Background
Dr. Steinberg is a Professor of Sociology at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. She completed her bachelor's at the University of California, Santa Barbara; her master's at the University of California, Berkeley; and her doctorate at The Pennsylvania State University.
Her research interests include sociospatial research, rural poverty, rural health, applied sociology, community development, and environmental sociology. She has conducted field research in Nepal, Guatemala, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and northern California.
The theme throughout this research has been the examination of people and their relationship to space and place. Recently, she has co-authored a book entitled, GIS For the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place, Sage Publications (2006). Her current research examines how to integrate GIS into rural health research. In 2000, she joined Humboldt State University, where she now teaches courses on human interactions with the physical environment at the local, national, and global levels.
Areas of Interest
Rural Sociology, Community Development, Environmental Sociology, Globalization, Environmental Justice, Research Methods, Social Ecology, Social Change, Rural Ethnic Relations, Immigration.