FACULTY

Full Time Faculty

Julie Holzner

Associate Professor, Economics

M.A., Economics, California State University, Long Beach
B.A., Economics, California State University, Long Beach

Research Interests: Interactive learning strategies to improve undergraduate education in economics

ext. 2954 FH 219D holzneje@lacitycollege.edu

Fernando Rodriguez

Associate Professor, Sociology

M.S.W., University of California at Los Angeles 
B.A., Scoiology, California State University, Los Angeles 

Research Interests: Sociology of the Chicano Community

ext. 2951 FH 219B rodrigfj@lacitycollege.edu

Anthony Clark

Associate Professor, Sociology

M.A., Sociology, California State University, Northridge
B.A., Sociology, California State University, Northridge

Research Interests:  Kennedy Conspiracy Scholarship, Deviance & Criminal Behavior, Sociology of the Black Family

ext. 2949 FH 219F clarka@lacitycollege.edu

Wendel Eckford, Department Chair 

Ralph Bunche Professor of African American & U.S. History

Ph.D., History, Claremont Graduate University

M.A., Theology, University of Notre Dame  (In Progress)

M.A.,, History, Claremont Graduate University

M.A., African American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles

Bach. Architecture, Prairie View A & M University of Texas (HBCU)

Research Interests:  Post Reconstruction America (Blacks in the West), 20th Century African American Intellectual & Cultural History, Genocide & War Crimes, Comparative Religion & Theology (Nature of Evil in Society), Black Film, Allison Davis.

ext. 2561 FH 219E eckforwv@lacitycollege.edu

Carlos Guerrero

Ralph Bunche Associate Professor, Chicano Studies

Ph.D., Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University
M.A., Chicano Studies, California State University, Northridge
B.A., Chicano Studies, California State University, Northridge

Research Interests: Media, the new Western history, Community Colleges, Education and Critical Pedagogy

ext. 2506 FH 219A guerrecr@lacitycollege.edu

Joe Meyer

Associate Professor, Political Science

M.A., Political Science, Marquette University
B.A., Political Science, Marquette University

Research Interests: Middle East Politics, Defense & Strategic studies, Democracy & Failed States

ext. 2562 FH 219I meyerjn@lacitycollege.edu

Brian Bartelt

Ralph Bunche Associate Professor, Anthropology

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Southern California
M.A., Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California
B.A., History, East Carolina University

Research Interests:  African Studies, Ritual Studies, Anthropology of Consciousness (shamanism, healing, witchcraft), Visual Anthropology (ethnographic filmmaking)

ext. 2693 FH 219G bartelba@lacitycollege.edu

Melvin Aaron

Associate Professor, Political Science

Political Science Ph.D. Candidate, Howard University
M.A., Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle
B.A., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Interests: Amilcar Cabral, African Politics, Comparative & Black Radical Politics

ext. 2953 FH 219H aaronm@lacitycollege.edu

Christina Heisser

Assistant Professor, World History

Ph.D., History, Indiana University
M.A., History, Indiana University
B.A., History, Valparaiso University

Research Interests: Latin American History, Popular Religion, Mexico-U.S. Migration, Modern Mexican History, History of Race and Migration in the United States.

ext. 2955 FH 219D heissecm@lacitycollege.edu