Celeste Campos-Castillo
I’m a 2009-10 fellow for ASA’s Minority Fellowship Program, with funds from the National Institute of Mental Health. I received my bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was a research assistant on numerous projects with faculty and graduate students involving social cognition and immersive virtual environments. I came to the University of Iowa in August 2005 and received my master’s degree in sociology in May 2007.
My research interests are 1) the emergence of trust and commitment among actors; 2) specialist organizations and their environments; 3) social processes in computer-mediated interaction; and 4) the social causes and buffers of distress. I examine these topics with a wide variety of research methods, including laboratory experiments, secondary analysis of survey data, ethnography, and archival research.
When I’m not working on research, I’m actively involved in both campus and community agendas.