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Professor Stephanie Canizales Awarded RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grant for Emerging Scholars

March 22, 2021
The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is pleased to announce twenty-one awards made in the second round of their Pipeline Grants Competition. This includes, Stephanie Canizales, who will study...

Professor Stephanie Canizales in the Washington Post: Advocating for Asylum-Seeking Children is Traumatic

March 18, 2021
So far in March, the United States has taken more than 3,500 unaccompanied minor migrants into custody. With an additional 10,000 expected by May, the Biden administration will find it challenging to uphold the president’s promise to implement a more “fair and humane...

Undergraduate Experience: Erika Estrada Rodriquez

March 11, 2021
Name: Erika Estrada Rodriguez Year: Third Year Major: Sociology Hometown: Panorama City What is a memorable project that you worked on during your time at UC Merced? During my time at UC Merced, I have been able to be part of the Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (UROC-H) program cohort of...

Professor Hamilton in Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Is it possible to fix the UC's system of haves and have-nots?

March 8, 2021
Black and Latinx students are entering college at a far higher rate than ever before, but higher education in America remains racially divided and unequal. And California may well stand at the epicenter of that transformation. A majority of racially marginalized students (especially those from...

Female Faculty to Know on International Women's Day

March 8, 2021
Marjorie Zatz is a trained sociologist whose research focuses on race, gender, the law, and most recently on immigration policy and its effects on youth and families. Since the summer of 2020 Marjorie Zatz has served as interim Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development. Her previous work...

The Du Boisian Visualization Toolkit Launches

March 4, 2021
Sociology Professors Charlie Eaton and Camila Alvarez contributed to the launch of the new "Du Boisian Visualization Tool Kit" website with collaborators Frederick Wherry, Anthony Starks, and Jeff Himpele. The new site describes the project this way: The historian and sociologist...

Sociology Graduate Student Maria Escobar and Professor Tanya Golash-Boza Publish in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia.

February 26, 2021
Sociology graduate student Maria Escobar and Professor Tanya Golash-Boza recently published "Constructing Citizenship, “Legality,” and “Illegality” in Comparative Perspectives” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Summary Citizenship rights are often unevenly...

GROW Grants Nurture Vital Projects During Pandemic

February 24, 2021
Two faculty members and three graduate students who are working on food systems, food security and food sustainability research have received small grants through the UC Global Food Initiative (GFI) to bolster their projects. “COVID-19 has really dampened research, so we wanted to find ways to...

New Study Shows Immigration Policies Impact Student Success

February 19, 2021
A new report from the UC Collaborative to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity (UC PromISE) that summarizes results of a study of children of immigrants attending the University of California indicates that immigration policies have a negative effect on the students. Sociology Professor...

New Diversity. Striving for Prestige. Limited Money. Meet the ‘Broke’ Research Universities

February 17, 2021

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