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Sociology Graduate Student Recognized for Community-based Research

February 12, 2016
Maria Mora was awarded UC Merced's Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) Graduate Student Award for the 2015-2016 academic cycle. The award is sponsored by the UC Merced Resource Center for Community Engaged Scholarship (ReCCES) and is given for research that has both a community benefit and...

Local Mercedian Documents Road to UCM Sociology Degree

December 16, 2015
Angel Barragan took the long road to UC Merced. Growing up here, there and everywhere in the state, the high school dropout focused on survival. An injury ended his career in construction, but opened the door for him to pursue his dream of education and ministering to others. At 34, the sociology...

Professor Golash-Boza publishes book on deportations with New York University Press

December 11, 2015
Tanya Golash-Boza’s book Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism was released on December 11, 2015 from New York University Press. Deported is a timely, provocative, and insightful book about mass deportation, an issue of tremendous contemporary public importance...

Valdez publishes book on entrepreneurs and the American Dream with Routledge

December 10, 2015
Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream explores several "myths" associated with American entrepreneurship: the idea that small business owners are "job creators"; that entrepreneurs are the "backbone" or "engine" of the economy; that...

Almeida Presents Book in Central America

December 3, 2015
Paul Almeida presented the Spanish translation of Waves of Protest to the History and Sociology Departments at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). Link to Full Story

Dodson Publishes New Article in Social Currents

December 1, 2015
Professor Dodson’s research on gender and protest activity was recently published in Social Currents.  In the article, he shows how shared beliefs about gender influence the kinds of protest in which men and women participate.  In contexts where the public holds more traditional...

Handbook of Latin American Social Movements Presented at ALAS

November 30, 2015
Paul Almeida and Allen Cordero presented their recently published edited volume the Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America (2015) at the Latin American Sociological Association Meetings on November 30 in Costa Rica.

Professor Golash-Boza's book Deported discussed at the Economic Policy Institute

November 19, 2015
The Economic Policy Institute hosted an event to present a new book on deportations which explores how they have become a tool in a broader strategy to police immigrant workers and keep them exploited in the name of global capitalism. Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza, the author of Deported: Policing...

Almeida's Book Reaches Best Seller List in El Salvador

November 15, 2015
The Spanish translation of Paul Almeida's book, Olas de Movilizacion Popular, was listed as a top 10 Best Seller in El Salvador. The study focuses on the rise and fall of waves of popular mobilization and social change in El Salvador between 1925 and 2010. A national radio show dedicated to the...

Dodson Publishes New Article in Sociological Perspectives

November 1, 2015
Professor Dodson’s article on the importance of economic threat for protest participation was recently accepted for publication at Sociological Perspectives.  The articles demonstrates that the mobilizing influence of economic threat (in this case, rising unemployment) is strongest when...

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