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Sociology Graduate Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

April 7, 2014
Violet Barton has been awarded the Eugene Cota-Robles (ECR) Graduate Student Fellowship  

Valdez Awarded National Science Foundation Seed Funding

March 12, 2014
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...

Beattie Publishes Article on Educational Tracking and Life Transitions

March 3, 2014
Irenee Beattie’s article, “Tracking Women’s Transitions to Adulthood: Race, Curricular Tracking, and Young Adult Outcomes” is forthcoming in the interdisciplinary journal Youth & Society.  

Valdez Elected Chair of ASA Section

February 19, 2014
Zulema Valdez was elected to serve as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Latino/Latina Sociology, 2014–2015.  

Golash-Boza to Publish Book on Race and Racism

February 11, 2014
Tanya Golash-Boza’s textbook, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach will be released by Oxford University Press in August 2014.  

New Research from Laura Hamilton

February 5, 2014
Professor Hamilton has two articles forthcoming in the upcoming months. “The Revised MRS: Gender Complementarity at College” will be published in Gender & Society and “Good Girls:’ Social Class and Sexual Privilege” (with Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Elizabeth M....

Dodson to Publish Study on How College Affects Students’ Political Orientations

February 2, 2014
Professor Dodson has a study that will be published in an edited volume (Professors and Their Politics by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons). The study examines the importance of pre-existing political orientations for how students participate in college politics.  

Professor Valdez Publishes Research Guide on Latino/Latina Studies

January 5, 2014
Zulema Valdez published an authoritative research guide on “Latino/Latina Studies,” for Oxford Bibliographies Online in Sociology, Jeff Manza, Editor, Oxford University Press.  

Professor Golash-Boza Named as Associate Editor

January 1, 2014
Tanya Golash-Boza was selected to serve as a Founding Associate Editor of the new journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (SRE). SRE is the official journal of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.  

Almeida Named to Editorial Board

February 5, 2013
Paul Almeida has beed appointed to the editorial board of the journal Social Forces.  

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