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Josh Meisel
Professor and Department Chair
Joshua S. Meisel is a Professor of Sociology and co-founded the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Cal Poly Humboldt. His research focuses on the sources and consequences of cannabis policy. This has included examinations of visual representations of the cannabis industry, student employment in cannabis related jobs, and news media coverage of cannabis farmers. Dr. Meisel co-edited “The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Handbook of Cannabis Research.” Prior to coming to Cal Poly Humboldt, Dr. Meisel was a Senior Researcher with the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections.
Areas of Interest
Critical Drug Studies, Cannabis Studies, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Criminology, Deviance and Social Control
- PhD, Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001
- B.A., Sociology and Language and Culture, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991
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.