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California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
562 985-2357 | Fax: 562 985-8993
vdelcasi AT csulb.edu | Office: LA4-106
Editorial Board, Dialogues in Human Geography
Editorial Board, Social and Cultural Geography
"California College Crunch" Los Angeles Times, July 2009
"Legislators Slash Budget, Cal State System Bleeds," Which Way LA with Warren Olney, July 2009
Vincent Del Casino is a broadly trained human geographer with interests in social and cultural geography, health geography, geographic thought and history, sexuality studies, HIV/AIDS, and sexual and health politics in Southeast Asia and Long Beach, California. His most recent projects include studies of the relationships between HIV prevention programs and drug use, the politics of 'the body' and biomedicine, and the interconnections between transportation, mobility, and homelessness. He has held a Visiting Research Fellowship at The Australian National University and given numerous conference presentations and invited lectures at a number of national and international venues.
BA, Bucknell University, International Relations/East Asian Studies, 1990
MS, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
PhD, Geography, University of Kentucky, 2000
Del Casino, V.J., Jr., M. Thomas, P. Cloke, and R. Panelli, eds. (2011) A Companion to Social Geography. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Marston, S., P. Knox, D. Liverman, V.J. Del Casino Jr., P. Robbins (2011) World Regions in Global Context. New Jersey: Pearson.
Jocoy, C.L. and V.J. Del Casino Jr. (2010) Homelessness, travel behavior, and the politics of transportation mobilities in Long Beach, California. Environment and Planning A, 42: 1943-1963.
Del Casino, V.J., Jr. (2010) Living with and experiencing (dis)ease. In Brown, T., McLafferty, S., and Moon, G. (eds) A Companion to Health and Medical Geography, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 188-204.
Dorn, M.L., C.C. Keirns, and V.J. Del Casino Jr. (2010) Doubting dualisms. In Brown, T., McLafferty, S., and Moon, G. (eds) A Companion to Health and Medical Geography, Chichester: Blackwell, pp. 55-78.
Del Casino, V.J., Jr. (2009) Social Geography: A Critical Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Del Casino, V.J., Jr. and C.L. Jocoy (2008) Neoliberal subjectivities, the ‘new’ homeless, and struggles over spaces in/of the city. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, 40 (2): 192-199.
Del Casino, V.J., Jr. (2007) Flaccid theories and the geographies of sexual health in the age of Viagra. Health and Place 13 (4): 904-911.
Del Casino, V.J., Jr. and S.P. Marston (2006) Social geography in the U.S.: everywhere and nowhere. Social and Cultural Geography 7 (6): 995-1009.
The mobility of homeless people and their use of public transport in Long Beach, CA (Jocoy, C., PI, Del Casino, V.J., Jr, Co-PI) Metrans Transportation Center, USC and CSU, 2006-2007, $68,520 (Direct Costs).
Summer Research Stipend, California State University, Long Beach, for research on homelessness in Long Beach, 2006, $6,000.
Glenda Laws Award, Association of American Geographers, 2004, for work in the areas of social-activist research (1st year of the award).
Interventions for Hard-to-Reach Club Drug Users. (Fisher, D.G., Principal Investigator, Del Casino, V.J., Jr., Geographer/Ethnographer). Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2003-2004, $341,221 (Direct Costs).
Cognitive Distance, Mobility Patterns, & Drug Use Among MSM. (Del Casino, V.J, Jr., Principal Investigator). Universitywide AIDS Research Program, 2002-2003, $66,340 (Direct Costs).
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Courses Taught
Geography 100: World Regional Geography
Geography 313i: Southeast Asia
Geography 465/565: Social Geography
Geography 596 : Geographic Thought and Literature
Geography 696: Geographic Methodology and Writing
Asian Studies 610: Seminar in Asian Studies
