David Piacenti

Degree: Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department: Sociology and Anthropology

Phone: 303-615-0997
Email: [email protected]

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Topics

Bilingual - Spanish Education Immigration International Studies Latino Issues Sociology and Anthropology Spanish

Expertise

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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