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