Daniela Carpano-Rahman, PhD Candidate at University of California San Diego, has been an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Sociology since 2007.  She has taught core courses on urban communities and contemporary social issues, and she has also created two new upper-division special topics courses:  "Globalization, Urbanization and Sustainability" and "Politics of Food and Hunger."

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Teresa Elston, PhD, is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Sociology. 

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Judge Rudolph Gerber is now an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Diego. He has moved to California in semi-retirement to continue his legal work and writing, as well as to be closer to his children and grandchildren who live here. He is also a member of the California bar and the American Arbitration Association in California. From 1972 to 1976 Gerber was associate director of the Arizona Criminal Code Commission. He was a private practitioner in both civil and criminal litigation prior to appointment to the superior court by then Governor Bruce Babbitt in 1979. He served nine years as a judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, where he was Associate Presiding Judge (1985–1988). Gerber was appointed to Division One of the Court of Appeals by Governor Rose Mofford in 1988.  He is one of the few people who has written death penalty legislation and who has prosecuted, defended and judged in capital cases.

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Sue Peerson is principal of peerson+design+consult specializing in urban design, city planning, campus planning, and landscape architecture. She has developed a keen understanding of how to integrate physical plans within the political, social, and environmental context. She received her Bachelor of Science in City & Regional Planning from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where she won The Faculty Medal in Landscape Architecture and Medal of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects. She has licensure with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and she was appointed by the Mayor and City Council to serve on the City of San Diego Planning Commission in 2012 to help shape the city’s land use policy and design framework.

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Sue Peerson is principal of peerson+design+consult specializing in urban design, city planning, campus planning, and landscape architecture. She has developed a keen understanding of how to integrate physical plans within the political, social, and environmental context. She received her Bachelor of Science in City & Regional Planning from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where she won The Faculty Medal in Landscape Architecture and Medal of Honor from the American Society of Landscape Architects. She has licensure with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and she was appointed by the Mayor and City Council to serve on the City of San Diego Planning Commission in 2012 to help shape the city’s land use policy and design framework.

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