Daniel Olmos
Associate Professor
Faculty - Sociology
Brief Biography
**ON SABBATICAL FOR FALL 2025**
Dr. Daniel Olmos is Associate Professor of Sociology at CSUN and teaches/researches sociological issues related to race/ethnicity, immigration, labor, urbanism, state power, cultural politics, and globalization. Raised by immigrant working-class parents in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, Dr. Olmos received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara. Before CSUN, Dr. Olmos was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Olmos, Daniel. 2024. "Crafting Insubordinate Spaces: A Social Justice Initiative at a Hispanic Serving Institution." The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice (edited by Corey Dolgon). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Olmos, Daniel, et al. 2023. "Civil Discourse and Social Change: A University-wide, Faculty-led Social Justice Initiative within the Neoliberal University." Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies 4 (2).
Olmos, Daniel. 2022. "Unsung Heroes or Exploited Workers? Latino Migrant Day Laborers in Post-Harvey Houston and Critical Environmental Justice." Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 9 (2).
Olmos, Daniel. 2019. "Racialized Im/migration and Autonomy of Migration Perspectives: New Directions and Opportunities." Sociology Compass 13 (9).
Education
- Ph.D. 2016, University of California Santa Barbara
- M.A. 2011, University of California Santa Barbara
- B.A. 2004, University of California Santa Barbara
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