| Ernie Thomson Home Page Professor of Sociology/Criminology University of La Verne Curriculum Vitae Dr. Thomson joined the Sociology faculty at the University of La Verne in 2001 after ten years of service as a faculty member at the University of Houston Clear Lake and Arizona State University West in Phoenix. He completed his PhD in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara in 1991, and MA (1977) and BA (1973) degrees in Sociology at the UT El Paso. His teaching interests include a range of criminology, criminal justice, and sociology classes. While at Houston Clear Lake, he regularly taught one course each semester to long-term prisoners in a medium security prison south of Houston. He was tenured and promoted to full professor at ULV in 2007. Dr. Thomson has published a number of articles, essays, and reviews in criminology, sociology, and philosophy journals. His recent publications include a book based on his doctoral dissertation on Marx's discovery of the materialist conception of history (published in September 2004), and an article published in a humanist resource book on "show trials and sham trials" in death penalty cases (2005). Since 2000, he has also created and maintained an extensive website that supports his classes and research interests, and his most recent project examines faculty-owned websites for use in classes and research. He presented a first paper on this topic at the National Social Science Association meetings in Las Vegas in April 2008. |
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| Picture taken in November 2005 by ace photog M-Plugo near the Kodak Theater and Walk of Stars in Hollywood. |