David Piacenti

Back to Faculty & Staff Directory Back to Department Page
Placeholder Faculty Staff Image
How to edit profiles >
Placeholder Faculty Staff Image

David Piacenti

Associate Professor of Sociology

Sociology and Anthropology

Bio

I am originally from Kankakee, Illinois. I received by BS in Psychology and my MA in Sociology from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. I received my PhD in Sociology from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Degree

PhD in Sociology

Western Michigan University

MA in Sociology

Southern Illinois University

BS in Psychology

Southern Illinois University

Published Works

  • Piacenti, J. D. (2018). Conscious and in Control: Strong Objectivity and Yucatec-Mayan Female Decisions to Avoid (Im)migrating to the U.S. . Journal of Social Sciences Research, 1(2018). .
  • Piacenti, J. D. (2017). South Federal Boulevard . ABC-CLIO,
  • Piacenti, J. D. (2017). Mayan Corner— 24th and Mission . ,
  • Austin, J. K., Piacenti, J. D. (2014). Social Bonds and Foucaultian Theory in Cult Ideology. Journal of Social Sciences Researchhttp://www.iossbr.com/#!journal/c1ri8.
  • Piacenti, J. D., Rivas, B. L., , J. (2014). Facebook Ethnography: The Poststructural Ontology of Transnational (Im) migration Research. International Journal Of Qualitative Methods, 13 ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/.
  • Piacenti, J. D. (2012). Yucatec-Mayan Im/migration to the Mission and Edison Neighborhoods: A Comparison of Social Conditions and Im/migrant Satisfaction. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 28(1), 95-112. ucpressjournals.com/journal.php?j=msem.
  • Piacenti, J. D. (2011). The Tangle of Anthropological Tourism: How the Consumption of Fantasy and Academia Share Common Spaces. Applied Anthropologist, 31(1), 2-6. www.hpsfaa.org/Publications.
  • Piacenti, J. D. (2009). For Love of Family and Family Values: How Immigrant Motivations Can Inform Immigration Policy. Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 21(2008-2009). .

Research Interests

My research passions are the sociology of beer, environmental sociology, globalization, immigration and ethnic identity as it relates to Yucatec-Maya and Latin-American migration and immigration to the United States.

Teaching Interests

I teach classical and contemporary sociological and anthropological theory, prejudice and discrimination in US and global societies, qualitative research methods and community ethnography, and globalization and immigration.