In the News
UCLA SOCIOLOGY IN THE NEWS
2020-2021
Professor Aliza Luft published (with Sue Thomson) “Race, Nation, and Resistance to State Symbolic Power in Rwanda Since the 1994 Genocide.” Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism, Political Power and Social Theory. 38 (2021): 105-134 and “An Ordinary Tale of Solidarity and Survival? Reflections on Jacques Sémelin’s The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940–44,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 39:2(2021): 280-286.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar participated in the forum, “Rethinking Rights and Who or What They Protect,” as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2017).
Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar at UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable Communities Jason Sexton published “The Critical Study of Religion and Division in the Age of Covid-19,” International Journal of Public Theology (Brill) 15/2 (2021): 157-176
Professor Desi Small-Rodriguez published “Identifying Disparities in Health Outcomes and Mortality for American Indian and Alaska Native Populations Using Tribally Disaggregated Vital Statistics and Health Survey Data” in the American Journal of Public Health and the research was featured in USA Today. Desi was also on MSNBC with Yasmin Vossoughian talking about data erasure and Indigenous Peoples for the podcast Desi co-hosts titled “All My Relations.”
Professor Stefan Timmermans’s article (with Steve Epstein), titled “From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority” is the featured article this month in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Professor Min Zhou was quoted in The Wire China on philanthropy and NGOs in China. The Sociology Department at Rice University honored her for her lifetime achievement with a named research award. She has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Sociological Research Association. Finally, she received a grant (US$30,000) from the Eurasia Foundation (in Asia) to develop a new undergraduate course for sociology on “The Asian Community: Cross-Border Movements, Diasporic Formation, and Social Transformations in the Asia Pacific Region” (it will be offered in 22W as SOC 180A).
Dr. Sara Goico is the lead editor—among other editor-researchers affiliated with the UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC)—on a newly published special issue in Social Interaction, titled “Sensoriality in Video-Based Fieldwork.”
Professor Rebecca Emigh was promoted to Professor Step 6, effective July 1, 2020. Promotion to Professor, Step 6 is a hurdle review in the University of California system that requires not only “evidence of sustained and continuous excellence” in scholarship, teaching, and service, but also “great academic distinction, recognized nationally” (The CALL, Regular Professorial Series, V. A.3.1). Only faculty at step 6 may serve on some of the highest university committees, including the Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP).
Professor Jason Ferguson has just published an article in the American Sociological Review, titled “There Is an Eye on Us”: International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal.”
Professor Kevan Harris has published “Difference in Difference: Language, Geography, and Ethno-racial Identity in Contemporary Iran” (with Rasmus Elling) in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The findings were mentioned by the Atlantic Council in a recent op-ed.
Professor Hannah Landecker has published a new article in The Lancet Planetary Health (with Cajetan Neubauer) titled “A Planetary Health Perspective on Synthetic Methionine.”
Professor Cecilia Menjivar assumed the presidency at the ASA business meeting on August 9, 2021, which was written up in the UCLA newsroom.
Professor Ivan Light has published a new article in the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship titled “Exiting Poverty through Self-Employment: The Grameen Model and Rotating Credit Associations as Alternative Strategies.”
Professor Min Zhou was quoted in an LA Times article titled “Pandemic concerns may prime people to discriminate against Asians and Latinos.” This LAT article refers to a recent study published in PNAS by UCLA alumnus Yao Lu, Neeraj Kaushal, Xiaoning Huang, and our very own Professor Michael Gaddis, titled “Priming COVID-19 salience increases prejudice and discriminatory intent against Asians and Hispanics.”
Professor Jennie Brand and CCPR staff contributed to the recent UC Press Room Release on California migration patterns.
Presidential Postdoc Sara Goico published (with the Association of Parents of Deaf Children in Iquitos, Peru) “Establishing the first sign-based public deaf education programme in Iquitos, Peru,” 2021. Deafness & Education International. June. Sara was also interviewed for The International Society for Conversation Analysis about her work with Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis for Racial Justice (EMCA4RJ).
Professor CK Lee was promoted to Professor, Step 6. Promotion to Professor, Step 6 is a hurdle review at UCLA that requires not only “evidence of sustained and continuous excellence” in scholarship, teaching, and service, but also “great academic distinction, recognized nationally.” (The CALL, Regular Professorial Series, V. A.3.1). It is a big deal!
Professor Natasha Quadlin received the Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award for best paper published with data funded through Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). The paper is “Sibling Achievement, Sibling Gender, and Beliefs about Parental Investment: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment,” 2019. Social Forces.97(4): 1603-1630.
Professor Min Zhou was quoted in Al Jazeera in an article “Why are China’s billionaires suddenly feeling so generous?” on July 16, 2021.
After almost five decades as one of our most distinguished faculty members, Professor Lynne Zucker has retired as a ladder faculty member, effective July 1, 2021. The university has appointed her, also effective July 1, 2021, to the title of Research Professor. This appointment—reserved for Professor Emeriti who continue a high level of research productivity—acknowledges Lynne’s distinguished status and her many contributions to UCLA. It is also an expression of the university’s confidence that Lynne will continue to produce cutting-edge research
Professor Karida Brown was inducted into her high school’s (Uniondale High School in Long Island, NY) Hall of Fame.
Professor Aliza Luft’s article “How Do You Repair a Broken World? Conflict(ing) Archives After the Holocaust,” published in Qualitative Sociology, is the co-winner of this year’s Outstanding Published Article Award for the Peace War and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Professor Judith Seltzer was awarded the ASA Family Section’s Distinguished Career Award.
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Sara Goico published “Repeated assemblages in the interactions of deaf youth in Peru” in International Journal of Multilingualism. Sara also published “The participation role of the researcher as a co-operative achievement” in a special issue of Social Interaction—Video-based Studies of Human Sociality that Sara co-edited with a group of visitors at Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC).
Postdoctoral fellow David Peterson published a column in Nature titled “The replication crisis won’t be solved with broad brushstrokes,” and two articles (with Aaron Panofsky): 1) “Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication” in Social Studies of Science; and 2) “Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement.” The latter inspired a column in Psychology Today titled “Theory of a Scientific Revolution.”
Professor Natasha Quadlin received the Doris Entwisle Early Career Award from the ASA section on Sociology of Education.
Professor Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear was quoted in a CNN article titled, “For many tribal nations, the pandemic also brought an increase in population.”
Professor Aliza Luft’s article “Religion in Vichy France: How Meso-Level Actors Contribute to Authoritarian Legitimation,” published in European Journal of Sociology, won an honorable mention for the Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Religion Section.
Professor Abigail C. Saguy was interviewed on local NPR stations on Wednesday June 9 and again on Monday June 14 about body shaming and gender and quoted in a Newsweek article and in a Mashablearticle on related topics.
Professor Jennie Brand published a piece in The Conversation with UCLA Sociology alum Sarah Burgard.
Professor Jeffrey Guhin published (with Jessica McCrory Calarco and Cynthia Miller-Idriss) “Whatever Happened to Socialization?” in the Annual Review of Sociology.
Professor Marcus Hunter published an op-ed (with an accompanying video) on May 30, 2021, titled “Racial discrimination has cost American economy trillions. Tulsa, massacres just a start,” showing how racial discrimination harms all Americans.
Professor Hannah Landecker received a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for AY 2021-2022.
Professor Min Zhou was interviewed by CNBC in a video—published on May 26, 2021—on the growing income gap among Asian Americans. Min was also quoted in a Daily Bruin article, “Asian American, Pacific Islander students discuss limitations of ‘AAPI’ label,” on May 30, 2021.
Professor Abigail C. Saguy was quoted in an article in USA Today on body shaming high school students.
2019-2020
Graduate student Sara Johnsen was awarded a 2020 Emerging Scholars Grant from the Society of Family Planning.
Graduate student Mirian Martinez-Aranda published a new paper, “Extended punishment: Criminalising immigrants through surveillance technology,” in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. The paper is available here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1822159
Professor Rogers Brubaker has published “The Dangers of Race Reductionism” in Persuasion.
Professor Jeff Guhin has published “The boundaries of pragmatism in Muslim education: Comparing the Islamic pedagogies of Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah Gülen” in Critical Research in Religion.
Professor Min Zhou has published (with Carl L. Bankston III) “Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: the case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States” in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
PhD graduate Jacob Thomas won an Honorable Mention from the ASA section on International Migration for his paper, “Whom Does a U.S. Consular Officer Perceive As An ‘Immigrant’? How Cultural Habitus Stratifies Legal Mobility from Mainland China.”
Graduate student Ian Gray published the article “Damage Functions” in e-Flux. The article is available here:
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/accumulation/337972/damage-functions/
Professor Jeff Guhin published an article in Slate about the Jerry Falwell scandal and the meaning of scandal more broadly, and he also recently published a bold new piece in The Hedgehog Review on how COVID can change the purpose of education.
Professor Abigail Saguy did an interview with Dr. Celia Lacayo at Community Engagement about her book “Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are”
Graduate student Qiaoyan Rosenberg was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
Graduate student Rebecca Kaufman published the article “Technologies and Health Inequities” (with Stefan Timmermans) in the Annual Review of Sociology. The article is available here:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054802
Former doctoral student Neil Gong published an essay in the LA Review of Books:
Gradute student Nihal Kayali was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
PhD graduate Jacob Thomas published the paper “From local control to remote control: an excavation of international mobility constraints” in Theory & Society. The paper is available here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-020-09397-y
Professor Marcus Hunter was featured in the UCLA newsroom for his contributions to a proposed U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, which U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee introduced into Congress shortly after protests erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Professor Emeritus Mick Mann has just been awarded an honorary doctorate, his fourth, by the University of Rouen-Normandy. Because of the virus (here rather than there) the ceremony will not be until next year.
Professor Aaron Panofksy’s 2019 article with Joan Donovan, “Genetic Ancestry Testing Among White Nationalists: From identity repair to citizen science” has won both the Star-Nelkin Prize for Best Article from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of ASA, and the 2020 David Edge Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science for the best article of the year.
Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Prager has published a review essay “Reading Freud Anew” as part of a Review Symposium on Howard Kaye’s Freud as a Cultural and Social Theorist in Society, Volume 57, Number 3 (2020): 265-268. Jeff has also published Post-Conflict Hauntings, Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma, edited by Kim Wale, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, and Jeffrey Prager (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), which include’s Jeff’s essay “Do Black Lives Matter?: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Racism and American Resistance to Reparations,” pgs 93-117.
Professor Judith Seltzer was appointed for a second term to the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. CNSTAT advises the federal government and the nation using the best scientific knowledge and practice to improve statistical methods and information to inform public policy.
Jay Johnson published the paper “Constructing and contesting state-urban borders: litigation over Refugee Reception Offices in post-apartheid South African cities” in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. The paper is available here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4QRQQFR2FGDRSJXNNM8Y/full?target=10.1080/1369183X.2020.1779046
Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Prager has been appointed Interim Chair of Informational Studies.
Former graduate student Neil Gong won the ASA Section on Theory’s Junior Theorist Award for the best paper produced by an early career sociologist. The award recognized his 2019 paper in ASR, “Between Tolerant Containment and Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family.” The paper is available here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122419859533
PhD graduate Jacob Thomas published an essay for Contexts in their feature on “Covid-19 and the Future of Society.” The piece is available here:
https://contexts.org/blog/covid-19-and-the-future-of-society/
Garduate student Paul Martinez published a report (with Daniel J. Losen), “Is California Doing Enough to Close the School Discipline Gap?” The report is available here:
The report received media coverage in the SF Chronicle and LA Daily News:
Graduate student Charlotte Abel published “Reproduction during COVID-19: Implications of Physical and Social Isolation” in ASA’s Footnotes. The piece is available here:
Tahseen Shams (PhD 2018; Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto) has just published Here, There and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World (Stanford University Press).
Professor Jessica Collett and Assistant Professor Aliza Luft received a Research Enabling Grant from the UCLA Council on Research for their project examining how variations in person perception shape moral judgment.
Assistant Professor Michael Gaddis received an honorable mention for the American Sociological Association Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities Early Career Award.
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris received a remarkable THREE recent awards to support his work with the Iran Social Survey during the 2020-21 academic year. These include a UCLA Center for the Study of Women Faculty Research Grant, a UCLA Council on Research Faculty Research Grant, and a Faculty Career Development Award.
Assistant Professor Aliza Luft was quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times on why it’s important for white people to talk with their families about racism. The full piece can be found here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-19/in-the-wake-of-george-floyds-death-people-are-finally-talking-to-their-non-black-family-members-about-race.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration.
Incoming Assistant Professor Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear (joining the UCLA Sociology faculty July 2020) published a piece titled “Redefining progress” in the May/June issue of ASA Footnotes. The full article can be found here: https://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/may-jun-2020/personal-narratives/redefining-progress.
Graduate student Jessica Huerta was awarded a three-year fellowship from the Pat Tillman Foundation.
Graduate student J Shim published the paper “Token fatigue: tolls of marginalization in white male spaces” in Ethnic & Racial Studies. Their paper is available for download here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2020.1779947
Graduate student Harleen Kaur published the following paper: “Making Citizenship, Becoming Citizens: How Sikh Punjabis Shaped the Exclusionary Politics of Belonging.” Amerasia Journal, forthcoming. The paper also won the UCLA Asian American Studies Center’s Ben and Alice Hirano Best Paper Scholarship award. It is available for download here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00447471.2020.1772186
PhD graduate Jacob Thomas published the following paper: “When Political Freedom Does Not Offer Travel Freedom: The Varying Determinants of Visa‐Free Travel Opportunities.” International Migration 58, no. 2 (2020): 80-97. The paper is available here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12603
Assistant Professor Karida Brown has been appointed as the inaugural director of racial equity and action for the Los Angeles Lakers. The announcement of Professor Brown’s new position was featured in a recent article in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-06-18/lakers-hire-karida-brown-as-director-of-racial-equity-and-action).
Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Darnell Hunt was featured in a recent episode of The Lead CNN with Jack Tapper, focused on the topic of police brutality. The episode may be viewed here: https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1269021402121875457. Dean Hunt has also been featured or quoted in a large number of other news outlets in recent weeks, including the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/george-floyd-protests-minneapolis.html), USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/31/george-floyd-riots-violence-looting-words-matter-experts-say/5290908002/), BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52869563), The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/01/retailers-restaurants-across-us-close-their-doors-amid-protests/), The Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-appletv-to-netflix-stories-focus-on-african-americans-chasing-the-american-dream-11591211546), and Vox.com (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/6/2/21278113/looting-george-floyd-protests-social-unrest).
Professor Marcus Hunter, Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, published “How Does L.A.’s Racial Past Resonate Now? #Blacklivesmatter’s Originator and 5 Writers Discuss,” in the Los Angeles Times. For the full story, see: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-06-08/six-writers-on-l-a-and-black-lives-matter.
Assistant Professor Aliza Luft published an essay for the Sociology of Culture section in the ASA Footnotes special issue on Sociologists and Sociology During COVID-19. For the full piece, see: https://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/may-jun-2020/research-policy/sociology-culture-culture-crisis-and-morality.
Graduate student Alina Arseniev-Koehler has received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Mathematical Sociology section of the ASA.
Professor Karida Brown was elected to Council of both the ASA Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology AND the ASA Section on Sociology of Culture. Professor Brown has also accepted an appointment as Associate Director of the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Professor Jeff Guhin was elected to Council of the ASA Section on Sociology of Religion.
Professor CK Lee was elected Chair of the ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology.
Professor Natasha Quadlin (arriving July 2020) was elected to Council of the ASA Section on Sex and Gender. (This is in addition to her previously announced election to the Council of the ASA Section on Sociology of Education.)
Professor Tanya Stivers was elected Co-Chair of the ASA Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
Graduate student Anthony James Williams, was quoted in three media reports regarding #BlackoutTuesday. The reports are available here:
• Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-black-squares-overtook-activist-hashtags/
• Suncoast News Network: https://www.snntv.com/story/42202677/blackouttuesday-may-cause-more-harm-than-good
Professor Jennie Brand was elected Chair of the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section.
Professor Jessica Collett was elected Chair of the ASA Social Psychology Section.
Professor Natasha Quadlin (arriving July 2020) was elected to the Council of the ASA Sociology of Education Section.
Alina Arseniev-Koehler was elected Student Representative of the ASA Methodology Section.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar has been elected 113th President of the American Sociological Association! Professor Menjivar will assume her office in August 2021, following a year of service as President-elect. She will chair the Program Committee for the 2022 ASA Annual Meeting.
Professor CK Lee published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on the Hong Kong crisis:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-28/op-ed-if-hong-kong-burns-the-world-gets-burned-too
Professor Min Zhou was awarded the 2020 American Sociological Association Section on Asia & Asian America’s Contribution to the Field Award.
Graduate student Tianjian Lai published a new paper, “Legal Exclusion, Civic Exclusion: How Legal Status Stratifies Latino Immigrants’ Civic Engagement,” in the International Migration Review. The paper is available here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/d…/pdf/10.1177/0197918320923274
Graduate student Caroline Tietbohl accepted a faculty position in the Department of Family Medicine and ACCORDS at the University of Colorado.
Professor Aliza Luft recently received a Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust from Northwestern University. Luft also published three research articles: “Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships,” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World; “Religion in Vichy France: How Meso-Level Actors Contribute to Authoritarian Legitimation,” European Journal of Sociology; and “Three Stories and Three Questions about Participation in Genocide,” Journal of Perpetrator Research.
Professor Abigail Saguy’s book, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are (Oxford University Pres, 2020) just received a glowing review in Ms. Magazine, the iconic feminist magazine founded in the 1970s.
Professor Aaron Panofsky was recently named named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow (https://www.carnegie.org/awards/andrew-carnegie-fellows/2020/).
Professor Abigail Saguy’s book, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are (Oxford University Press, 2020) was reviewed in the Bay Area Reporter. Professor Saguy was also interviewed (before quarantine) for a podcast with Pride that just went live. And Oxford University Press is featuring her book among a collection of titles and chapters exploring different topics including LGBTQ and Gender rights and Healthcare for the the upcoming 2020 Elections.
Graduate student Zach Griffen has had four papers recently accepted for publication:
Griffen and Aaron Panofsky. 2019. “VAM on trial: judging science in teacher evaluation lawsuits.” Journal of Cultural Economy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2020.1726792
Griffen and Stefan Timmermans. 2020. “The cost of saving babies: How economists justify policies.” Economy and Society https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2019.1690277
Griffen and Aaron Panofsky. Forthcoming. “Ambivalent economizations: The case of Value Added Modeling in teacher evaluation.” Theory & Society.
Griffen. Forthcoming. “The ‘Production’ of Education: The Turn from Equity to Efficiency in U.S. Federal Education Policy.” Journal of Education Policy.
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon was recently interviewed by Carmen Aristegui, for CNN en Español and her radio program, on the risks that temporary agricultural workers face in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The interviews follow a brief that Ruben’s research team put together on the risks that these workers face during recruitment in Mexico, at work and in dormitories in the U.S. and when they return to their home communities:
TV: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/tv_show/aristegui/#0
Radio: https://aristeguinoticias.com/2204/mexico/aristegui-en-vivo-22-04-20-declaran-fase-3-banxico-inyecta-liquidez-hoy-no-circula-y-mas/ (interview starts at one hour and 50 minutes)
Graduate student Juan Delgado published an op-ed in the New York Times, “Cómo evitar que el coronavirus profundice la desigualdad racial en Colombia.” The op-ed is available here:
https://www.nytimes.com/es/2020/04/29/espanol/opinion/coronavirus-afrodescendientes-colombia.html
Leydy Diossa-Jimenez, was selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Law & Science dissertation grant for her project, “Emigrant Political Rights in Latin America, Dual Citizenship, Voting and Representation: The Cases of Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico (1970-2018).”
Graduate student Sung Park, whose work with Judy Seltzer (and Emily Wiemers at Syracuse) – originally published in Population and Development Review – was profiled by the Population Reference Bureau:
https://www.prb.org/disadvantage-for-black-families-compounded-by-economic-circumstances-of-kin/
Graduate students Kyle Nelson and Ian Peacock won the Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.
Recent graduate of our doctoral program Molly Jacobs accepted the position of Academic Coordinator for Curriculum Assessment, as part of the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
Recent graduate of our doctoral program Ravaris Moore received a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University.
Our former grad student Neil Gong (and incoming faculty member Chris Herring) have a new piece out in the SF Examiner (“San Francisco has the authority, vacancies, and funds to house homeless people in hotels.”):
Caitlin Ahearn, with Professor Jennie Brand, has a new publiction in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper is the product of a broad scholarly community of some 112 authors, known as the Fragile Families Challenge. The paper is available here:
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/24/1915006117
The study also received additional attention here:
Caitlin and Jennie also have a related paper forthcoming in a special issue of Socius highlighting work in the Challenge:
Ahearn, Caitlin and Jennie E. Brand. 2020. “Predicting Layoff Among Fragile Families.” Socius.
Sera Kwon won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) award.
Professor Victor Agadjanian was featured in a recent UCLA newsroom piece. The full story is available at: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/demographers-work-has-taken-him-all-over-the-world
Professors Cecilia Menjivar, Jacob Foster, and Jennie Brand — with the support of a large group of concerned UCLA Sociology faculty (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRrBmtOfbqmCpYFq8EQIvJ22IFUf1iEcpMGzUEe8DTzFSljrPERWEDxODpeeL_2qlrStNcC8wlSEAU4/pub) — have published an opinion piece on CNN.com highlighting the importance of redoubling our efforts to be socially close in the face of the current need to remain physically distant. The full piece can be found here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/opinions/physical-distancing-menjivar-foster-brand/index.html.
Leydy Diossa-Jimenez was profiled in a prominent feature by the UCLA Newsroom. As the profile notes, “In honor of International Women’s Day 2020 on March 8, the UCLA International Institute is highlighting female Bruins who have overcome significant challenges in order to effect change in the world.”
The story is available here:
Professor Abigail Saguy’s new book, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are (Oxford 2020), was featured in the 8 O’clock Buzz on WORT FM radio (https://www.wortfm.org/come-out-come-out-whoever-you-are/).
Professor Karida Brown’s new book (co-authored with Jose Itzigsohn), The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line, was published this month with NYU Press.
Graduate student Zep Kalb published an article in the New Left Review on
“Tehran’s Universal Studios.” :
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II121/articles/zep-kalb-masoumeh-hashemi-tehran-s-universal-studios
UCLA Sociology Professors Cecilia Menjivar and Ruben Hernandez-Leon (along with UCLA Sociology PhD and Professor of Chicana/o Studies Leisy Abrego) were featured in an article in today’s Los Angeles Times about a conference they recently co-organized on Central American migration, held at UCLA at the end of January:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-18/central-american-studies-united-states.
Professor Kevan Harris and graduate student Zep Kalb’s ongoing research on labor protests in Iran was recently cited in the Washington Post:
Professor Abigail Saguy’s new book Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are has just been published by Oxford University Press. It examines how different groups (LGBTQ activists, undocumented immigrant youth, fat rights activists, polygamists, and survivors of sexual assault) wrestle with the politics of coming out in their efforts to resist stigma and enact social change. Former UCLA students Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Laura Enriquez, and Nicole Iturriaga each coauthored a book chapter. The Conversation has also just published a short piece—”The history of ‘coming out,’ from secret gay code to popular political protest”— that draws from the book. It was reprinted in Curve Magazine and TOWLEROAD. Reuters has also published a piece drawing on the book titled, “How lesbians help others come out as fat.”
Professor Min Zhou published a new article, co-authored with Carl Bankston, titled “The model minority stereotype and the national identity question: the challenges facing Asian immigrants and their children.” The piece appears in Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(1):233-253, available here.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar is on the American Sociological Association’s 2020 ballot for President-Elect! The full slate of candidates for ASA Officers, Council, Committee on Committees, Committee on Nominations, and Committee on Publications is available here.
Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal on recent austerity protests in Iran. Professor Harris was also interviewed in the Moscow-based Eurasia Daily on Iran’s economy under sanctions and welfare politics in middle-income countries. Finally the Department of Political Science and Law at the University of Tehran hosted a public panel on the recent Persian translation of Professor Harris’s 2017 book, A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran.
Professor Edward Walker was quoted in this CNBC piece on lobbying efforts by the vaping firm Juul (here) and also in the San Francisco Chronicle for an article on corporate boycotts (here).
A Persian translation of Professor Kevan Harris’s recent book, A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran, was published by Shirazeh Press.
Graduate student Zeke Chen published a new paper, “How the choice of reference group matters: economic integration of rural-to-urban migrants in China,” which appears in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. The paper is available for download here.
Professor Aliza Luft was referenced in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times story about the establishment of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. The full story is available here.
Graduate student Wisam Alshaibi’s “Weaponizing Iraq’s Archive” appears as the lead article in the Middle East Report’s Summer 2019 issue. The article is available here.
Professor Tanya Stivers was interviewed for a recent piece in BBC Future, titled “Lessons from ‘expert talkers’ could make all the difference when helping a person in crisis.” For the full story, click here.
2018-2019
Former doctoral student Neil Gong published an op-ed (with Alex Barnard) in the SF Chronicle, “Save San Francisco’s board-and-care homes — and then fix them.” The piece is available here.
Former doctoral student Caitlin Patler published an op-ed (with Leah Hibel) in the NYT, “What Will Indefinite Detention Do to Migrant Kids?” Available here.
Professor CK Lee published an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times, titled “A Hong Kong that’s forever changed.” For the full piece, see: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-05/hong-kong-protest-china-carrie-lam-democracy-police.
Professor Kevan Harris co-edited (with colleagues Jen Bair and Philip Hough) a special issue on debates and methods in global agrarian sociology, published in the Journal of Agrarian Change: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14710366/2019/19/3. The special issue includes an article on land reform and social mobility in Iran, co-authored by Harris and UCLA graduate student Zep Kalb, using data from the Iran Social Survey.
Professors Kevan Harris and CK Lee co-edited (with colleagues Jan Breman and Marcel van der Linden) a new volume titled The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View (University of California Press, 2019). The volume’s chapters are based on a conference held at the UCLA Sociology Department in 2016. The open-access volume is available via UC Press’ Luminos imprint: https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.74/.
Professor Kevan Harris published a chapter in a recent volume from Oxford University Press titled “Iran’s Commanding Heights: Privatization and Conglomerate Ownership in the Islamic Republic.” The chapter reports pilot findings from Harris’s Hellman Fellowship-funded project on Iranian state-business relations. For a twitter thread on the piece, see: https://twitter.com/kevankharris/status/1156334267984519168?s=20.
Professor Min Zhou recently published two papers: Zhou, Min and Roberto Gonzales. 2019. “Divergent Destinies: Children of Immigrants Growing up in America.” Annual Review of Sociology 45:383-99 and Zhan, Shaohua and Min Zhou. 2019. “Precarious Talent: Highly Skilled Chinese and Indian Immigrants in Singapore.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Professor CK Lee participated in a flurry of recent media interviews and commentaries on the current situation in Hong Kong, including with the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and the Danish newspaper Information.
Professor Omar Lizardo was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association (SRA)! (Omar joins our colleague Jennie Brand in this year’s “class” of newly elected members.) The SRA was founded in 1936 to recognize and advance excellence in sociological research.
Cory Mengual published a piece with the ASA Human Rights section, entitled “Race, Repression, and Representation: The Legacy of Marielle Franco in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.” The piece is available here: https://asahumanrights.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/hr-newsletter-final-large-file.pdf
Casandra Salgado accepted a tenure-track position with Arizona State University’s Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics beginning January 2020.
Professor Karida Brown was selected by the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to receive a 2019-20 Faculty Career Development Award.
Professor Michael Gaddis was selected by the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to receive a 2019-20 Faculty Career Development Award.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar published an Op-Ed in today’s Los Angeles Times, titled “Trump may wish Guatemala were a safe place for asylum applicants to wait, but it’s not.” For the full piece, see: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-24/trump-guatemala-asylum-safety#null.
Professor Jennie Brand was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association (SRA). The SRA was founded in 1936 to recognize and advance excellence in sociological research.
Professor Aliza Luft was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article on analogies between the Holocaust and contemporary American politics: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-holocaust-20190715-story.html.
Professor Chris Tilly’s book, Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies (Russell Sage, 2017), received the 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements.
Professor Aliza Luft’s letter on dual-process theories of morality and research on genocide was published in Inference Magazine: https://inference-review.com/letter/dual-process-theories-of-morality.
Professor CK Lee published an op-ed in the LA Times on the Hong Kong protest movement. The piece is available here.
Andrew Le was awarded a UC-Santa Barbara Blum Center Graduate Research Grant on Poverty, Inequality and Democracy for the 2019-20 academic year.
Yewon Lee accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. She also (1) published the article “Reframing Gentrification: How Tenant Shopkeepers’ Activism in Seoul Radically Reframed Gentrification” in Critical Sociology; (2) won an Honorable Mention for this article for the 2019 Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Graduate Student Paper Award (ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section); and (3) also won the 2019 Association of Korean Sociologists in America Graduate Student Paper Award.
Ariana Valle‘s paper “Race and the Empire-state: Puerto Ricans’ Unequal U.S. Citizenship” has won the 2019 ASA International Migration Section Student Paper Award.
Professor Stefan Timmermans won the 2019 Leo G. Reeder Career Award for distinguished contributions to Medical Sociology. He will give the Reeder Award address at the American Sociological Association meetings on Monday August 12th, during the award ceremony between 4:30 and 6:10 in the New York Hilton, Second Floor, Sutton Center. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Professor Gail Kligman has been appointed as Special Academic Advisor to the UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research for the 2019-20 academic year.
Professor Stefan Bargheer’s article, “The Invention of Theory: A Transnational Case Study of the Changing Status of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis” (Theory and Society, vol. 46), has received the American Sociological Association History of Sociology Section’s 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.
Professor Karida Brown’s book, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), has been selected as the winner of multiple recent awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA), including the 2019 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Section on Race, Gender, and Class, and as co-winner of the 2019 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Gone Home also received an honorable mention for the 2019 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award from the ASA Sociology of Population Section.
Professor Marcus Hunter’s book, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (University of California Press, 2018) has been selected as co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Community and Urban Sociology 2019 Robert E. Park Book Award.
Professor Gail Kligman was cited in a recent piece in the National Catholic Reporter.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago, 2017), has won the 2019 Outstanding Book Award of the Global Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
Professor Aliza Luft published a piece on the Social Science Research Council website.
Professor Abigail Saguy was recently quoted in USA Today. For the full story, see here.
Rocio Garcia’s paper, “Latinx Feminist Politicmaking: On the Messiness of Collective Action,” is this year’s winner of the ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class Graduate Paper Award.
Neil Gong’s paper, “That Proves You Mad, Because You Know it Not: Impaired Insight and the Dilemma of Governing Psychiatric Patients as Legal Subjects” (published in Theory & Society), is co-winner of the 2019 Shils-Coleman award for best student paper from the ASA theory section. The paper is available here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-017-9288-0
Molly Fee published a feature article (with Rawan Arar) in Contexts, entitled “What Happens When the United States Stops Taking in Refugees?” The article is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504219854713
Casandra Salgado accepted a two-year position as a postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University’s Department of Sociology.
Professor Abigail Saguy has published a follow-up piece on gender-neutral pronouns (co-authored with Juliet Williams, Robin Dembroff, and Daniel Wodak ) on the Scientific American website. Click here.
Amanda McArthur published a new paper, “Pain and the collision of expertise in primary care physical exams,” in Discourse Studies. The paper is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461445619846707
Assistant Professor Stefan Bargheer’s book, Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany, has won the 2019 Book Award for the American Sociological Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity.
Diya Bose won the CSW Constance Coiner Award.
Casandra Salgado published an article “Mexican Americans and Wealth: Economic Status, Family, and Place” (coauthored with Vilma Ortiz) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. The article is available here.
Professor Lynne Zucker has been awarded the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. For more information, click here.
Christina Chica published “Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University,” in Socius. The paper is available for download here.
Professor Abigail Saguy’s blog-post on gender-neutral pronouns (co-authored with Juliet Williams) was published on the Scientific American website. She was also interviewed for a BBC show on weight-based stigma. For more information, click here.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017), has won the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), for “an outstanding scholarly book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior and/or its policy implications with regard to societal, institutional, historical, philosophical, psychological, and ethical factors.”
Professor Marcus Hunter was featured in the e-forum, LA Social Science. For more information, click here.
Professor Jennie Brand’s recent research on the consequences of divorce for children was featured in TIME. For more information, click here.
Professor Patrick Heuveline and his collaborators won the PAA 2019 Post Award in Poster Session: Marriage, Family, Household, and Unions.
Wisam Alshaibi was awarded a fellowship from The American Research Institute in Iraq (TARII).
Angela Clague was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Ian Gray was awarded an SSRC Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF).
Anthony James Williams was awarded a fellowship through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowhip Program.
Gary Yeritsian accepted a three year Assistant Professor position in Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Sung Park published an article with Judy Seltzer and Emily Wiemers, “The Family Safety Net of Black and White Multigenerational Families,” in Population and Development Review. It is available here.
Paul Martinez published a policy brief, “The Promise of Strategic Nudging to Increase Student Awareness and Access to Financial Aid,” in _Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research_. The brief is available here.
Clara Bergen has accepted a postdoctoral appointment at City University of London School of Health Sciences.
Ariana Valle published an article, “Second-generation Central Americans and the Formation of an Ethnoracial Identity in Los Angeles,” in the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. The article is available here.
Wisam Alshaibi has published a new paper, “Personal Trials and Social Fears: Examining Reflexivity in Captivity Narratives,” with Leslie Irvine (CU Boulder) in the journal NANO.
Chiara Galli has published a new paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, entitled “Humanitarian Capital: How Lawyers Help Immigrants Use Suffering to Claim Membership in the Nation-State.” The piece is available here.
Professor John Heritage was selected to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Click here for more info.
Neil Gong has accepted two positions: a postdoctoral appointment with the Michigan Society of Fellows (University of Michigan) and a tenure-track assistant professorship at UC-San Diego.
Ian Gray published a commentary in the Washington Post (Monkey Cage) on the PG&E bankruptcy and what it means for firms and markets in light of climate change. The piece is available here.
Chiara Galli was awarded a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for her research.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017) has won the 2019 Joseph Levenson Prize given by the Association for Asian Studies for the best non-fiction scholarly book on post-1900 China.
Associate Professor Marcus Hunter’s book, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, has won a 2018 Outstanding Academic Titles Award from Choice. For more information, click here. Marcus has also been selected as a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences by the Association of American Publishers, here.
Professor Karida Brown’s book, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia, has been selected as a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences by the Association of American Publishers. For more information, click here.
Josefina Flores Morales published “Aging Knows No Borders” in Public Health Post, available here.
Nathan Hoffman published a new paper in the British Education Research Journal. The paper, “Cognitive achievement of children of immigrants: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study,” is available for download here.
Graduate student Rocio Garcia has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at Arizona State University starting in August 2019.
Professor Edward Walker recently appeared in an article in the Los Angeles Times (here) and on NPR-affiliate KPCC’s nationally-syndicated show, AirTalk with Larry Mantle, (here) on the topic of paid protesters.
Distinguished Professor Roger Waldinger published a new book with former UCLA graduate students Renee Reichl Luthra (PhD 2010) and Thomas Soehl (PhD 2014), titled Origins and Destinations: The Making of the Second Generation (Russell Sage, 2018); the book was the focus of an article that just appeared in The Nation (available here).
Professor Stefan Timmermans and UCLA Ph.D. Pamela Prickett published an editorial in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times on Los Angeles Country funerals for unclaimed dead, available here.
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris’s book, A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (University of California Press, 2017) has recently received two book awards. First, A Social Revolution received the Middle East Studies Association’s (MESA) 2018 Nikki Keddie Award (here). The book also received the 2018 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize from the Arab Studies Institute (here). The International Institute recently published a news piece on these two book awards, along with quotes from some well-known scholars in the field with their thoughts on the book: available here.
Assistant Professor Jacob Foster (with Erica Cartmill, UCLA Anthropology) received a $2.66 million dollar grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The grant will support small exploratory research projects at several institutions; a postdoctoral scholar and administrative staff at UCLA; and annual Summer Institutes that bring together early-career and established scholars for lectures, discussions, workshops, and projects in Diverse Intelligences. Diverse Intelligences is a new transdisciplinary initiative that asks how mind, cognition, and intelligence manifest in systems with radically different forms and foundations. It asks how we might recognize intelligences with bodies, life-ways, or timescales different from our own; how human capacities are shaped by culture, development, interaction, technology, and language; and how work on biological intelligence and artificial intelligence can mutually inform each other, along with the social, ethical, and philosophical implications of creating true artificial intelligence.
Ian Peacock, published a report with the American Immigration Council (with Emily Ryo from USC) on “The Landscape of Immigration Detention in the United States.” The report has received a wave of media coverage in NBC News, Houston Public Media, Quartz, and Augusta Free Press.
David Schieber has accepted a position at Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor of Instruction. The position is joint between their Department of Sociology and Business Institutions Program.
Graduate student Sung Park, Professor Judy Seltzer, and former UCLA doctoral student Jenjira Yahirun’s paper, “Step-grandparenthood in the United States” was published in the Journal of Gerontology and referenced in the New York Times article, “A Cornucopia of Grandparents”.
Graduate student Wisam Alshaibi has been awarded a fellowship through the Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program.
Professor Megan Sweeney was featured in an October 2nd discussion of changing U.S. divorce rates on NPR-affiliate KPCC’s “AirTalk” with Larry Mantle. A link to the complete episode can be found here.
Professor Min Zhou was recently featured on UCLA’s International Institute website detailing her path to becoming a sociologist of diaspora communities. For more information, click here.
Professor Tanya Stivers was recently elected to serve a 4-year term as President of the International Society for Conversation Analysis. For more information, click here.
Assistant Professor Giovanni Rossi’s study of expressions of gratitude, published in the May 2018 edition of the Royal Society Open Science (linked here), has received considerable attention from the media, with coverage including The New York Times (here), The Guardian (here), The Sydney Morning Herald (here), U.S. News (here), and Nature (here).
Assistant Professor Giovanni Rossi recently received the award for the best dissertation in the field of Conversation Analysis (period 2014-2017) from the International Society for Conversation Analysis (linked here).
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press 2017; linked here), won the 2018 Africa-Asia Book Prize, given by the International Convention of Asia Scholars. ICAS is a global network of institutions and scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities in 60 countries, with the primary mission of advancing the study of Asia.
Professor Darnell Hunt was quoted in a New York Times article on diversity in Hollywood. For the full piece, click here.
Assistant Professor Karida Brown published her book, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia (UNC Press). For more information, click here.
Professor Zsuzsa Berend’s book, The Online World of Surrogacy (Berghahn Books), was reviewed in Contemporary Sociology. For more information, click here.
Professor Zsuzsa Berend’s article “Surrogate non-motherhood: Israeli and US surrogates speak about kinship ad parenthood,” co-authored with Elly Teman, was published in the July 2018 special issue of Anthropology & Medicine. Click here for the full piece.
Terri Anderson was interviewed by NPR affiliate WABE on Atlanta’s hipster culture. To see/hear the full coverage, click here.
The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications! To learn more about the opportunity, click here.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar’s article (co-authored with Andrea Gomez Cervantes and William Staples), ““Humane” Immigration Enforcement and Latina Immigrants in the Detention Complex,” was selected to receive the 2017 Feminist Criminology Best Article Award. For more information, click here.
Professor Stefan Bargheer and Nicholas Wilson co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of Sociology on the “Historical Sociology of Morality.” For more information, click here.
Professor Marcus Hunter’s edited volume, The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, was published last month. The book includes chapters by Professor Karida Brown and graduate student Debanjan Roychoudhury. For more information, click here.
Professor Rogers Brubaker and Professor Marcus Hunter both had publications included among Ethnic and Racial Studies’s most frequently downloaded articles of Volumes 39 & 40. Brubaker’s papers also appeared on the journal’s ‘most frequently cited’ list for these volumes. For more information, click here.
Professor Karida Brown’s forthcoming book, Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press) was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly. Click here for more information.
Professor Aliza Luft published a blog post for Mobilizing Ideas on the topic of threat and mobilization. For the full text, click here.
Professor Min Zhou has published “Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation: Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese International Migrants” (with Xiangyi Li) as the lead article in the Spring 2018 issue of International Migration Review. Click here for more information.
Professor Jennie Brand was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association (SRA). The SRA was founded in 1936 to recognize and advance excellence in sociological research.
Professor Aliza Luft was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article on analogies between the Holocaust and contemporary American politics: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-holocaust-20190715-….
Professor Chris Tilly’s book, Where Bad Jobs Are Better: Retail Jobs Across Countries and Companies (Russell Sage, 2017), received the 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements.
Professor Aliza Luft’s letter on dual-process theories of morality and research on genocide was published in Inference Magazine: https://inference-review.com/letter/dual-process-theories-of-morality.
Professor Stefan Timmermans won the 2019 Leo G. Reeder Career Award for distinguished contributions to Medical Sociology. He will give the Reeder Award address at the American Sociological Association meetings on Monday August 12th, during the award ceremony between 4:30 and 6:10 in the New York Hilton, Second Floor, Sutton Center. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Professor Gail Kligman has been appointed as Special Academic Advisor to the UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research for the 2019-20 academic year.
Professor Stefan Bargheer’s article, “The Invention of Theory: A Transnational Case Study of the Changing Status of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis” (Theory and Society, vol. 46), has received the American Sociological Association History of Sociology Section’s 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.
Professor Karida Brown’s book, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), has been selected as the winner of multiple recent awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA), including the 2019 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Section on Race, Gender, and Class, and as co-winner of the 2019 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Gone Home also received an honorable mention for the 2019 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award from the ASA Sociology of Population Section.
Professor Marcus Hunter’s book, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (University of California Press, 2018) has been selected as co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Community and Urban Sociology 2019 Robert E. Park Book Award.
Professor Gail Kligman was cited in a recent piece in the National Catholic Reporter.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago, 2017), has won the 2019 Outstanding Book Award of the Global Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
Professor Aliza Luft published a piece on the Social Science Research Council website.
Professor Abigail Saguy was recently quoted in USA Today. For the full story, see here. She has also published a follow-up piece on gender-neutral pronouns (co-authored with Juliet Williams, Robin Dembroff, and Daniel Wodak ) on the Scientific American website. Click here.
Assistant Professor Stefan Bargheer’s book, Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany, has won the 2019 Book Award for the American Sociological Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity.
Professor Lynne Zucker has been awarded the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. For more information, click here.
Professor Abigail Saguy’s blog-post on gender-neutral pronouns (co-authored with Juliet Williams) was published on the Scientific American website. She was also interviewed for a BBC show on weight-based stigma. For more information, click here.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017), has won the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), for “an outstanding scholarly book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior and/or its policy implications with regard to societal, institutional, historical, philosophical, psychological, and ethical factors.”
Professor Marcus Hunter was featured in the e-forum, LA Social Science. For more information, click here.
Professor Jennie Brand’s recent research on the consequences of divorce for children was featured in TIME. For more information, click here.
Professor John Heritage was selected to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Click here for more info.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017) has won the 2019 Joseph Levenson Prize given by the Association for Asian Studies for the best non-fiction scholarly book on post-1900 China.
Associate Professor Marcus Hunter’s book, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, has won a 2018 Outstanding Academic Titles Award from Choice. For more information, click here. Marcus has also been selected as a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences by the Association of American Publishers, here.
Professor Karida Brown’s book, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia, has been selected as a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences by the Association of American Publishers. For more information, click here.
Professor Edward Walker recently appeared in an article in the Los Angeles Times (here) and on NPR-affiliate KPCC’s nationally-syndicated show, AirTalk with Larry Mantle, (here) on the topic of paid protesters.
Distinguished Professor Roger Waldinger published a new book with former UCLA graduate students Renee Reichl Luthra (PhD 2010) and Thomas Soehl (PhD 2014), titled Origins and Destinations: The Making of the Second Generation (Russell Sage, 2018); the book was the focus of an article that just appeared in The Nation (available here).
Professor Stefan Timmermans and UCLA Ph.D. Pamela Prickett published an editorial in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times on Los Angeles Country funerals for unclaimed dead, available here.
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris’s book, A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (University of California Press, 2017) has recently received two book awards. First, A Social Revolution received the Middle East Studies Association’s (MESA) 2018 Nikki Keddie Award (here). The book also received the 2018 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize from the Arab Studies Institute (here). The International Institute recently published a news piece on these two book awards, along with quotes from some well-known scholars in the field with their thoughts on the book: available here.
Assistant Professor Jacob Foster (with Erica Cartmill, UCLA Anthropology) received a $2.66 million dollar grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The grant will support small exploratory research projects at several institutions; a postdoctoral scholar and administrative staff at UCLA; and annual Summer Institutes that bring together early-career and established scholars for lectures, discussions, workshops, and projects in Diverse Intelligences. Diverse Intelligences is a new transdisciplinary initiative that asks how mind, cognition, and intelligence manifest in systems with radically different forms and foundations. It asks how we might recognize intelligences with bodies, life-ways, or timescales different from our own; how human capacities are shaped by culture, development, interaction, technology, and language; and how work on biological intelligence and artificial intelligence can mutually inform each other, along with the social, ethical, and philosophical implications of creating true artificial intelligence.
Professor Megan Sweeney was featured in an October 2nd discussion of changing U.S. divorce rates on NPR-affiliate KPCC’s “AirTalk” with Larry Mantle. A link to the complete episode can be found here.
Professor Min Zhou was recently featured on UCLA’s International Institute website detailing her path to becoming a sociologist of diaspora communities. For more information, click here.
Professor Tanya Stivers was recently elected to serve a 4-year term as President of the International Society for Conversation Analysis. For more information, click here.
Assistant Professor Giovanni Rossi’s study of expressions of gratitude, published in the May 2018 edition of the Royal Society Open Science (linked here), has received considerable attention from the media, with coverage including The New York Times (here), The Guardian (here), The Sydney Morning Herald (here), U.S. News (here), and Nature (here).
Assistant Professor Giovanni Rossi recently received the award for the best dissertation in the field of Conversation Analysis (period 2014-2017) from the International Society for Conversation Analysis (linked here).
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press 2017; linked here), won the 2018 Africa-Asia Book Prize, given by the International Convention of Asia Scholars. ICAS is a global network of institutions and scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities in 60 countries, with the primary mission of advancing the study of Asia.
Professor Darnell Hunt was quoted in a New York Times article on diversity in Hollywood. For the full piece, click here.
Assistant Professor Karida Brown published her book, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia (UNC Press). For more information, click here.
Professor Zsuzsa Berend’s book, The Online World of Surrogacy (Berghahn Books), was reviewed in Contemporary Sociology. For more information, click here.
Professor Zsuzsa Berend’s article “Surrogate non-motherhood: Israeli and US surrogates speak about kinship ad parenthood,” co-authored with Elly Teman, was published in the July 2018 special issue of Anthropology & Medicine. Click here for the full piece.
Terri Anderson was interviewed by NPR affiliate WABE on Atlanta’s hipster culture. To see/hear the full coverage, click here.
Professor Cecilia Menjivar’s article (co-authored with Andrea Gomez Cervantes and William Staples), ““Humane” Immigration Enforcement and Latina Immigrants in the Detention Complex,” was selected to receive the 2017 Feminist Criminology Best Article Award. For more information, click here.
Professor Stefan Bargheer and Nicholas Wilson co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of Sociology on the “Historical Sociology of Morality.” For more information, click here.
Professor Marcus Hunter’s edited volume, The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, was published last month. The book includes chapters byProfessor Karida Brown and graduate student Debanjan Roychoudhury. For more information, click here.
Professor Rogers Brubaker and Professor Marcus Hunter both had publications included among Ethnic and Racial Studies’s most frequently downloaded articles of Volumes 39 & 40. Brubaker’s papers also appeared on the journal’s ‘most frequently cited’ list for these volumes. For more information, click here.
Professor Karida Brown’s forthcoming book, Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press) was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly. Click here for more information.
Professor Aliza Luft published a blog post for Mobilizing Ideas on the topic of threat and mobilization. For the full text, click here.
Professor Min Zhou has published “Remittances for Collective Consumption and Social Status Compensation: Variations on Transnational Practices among Chinese International Migrants” (with Xiangyi Li) as the lead article in the Spring 2018 issue of International Migration Review. Click here for more information.
Professor Jennie Brand was appointed as a member of the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys Program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). BLS has primary program and budgetary responsibility for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979 and 1997 cohorts) as well as the older National Longitudinal Surveys.
2017-2018
Professor Jennie Brand was elected to the Board of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) (term 2018-22).
Professor Jacob Foster has been awarded a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to support a pilot run of the “Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute,” developed jointly with UCLA Anthropology faculty member Erica Cartmill. The Institute is scheduled to run this summer from July 29 to August 11.
Professors Jennie Brand and Judith Seltzer have been awarded funding from the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership for their proposal, “Big Data for Big Social Issues.” The project, developed in collaboration with Professor Patrick Heuveline, will support a conference tentatively scheduled for summer 2019.
Professor Aliza Luft has been selected by the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to receive a 2018-19 Faculty Career Development Award.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment (University of Chicago Press, 2017), has won yet another award! This time it is co-winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Development Section.
Professor Aliza Luft was elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association’s Theory Section. She will serve a three-year term, beginning August 2018.
Professor Karida Brown and Professor Aliza Luft have each been selected to receive a 2018-19 Hellman Fellows award. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established through the generosity of the Hellman Fellows Fund to help promising assistant professors with their research and creative endeavors.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017), was recently awarded the 2018 Asian Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Asia and Asian American Section. The Specter of Global China also received an honorable mention for the ASA Political Economy and World System Section’s 2018 Distinguished Book Award.
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon has been elected to serve as Chair Elect of the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section. His term as Chair will begin August 2019.
Professor Ka-Yuet Liu’s collaborative project on elective c-section was recently funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project, titled “Obstetrics Interventions, Neonatal Health, and Child Development,” will receive four years of support from NIH’s R01 mechanism.
Professor Ed Walker recently received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project titled “The Movement for Corporate Political Accountability.”
Professor Stefan Bargheer was selected for a Thyssen Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, Hungary, to work on his project titled “Culturalism: The Remaking of Race in the American Century.”
Professor Karida Brown was selected for a Fulbright Global Scholar Program grant for her project titled “The Subaltern School | Australia, South Africa, and the United States.”
Professor Vilma Ortiz has won the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award, which is awarded each year by the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Teaching.
Professor Min Zhou has published a new book titled “Contemporary Chinese Diasporas.” For more information on this title, visit this webpage: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811055942.
Professor Abigail Saguy was recently awarded three years of funding from the National Science Foundation for her project titled “How difference matters in the development of legal doctrine.” The project is collaborative with Juliet Williams, UCLA Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Social Science Interdisciplinary Program.
2017-2018
Professor Min Zhou’s book (co-authored with Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Achievement Paradox, received an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Book Award by the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The book had previously been the winner of multiple other awards, including the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences, the 2016 Book Award from the ASA’s Asia and Asian America Section, the 2016 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Outstanding Book from ASA’s Sociology of Education Section, and the 2016 Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award from the ASA’s International Migration Section.
Professor Jennie Brand was recently interviewed on National Public Radio, KPCC’S Take Two. Click here for more information.
Graduate student Wisam Alshaibi’s work on the history and use of an archive removed from Iraq is cited in a recent London Review of Books blog piece.
Professor Aliza Luft’s work on the dangers of dehumanizing discourse is cited in a recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read the piece.
Professor Aliza Luft was elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association’s Theory Section. She will serve a three-year term, beginning August 2018.
Professor Karida Brown and Professor Aliza Luft have each been selected to receive a 2018-19 Hellman Fellows award. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established through the generosity of the Hellman Fellows Fund to help promising assistant professors with their research and creative endeavors.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment (University of Chicago Press, 2017) has won still more awards! It received the 2018 Best Book Award from the Labor and Labor Movement Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and also an honorable mention for the 2018 Distinguished Book Award of the ASA’s Global and Transnational Sociology Section.
Graduate student Wisam Alshaibi was recently mentioned in an Intercept.com article: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/isis-files-podcast-new-york-times-iraq/
Professor Aliza Luft published an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/05/25/how-dangerous-is-it-when-trump-calls-some-immigrants-animals/
Professor Jennie Brand was quoted in the Wallstreet Journal article U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number Since 1987: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-births-hit-lowest-number-since-1987-1526529661
Professor Stefan Bargheer was selected for a Thyssen Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, Hungary, to work on his project titled “Culturalism: The Remaking of Race in the American Century.”
Professor Karida Brown was selected for a Fulbright Global Scholar Program grant for her project titled “The Subaltern School | Australia, South Africa, and the United States.”
Undergraduate David Nguyen was awarded the Undergraduate Student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for 2018.
Professor Vilma Ortiz has won the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award, which is awarded each year by the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Teaching.
Professor Ed Walker appeared on National Public Radio’s program 1A, as part of a panel about Adam Winkler’s new book on the legal and political rights of corporations: https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-26/the-long-obvious-path-to-corporations-being-people.
Professor Marcus Hunter appeared on National Public Radio’s program 1A, for a segment titled “The Lost Tapes: Malcom X.”: https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-26/the-lost-tapes-malcolm-x.
Professor and Dean of Social Sciences Darnell Hunt’s 2018 Hollywood Diversity Report received wide coverage in the media, including pieces in the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ucla-diversity-report-20180227-story.html), The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/business/media/hollywood-diversity.html), CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/entertainment/hollywood-study-diversity/index.html), and National Public Radio (https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/02/27/588923308/hollywood-diversity-study-finds-mixed-bag-when-it-comes-to-representation).
Sociology Department Academic Administrator Zsuzsa Berend was interviewed about surrogacy and her new book, The Online World of Surrogacy, in the Italian online journal il lavoro culturale: http://www.lavoroculturale.org/surrogazione-di-gravidanza-zsuzsa-berend/.
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted in a recent article in the Los Angeles Times on sexual harassment allegations in the California State Legislature: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-cristina-garcia-sexual-harassment-investigation-20180209-story.html.
Professor Judith Seltzer is quoted in an article in UCLA College Magazine on the use of social science data to inform policy: http://www.college.ucla.edu/2018/01/24/how-data-drive-policy-and-how-the-social-sciences-play-a-part/.
Professor Abigail Saguy is quoted in a recent New York Times article on sexual harassment in “manly jobs.”: http://nyti.ms/2skeZwi.
Graduate student Wisam Alshaibi was quoted in a recent piece in the online magazine quillette.com: http://quillette.com/2018/01/17/racism-anti-racism-orientalism-lithub/
Professor Michael Gaddis’s research on mental health on college and university campuses was featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom piece: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/study-shows-stigma-around-mental-health-on-campus-correlates-with-students-not-seeking-treatment
Professor Kevan Harris’s Iran Social Survey, a 2016 nationwide poll conducted in Iran, was the subject of a recent online piece by UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/186856.
Professor Aliza Luft published an Op-Ed piece in Friday’s Washington Post on what citizens can do to fight genocide: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/01/26/what-we-as-citizens-can-do-to-fight-genocide/.
Professor Abigail Saguy is quoted in a recent piece in the New York Times Opinion section on sexual harassment: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/hillary-clinton-sexual-harassment.html.
Research by UCLA Sociology PhDs David FitzGerald and David Cook-Martin was mentioned in the following New York Times editorial: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/opinion/donald-trump-flushes-away-americas-reputation.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Kevan Harris has published a brief using his Iran social survey data. Click here to view the report: http://eirg.org/repository/eirg-report-2018-01.pdf
Professor Kevan Harris and graduate student Zep Kalb have a piece in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage section, using data compiled on labor unrest in Iran over the past five years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/01/19/how-years-of-increasing-labor-unrest-signaled-irans-latest-protest-wave/
Professor Kevan Harris, and his work on Iran, received considerable media coverage during the Iranian protests, including: The New York Times Sunday Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsweek.
Professor Kevan Harris recently appeared in a discussion regarding the anti-goverment protests in Iran: http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2018/01/03/60999/world-roundup-prot…. He was also quoted in an article in the Observer titled, “Iran Muffles Protests Fed by Economic Unrest.” http://observer.com/2018/01/iran-muffles-nationwide-protests-fed-by-econ…
Professor Jennie Brand’s research on job loss was recently featured in New York Magazine: https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/the-anxiety-of-waiting-to-be-laid-off.html
Professor Gabriel Rossman published a piece on the recently proposed tuition waiver tax in National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454642/do-not-raise-taxes-phd-students
Professor Kevan Harris was recently interviewed about his newly released book A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran. To listen to the interview or to learn more about the book, click on this link: http://newbooksnetwork.com/kevan-harris-a-social-revolution-politics-and-the-welfare-state-in-iran-u-cal-press-2017/. The book was also review by John Waterbury, the doyen of political scientists who work on the Middle East. Click here to read his comments: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2017-12-12/social-…
Distinguished Professor John Heritage’s work is mentioned in an article in The Guardian. For the full piece, see: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/04/would-you-be-willing-words-turn-conversation-around
Professor Aliza Luft has published a letter to the editor in New Yorker online, available at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/letters-from-the-december-11-2017-issue
Two of our graduates, David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martin, have won the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press). For more information about their book, see: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674729049. For more information about this major ASA award, see: http://www.asanet.org/news-events/member-awards/distinguished-scholarly-book-award.
Professor Lauren Duquette-Rury’s paper “The Political Economy of Social Spending by Local Government: A Study of the 3×1 Program in Mexico,” co-authored with Simper, Hernández Company, and Ibarra and originally published in Latin American Research Review, was selected for inclusion in the 2016 Handbook of Latin American Studies, coordinated by the Library of Congress. Each section of the biannual Handbook draws from over 100 books and between 30 and 40 articles to produce an annotated bibliography of the best 50 recently published articles and books in the field.
Professor Ka-Yuet Liu’s collaborative project on elective c-section was recently funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project, titled “Obstetrics Interventions, Neonatal Health, and Child Development,” will receive four years of support from NIH’s R01 mechanism.
Graduate student Emily Yen was quoted in a recent Los Angeles Times story on proposed changes to taxation affecting higher education. For the full story, see: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-essential-education-updates-southern-hundreds-of-grad-students-at-usc-ucla-1511989222-htmlstory.html.
Professor Emeritus Ivan Light was quoted is a recent PBS Marketplace piece on immigrant lending clubs. For the full podcast, see: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/11/20/world/immigrant-lending-clubs-provide-capital-cost.
Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in an article on Politifact. For the full piece, click here: http://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2017/nov/16/sebastian-gorka/fact-check-former-white-house-aide-says-iran-every/
Professor Abigail Saguy was recently quoted in a CNN story on the topic of discussing sexual harassment with colleagues. For the full article, see: http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/06/pf/talking-harassment-at-the-office/index.html.
Associate Professor Marcus Hunter has published an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee on the effects of the GOP proposed tax plan on California’s homeless and working families. For the full piece, see: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article183134461.html
We’re please to announce the following results from the 2017 College Satisfaction Survey: 88% of undergraduate students are satified with the TA instruction, 93% expressed satisfaction with the cirriculum in the major, and 94% are satisfied with the quality of our teaching instruction.
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted in a recent New York Times article about Gabrielle Deydier’s memoir of growing up fat in France. For the full piece, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/world/europe/gabrielle-deydier-france-obesity-on-ne-nait-pas-grosse.html
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in a recent article regarding Iranian politics. To read the article, visit: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/irans-not-a-totally-fake-democracy-study-says/
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted in an article on sexual harassment in today’s USA Today. For the full piece, see: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/10/11/harvey-weinsteins-arent-just-hollywood/751064001/.
Distinguished Professor Roger Waldinger’s work was cited in a recent New Yorker article. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/the-limits-of-diversity
Professor Michael Gaddis’s research on names and the measurement of racial discrimination was the focus of a recent piece in UCLA Newsroom. For the full story, see: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-study-suggests-researchers-look-more-closely-at-connections-between-names-and-race
Professor Jennie Brand was elected to the Board of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) (term 2018-22).
Professor Jacob Foster has been awarded a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to support a pilot run of the “Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute,” developed jointly with UCLA Anthropology faculty member Erica Cartmill. The Institute is scheduled to run this summer from July 29 to August 11.
Professors Jennie Brand and Judith Seltzer have been awarded funding from the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership for their proposal, “Big Data for Big Social Issues.” The project, developed in collaboration with Professor Patrick Heuveline, will support a conference tentatively scheduled for summer 2019.
Professor Aliza Luft has been selected by the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to receive a 2018-19 Faculty Career Development Award.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment (University of Chicago Press, 2017), has won yet another award! This time it is co-winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Development Section.
Professor Aliza Luft was elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association’s Theory Section. She will serve a three-year term, beginning August 2018.
Professor Karida Brown and Professor Aliza Luft have each been selected to receive a 2018-19 Hellman Fellows award. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established through the generosity of the Hellman Fellows Fund to help promising assistant professors with their research and creative endeavors.
Professor CK Lee’s book, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017), was recently awarded the 2018 Asian Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Asia and Asian American Section. The Specter of Global China also received an honorable mention for the ASA Political Economy and World System Section’s 2018 Distinguished Book Award.
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon has been elected to serve as Chair Elect of the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section. His term as Chair will begin August 2019.
Professor Ka-Yuet Liu’s collaborative project on elective c-section was recently funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project, titled “Obstetrics Interventions, Neonatal Health, and Child Development,” will receive four years of support from NIH’s R01 mechanism.
Professor Ed Walker recently received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project titled “The Movement for Corporate Political Accountability.”
Professor Stefan Bargheer was selected for a Thyssen Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, Hungary, to work on his project titled “Culturalism: The Remaking of Race in the American Century.”
Professor Karida Brown was selected for a Fulbright Global Scholar Program grant for her project titled “The Subaltern School | Australia, South Africa, and the United States.”
Professor Vilma Ortiz has won the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award, which is awarded each year by the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Teaching.
Professor Min Zhou has published a new book titled “Contemporary Chinese Diasporas.” For more information on this title, visit this webpage: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811055942.
Professor Abigail Saguy was recently awarded three years of funding from the National Science Foundation for her project titled “How difference matters in the development of legal doctrine.” The project is collaborative with Juliet Williams, UCLA Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Social Science Interdisciplinary Program.
2016-2017
Associate Professor Gabriel Rossman recently published an article in Harvard Business Review. For the full piece, click here: https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-ratings-and-awards-do-and-dont-benefit-compa…
Associate Professor Gabriel Rossman recently published an article in the National Review. For the full piece, click here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448336/top-private-high-schools-de…
Associate Professor Gabriel Rossman, in partnership with Joseph Cuhen of CUNY Queens College and Leslie Hinkson of Georgetown University, has published a new website featuring a sociology-themed podcast. To listen to the podcasts or to learn more, visit: http://theannexpodcast.com/
Distinguished Professor Gail Kligman was recently profiled in an extensive piece by the International Institute, which includes a fascinating description of her long-run research program on Romania and communist and post-communist societies, and her recent receipt of an honorary doctorate from Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (UBB). The full article can be found at: http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/article/178193.
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted in an article about body size diversity in Hollywood appearing in today’s Christian Science Monitor. For the full article, see https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2017/0915/Can-Hollywood-learn-to-tell-stories-about-women-above-a-size-4.
Professor Judith Seltzer has been appointed to the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for a 3-year term, which officially began July 1. The committee seeks to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy decisions are based. The committee works to foster better measurement and understanding of a wide range of issues including the economy, public health, immigration, the environment, and crime. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/sociologist-judith-seltzer-named-to-committee-on-national-statistics.
Professor Jennie Brand was featured in WalletHub’s recent piece about the best and worst states to have a baby: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-to-have-a-baby/6513/#jennie-e-brand
Professor Min Zhou was featured in WalletHub’s recent piece about the most and least educated cities in America: https://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-educated-cities/6656/#min-zhou
Professor Roger Waldinger and his work are profiled in the Spring 2017 edition of UCLA Blueprint and in UCLA’s online newsroom: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/son-of-immigrants-devotes-his-life-to-studying-migration.
Professor Karida Brown’s dissertation, Before they were diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky’s Coal Camp Blacks”, was selected as the best dissertation by the 2017 ASA Dissertation Award Committee.
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was interviewed with the Scholars Strategy Network on the Iranian election and long-term social change after the 1979 revolution. Listen to the interview here: http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/podcast/iran-deal-or-no-deal
A special congratulations to Laura Savage- our 4th year undergraduate student- who took home a Spring Sing 2017 award for her second consecutive year – this time as part of the trio HELEN. Last year Laura won the grand prize as a soloist! http://dailybruin.com/2017/05/20/duet-eva-b-ross-and-david-miller-wins-top-award-at-spring-sing-2017/
Professor Rogers Brubaker‘s op-ed piece on a controversial journal article about transracialism was published today in the New York Times. You can access the piece here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/opinion/the-uproar-over-transracialism.html?_r=1&referer=
Professor Abigail Saguy was featured in a 14-minute interview with radio station WBEZ Chicago on the global problem of workplace sexual harassment. The interview can be heard in its entirety here: https://www.wbez.org/shows/worldview/a-global-problem-workplace-sexual-harassment/c1830b4d-0066-4422-9f31-f032c69c3108
Associate Professor Edward Walker was featured in an NPR 1A piece on the recent boycotts of Trump-linked companies and how we should think about the effects of political consumerism. Access the piece here: http://the1a.org/shows/2017-02-22/shopping-as-a-political-act
Professor Min Zhou has received more praise for her award-winning book (with Professor Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Achievement Paradox. Their book has won the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences.
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in an LA Weekly article regarding the common ground Jewish and Muslim Irianians share during the age of President Trump. The article can be found here: http://www.laweekly.com/news/las-jewish-and-muslim-iranians-have-common-…
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in an LA Times article regarding the humanitarian efforts of USAID. The article can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-usaid-exit-…
Assistant Professor Aliza Luft has a new, provocative post on Scatterplot about parallels between the normalization of state violence in Vichy France and “Trumpism.” You can read the piece here: https://scatter.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/guest-post-what-vichy-france-can-teach-us-about-the-normalization-of-state-violence/
Professor Abigail Saguy is quoted in a BBC.com article about the social stigma associated with being obese. You can read the full article here: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161130-fat-people-earn-less-and-have-a-harder-time-finding-work
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in an article on vice music on an Iranian rock ‘n roll artist. The article can be found here: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/from-national-star-to-enemy-of-the…
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris is one of 76 signatories to a report by the National Iranian American Council on a prudent post-election Iran policy featured in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/middleeast/trump-iran-deal.html. The full report can be found here: https://www.niacouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Report_Improving-US_Iran_Relations_TRUMP_fnl2email.pdf
Assistant Professor Jeffrey Guhin has a timely and thoughtful piece on civic engagement that appeared in Slate yesterday. You can read the essay here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/11/civic_responsibility_is_about_a_lot_more_than_voting.html
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was featured in the popular journal New Left Review with his article “Making and Unmaking of the Greater Middle East.” The article can be read here: https://newleftreview.org/II/101/kevan-harris-making-and-unmaking-of-the-greater-middle-east.
Professor Rogers Brubaker’s new book, Trans, is featured in the current issue of The Atlantic. The author of the article engages Professor Brubaker in a provocative exchange about the differences between race, sex, and gender as forms of identity (and the attendant politics). You can read it here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/trans-brubaker-race-gender/502397/
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted Monday in a Los Angeles Times story about how Olympians Sarah Robles and Michelle Carter are challenging conventional notions of the ideal body type. The article can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-robles-plaschke-20160815-snap-story.html
Professor Jeffrey Guhin’s research published recently in Sociological Theory was cited today in a Slate article about fundamentalist Christian and Muslim reactions to evolution. The article can be found here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/07/there_s_a_key_difference_between_how_christian_and_muslim_creationists_see.html
Assistant Professor Lauren Duquette-Rury and Distinguished Professor Roger Waldinger’s paper, “Emigrant Politics, Immigrant Engagement: Homeland Ties and Immigrant Political Identity in the United States,” published in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, was referenced this week in an NBCnews.com article about non-citizen Latino immigrants and their political engagement. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/non-citizen-latinos-politically-engaged-study-finds-n596556?cid=sm_fb
Professor Judith Seltzer has been appointed to the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for a 3-year term, which officially began July 1. The committee seeks to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy decisions are based. The committee works to foster better measurement and understanding of a wide range of issues including the economy, public health, immigration, the environment, and crime. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/sociologist-judith-seltzer-named-t….
Professor Jennie Brand has been elected to the ASA as Chair of the Methodology section
Professor Abigail Saguy has been elected to the ASA as Chair of the Sex and Gender section and to the Committee on Publications.
Professor Min Zhou has won the Distinguished Career Award from the ASA Section on International Migration.
Professor Gail Kligman was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Both the “laudatio” by Professor Marius Lazar of the UBB Sociology Department and her speech will be published this summer in English in Studia Sociologia. While there, Professor Kligman was also interviewed in Romanian by the cultural journal Sinteza.
Professor Karida Brown’s dissertation, “Before They Were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky’s Coal Camp Black’s”, was selected as the best dissertation by the 2017 ASA Dissertation Award Committee.
Professor Karida Brown is part of a team that just received an $877k, three-year grant from Mellon Foundation. The project, “Building a Model for All Users: Transforming Archive Collections through Community-Driven Archives,” is related to Professor Brown’s on-going work on African American migration from Eastern Kentucky.
Professor Abigail Saguy has won the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award, which is awarded each year by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching. In its award notice, the committee noted that “[t]o receive one of only six awards out of a large number of nominees is a testament to your accomplishments as a teacher and the appreciation your students and colleagues have for you.”
Professor Min Zhou has received more praise for her award-winning book (with Professor Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Achievement Paradox. Their book has won the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences.
Associate Professor Marcus Hunter was elected Vice President of the Association of Black Sociologists.
Professor Jennie Brand has won the Leo Goodman Award from the ASA’s Methodology Section. The award is given each year for contributions to sociological methodology and innovative uses of methodology by a scholar who received his/her PhD within the previous 15 years. Professor Brand is the first woman to receive the award.
Assistant Professor Aliza Luft’s paper, “The Sounds of Silence: Explaining French Bishops’ Support for the Statut des Juifs”, has won the 2016 Elise Boulding Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of ASA.
Assistant Professor Lauren Duquette-Rury’s paper, “Migrant Transnational Participation: How Citizen Inclusion and Government Engagement Matter for Local Democratic Development in Mexico,” has been published in the current issue of ASR. It can be accessed via this link: http://asr.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/21/0003122416653603.full
2015-2016
Assistant Professor Jacob Foster’s recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (with Andrey Rzhetsky, Ian Foster, and James Evans) was featured in a Nautilus magazine article about conservatism in biomedical research. You can find the article here: http://m.nautil.us/issue/37/currents/why-is-biomedical-research-so-conservative
Associate Professor Marcus Hunter has published an important op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Sentinel about the well-being of Black women with children in California and the upcoming primary. Access the article here: https://lasentinel.net/black-women-and-girls-in-california-have-had-to-make-a-lot-of-lemonade.html
An interview with Professor Abigail Saguy about “why America hates fat women” was featured in a recent issue of Shape magazine. You can access the article here: http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/why-america-hates-fat-women-feminist-take
Distinguished Research Professor Michael Mann has received an honorary D.Litt. from University College, Dublin (the National University of Ireland). This is his third honorary doctorate.
Professor Jennie Brand was quoted today in a Wall Street Journal story on the lingering effects of massive unemployment during the Great Recession. The article appears in Tuesday’s edition of the paper but can be found on-line here: http://on.wsj.com/1TOBEV2.
Associate Professor Edward Walker’s paper in last fall’s ASR (“‘No Fracking Way!’ Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013,” with Bogdan Vasi, John Johnson, and Hui Fen Tan, ASR 80(5)) has won two Best Article awards from ASA Sections: (1) the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) and (2) the Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS).
Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in an LA Times article about the intersection of Muslim faith and law. The article can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-global-pew-islam-study-story.html.
Professor Vilma Ortiz has been selected as this year’s Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award recipient. Presented each year by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO), the award is a tribute to Professor Ortiz’s tremendous efforts over the years to make UCLA a more diverse and inclusive place. She will formally receive the award in May 2016 during a reception at the Chancellor’s Residence.
Professor Emeritus Jerry Rabow, former student Keisha Payne (UCLA 2014) and current UCLA student Zachary Philyaw have just published a piece on a class activity in TRAILS, the American Sociological Association’s on-line resource for teaching in sociology. You can find their article, “The ‘What’s in a Name?’ Exercise” at http://trails.asanet.org.
Professor Abigail Saguy’s work on perceptions of obesity was recently cited in USA Today and the Orange County Register. The USA Today piece cites her book, What’s Wrong with Fat?, in its coverage of the controversy surrounding recent statements by comedian Amy Schumer about what she considers “plus-size.” It can be found here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/12/amy-schumer-plus-size-fat-america/82940894/. The Orange County Register article features research Professor Saguy published with co-authors at Stanford and Chapman University about the influence media have on the perception of obesity. It can be found here: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fat-711738-people-obesity.html.
Professor Robert Mare is this year’s winner of the Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar award from the ASA section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. The award will be presented at the IPM reception at the ASA meetings.
Professor Zsuzsa Berend‘s article, ““We Are All Carrying Someone Else’s Child”: Relatedness and Relationships in Third-Party Reproduction”, was just published in American Anthropologist.
Professor Min Zhou and former graduate student Anthony Ocampo (now an assistant professor of psychology and sociology at Cal Poly Pomona) have just published a new edited volume, Contemporary Asian America, Third Edition. In this latest edition, Zhou and Ocampo assemble an incredible crew of Asian American sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists, and education scholars in order to engage with a host of pressing issues related to the experiences of Asians in America.
Professor Min Zhou — who has been away since 2013 heading the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore — is returning to UCLA this fall!
Professor Jeffrey Guhin’s review of Inventing American Religion, Robert Wuthnow’s new book, appeared today in the Los Angeles Review of Books. You can read the article here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/polling-the-soul
Professor John Heritage has been named as the recipient of the ASA’s Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his “distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis.” The post to the ASA website can be found here: http://asa-emca.blogspot.com/2016/03/lifetime-achievement-award-john-heritage.html.
Professor Robert Mare‘s research on assortative mating and inequality was cited this weekend in the New York Times. You can read the article by clicking this link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/upshot/rise-in-marriages-of-equals-and-in-division-by-class.html?_r=0&referer=
Professor Darnell Hunt made an appearance with comedian Chelsea Handler on her new Netflix show Chelsea Does. This episode was “Chelsea Does Racism” and involved a discussion of racism and racial stereotypes
Kjerstin Gruys has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Sociology Dept at University of Nevada at Reno and will be starting in January 2017
Lina Stepick was awarded a grant for her research, through the OVCR’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenges Program. She will serve as a Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Powell Policy Fellow. Her project is “Displacement around Transit-Oriented Development and Affordable Housing and Use Policy” http://grandchallenges.ucla.edu/sustainable-la/
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon’s research on the H2 temporary worker program was cited today in a Salon.com piece about the recent debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. You can read the post by clicking on the following link: http://www.salon.com/2016/02/12/hillary_clinton_is_dead_wrong_about_bernie_sanders_immigration_record/
Sophina DeJesus, sociology undergrad & gymnast, showcased her own unique twist during her floor exercise that left the crowd in awe. Learn more about Sophina’s performance by visiting this link: DeJesus New York Times
Professor Kevan Harris was profiled recently in the Daily Bruin and on the International Institute’s website.
In January, Professor Patrick Heuveline and his research on the impact of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia were profiled in the Daily Bruin. For the full article, please click on this link: http://dailybruin.com/2016/01/22/professor-studies-impact-of-khmer-rouge-regime-in-cambodia/.
Melvin Oliver, a faculty member in our department between 1978 and 1996, was named president of Pitzer College yesterday. You can read the Los Angeles Times story here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pitzer-president-melvin-oliver-20160113-story.html
Professor Abigail Saguy was interviewed yesterday by Wisconsin Public Radio about Women’s Health magazine’s recent decision to ban fat-shaming messages. You can listen to the interview by clicking on the following link: http://www.wpr.org/womens-health-magazine-bans-body-shaming-phrases-its-covers
Professor Darnell Hunt’s research in the Hollywood Race Project has framed one of the top national news stories, a story that has been covered in literally thousands of venues (based on a Google News search), many quoting Darnell directly or citing his work. Here are links to a couple of the stories from the L.A. Times and NPR:http://www.npr.org/2016/01/15/463224137/oscars-still-so-white-academy-nominates-nearly-all-white-actors-again | http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-all-white-oscar-acting-nominees-20160114-story.html
Assistant Professor Jeffrey Guhin’s article, “Why Worry About Evolution? Boundaries, Practices, and Moral Salience in Sunni and Evangelical High Schools,” which was just published in Sociological Theory: http://stx.sagepub.com/content/34/2/151.short
Assistant Professor Jacob Foster (with his co-authors Peter Evans and Andrey Rzhetsky) is this year’s winner of the Star-Welkin Paper Award given by the ASA section on Science, Knowledge and Technology. The award recognizes the co-authors’ 2015 article in ASR, “Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies,” and will be presented this August at ASA in Seattle.
Professor Ruben Hernandez-Leon’s book “Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants” (with Jacqueline Hagan and Jean-Luc Demonsant) has been selected by the ASA section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility as the co-winner of the IPM book award for 2016.
Professor Min Zhou’s co-authored book (with Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Achievement Paradox, has won two more ASA section book awards: the 2016 Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award of ASA International Migration Section and the 2016 ASA Asia and Asian American Section Book Award on Asian America.
Professor Emeritus Ivan Szelenyi received an honorary doctorate from Central European University in June 2016. He currently lives in Budapest, where he is working full time on research.
Professor Min Zhou’s most recent book (with Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Paradox (2015), has won the ASA Sociology of Education Section’s Pierre Bourdieu Award for Outstanding Book.
Distinguished Research Professor Michael Mann has received an honorary D.Litt. from University College, Dublin (the National University of Ireland). This is his third honorary doctorate.
Associate Professor Edward Walker’s paper in last fall’s ASR (“No Fracking Way!’ Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013,” with Bogdan Vasi, John Johnson, and Hui Fen Tan, ASR 80(5)) has won two Best Article awards from ASA Sections: (1) the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) and (2) the Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS).
Professor Vilma Ortiz has been selected as this year’s Student Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award recipient. Presented each year by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO), the award is a tribute to Professor Ortiz’s tremendous efforts over the years to make UCLA a more diverse and inclusive place. She will formally receive the award in May 2016 during a reception at the Chancellor’s Residence.
Distinguished Research Professor Robert Mare is this year’s winner of the Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar award from the ASA section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. The award will be presented at the IPM reception at the ASA meetings.
Professor John Heritage has been named as the recipient of the ASA’s Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his “distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis.” The post to the ASA website can be found here: http://asa-emca.blogspot.com/2016/03/lifetime-achievement-award-john-her….
2015
Professor Jacob Foster‘s recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is featured in an editorial in the current issue of Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/take-more-risks-1.18917. Professor Foster’s ASR paper is also featured today in a piece on risk and the research university in The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Professor Abigail Saguy and Laura Enriquez, a recent graduate of our program, have an article recently out in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology on the cultural schema of ‘coming out’ in the undocumented immigrant youth movement.
Professor David Halle’s new book (with Elisabeth Tiso), New York’s New Edge, will appear in paperback this spring from University of Chicago Press. The book has many positive reviews.
Professor Min Zhou’s new book (with Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Achievement Paradox, continues to receive news coverage, including two op-ed pieces in the New York Times. You can review it here and here.
Professor Min Zhou is quoted in an article from the latest New Yorker about a Chinatown bank fraud investigation.
Professor Jacob Foster and Professor Edward Walker’s respective papers were featured in the October 2015 issue of the American Sociological Review.
Professor Min Zhou’s new book (with Jennifer Lee), The Asian American Achievement Paradox, is cited in The Economist’s “The model minority is losing patience” article.
Professor Abigail Saguy’s book What’s Wrong with Fat was quoted in the Slate article “Shame on People Who Fat-Shame.”
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted in the Observer article “How Obamacare Allows Companies to Punish Fat Employees.”
Professor Abigail Saguy was quoted in the BBC News article “Does weight matter in the US presidential elections?“.
Professor Edward Walker wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, “The Uber-ization of Activism.”
Professor Min Zhou was interviewed by “Inside Higher Ed” for her book The Asian American Achievement Paradox.
Professor Min Zhou was quoted in the Los Angeles Times front page article “In Alhambra, demographic shift reaches the grocery store.”
Professor Emeritus Jerome Rabow, along with Keisha Payne, a graduate of our department, and Manpreet Dhillon, currently in the Doctoral Program in Education, have just published the “Pink Triangle Experience Exercise” in the ASA’s TRAILS.
Professor Emeritus Ivan Light published an editorial in the Pasadena Star-News.
Professor Marcus Hunter was interviewed by Pennsylvania Cable Network’s PABooks about his book Black Citymakers: read here.
Professor Kevan Harris discusses some preliminary results of his reasearch on the economy in Iran under sanctuons in the Washington Post.
Professor Darnell Hunt’s research and the release of the annual Hollywood Diversity Report has featured extensively in the media, including the opinion pages of the LA Times as well as the UCLA Magazine.
Professor Marcus Hunter published an op-ed in The Conversation about the origins of Black American distrust in banks: read here.
David Halle’s New Book New York’s New Edge:Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side co-authored with Elisabeth Tiso, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “The Flower District: The Next Chelsea?”. He was also interviewed on the Center for Architecture podcast, listen here.
Professor Darnell Hunt was interviewed by NRP about the lack of diversity in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. You can listen to the interview here. January 25, 2015.
Associate Professor Edward Walker’s book, Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2014), has won the Charles Tilly Award from the ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements section.
Asssitant Professor Lauren Duquette-Rury has been awarded the UCLA Hellman Fellowship. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established by the Hellman Family Foundation to support and encourage the research of promising Assistant Professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research in the College of Letters and Science and the Professional and Health Science Schools.
Professor Megan Sweeney has been elected chair of the American Sociological Association Famly Section.
Associate Professor Edward Walker has received the Faculty Fellowship award from the UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy.
Associate Professor Edward Walker has been elected to the council of the ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements.
Distinguished Research Professor Michael Mann has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Judith Seltzer has been appointed to the National Research Counci’s Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations.
Professor Judith Seltzer has been elected to the prestigious position of President of the Population Association of America. She will begin as President-Elect for 2015 with her presidential term starting in 2016.
2014
Professor Edward Walker and Graduate Student Lina Stepick have organized a series about civic engagement in politics for the Washington Post. Their first two articles are “How Do Citizens Participate in Politics Between Elections” and “How Business Funded the Anti-Soda Tax Coalition”
Professor Darnell Hunt, interviewed by NRP, “Black-ish,” September 23,2014
Professor Rob Mare and Alumna Esther Friedman’s, research on life expectanct for parents of collgegraduates, September 22,2014
Professor Jennie Brand, disscussed her reasearch on Single Mother Employment, September 22,2014
Professor Saguy, interviewed on WisconsinPublic Radio, September 15, 2014
Professor Saguy, interviewed by Dutch Newspaper Trouw, also translated in German, August 31,2014
President of Mexico Gives a Grant to a UCLA Scholar, August 28,2014
Professor Rob Mare and Alumna Esther Friedman’s work, “Want to live longer? Send your kids to College”, featured in the Washington Post, July 31, 2014
Professor Walker, interviewed on CSPAN BookTV, May 6, 2014
Jennie Brand, featured in UCLA Newsroom, May, 01, 2014
Jennie Brand, featured in the LA Times, May 01, 2014
Min Zhou, featured in UCLA Today, April 4, 2014
Kjerstin Gruys, interviewed on ABC7 San Francisco, February 16, 2014
Laura Enriquez, interviewed on KPCC, February 14, 2014
Darnell Hunt, featured in UCLA Newsroom, February 12, 2014
Darnell Hunt, featured in the Daily Variety, February 12, 2014
Darnell Hunt, featured in the LA Times, February 12, 2014
Darnell Hunt, interviewed on Take Two (KPCC), February 12, 2014
Terri Anderson, interviewed by KCBS, January 27, 2014
Gabriel Rossman, cited in the Toronto Star, January 15, 2014
Gabriel Rossman, cited in Slate, January 15, 2014
Gabriel Rossman, cited in the Washington Post, January 15, 2014
Gabriel Rossman, featured in UCLA Newsroom, January 14, 2014
Ivan Light, featured in Forbes.com, January 7, 2014
Megan Sweeney has been elected to the prestigious Sociological Research Association.
Judith Seltzer has been elected to the prestigious position of President-Elect of the Population Association of America for 2015, and her presidential term will begin in 2016.
Vilma Ortiz received the Distinguished Career Award from the Latina/Latino section of the American Sociological Association
Philip Bonacich received the James Coleman lifetime achievement award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association at this year’s annual meeting
Jennie Brand was selected for an Honorable Mention for the William Julius Early Career Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association.
2013
Abigail Saguy, quoted in Zócalo Public Square, December 17, 2013
Judith Seltzer, quoted in the Washington Times, November 5, 2013
Abigail Saguy, quoted in the NY Times, October 15, 2013
Darnell Hunt, featured in UCLA Newsroom, October 08, 2013
Jerome Rabow, quoted in the LA Times, August 22, 2013
Stefan Timmermans, featured in the LA Times, July 19, 2013
Abigail Saguy, featured in the Debate Club of U.S. News, June 27,2013
Abigail Saguy, featured in Times Magazine, June 24, 2013
David Halle, featured in UCLA today, April 25, 2013
Abigail Saguy, interviewed in NPR radio station WICN, June 6, 2013
Jack Katz, interviewed in the online journal, booksandideas.net, April 1, 2013
Terri Anderson, quoted in The Daily Bruin, May 08, 2013
Abigail Saguy, her new book is featured in the Oxford University Press, May 06, 2013
David Halle, his new book is featured in the NY Times, May 03, 2013
Abigail Saguy, a profile of Abigail Saguy in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research, May 02, 2013
Vilma Ortiz, quoted in the NY Times, May 01, 2013
Kjerstin Gruys, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2013
Darnell Hunt, quoted about the lack of racial and gender diversity in late-night television in an Associated Press article April 06, 2013
Marie Berry featured in the Center for the Study of Women Newsletter March 2013
Hannah Landecker featured in the Center for the Study of Women Newsletter March 2013
Tara Mckay featured in the Center for the Study of Women Newsletter March 2013
Abigail Saguy Professor Abigial Saguy’s book “What’s Wrong With Fat?”, featured on Reason TV March 18, 2013
Suzanne Bianchi quoted in USA Today March 15, 2013
Joshua Bloom, Bloom’s new boook “Black Against Empire” is featured in the UCLA Newsroom Feb 27, 2013
Abigail Saguy, Professor Abigial Saguy’s book “What’s Wrong With Fat?”, featured in the NY Times Feb 25, 2013
Joshua Bloom, Bloom’s new book “Black Against Empire” is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Feb 22, 2013
Joshua Bloom, Bloom’s new book “Black Against Empire” is featured in the Bay State Banner Feb 21, 2013
Joshua Bloom, LA Weekly Literary Events Feb 15, 2013
Joshua Bloom, Bloom’s new book “Black Against Empire”, is featured in the San Francisco Huffington Post Feb 11, 2013
Min Zhou, quoted in USA Today in connection with Chinese New Year February 8, 2013
Abigail Saguy, Professor Abigial Saguy’s book “What’s Wrong With Fat?” featured in UCLA Newsroom February 5, 2013
Joshua Bloom, Bloom’s new book “Black Against Empire”, is featured in UCLA Newsroom Jan 31, 2013
Abigail Saguy, Professor Abigail Saguy’s op-ed in the Washington Post Jan 25, 2013
Joshua Bloom, Bloom’s new book “Black Against Empire” reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, Jan 24, 2013
Abigail Saguy, Professor Abigial Saguy’s book “What’s Wrong With Fat?”, featured in Nature Jan 24, 2013
Abigail Saguy, Professor Abigail Saguy on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth Jan 10, 2013
Abigail Saguy, Professor Abigail Saguy’s op-ed in the LA Times Jan 04, 2013
Andreas Wimmer, The Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book Honorable Mention, Sociology of Culture Section [ASA Conference 2013]
Andreas Wimmer, Best Book Award, Peace, War & Social Conflict Section [ASA Conference 2013]
Andreas Wimmer, Barrington Moore Book Award Honorable Mention, Comparative and Historical and Sociology Section [ASA Conference 2013]
Ruth Milkman, Public Understanding of Sociology Award [ASA Conference 2013]
Mignon Moore, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award Honorable Mention, Race, Gender and Class Section [ASA Conference 2013]
Michael Mann, Barrington Moore Book Award Co-Winner, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section [ASA Conference 2013]
Suzanne Bianchi, Distinguished Career Award, Sociology of the Family Section [ASA Conference 2013]
Jennie Brand, elected to the ASA Sociology of Education section council, 2013
Gail Kligman, Presidential Medal, Silver Cross of Merit, Republic of Poland, 2013
Michael Mann, Best Book Award of the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2013
Megan Sweeney, UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013
Jennie Brand, elected to the ASA Sociology of Education section council, 2013
Gail Kligman, Presidential Medal, Silver Cross of Merit, Republic of Poland, 2013
Michael Mann, Best Book Award of the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2013
Megan Sweeney, UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013
2012
Abigail Saguy, Prof. Abigail Saguy’s book “What’s Wrong With Fat?” featured in UCLA Newsroom Dec 19, 2012
Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder’s book Saving Babies is hailed by Henry Greely in the international journal of science NATURE Dec 13 2012
Stefan Timmermans interviewd on NPR’s “All Things Considered” Genome Sequencing For Babies Brings Knowledge And Conflicts Dec 03 2012
Abigail Saguy cited in The Daily Beast Disney Characters Are Slimmed Down For Barneys and Harrods Holiday Campaigns” Nov 6, 2012
Robert Mare, a report on UCLA’s Holistic Admission policies has been mentioned in the New York Times blog October 13, 2012
Abigail Saguy, op-ed/blog on “Weight-Based Stigma and Bullying” was picked up by UCLA Today October 12, 2012
Abigail Saguy, an op-ed/blog in the Huffington Post on “Weight-Based Stigma and Bullying” October 11, 2012
Jennie Brand, is cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed article titled “The College Payoff: Economics … and Then Some” October 10, 2012
Laura Enriquez, is featured regularly in the Huffington Post, most recently “Big Bird and Immigrant Families: Why I’m Voting for Obama” October 9, 2012
Jennie Brand, in Inside Higher Ed, Commutity College section, article titled “Law of Averages” August 27, 2012
Edward Walker, Friday’s New York Times featured an op-ed by Edward Walker, UCLA assistant professor of sociology, about the increasing trend of corporations partnering with, and in some cases financing, pro-corporate grass-roots activist groups. August 10, 2012
Darnell Hunt, was interviewed Monday on PBS’s “NewsHour” about the life and legacy of Rodney King, who died June 17 June 18, 2012
Darnell Hunt, in an LA Weekly article on the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots April 26, 2012
Darnell Hunt, in a Los Angeles Times profile of the founder of the BET cable television network April 17, 2012
Darnell Hunt, in a Washington Post article about the death of Trayvon Martin and the social significance of “hoodies,” or hooded sweatshirts March 25, 2012
Darnell Hunt, in a Los Angeles Times article on what various television stations do for Black History Month, February 16, 2012
Cesar Ayala, in a CNN blog story about discrimination against Puerto Ricans in California in the late 1940s, February 3, 2012.
Min Zhou, in the UCLA Today, Survivor of Cultural Revolution chronicles immigrants’ lives, January 4, 2012
Ronald M. Andersen, Dickson Emeritus Award, 2012
Stefan Bargheer, Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the ASA, 2012
Jennie Brand, ASA Sociology of Education Section’s James Coleman Award for Best Article Recipient, 2012
Jennie Brand, Elected Council Member of the ASA Methodology Section, 2012
John Heritage, Distinguished Publication Award from the Ethnomethodoology and Conversation Analysis section of the ASA, 2012
Gail Kligman, Honorable Mention for the Barrington Moore Book Award for her co-authored book with Katherine Verdery, Peasants Under Siege, 2012
Gail Kligman, Association for Slavic, East European, and Euroasain Studies (ASEEES) Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, for her co-authored book with Katherine Verdery, Peasants Under Siege, 2012
Gail Kligman, ASEEES Davis Center Book Prize for her co-authored book with Katherine Verdery, Peasants Under Siege, 2012
Gail Kligman, ASEEES Honorable Mention, Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for her co-authored book with Katherine Verdery, Peasants Under Siege, 2012
Gail Kligman, Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Heldt Prize for her co-authored book with Katherine Verdery, Peasants Under Siege, 2012
Hannah Landecker, Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, 2012
Michael Mann, Barrington Moore Book Award of the Comparative Historical Sociology Section, 2012
Mignon Moore, ASA Sex and Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award Recipient, 2012
Mignon Moore, UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012
Mignon Moore, UCLA Undergraduate Mentorship Award, 2012
Abigail Saguy, Elected Chair of the ASA Body and Embodiment Section, 2012
Melvin Seeman, Dickson Emeritus Exceptional Service Award, 2012
Donald Treiman, Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Career Award by the Poverty, Inequality and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012
Donald Treiman, Career achievement’s honored at The International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility in Hong Kong, 2012
Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Career Award from the International Migration Section of the ASA, 2012
Andreas Wimmer, Elected chair of the Comparative Historical Section of ASA, 2012
Andreas Wimmer, Best Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of ASA, 2012
Min Zhou, Elected chair of the ASA section on International Migration, 2012
2011
Megan Sweeney, in the NBC Southern California, Amount of First-Time Married Couples Historically Low, December 15, 2011
Jennie Brand, in the Sacremento Bee, Current crop of graduates can’t find the jobs they want, December 11, 2011
Edward Walker, in the Daily Bruin, Occupy Movement sparks UCLA Division of Social Sciences to start blog for campus dialogue, December 5, 2011
Jennie Brand, in the Wall Street Journal, Dollars for Diplomas, November 18, 2011
Jack Katz, a Oregonian blog on whether bicyclists who run red lights actually save time cited “How Emotions Work,” a book by Katz that addresses the issue of drivers who construct “moral dramas” to justify their decisons on the road, October 21, 2011.
Darnell Hunt, in the Globe and Mail, Women and TV: They’ve come a long way – maybe, October 8, 2011
Kjerstin Gruys, in the UCLA Today, Mirror, Mirror, off the wall, September 6, 2011
Kjerstin Gruys, in Sociological Images, How media attention can undermine activist projects, August 30, 2011
Kjerstin Gruys, in the Huffington Post, Kjerstin Gruys commits to a year without Mirrors, August 30, 2011
Chris Tilly on Southern California Public Radio, No one wants a supermarket strike, but does anyone want a deal? , July 29, 2011
Abigail Saguy in the UCLA Today, Why a French sex scandal could only start in the U.S., July 28, 2011
Darnell Hunt in the UCLA Today, Champion of diversity widens pathway to opportunity, July 21, 2011
Abigail Saguy on the TSR Channel (Switzerland), France: suite à l’affaire DSK, les langues se délient concernant le harcèlement sexu…, June 27, 2011
Matt Mosher in the Daily Bruin, Bruin Matt Mosher utilized social media sites to publicize ‘Brother’s Justice’ film, June 26, 2011
Chris Tilly in the Star Tribune, Labor thinks big-box with Target union effort, June 8, 2011
Chris Tilly in the Washington Post, Wal-Mart works with unions abroad, but not at home, June 7, 2011
Abigail Saguy in the Edmonton Journal, France lax on sex laws, expert says, May 22, 2011
Abigail Saguy in Mediapart (France), Les violences faites aux femmes ne sont toujours pas prises au sérieux, May 20, 2011
Abigail Saguy in Liberation (France), Un dragueur lourd peut faire une belle carrière aux Etats-Unis, May 19, 2011
Chris Tilly in the OC Register, Grocery Talks Continue, Survival at Stake, May 17, 2011
Stefan Timmermans in the Jewish Journal, Pros, Cons of Newborn Genetic Screening, May 3, 2011
Jennie Brand in Newsweek, Dead Suit Walking, April 17, 2011
Darnell Hunt on NPR’s Morning Edition, If You’re Looking For A Little Diversity On Television, Try HGTV, April 13, 2011
Suzanne Bianchi in the Calgary Herald, Mom needs to look after her mental health, March 28, 2011
Suzanne Bianchi in UCLA Today, She tracks social changes within the American family, March 22, 2011
Darnell Hunt in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Black filmmakers discouraged by lack of Oscar-nominated African-Americans, February 17, 2011
Jennie Brand, co-winner best article award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the ASA for Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education, 2011
Patrick Heuveline, Board of Directors of the Population Association of America, 2011
Darnell Hunt, UCLA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award, 2011
William Roy, Charles Tilly Award for the best book from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the ASA for Reds, Whites, and Blues, 2011
2010
Abigail Saguy and Kjerstin Gruys in the ASA’s website Context.org, Media Binge, November 22, 2010
Andreas Wimmer in Inside Higher Education, Are Facebook Friendships Post-Racial?, October 29, 2010
Andreas Wimmer in the Chronicle of Higher Education, What Facebook Tells Researchers About Friendship and Race, October 28, 2010
Andreas Wimmer in the UCLA Newsroom, Facebook study finds race trumped by ethnic, social, geographic origins in forging friendships, October 28, 2010
Andreas Wimmer in the Harvard Gazette, Race plays minor role in Facebook friendships, October, 2010
Darnell Hunt in the LA Times, In Sunday books: A new anthology speaks volumes on black L.A., August 8, 2010
Jennie Brand in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Another kind of depression, July 19, 2010
Jennie Brand in the New York Times, Letters: The Rise and Fall of the GDP, May 27, 2010
Darnell Hunt in the UCLA Newsroom, UCLA book ‘Black Los Angeles’ chronicles city’s African American history, April 21, 2010
Jennie Brand in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Disadvantaged Students May Benefit Most From Attending College, April 1, 2010
Jennie Brand in the New York Times Blog Freakonomics, Who Gains the Most from a College Education?, April 8, 2010
Jennie Brand in National Public Radio, Marketplace, Low-income benefit most from degree, April 1, 2010
Jennie Brand in Inside Higher Education, Who Gains the Most from going to College, April 1, 2010
Jennie Brand in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Disadvantaged Students May Benefit Most From Attending College, April 1, 2010
Jennie Brand in the San Francisco Chronicle, College degrees most beneficial to disadvantaged students, April 1, 2010
Gabriel Rossman in the Daily Bruin, Study analyzes sociological factors affecting actors’ chances of receiving an Oscar nomination, February 28, 2010
Ruth Milkman in the LA Times, L.A. leads New York, Chicago in abuse of low-wage workers, January 6, 2010
Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Thomas and Znaniecki Award for the best book from the International Migration Section of the ASA for Metropolitan Migrants, 2010
Robert Mare, President, Population Association of America, 2010
Robert Mare, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
Mignon Moore, Chair-Elect; Race, Gender & Class Section of the American Sociological Association, 2010-11
Judith Seltzer, Member, National Academies of Science Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments, 2010
2009
Jennie Brand in USA Today, How joblessness hurts us all, December 12, 2009
Jennie Brand in Time Magazine, Among American workers, fear of losing your job is linked to health problems [online], August 28, 2009
Jennie Brand in MSNBC, Worry over job is worse for health than no job[online], August 28, 2009
Darnell Hunt in the New York Times, Spinning Off Into Uncharted Cartoon Territory, August 27, 2009
Abigail Saguy in a Newsweek Web Exclusive, America’s War on the Overweight , August 26, 2009
Andreas Wimmer in the Daily Nation, Kenya, Chaos sparked by ‘ethnic exclusion’, April 20, 2009
Ching Kwan Lee in UCLA International Institute Online article “No One China in Africa”Feb 2009
Walter Allen, AERA Fellows Award 2009, Distinguished Research Career, American Educational Research Association
Rogers Brubaker, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
Abigail Saguy, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford, Fellow 2008-2009
Judith Seltzer, Chair, ASA Sociology of Family, 2009
Edward Telles, Best Book Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, 2009
Edward Telles, Best Book Award from the Latino Section of the American Sociological Assocation, 2009
Andreas Wimmer, Senior Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace (Washington D.C.) 2009/2010
Andreas Wimmer Visiting Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, 2009
Andreas Wimmer Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Paris 8, 2009
2008
Jennie Brand in USA Today, Join the jobless club, Groups grow as economy shrinks[online], December 17, 2008
Jennie Brand in Forbes, The Emotional Impact of the Wall Street Crisis[online], September 15, 2008
Veronica Terriquez presented two papers “Determinants of Latino Parental School Involvement” and “Gender, Work Schedules, and Latino Parent School Involvement” at the American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.
Nazgol Ghandnoosh presented a paper titled “Organizing Workers Along Ethnic Lines: The Pilipino Workers’ Center” at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, MA.
Darnell Hunt in the L.A. Times, UCLA’s new admission policy rights a wrong Sept 7, 2008
Jennie Brand in Forbes and US News and World Report, Job Loss Has Long-Term Impact on Social Lives Sept 9, 2008
Jennie Brand in Canada.com, Layoffs may lead to social withdrawal: study Sept 1, 2008
Sarah Morando in El Informador Newspaper, Dalton bajo la lupa en estudio sociológico Aug 7, 2008
Andreas Wimmer in the BBC News, January 15, 2008
Assistant Professor Kevan Harris was quoted in a recent article regarding Iranian politics. To read the article, visit: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/19/irans-not-a-totally-fake-democracy-s…
Professor Emeritus Ivan Light was quoted is a recent PBS Marketplace piece on immigrant lending clubs. For the full podcast, see: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/11/20/world/immigrant-lending-clubs-pro….
