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Graduate Dean Honored for Work in Criminal Justice

November 16, 2017
Outstanding contributions in service to professional organizations, academic institutions and the advancement of criminal justice have earned Graduate Dean Marjorie Zatz the Julius Debro Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime. She will be honored at a...

UC Merced Sociology in New York Times

November 8, 2017
Sociology professor Charlie Eaton's research was cited today in a major New York Times investigative report on the use of off-shore accounts by wealthy colleges to avoid taxes on endowments. Professor Eaton has studied how elite private colleges have maintained small and mostly wealthy student...

New publication on experiences of deportees in the Dominican Republic

October 26, 2017
Professor Tanya Golash-Boza and Graduate Student Yajaira Ceciliano published a chapter in the book After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives edited by Khosravi Shahram and published by Springer (2017). This chapter analyses the experiences of isolation, precarity, and...

New Center, Conference Focus on Mesoamerican Studies

October 23, 2017
                        Topics ranging from ethnobotany, public health and feminism to agriculture, urban growth and social movements are among the highlights of the Mesoamerican Studies Center’s upcoming conference at UC Merced...

Sociology Present at UCM Homecoming Day!

October 23, 2017
Undergraduate Chair Dr. Irenee Beattie coordinated the presence of the Sociology Department at UCM Homecoming on October 21, 2017. Sociology graduate students and undergraduate representatives from the Sociology Club tabled for the entire day.

Workshop to Focus on Diversity, African Studies

September 28, 2017
Everyone is invited to a special event featuring UCLA Professor Jemima Pierre, speaking on “Africa and the Project of Black Studies” as part of a workshop entitled “The Critical Politics of Diversity in the Multiversity: Towards Africana Studies in the UC System.” Pierre, a professor of...

Professor Jennifer Singh Gives Colloquium Seminar on Intersectionality and Autism Disparities

September 15, 2017
On Friday morning, the sociology colloquium series sponsored a talk by Professor Jennifer Singh from Georgia Tech University with dozens of students and faculty in attendance. Drawing on the analytic framework of intersectionality developed by Black feminist scholars, Dr. Singh presented her...

Sociology holds fall welcome picnic at Lake Yosemite

September 14, 2017
Faculty, graduate students, and family celebrated the incoming academic year with a picnic at Lake Yosemite. New faculty members, graduate students, and sociology club officers were introduced at the evening activity.

Sociology Welcomes Charlie Eaton to the Department!

August 29, 2017
Professor Charlie Eaton has joined UC Merced Sociology as its newest faculty member. Charlie received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He studies how organizations shape inequality through politics, public policy, and the economy. His current research traces how financialization has led to new...

Dodson Publishes in Social Forces on Social Class and Taxes

August 28, 2017
Professor Dodson recently published a study in Social Forces that examines how economic downturns can mobilize class conflict over tax policy.  He finds that during periods of economic distress, manual workers advocate shifting the burden of paying taxes to the more affluent.  Conversely...

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