Luke Wagner, Lecturer

Email: luke.wagner@csulb.edu
Office: PSY-131

Main Courses:

• Problems in International Social Conflict (SOC & I/ST 317)
• Cases in International Social Conflict (SOC & I/ST 318)
• Modern Sociological Theory (SOC 357)
• Sociology of Human Rights and Social Justice (SOC 449)
• Sociology of Globalization (SOC 430)

Research & Teaching Interests:

• Global and Transnational Sociology; Social Movements; Human Rights; Culture; Nationalism; Political Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Social and Political Theory; Comparative Historical Sociology; South Asian Studies

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Yale University
• MA, Religious Studies, University of Virginia
• BA, Political and Social Thought, University of Virginia

Publications:

• Wagner, Luke. 2018. “A Rumour of Empire: The Discourse of Hindu Nationalism in Nepal.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 18(2): 147-166.
• Shneiderman, Sara, Luke Wagner, Jacob Rinck, Amy L. Johnson, and Austin Lord. 2016. “Nepal’s ongoing political transformation: a review of post-2006 literature on conflict, the state, identities, and environments.” Modern Asian Studies 50(6): 2,041-2,114.

Awards/Honors:

• Fulbright Scholar (2014-15)
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow (2012-2013)