Eileen T. Walsh, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
CONTACT INFORMATION
ewalsh@fullerton.edu
Voice: 657-278-2737
Fax:657-278-2001
Dept: 657-278-3531
DEGREES
2005, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Southern California
BIOGRAPHY
Growing up in East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley, Dr. Walsh was first in her family to attend and graduate from college—University of Southern California. She was A.B.D. in the 1970’s when recruited to lead a research team in the County of Orange. After retiring from a 20 year career in county government, Eileen earned a PhD at U.S.C. in 2005 with a dissertation on families formed across the color line. She teaches a few courses a year with the majority of her time as Department Chair (2014—2020) or Chair of the Academic Senate (AY 2022—AY 2024). Her interests are program development, student retention and success for Black students.
RESEARCH AREAS
Inequality
Racial Formations
Sociology of Education.
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Sociology 302 (Research Methods)
Sociology 356 (Inequality)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed Journal Articles
- Walsh, Eileen T. 2012. “Where Race, Class and Gender Collide with ‘Commonsense:’ Families Formed across the Color Line.” Sociology Mind. 2 (1): 74-79
- Walsh, Eileen T., Berna M. Torr and Bonnie Ha Bui. 2010. “Inequalities in Self-Rated Health: Untangling Ethnicity, Social Class, and Lifestyle Effects on Vietnamese, Other Asians, Hispanics, and Whites.” International Review of Modern Sociology. 36 (2): Autumn, 195—220
- Walsh, Eileen. 2009. “Representations of Race and Gender in Mainstream Media Coverage of the 2008 Democratic Primary.” Journal of African American Studies,13 (2): 121-130
Refereed Chapters
- Walsh, Eileen. 2010. “Dimensions and Indicators of Poverty in Sociological Studies in the United States.” In Putcha Chandrasekhar (Editor), Mathematical Formulation of Poverty Index. Edwin Mellon Press
- Walsh, Eileen. 2004. “Ideology of the Multiracial Movement: Dismantling the Color Line and Disguising White Supremacy?” Pp 382-410 in Heather Dalmage, editor,The Politics of Multiracialism: Transforming, Transcending and Challenging Racial Thinking. State University of New York (SUNY) Press
Book Reviews
- Walsh, Eileen. 2008. Review of “Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line, by Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Stanford University Press, 2007.”International Review of Modern Sociology (34) 146--147
SCHOLARLY WORK
Conference Presentations
2013 Does the Refugee Experience Overshadow SES? An examination of Self Rated Health in two cohorts of Vietnamese Americans. Paper presented for thePacific Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Reno, NV.
2013 So you are on the Job Market? How to find and obtain a community college teaching position. Panel presentation for the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Reno, NV.
2012 Notions of Race in Multiracial Families: Diversity and Dangers. Paper presented for Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.
2012 Social Media and Justice: Trayvon across the Pond. Paper presented for Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.
2011 Reproduction of Race and Class: Kinship among Multi-racial Families. Paper presented for Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Seattle, WA.
2011 Interrogating Self-rated Health of Vietnamese Americans in "Little Saigon.” Co-authored with Berna M. Torr. Paper presented for Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Seattle, WA. 2011.
2010 Race, Gender and the ‘Black Other:’ Media Constructions of Hilary Clinton. Paper accepted for International Communication Association Conference Panel on Becoming the Model Political Woman: Female as Media Spectacle and National Commodity. Singapore, 2010
2009 From De Jure to De Facto Segregation: Limited Access to Inheritance in Multiracial Families. Paper presented for Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA. August 2009
2008 B*tch is the New Black: Race and Gender Representations in Media Coverage of the 2008 Democratic Primary Election. Paper presented for Annual Meetings of Association of Black Sociologists. Boston, MA. August 2008
2007 Race Class and Gender Collide with Commonsense in Families Formed across the Color Line” Paper presented in the Session on Race, Class, Gender organized by Margaret Andersen for American Sociological Association meetings, Montreal, Canada.
2006 Gendered Whiteness in Families on the Color Line at Pacific Sociological Association meetings Hollywood, CA.
2002 The Edge of the Color Line: How Whites Married to Blacks Negotiate Identity and Experience Whiteness” at American Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago. IL