Dr. Burrel Vann Jr
Associate Professor
School of Public Affairs
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
SDSU
Primary Email: [email protected]
Building/Location
Adams Humanities - 4136
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego,
CA
92182-4560
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Bio
Burrel Vann Jr is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine.
Burrel's research centers on cultural and political change. Specifically, his work investigates how advocacy organizations shift public perceptions about drugs, and how policymakers and voters are influenced by these shifts. His prior work focused on how organizations shape voting behavior. Burrel's research agenda covers areas in political sociology, drugs and crime, social movements, and race, while employing a broad range of quantitative and computational methods.
This research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the International Journal of Drug Policy, the International Journal of Press/Politics, Social Problems, Mobilization, the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Socius, and Sociology Compass, has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Center for the Study of Democracy, and the Data Science Initiative, and has won awards from the ASA Section on Methodology and the SSSP Drinking and Drugs Division.
Education
PhD - Sociology - University of California, Irvine
MA - Sociology - California State University, Fullerton
BA - Sociology; Psychology - California State University, Fullerton
Areas of Expertise
Policy; Drugs; Social Movements; Quantitative Methods