I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University San Marcos. I completed my B.A. at The George Washington University and both my M.A. and Ph.D at The Ohio State University. My research aims to investigate why and how stigmas become socially entrenched, as well as how the resulting inequities impact health and collective identity. My master’s thesis, which won the Best Poster award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (IAPHS), argues that stigma is a fundamental cause for uptake disparities of a promising HIV prevention medication (PrEP) amongst gay and bisexual men. My dissertation expands on this work to argue that the American HIV/AIDS crisis was a cultural trauma for queer men with generationally distinct impacts that shape the modern-day fight to end the HIV epidemic in the United States.

I am a teacher-scholar whose teaching experience and research expertise align to give students access to the most cutting-edge academic conversations. At Ohio State, I taught Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods (a mixed-methods version), Sociology of Poverty, and Sociology of Sexuality. There I have been honored to receive awards for teaching excellence from the Department of Sociology, Office of Student Life’s Disability Services unit, and the Sociology Graduate Student Association. I have also had the opportunity to be a visiting instructor at Denison University, where I taught Urban Sociology and Sociology of Sexuality.

As a first-generation college graduate, I also deeply value the opportunity to mentor undergraduate students through the hurdles of college, applying to graduate programs, and preparing for a career after college where they can apply their sociological lens. Furthermore, I regularly have students positions on my research projects so students can cultivate research skills. I also enjoy opportunities to help students in their own research pursuits.

You can contact me at bjmoore[at]csusm[dot]edu.