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Grad Students Take on Big Roles to Promote Campus Diversity

April 17, 2020
Dania Matos has been at UC Merced for less than a year but is making a big impact as the university’s first chief diversity officer. Now two graduate students with small-town roots are helping Matos amplify her message of equity and justice — a message made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic....

Sociology Faculty and Graduate Students attend the 2020 Sociology of Education Association Conference

March 30, 2020
The UC Merced Sociology Department was well represented at the 2020 Sociology of Education Association Conference held in Pacific Grove, CA February 21st through February 23rd. This year’s theme was “The Limits of American Education’s Promise.” Keynotes speakers at the...

Professor Pirtle Is Keynote Speaker At West Hills Community College Black History Month Event

March 12, 2020
Professor Whitney Pirtle was invited to be the keynote speaker at a Black History Month Event held at West Hills Community College, Firebaugh Campus. The title of her talk was “Lift Every Voice and Act.” It was a wonderfully attended event that included song, the keynote, a panel with Q...

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Scholar, Stephanie Canizales, Quoted in the New York Times; The Quinceañera, Redefined

December 2, 2019
Quinceañeras are an integral part of the experiences of young women in Latin America and throughout the United States. They signal a celebratory moment in the lives of teenage girls and, in many families, are seen as a necessary rite of passage. “But there is a growing generation of...

Zatz Named American Society of Criminology Fellow

November 21, 2019
The American Society of Criminology (ASC) has elected Vice Provost and Graduate Dean and sociology Professor Marjorie Zatz as an ASC Fellow — the society’s highest honor — in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of criminology. The society celebrated Zatz’s achievements during...

Professor Charlie Eaton Featured in the Sacramento Bee - "PG& E Should Belong to Californians, Not Wall Street Shareholders"

October 25, 2019
Professor Charlie Eaton discusses the for-profit and nonprofit approach of energy management in California as fires and power outages spread. As the lights went out across California this month, residents wondered if we will ever fix PG&E – the nation’s largest for-profit...

Professor Tanya Golash-Boza Receives National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant

August 13, 2019
Professor Tanya Golash-Boza has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her project "Prisoner Re-Entry and Gentrification." With this funding, Professor Golash-Boza will explore how gentrified and diverse neighborhoods help or hinder prisoners' reintegration into...

2019 Ford Foundation Fellowships Honorable Mention List Includes UC Merced Sociology Graduate Students

July 16, 2019
Please join us in congratulating Melissa Quesada, Katie Daniels, Maria Duenas and Veronica Lerma; four outstanding UC Merced Sociology scholars who have been accorded honorable mention status in the 2019 Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered by the Fellowships Office of...

Movements Can Lead to Lasting Change, New Sociology Book Demonstrates

July 1, 2019
A social movement’s cause can be as diverse as the people who spur it in the first place —examples abound, from community organizations initiating struggles for neighborhood sidewalks and clean water to national level mobilizations led by labor unions and their allies against the privatization of...

Almeida Publishes Book with UC Press on The Structure of Social Movements

June 6, 2019
  The University of California Press recently published a book by Sociology Professor Paul Almeida entitled, Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization. The work outlines the fundamental properties of social movements, including chapters focusing on:...

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