Faculty Biography - Glenn Tsunokai

Assistant Professor
Sociology Department
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9081
Arntzen Hall 509
Phone: (360) 650-2540
Fax: 360-650-7295
Glenn.Tsunokai@wwu.edu

Glenn Tsunokai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2003. His dissertation was a multidimensional perspective on Asian gangs in Southern California. Besides interning with a local police department’s Asian gang task force for roughly two years, Professor Tsunokai also surveyed approximately 105 self-admitted gang members about their life experiences.

Professor Tsunokai’s other research interests include disentangling the effects of individual SES, community effects, and race/ethnicity on various outcomes such as crime and delinquency, drug abuse, and medical treatment disparities. His teaching interests include race and ethnic relations, research methods, and stratification.

In his free time, Professor Tsunokai enjoys working on his cedar-log house in the woods.

Recent Publications

Kposowa, Augustine, Glenn Tsunokai, and James McElvain. 2006. “Race and Homicide in the U.S. National Longitudinal Mortality Study.” Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 4: 1-28.

Tsunokai, Glenn. 2006. “Immigration: Stereotypes and Myths.” In Encyclopedia of Contemporary U.S. Immigration, edited by James Loucky, Jeanne Armstrong, and Larry Estrada. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Tsunokai, Glenn. 2005. “Beyond the Lenses of the Model Minority Myth: A Descriptive Portrait of Asian Gangs.” Journal of Gang Research 12 (4): 37-58.

Kposowa, Augustine and Glenn Tsunokai. 2004. “Searching for Relief: Racial Differences in Treatment of Patients with Back Pain.” Race and Society 5: 193-223.

Kposowa, Augustine and Glenn Tsunokai. 2003. “Offending Patterns Among Southeast Asians in the State of California.” Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 1: 93-114.

Tsunokai, Glenn and Augustine Kposowa. 2002. “Asian Gangs in the United States: The Current State of the Research Literature.” Crime, Law and Social Change 37: 37-50.

Kposowa, Augustine, Glenn Tsunokai and Edgar Butler. 2002. “The Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Schizophrenia: Individual and Neighborhood Contexts. Race, Gender and Class 9: 33-54.