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Brian Veazey
 

Brian Veazey

Graduate Student

Office: 250 SS&H
Office hours: N/A until September 2013

Phone: N/A
E-mail: bdveazey@ucdavis.edu
Classes: Soc 192/193

Degrees Awarded

  • PhD Candidate - Sociology, University of California, Davis, PhD expected December 2012
  • M.A. - Sociology, University of California, Davis.
  • B.A. - Sociology, University of California, Davis.

Areas of Interest

  • Culture
  • Work, Employment, and Professions
  • Education, Vocational Training, and Workforce Development
  • Social and Economic Mobility in Developing Societies
  • Marginalized Youth and Employment
  • Ethnographic and Comparative - Historical Research Methods
  • India

Publications

Ovink, Sarah M. and Brian D. Veazey (2011).  More Than Getting Us Through: Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates. Research in Higher Education 52(4):  370-394.

Villarejo, M., Barlow, A.E., Kogen D., Veazey, B. & Sweeny, J. (2008) Encouraging Minority Undergraduates to Choose Science Careers:  Career Paths Survey Results.  CBE-Life Sciences Education 7(4):  394-409.

Research in Progress

  • Doctoral Dissertation:  "Midnight's Other Children:  Unequal Mobility and At-Risk Muslim Youth in Bangalore, India"
  • "Postcards from the Edge: Cosmopolitan Boundary-work at the limits of Francophonie"

Research Experience/Appointments

  • Research Assistant for the NIH Minority Opportunities in Research Evaluation Program, School of Education, University of California, Davis
  • Research Assistant with Professor Ming-cheng Lo: Culturally Appropriate Healthcare

Teaching Experience

Instructor /  Teaching Assistant
  • Sociology of Work and Employment, Department of Sociology, University of  California Davis
  • Field Research and Internship Practicum, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis
  • Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of California Davis
Guest Lectures
  • "Understanding American Workplace Cultures" - Dr. Reddy's Foundation, Bangalore, India
  • "Interactive Service Work and American Client Expectations" - Dr. Reddy's Foundation, Bangalore, India

Academic Service

  • External Reviewer, International Affairs Journal, University of California Davis
  • Committee Member, Comparative-Historical Hiring Committee
  • Co-Chair, Graduate Student Sociological Association
  • Committee Member, Course Evaluation Committee

Professional Associations

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