Marisela Velazquez
Title: Lecturer
Department: Sociology
Email: mvelazquez@csudh.edu
Phone: (310) 243-3431
Contact Preference: Email
Areas of Expertise
Qualitative Research Methods, Structural Bias, Institutional and Systemic Racism, Race/Class/Gender Intersectionality, Feminisms and Gender Studies, Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use
Professional Background
Dr. Velazquez is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in criminology. Her research interests include intersections of race, class, gender, structural bias, systemic racism, and qualitative research methods. Dr. Velazquez is particularly interested in the ways in which structures in institutions impact people. As a qualitative researcher, Dr. Velazquez interprets and draws meaning from data by bringing a critical and intersectional lens through qualitative analysis approaches. Informed by intersectional feminism, her forthcoming qualitative work examines judicial attitudes and how court processes perpetuate overlapping disadvantages for marginalized groups in Australian supreme and district courts.
Her work has been published in journals such as Race and Justice, Política criminal, and The National Legal Eagle. Dr. Velazquez also serves as co-Chair for the Diversity & Inclusion Committee for the Division of Feminist Criminology (DFC) at the American Society of Criminology (ASC). She is a 2023 recipient of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference Bursary for ‘Sociology in Action’.
Languages
English, Spanish
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, James Cook University, Australia
M.S., Criminology, Bond University, Australia
B.A., Social Science, University of Alaska Southeast, Alaska
International Experience
United Kingdom (Ipsos; MoJ), Australia (Supreme and District Courts; Market Research Consulting)
