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Standout Sociology Program Earns Approval for Grad Degrees

October 5, 2015
Current and prospective graduate students have new degree options at UC Merced, which recently received approval from the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission for both master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology.   Sociology students at UC Merced previously...

Sociology Graduate Student Awarded UC MEXUS-CONACYT Fellowship

September 12, 2015
First year sociology graduate student Benigno Merlin has been awarded a four year fellowship from the UC MEXUS-CONACYT Program. The Fellowship will support Benigno's studies toward a PhD in Sociology at UC Merced. Merlin also was recognized with an Honorable Mention in the Ford Foundation's...

Professor Hamilton Wins Early Career Award

August 20, 2015
Laura Hamilton is the first winner of the now biannual American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Doris Entwisle Early Career Award. This award went to the most influential scholar in the sociology of education nominated within five years of receiving their PhD.

Laura Hamilton becomes joint recipient of Major American Sociological Association Award

August 15, 2015
Laura Hamilton’s co-authored book, Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, has won the 2015 American Sociological Association Distinguished Book Award. This award is only offered to one book a year, in sociology. The book has also been awarded five other awards...

Blog Post on Movement Activism by Prof. Dodson

August 1, 2015
Professor Dodson recently contributed a post to Mobilizing Ideas, a blog sponsored by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) section of the American Sociological Association.  The blog post “Too Far or Not Far Enough?” considers whether scholarly definitions of what...

Graduate Dean Zatz co-authors book on Immigration Policy with UC Press

June 15, 2015
Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy...

Valdez Publishes New Article in Sociological Forum

June 1, 2015
In this special issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of civil rights, Valdez develops a critical race approach to better understand persistent racial inequality in the progressive, post-civil rights era.

Beattie Publishes New Article

May 6, 2015
Irenee Beattie has published a new article in Sociological Perspectives entitled, “Mismatched Educational Expectations and Achievement and Adolescent Women’s Risk of Unprotected First Sex.” 

UC Merced Sociologist Honored by Pacific Sociological Association

April 2, 2015
UC Merced Sociologist Paul Almeida received the 2015 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA). The honor was given for his book Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). 

Valdez Publishes New Article in Research in the Sociology of Work

March 31, 2015
Her study challenges the emphasis on ethnicity in predicting assimilation pathways in favor of an intersectional approach that considers how multiple and intersecting dimensions of identity including race, class, and gender, shape the process of economic incorporation among ethnic groups.

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