Professor Valdez and colleagues published two articles focusing on food access in the Central Valley. These articles, published in Preventing Chronic Disease and the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, identify the factors that constrain healthy food access in rural food deserts, including cost and quality, and weigh in on interventions that may increase fruit and vegetable consumption....
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12/20/2016
Professor Dodson has a new article (“TSMOs and Protest Participation”) published in Socius (a new American Sociological Association journal focusing on cutting edge research). The study examines the relationship between transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) and protest activity and finds that protest is higher in countries that have more active TSMOs.
12/16/2016
The American Sociology Association's Magazine Contexts featured an online story about public sociology at UC Merced.
The blog discusses a teach-in event on the campus in December to inform the Merced community about the consequences of the November presidential elections for society and vulnerable social groups.
12/08/2016
Sociology graduate student Marcus Shaw has published an article in the latest issue of Sociology Compass titled, "The racial implications of the effects of parental incarceration on intergenerational mobility." In this publication, Marcus examines the current state of the literature regarding parental incarceration. HIs review documents the effects of parental incarceration on...
10/20/2016
Four UC Merced graduate students got a rare opportunity to establish and strengthen relationships between the campus and the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) this summer.
The students — Danielle Bermudez, Maria Mora, Rodolfo Rodriguez and Alejandro Zermeño — traveled to Honduras to present their research to the third National Conference of Honduran Sociology at UNAH.
Funding came...
09/08/2016
Sociology Professor Edward Orozco Flores published a sole-authored article in the journal Social Problems. The article is titled, "'Grow Your Hair Out': Chicano Gang Masculinity and Embodiment in Recovery." It will be in the November 2016 issue, and is now available online.
09/01/2016
Professor Sharla Alegria has joined the sociology department at UC Merced as its newest faculty member. Dr. Alegria recently finished her PhD at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. Her work focuses on systems of inequality and stratification by race, class, gender, and immigration status in high technology sectors of the economy. Welcome aboard Professor Alegria!!!!
08/25/2016
Eight UC Merced Sociology Graduate Students (representing over one third of the Program) participated in the 111th Annual American Sociological Association Meetings in Seattle, Washington in late August. The Conference theme of "Rethinking Social Movements: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World?" created much excitement in advance. Carolina Molina, Maria Duenas, Alejandro...
08/05/2016
UC Merced signed an Agreement of Academic Cooperation with the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) in January. As a first step in this cooperation, UC Merced sent a delegation of 4 graduate students (Maria Mora, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Danielle Bermudez, and Alejandro Zermeño) to the III National Sociology Conference in Honduras (August 2-August 6). The US embassy in...
07/15/2016
The Universidad Centroamericana - "Jose Simeon Canas" (UCA) in El Salvador has published the Spanish Translation of Professor Almeida's book, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). The Spanish language translation is titled, Neoliberalismo y Movimientos Populares en Centroamerica. Almeida has presented Neoliberalismo at...
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