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Associate Professor of Geography
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
562 985-1383 | Fax: 562 985-8993
cjocoy @ csulb.edu | Office: LA4-101
Christine L. Jocoy is a broadly trained human geographer with research interests in urban, economic, and social geography, regional development, organizational learning and innovation theory, neighborhood change and housing, and the geography of poverty and homelessness. Her regional focus is the US and Southern California.
BA, Vassar College, 1993
MA, Pennsylvania State University, 1998
PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2004
Christine L. Jocoy 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.
Monk, Janice and Christine L. Jocoy. 2009. Career Planning: Personal Goals and Professional Contexts. In M. Solem, K. Foote, and J. Monk (Eds.), Aspiring Academics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Educational, Inc., 16-31.
Del Casino, Vincent J., Jr., Christine L. Jocoy. 2008. Intervention: Neoliberal Subjectivities, the “New” Homelessness, and Struggles over Spaces of/in the City. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 40(2): 192-199.
Jocoy, Christine L., Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. 2008. The Mobility of Homeless People and their Use of Public Transit in Long Beach, CA. Final report to METRANS Transportation Center (available from www.metrans.org/research/final/06-13%20Draft%20Final.pdf).
Scheyvens, Regina, Amy L. Griffin, Christine L. Jocoy, Yan Liu, Michael Bradford. 2008. Experimenting with Active Learning in Geography: Dispelling the Myths that Perpetuate Resistance. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 32(1): 51-69.
Dow, Kirstin, Robert E. O'Connor, Brent Yarnal, Gregory J. Carbone, Christine L. Jocoy. 2007. Why worry? Community water system managers' perceptions of climate vulnerability, Global Environmental Change. 17: 228-237.
Jocoy, Christine L., David DiBiase. 2006. Plagiarism by Adult Learners Online: A case study in detection and remediation. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. 7(1). Accessible from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/23
Jocoy, Christine L. 2006. Surviving the first time through: A new instructor's views on designing and teaching economic geography and how mentoring early-career faculty can help. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 30(3): 419-425.
Jocoy, Christine L. 2003. Vying for Hearts and Minds: Emotional Labour as Management Control. Labour and Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work. 13(3): 51-72.
Jocoy, Christine L. 2000. Who Gets Clean Water? Aid Allocation to Small Water Systems in Pennsylvania. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 36(4): 811-821.
On Sabbatical Leave in Fall 2010
Geography 100:
World Regional Geography
Geography 360:
Human Geography
Geography 452:
Geography of the Global Economy
Geography 467/567:
Metropolitan Problems
Geography 596:
Geographic Thought and Literature