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...
Sociology graduate student Marcus Shaw received a mini-grant to attend a special workshop on life-course data at Texas A&M University for his research.
Tanya Golash-Boza’s article, “Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program,” co-authored with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, was awarded an honorable mention for the Best Article Award from Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological...
Sociology Graduate Student Wendy Puquirre has received the Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship. Puquirre will work under the guidance of faculty mentor Irenee Beattie to develop her research on social capital and educational attainment.
Professor Laster published a co-authored paper, “The Use of Psychiatric Medication, Human Capital, and the Amplification of Mistrust ” in Sociological Spectrum (with C. Andre ́ Christie-Mizell, Helena E. Dagadu, and Stacye A. Blount ).
Nella Van Dyke has published an edited book (with David Meyer of UC Irvine) entitled, Understanding the Tea Party Movement (London: Ashgate). The volume includes contributions from social movement scholars analyzing the rapid rise of one of the most influential political groups in the United States...
Zulema Valdez, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, and Nancy Plankey Videla, Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University, have been awarded an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant (2014–2016) for their project, “The Effects of Legal Status...
