Belisa Gonzalez

I began teaching as a graduate student at Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 2002.  I’ve taught a variety of different course including: Race and Ethnic Relations, Introduction to Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Theory, Sociology of Gender, Race and Affirmative Action and Sociology of Women of Color.  Of these, I am currently teaching Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality and Special Topic seminars on Race and Ethnicity.  My general approach to Sociology is that we should use it to make the world a more just and equitable place.         

I always tell my students on the first day of classes that there are three things they need to know about me I use the word y'all, I can't spell and neither one of those things is going to change.

I'm originally from San Antonio, Texas, a subject you will hear a lot about in my classes, particularly if the Spurs are doing well.  I come to Ithaca via Athens, Georgia where I taught in the Sociology department at the University of Georgia (Go Bulldogs!) for a year after completing my PhD at Emory University in Atlanta in May 2006. 

My areas of specialization are: Race and Ethnic Relations, Stratification/Inequality, Intergroup relations among communities of color and qualitative methods.  

I teach:

       Race and Ethnicity:  This course is a general overview of the theoretical perspective on and historical context for race and ethnic relations in the U.S.  In other words, we spend a lot of time talking about something folks don’t usually like to discuss RACE.  If you don’t like to be uncomfortable this is not the class for you.  (Offered Fall 2008

       Social Inequality       

       Introduction to Sociology (Offered Spring 2009)

       Community Organizing (Offered Fall 2008)

       Special Topics in Race and Ethnicity: Race and Affirmative Action

Special Topics in Race and Ethnicity: Sociology of and by Women of Color