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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.  
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...
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...
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.  
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...
May 20, 2014
Tanya Golash-Boza was invited to serve on the Advisory Board of the journal, Social Problems.  
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.  
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...
May 12, 2014
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.  
May 7, 2014
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...

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