Roger Renteria
Roger Renteria is an Assistant Professor of Human Development at California State University, Long Beach. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Utah and was a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (2023-2026). His scholarship examines how social inequality shapes experiences of work, health, and environmental risk, with particular attention to race and ethnicity, immigration and legal status, gender, socioeconomic position, and aging. His research draws on environmental justice, political economy, intersectionality, and ecosocial perspectives to understand how social institutions and labor markets produce unequal exposures to environmental and occupational hazards.
His current research examines inequalities in occupational environmental conditions in the United States. Using large-scale population data linked with occupational exposure measures, he studies how hazardous physical and environmental working conditions are distributed across intersecting social positions, particularly race and ethnicity, immigration status, gender, education, and age. His broader research interests include environmental sociology, occupational health, migration, aging, and the social determinants of health.
Courses Taught
- HDEV 218: Environmental Justice, Health, and Human Development
- HDEV 320: From Data to Insights: Quantitative Methods in Human Development
