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Ed Flores Recognized with Book Award at the American Sociological Association Meetings

August 13, 2014

Sociology Professor Edward Flores received the ASA Section on Latino/a Sociology’s Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award. Dr. Flores’ award winning book is entitled, God’s Gangs: Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery, New York University Press (2013).

Sociology Welcomes Four New Faculty Members

July 21, 2014

The Sociology Department welcomes four new faculty members in July. They are Edward Flores (coming from Loyola-Chicago), Whitney Laster (from Vanderbilt), Elizabeth Whitt (from Washington University- St. Louis) and Marjorie Zatz (NSF and Arizona State University). Dr. Flores’ work focuses on...

Hamilton’s Co-Authored Paper Accepted at Social Forces

July 21, 2014

Professor Hamilton’s article “Sexual Subjectivity among Adolescent Girls: Social Disadvantage and Young Adult Outcomes” (with Simon Cheng, Stacy Missari, and Josef Ma) is forthcoming in Social Forces.

Laster’s Co-Authored Paper Accepted in Social Currents

July 7, 2014

Professor Laster has had a paper accepted in the new sociology journal, Social Currents. The paper, “Staking Territory in the ”World White Wed“: An Exploration of the Roles of Overt and Color-blind Racism in Maintaining Boundaries on a Popular Web Site,” was co-authored with...

Golash-Boza and Collaborators Win Fellowship on Immigration Research

June 16, 2014

Tanya Golash-Boza was awarded a University of California Humanities Research Institute Short-Term Residential Fellowship for “The Other Immigrants: 21st Century ”White“ Immigrants and Migration Studies in the U.S.” (with Ana Aparicio, Jemima Pierre, and David Torres-Rouff...

Almeida Elected as Chair of ASA Section

June 5, 2014

Paul Almeida was elected to serve as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) for 2015–2016.

Almeida Publishes Book with Johns Hopkins University Press

June 2, 2014

Almeida’s study on mobilization against globalization and economic liberalization processes was published this month. The book, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest, examines the formation of oppositional groups and alliances at the local level throughout Central America...

Golash-Boza Selected for Editorial Board of Top Sociology Journal

May 20, 2014

Tanya Golash-Boza was invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the journal, Social Problems.

Sociology Undergraduate Recognized with Graduating Student Award

May 19, 2014

Maria de Jesus Martinez Mora received one of three Outstanding Graduating Student Awards from the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.

Beattie Awarded Collaborative Grant

May 15, 2014

Irenee Beattie has been awarded a research grant from the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence at UC Merced for her collaborative research with Dave Noelle, UCM faculty member in Cognitive Science and Computer Science. The project is titled, “Improving Computing Education for Students...

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