David Piacenti
Degree: Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
- Phone: 303-615-0997
- Email: [email protected]
Topics
Bilingual - Spanish Education Immigration International Studies Latino Issues Sociology and Anthropology SpanishExpertise
- Globalization
- Immigration and Culture Change
- Transnationalism
- Sociological and Anthropological Theory
- Qualitative Methods and Ethnography
- Yucatec-Mayan culture
- Latin America
- Globalization in Peru
About
David Piacenti teaches Prejudice & Discrimination, Contemporary Sociology, Art & Craft of Sociology Writing, and Sociological Theory: Past and Present.
He has taught at Metropolitan State University of Denver since 2010.
Piacenti has published “Yucatec-Mayan Immigration to the Mission and Edison Neighborhoods: A Comparison of Social Conditions and Immigrant Satisfaction” in the Journal of Méxican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, “The Tangle of Anthropological Tourism: How the Consumption of Fantasy and Academia Share Common Spaces” in Applied Anthropologist and “For Love of Family and Family Values: How Immigrant Motivations Can Inform Immigration Policy” in the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy.
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