Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at UC Irvine, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at UCSB and prior to that, in 2015, she was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She served as Dean of the School of Social Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society from 2001-2006.

Welcome to The Joshua Journal! Our purpose is to preserve the genealogy and the history of the Southern California High Desert and its surrounding areas. We are located in the Antelope Valley, which lies in the most southern part of the Mojave Desert. You can expect to see articles on the history of local areas and the people, transcriptions from cemeteries, school yearbooks, newspapers, and various genealogy topics and tips. We welcome suggestions and additions to any ongoing projects, please contact us by U. S. Mail or email. Subscribe to The Joshua Journal!

The mission of the Save Nubia Project (SNP) is to help raise national and international awareness about the pending flooding of the central areas of the ancient Kushite and Nubian civilizations in the Sudan. There are a series of dams (from the 2nd through 5th cataracts) scheduled for construction, each of which will cause the Nile River to back up and create a reservoir and flood countless ancient archaeological sites and displace well over 100,000 local Sudanese people. Thus, the Save Nubia Project's task is to document that the dam construction areas in northern and central Sudan are valuable World Heritage Sites that are in danger of being destroyed, and should be preserved.