citizenship,    Immigrant Health Care, Welfare and Immigaration Policy, Sociology of Work   and Labor (Sun-Hee Park)

You can search various faculty expert databases,  then track down these professors for a chat during their office hours (send   them you abstract prior to meeting with them).
Below is a list of searchable databases   containing faculty profiles including their email and other contact information.

UCSD Faculty Experts Database
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyExperts/

University of California Science Experts Database
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/Science_Experts/
COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE (COS) DATABASES

University of California, San Diego database   of experts
http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/searchexp?code=111

Search the entire COS (Community of Science)    database of experts
http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/searchexp

Key terms used in the Community of Science experts   database
http://www.cos.com/reference/keywords.shtml

Calender of UCSD events
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/calendar/AboutCalendar.asp
The purpose of the calendar is to provide the campus and the public with a   summary of campus activities.
UCSD recently created a site to help you “learn   how you can make a difference in the San Diego Community through community   service organizations, Volunteer Connection, college based community service   clubs, and special service projects.” Click   here