Stavros Nikolaos Karageorgis
stavros.karageorgis@csun.edu


Higher Education and Awards (in chronological order)

 

Wesleyan University, Middletown CT - attended September 1985 - May 1989

 

1988 Jerome H. White Prize for Excellence in Economics

 

1989 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Economics

University of California, Los Angeles - attended September 1989 - June 1998

1991 Master of Arts: Sociology

1995 Candidate in Philosophy (ABD)

 

1996 1995-96 Luckman Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award


 

Teaching Experience (in chronological order)

 

Teaching Apprentice: Wesleyan University - employed Fall 1987 - Fall 1988

Led discussion sections, evaluated papers, graded problem sets and assisted instruction for:

 

Classical Sociological Theory

Intermediate Macroeconomics and

Econometrics

 

Teaching Assistant/Associate/Fellow and Reader: UCLA - employed Fall 1990 - Spring 1996

Taught, co-taught and read for lower- and upper-division courses including:

 

Introduction to Sociology

Social Change

Classical Social Theory

Contemporary Sociological Theory

Social Stratification

Sociology of Economic Life/Economic Sociology

Sociology of Entrepreneurship

Sociology of Nations and Nationalism
 

Adjunct Instructor: Occidental College, Eagle Rock CA - employed January 1998- May 1998

Taught:

Introduction to Sociology

Sociology of Economic Life
 

Adjunct Instructor: U.C.L.A. Extension - employed January 1999 - March 1999 and July 1999 - Aug 1999

Taught:

Sociology of Everyday Life
 

Adjunct Instructor: Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles CA - employed January 1999 - May 2002

Taught:

Social Stratification

Sociology of Religion

Sociology of the Family

Political Sociology

Urban Sociology
 

Lecturer - California State University, Northridge- employed February 1999 - Present

Taught, recently taught and currently teaching:

Introduction to Sociology

Sociological Analysis

Organizational Analysis (Sociology of Organizations)

Culture and Personality

Classical Sociological Theory (Lecture and Seminar)

The Family

Gender and Work

Class, Status, Power (Social Stratification)

Sociology of Work

Sociology of Sex and Gender

Contemporary Sociological Theory (Lecture and Seminar)


Academic Publications and Presentations

 

2009

Advancing the Pedagogy of Student Teamwork: Development and Assessment of the TEAM Rubricin MountainRise, the International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2009) (with Michael Francis Johnston).

 

2006a

“Fear of Unknown Contingencies Arising from Student Teams.” Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood CA.

 

2006b

“Connecting Teaching Form to Sociological Content through Student Teams: The Development and Initial Assessment of the Teamwork Assessment Rubric (TAR).” Paper presented at the September 2006 Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association, Riverside CA (with Michael Francis Johnston)

 

1997a

"Economic Saturation and Immigrant Entrepreneurship," Chapter 1 (pp. 1-17) in Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Immigrant Absorption in the United States and Israel. Ivan H. Light and Richard E. Isralowitz eds., Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Hunts (U.K.) and Brookfield, Vermont (U.S.A.) (with Ivan H. Light).

 

1997b

"Korean and Filipino Immigrant Women in the Los Angeles Labor Market," Chapter 6 (pp. 140-166) in Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Immigrant Absorption in the United States and Israel. Ivan H. Light and Richard E. Isralowitz eds., Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Hunts (U.K.) and Brookfield, Vermont (U.S.A.) (with Hye-Kyung Lee).

 

1994

"The Ethnic Economy," Chapter 26 (pp. 647-671) in The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg eds., Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ and Russell Sage Foundation, New York (with Ivan H. Light).

 

1993

"Migration Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurship," Chapter 2 (pp. 25-49) in Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Culture, Capital and Ethnic Networks. Ivan H. Light and Parminder Bhachu eds., Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.) (with Ivan H. Light and Parminder Bhachu).