Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies welcomes new dean

Charles Gossett is the new dean of Sacramento State’s College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. He replaces Otis Scott, dean of the College since 2005.

Gossett was previously the chair of the Department of Political Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and served a year as the Faculty Associate for Academic Programs in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. 

He was also the interim chair of the Political Science Department and director of the Master of Public Administration program at Georgia Southern University. He also had teaching appointments at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana; was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Swaziland and a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for the Study of HIV and AIDS at the University of Botswana.

His research is in the areas of public sector human resources management and state and local intergovernmental relations. He has published articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries on civil service reform; on how state and local governments deal with one another on issues related to lesbian and gay rights; and on public opinion on same-sex marriage.