Human and Community Development
People: Community Development Faculty
- Chris Benner
- Associate Professor
- http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/benner/
- Interests: Social implications of information technology, urban labor markets and restructuring of work, regional development and social equity, social movements and innovative community/labor organizing.
- Research: (1) technological change, (2) regional development, and (3) the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment patterns.
- E-mail: ccbenner@ucdavis.edu
- Isao Fujimoto
- Senior Lecturer SOE Emeritus
- http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/fujimoto/
- Interests: Strategies for community empowerment, rural revitalization, celebrations and symbols for building community solidarity, sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology, San Joaquin Valley, Third World, Pacific Rim, Japan, and Micronesia
- E-mail: ifujimoto@ucdavis.edu
- James Grieshop
- Emeritus Specialist in Cooperative Extension
- http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/grieshop/
- Interests: Community based education, Latino and immigrant communities, leadership, transnational communication
- Research: (1) community leadership, (2) risk perception and health and safety, (3) non-formal education, and (4) communication and adoption of innovations. Recent projects have included studies and outreach education dealing with Hispanic leadership, risk perceptions and occupational safety among farmworkers, the transnational connections of Mixtec farmworkers in California, and user adoption of research based agricultural practices. The dissemination of information through Spanish-language media and video formats is a hallmark of Grieshop's outreach program.
- E-mail: jigrieshop@ucdavis.edu
- Frank Hirtz
- Associate Professor
- http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/hirtz/
- Research: Anthropology / Sociology of Law, Minority Administration, Methods of Social Research, Field Research, Evaluation Research, Applied Research, Action Research, Participatory Research and Ethics of Research, (Comparative) Social Policy, Social Welfare, and Community Studies, Social Theory, Social History and History of Social Theory, Sociology of Development, Rural Sociology, Geographical specialization: Western Europe (Germany, Portugal); Southeast Asia (Philippines); Southern Africa (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa)
- E-mail: fwhirtz@ucdavis.edu
- William B. Lacy
- Vice Provost and Professor
- http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/lacy/
- Interests: Sociology of science, organization and structure of agricultural research and extension (U.S. and international), social psychology of education and outreach, international research and higher education policy and practices
- Research: The sociology of science, agriculture, education and research policy. Specific interests within those areas include biotechnology, biodiverstiy, the relationship between knowledge generation and knowledge dissemination, and the relationship between public and private sector research.
- E-mail: wblacy@ucdavis.edu
- Alvin D. Sokolow
- Emeritus Specialist in Cooperative Extension,
Public Policy and Governance
- http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/sokolow/
- Interests: Community governance--Policy and politics in small and rural communities, farmland and land use policy, local government finance and organization, state-local relations, California politics and public policy, community leadership, field research
- E-mail: ajsokolow@ucdavis.edu
