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Professor Meredith Van Natta Authors Article in Law & Society Review

January 18, 2024
Assistant Professor Meredith Van Natta published an article titled "Public Charge, Legal Estrangement, and Renegotiating Situational Trust in the US Healthcare Safety Net" in Law & Society Review. From the article: "US immigration law increasingly excludes many immigrants...

Professor Ed Flores Quoted in Sacramento Bee

December 11, 2023
Ed Flores, associate professor of sociology, was quoted in a story in The Sacramento Bee: "California Forces Migrant Farmworker Students to Move Every Year: 'We Need to Survive.'" From the article: According to Ed Flores, faculty director of the UC Merced Community and Labor...

Study of Racial Effects of University Funding Cuts Wins $100,000 Education Prize

December 7, 2023
A $100,000 award will fund a UC Merced researcher's work into determining how the nation's public universities can do a better job educating students of color. Sociology Professor Laura Hamilton is co-winner of the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, which honors...

Professor Pirtle Publishes Article in Journal of Health and Social Behavior

November 21, 2023
Whitney Laster Pirtle co-authored a new article in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled "COVID-19’s Unequal Toll: Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life by Gendered and Racialized Groups." The paper finds that, among White men and women, the COVID-19 pandemic was...

Unaccompanied Immigrant Teen Workers’ Transnational Lives and Imagined Futures

November 19, 2023
Stephanie L. Canizales published a new artticle in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies titled  “Between Obligations and Aspirations: Unaccompanied Immigrant Teen Workers’ Transnational Lives and Imagined Futures.” Relying on ethnographic observation and in-depth...

Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities

November 18, 2023
Christian M. Smith, Amber D. Villalobos, Laura T. Hamilton, and Charlie Eaton published a new article in Social Forces titled "Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities." The paper shows that online education is related to worse educational...

UC Merced Well-Represented at California Sociological Association Conference

November 9, 2023
Nearly a dozen UC Merced graduate students and graduate alumni participated in the annual California Sociological Association (CSA) Conference in Sacramento on Nov. 3-4. The theme of this year’s CSA conference centered on “Sociology and Praxis: The Labor and Obligations of Creating a More Just...

Professor Van Natta Publishes Bobcat Comic: Medical Legal Violence

November 3, 2023
Sociology assistant professor Meredith Van Natta worked alongside illustrator Matteo Farinella to publish the Bobcat Comic: Medical Legal Violence as part of this year's UCM Center for Humanities Bobcat Comics Program. Based on Dr. Van Natta's recent book, the comic highlights the shifting...

Labor, Community-based Groups Key to Addressing Climate Challenge, Study Shows

November 2, 2023
One of the major challenges of this century is democratically engaging institutions and large numbers of people with strategies to mitigate global warming by minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. A new study by sociology Professor Paul Almeida and colleagues in the Nature Portfolio’s journal npj...

Professor Canizales Publishes Op-Ed in LA Times

October 27, 2023
Stephanie L. Canizales, assistant professor of sociology and author of the forthcoming book “Sin Padres, Ni Papeles,” has published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about the impact of immigration policy on child labor. In "Opinion: Our failed immigration policy is causing a child...

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