Courses Taught:
Obesity, Policy, and Hispanic Communities-471; Barrios and Health-338; Research and Writing in Ethnic Studies-307; Barrio Studies-306; Introduction to Chicano Studies-106

Summary of research interests:

Professor González’ interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on community development, public policy, urban health, and Latina/o-Chicana/o Studies.  This includes examining collaborative planning methods, racial and intra-ethnic politics, and governance.  His ongoing work examines these topics amidst new urbanism and creative cities residential and downtown revitalization in Latina/o and immigrant urban areas.  Erualdo’s emerging research agenda is childhood obesity, the built environment, and public policy.  This research is supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) “New Connections” Junior Investigator grant.  Erualdo’s approach to research includes mix and community-based methods.

Professor González’ planning practice includes over 15 years in program evaluation and strategic planning of healthy communities initiatives and scholar-activist planning.  He is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Psychology Applied Research Center (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles) as part of the RWJF national evaluation of “Communities Creating Healthy Environments.” He has also consulted for state-level evaluations, such as The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative. He also works with the Santa Ana Collaborative for Responsible Development (SACReD) in Santa Ana, CA.  SACReD planned for a Community Benefits Agreement and governance reform.  Professor Gonzalez’ involvement in BHC and SACReD is particularly noteworthy to him.  His native Santa Ana is a recipient of a BHC grant (Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities) and interventions will be carried out in his childhood neighborhood.  Erualdo was still living there during the planning phase of the initiative.  SACReD focused on the downtown area where he spent considerable time during his childhood. 

Erualdo has published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Urban Affairs, Environment and Planning A, and the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability.   

Professor González’ pedagogy is interactive and bridges the classroom and community.  He teaches two service-learning courses (Barrio Studies and Barrios and Health) and one internship course (Obesity, Policy, and Hispanic Communities).  Here are a sample of class exercises, research projects, and outings.

Students also work with local non-profits around various topics, including neighborhood planning, governance reform, and community research.  The local Orange County Register featured a former student.

Recent news about Erualdo

Professor González guest editor and contributor to a special issue of the Californian Journal of Health Promotion, "Health Disparities in Latino Communities." 

González awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study obesity and public policy and Latino communities.

Chicana and Chicano Studies and Health Science awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture to prepare Latina/o students to address childhood obesity.

Barrios and Health course and El Centro Cultural de México are awarded a service-learning mini-grant to collaborate on a documentary of the Santa Ana Collaborative for Responsible Development.

González co-presents a paper on planning and politics of downtown revitalization at the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers.

Publications:

González, E. R. & Guadiana, L. (2014). Culturally oriented downtown revitalization or creative gentrification? In Leary M.E & McCarthy, J. (Eds.), Companion to Urban Regeneration. Oxon, UK: Routledge. Forthcoming.

Londoño J. & González, E.R. (2014). The changing landscape of Latino consumption: New urbanist and creative city revitalization in downtown Santa Ana. In Fabian, A. & Bay, M.E. (Eds.), Race and Retail. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming.

González, E. R. (2012). Health Disparities in Latino Communities. Editorial. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 10, v-viii.

González, E. R., Sarmiento, C.S., Urzúa, A, S., & Luévano, S. (2012). The grassroots and new urbanism: A case from a Southern California Latino community. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 5(2-3), 219-239.

González, E. R., Villanueva, S., & Grills, C. N. (2012). Communities creating healthy environments to combat obesity: Preliminary evaluation findings from two case studies, Californian Journal of Health Promotion,10, 88-98.

González, E. R., & Lejano, R. P. (2009). New urbanism and the barrio. Environment and Planning A, 41 (12), 2946-2963.

González, E. R. (2007). Review of the book, Frameworks for policy analysis: Merging text and context by R. P. Lejano. New York, NY: Routledge. Frontera Norte, 19 (38).

González, E. R., Lejano, R. P., Vidales, L., Conner, F. R., Kidokoro, Y., Fazeli, B., & Cabrales, R. (2007). Participatory action research for environmental health: Encountering Freire in the urban barrio. Journal of Urban Affairs, 29(1), 77-100.