• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2019
• M.A., Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2014
• M.T.S., Biblical Studies, Palmer Theological Seminary, 2011
• B.A. with Honors, Sociology and Religious Studies, Linfield College, 2006

Recent Courses:

CRIM 125 Intro to Criminology and Justice Studies
CRIM 410 Theories of Justice and Crime
CRIM 420 Drugs and Society
CRIM 430 Law and Dissent
SOC 303M Race and Inequality for Majors
SOC 330 Social Deviance
SOC 480 Comparative War on Drugs
SOC 665 Community, Ecology, and Social Action

Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Chapter Representative
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Editorial Board President

Co-editor (with Caglar Dolek) of Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Special Issue 48: Resistance to State Violence, projected release date of May 2026. 



 

• PhD Justice Studies, Arizona State University, 2016
• M.A. Social Justice & Human Rights, Arizona State University, 2011
• B.S. Economics, Northern Arizona University, 1997

CRIM 225S Inequalities & Criminalization; CRIM 410 Theories of Justice & Crime; CRIM 362 Gender Sexuality & Crime; CRIM 431 Juvenile Delinquency; CRIM 455 Policing Bodies; SOC 466 Migration & Global Economy; SOC 280 Pilgrimage to Manzanar; SOC 510 Contemporary Social Theories; SOC 650 Race, Ethnicity & Gender

Team Lead for the Pelican Bay Research project, Organized and led field trip to Manzanar historic site with local students.

• PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2013

• Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999

SOC 372 Proseminar, SOC 472 Graduate School Planning, SOC 410 Contemporary Theory, SOC 584 Qualitative Methods

Leadership in governance & policy making with an equity lens has been part of Mary's professional focus. She serves on the Academic Senate of the CSU. As part of her senate role, she also serves on the committee on Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion. Prior to state-wide senate, she was the Cal Poly Humboldt General Faculty President and Senate Chair after years of leadership in other campus senate roles. 

Mary was a 19-20 California Education Policy Fellow collaborating with a cohort of 19 other PreK-Higher Education leaders from across public and private institutions and state government. She also served as a Women's Research and Educational Institute Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C. working on policy related to gender, work, and housing. 

• PhD, Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001
• B.A., Sociology and Language and Culture, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991

Recent Courses:

CRIM 420 Drugs and Society
SOC 382 Intro to Social Research
SOC 492 Senior Thesis
SOC 583 Quantitative Research Methods

2024. “The Cartel Mystique: Race and the Social Construction of the Cannabis Grower.” Sociological Inquiry 95(2):357-375. 

2023. With Amanda Reiman, Rielle Capler, and Darcey Paulding McCready. “Medical Cannabis"

Identity and Public Health Paternalism.” Public Health in Practice 5:1-9.

2023. With Dominic Corva and Ara Pachmayer. “Cannabis, Communities, and Place: (Re)constructing Humboldt’s Post-Prohibition Present.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 45(1):152-168.

2023. With Daniel Bear. "A tale of two cannabis legalization experiments." Policy Options. October 17.

2022. With Dominic Corva. The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research. New York, NY: Routledge Press. 

• PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1995