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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...

Gabriela Flores' Research Raises Awareness about Hispanic-Serving Institutions

October 24, 2023
Sociology PhD student Gabriela Flores shared insight from her longitudinal research with Latinx college students attending Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) and their parents in a recent blog post for ImmigrantEdNext. "Gabriela’s work calls attention to the need to raise awareness...

Professor Eaton Wins ASA Book Award

October 17, 2023
Professor Charlie Eaton has been awarded the 2023 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book in the Sociology of Education by the American Sociological Association. His book, Bankers in the Ivory Tower, exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America....

Melissa Quesada awarded Pre-Professoriate Fellowship and Teaching Innovations Award

October 4, 2023
Congratulations to sociology graduate student, Melissa Quesada, who was awarded the UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship and the Sage Publications Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award! The UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship aims to enhance faculty diversity and...

Paul Almeida and Luis Rubén González Márquez publish in Latin American Perspectives

October 2, 2023
Professor Paul Almeida and Ph. D. candidate Luis Rubén González Márquez published "Interpreting Repressive and Economic Threats: Música contestataria and Collective Resistance in Central America" in Latin American Perspectives. "Repressive and economic threats drive much of the...

Zulema Valdez Appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for EJIE

September 5, 2023
Zulema Valdez has been selected as UC Merced’s associate vice chancellor for Equity, Justice and Inclusive Excellence (EJIE). In making the announcement, Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer Delia Saenz said, "Professor Valdez brings substantial leadership experience to this new role in that...

Sociology Student Receives Campus’s First NSF-funded Dissertation Award

July 10, 2023
UC Merced doctoral student Luis Rubén González Marquez was awarded the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG), funded by the National Science Foundation, for his research on renewable energy conflicts in Central America. The grant started May...

Campus Adds New Areas of Studies for Students to Choose From

June 12, 2023
New students or those who have not yet chosen their majors will have an array of options before them. Five new majors and several new emphases, ranging across all three schools, are all coming online in 2024 and are recruiting students now. New bachelor’s of science degrees: chemical engineering...

Network of Genocide Scholars Features Luis Rubén González

April 24, 2023
Sociology Ph.D. candidate Luis Rubén González was interviewed by the International Network of Genocide Scholars about his research in labor mobilization, political violence, extractivism and social movements. His current research is on political violence due to extractivist...

California Program for Migrant Children Could Be a Model

April 7, 2023
Sociology professor Stephanie L. Canizales writes an insightful guest commentary about a California program for migrant children that could be a national model if legislators support it. Migration by unaccompanied minors remains a central topic in immigration. Adding to concerns for young...

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