Edward Flores
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Edward Flores Coffey Hall 432 |
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Edward Flores is from the Los Angeles area, and holds a BA from the University of the Pacific, an MA from the University of Warwick (UK), and a PhD in sociology from the University of Southern California (USC). His research areas focus upon race, gender, religion and immigration.
Dr. Flores was the recipient of a dissertation fellowship from the Haynes Foundation, and conducted an ethnography on recovery from gang life, at two faith-based organizations in Los Angeles. In this project, Dr. Flores drew from participant observation and semi-structured interviews at a Pentecostal church (Victory Outreach) and a Jesuit-founded non-profit (Homeboy Industries), to examine how Latino masculinity and faith facilitated recovery from gang life. Dr. Flores has published work on gang recovery in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, as well as book chapters in Gender Through the Prism of Difference (4th edition) and Sustaining Faith Traditions (2012).
Also at USC, Dr. Flores held a research fellow position at the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) for 3 years. There he drew from Census data to conduct research on Latino employment, and authored policy brief circulated to all members of congress. Recently, a policy report Dr. Flores lead-authored, in which he drew from official records from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), contributed to a recent California State Senate bill (SB 754). Research from this report has been rewritten (with Gary Painter), and is in the process of being resubmitted to an economics journal.
Dr. Flores is currently working on a book manuscript, Recovering Gang Members: Urban Ministry and Latino Masculinity in Los Angeles. This manuscript examines how adult Latino men leave gang life, and focuses on the theological foundations and masculine negotiations that undergird such recovery. He is also working on revising a manuscript submission (with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo) examining discursive practices among men in gang recovery, as well as a manuscript on embodiment in the process of gang recovery.