• 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

2025. With Julie E. Brummer, Thomas Friis Søgaard, Gary R. Potter, Jodie Grigg, and Marie Jauffret-Roustide. “Global Cannabis Cultivation as a Gendered Activity: Findings from the 2020 International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire.” International Journal of Drug Policy 146:105039

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

• Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2015

• Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2012

• PhD in Geography from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2010

• C.T.C., CSU Monterey Bay, 2004.; B.A. Humboldt State University, 2001

CANN280: Cannabis and the Environment, CANN335: Cannabis and Environmental Sustainability, CANN345: Cannabis Environmental Regulations

Exploring regenerative management in commercial cannabis - Setting the baseline to assess health and resilience.

Faculty Lead for the annual Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship Symposium 

• Ph.D. Fielding Graduate University, 2012