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Summer 2023 News

Graduate & Undergraduate News

Posted: Jul 13, 2023 - 12:00am

Publications Lisa Broidy and M.A. graduate, Ella Siegrist published an article in Feminist Criminology titled "Prioritizing Protection: How Jailed Women Challenge Maternal S
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McGee and Gandy 2023 Award Winners

Departmental News

Posted: Jun 27, 2023 - 12:00am

We are excited to announce the award winners for the McGee and Gandy Competitions for 2023! McGee Award Winner:  Megan Honnold for her paper: "Marx and Engels’ Historical-Materialist
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Open House 2023

Departmental News

Posted: May 12, 2023 - 12:00am

The Sociology & Criminology Department would like to congratulate the Undergraduate and Graduate students graduating this semester! Go Lobos! Thank you to all those who attended the Department Open H
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2023 Inspiring Graduate: Abrianna Morales

Departmental News

Posted: May 05, 2023 - 12:00am

Please take a moment to read this article by Savannah Peat on recent Psychology and Criminology graduate Abrianna Morales from the UNM Newsroom Website. Read here.
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American Sociological Association's Statement: Importance of Teaching and Learning about Race and Racism

Departmental News

Posted: May 04, 2023 - 12:00pm

The UNM Department of Sociology would like to share the American Sociological Association’s statement on the importance of teaching and learning about race and racism (https://www.asanet.org/wp
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2023 Sociology & Criminology Open House

Departmental News

Posted: Apr 10, 2023 - 12:00am

Congratulations Sociology and Criminology graduates! Please join us in celebrating your accomplishment on Friday, May 12th in the Social Sciences Building (Bldg. #78). Please stop in to pick up your
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Department News and Publications, February 2023

Departmental News

Posted: Mar 01, 2023 - 12:00am

Publications Nancy López is co-author of a forthcoming chapter titled, “Promoting Solidarity for Social Justice and Indigenous Educational Sovereignty in the Cuba Independent School
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Department New and Publications, January 2023

Departmental News

Posted: Feb 02, 2023 - 12:00am

Publications Jessica Goodkind and graduate students Ryeora Choe and Yuka Doherty, along with their co-authors published a chapter titled “Explanatory Mechanisms for Dis
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Department News and Publications, October 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Oct 28, 2022 - 12:00am

Publications   Nancy López's, co-edited 2018 special issue in the Race Ethnicity and Education Journal, entitled "QuantCrit: Rectifying Quantitative Methods Through Crit
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Department News and Publications, September 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Oct 28, 2022 - 12:00am

Publications   Graduate student Yuka Doherty co-authored a paper published in The Journal of Human Trafficking entitled, "The Demographic Characteristics of Federal Trafficking De
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UNM Sociology Post Doctoral Fellow

Departmental News

Posted: Sep 09, 2022 - 12:00am

Best consideration 10/18/22 The Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice in the Division for Equity and Inclusion at The University of New Mexico has received approval to invit
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Department News and Publications, August 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Aug 01, 2022 - 12:00am

Publications   Graduate student Jenna Dole and co-author Shana Judge published an article in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies entitled “Charging sex traffickers
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Department News and Publications, May 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Jun 23, 2022 - 12:00am

Publications   Maricarmen Hernandez published an article in Spanish in a journal similar to Contexts, published out of the Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores, in Cali, Colombi
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McGee and Gandy Competition Winners for 2022

Award News

Posted: Jun 23, 2022 - 12:00am

The Sociology Department is happy to announce the winners for the McGee and Gandy Competitions for 2022. Congratulations to Nathalia Gardea Ceniceros, who was awarded the 2022 Gandy Award! Congr
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Department News and Publications, April 2022

Departmental News

Posted: May 01, 2022 - 12:00am

Publications Lisa Broidy and her co-authors have a forthcoming article in Child Abuse & Neglect entitled “Childhood maltreatment and decision-making autonomy in adulthood: The me
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Department News and Publications, March 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Apr 01, 2022 - 12:00am

Publications Kiwoong Park and his co-author recently published an article entitled “Longitudinal evidence on adolescent social network position and cardiometabolic risk in adulthood&#
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Department News and Publications, February 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Mar 04, 2022 - 12:00am

Awards and Honors  Colin Olson and graduate student Sam Torres have both been recognized as recipients of the 2022 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.&#16
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Department News and Publications, January 2022

Departmental News

Posted: Feb 07, 2022 - 12:00am

Awards and Honors  Georgiann Davis received the 2022 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Activism Award. The award will be formally presented this spring. Click here for more. Public
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December 2021 Department News and Publications

Departmental News

Posted: Dec 10, 2021 - 12:00am

Awards and Honors  Eli Wilson’s Book, Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers has been selected as an Outstanding Acade
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November 2021 Department News and Publications

Departmental News

Posted: Nov 05, 2021 - 12:00am

Milestones    Alyssa Franklin successfully defended her MA paper entitled: The Gendered and Racialized Distribution of Care Work and its Health Impact, and earned “distinct
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October 2021 Department News and Publications

Departmental News

Posted: Oct 08, 2021 - 12:00am

Publications   Phillip B. Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo and Mary Louise Pratt, published an edited volume entitled Trumpism, Mexican  America and the Struggle for Latinx Citizensh
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Department Announces Undergraduate Award Winners for 2021

Departmental News

Posted: Sep 28, 2021 - 12:00am

The Sociology Department recently announced its undergraduate award winners for 2021.   Isabella Garcia won the Christopher A.W. McGee Award. This award is given annually to the best underg
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September 2021 Department News and Publications

Departmental News

Posted: Sep 16, 2021 - 12:01pm

Professional Advances and Awards  Carmela Roybal completed her PhD degree and has accepted a post doc position at UCD Dublin, in the College of Social Sciences and Law/ School of Socia
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Advance at UNM Shouts Out 3 Sociology Professors

Departmental News

Posted: Sep 15, 2021 - 12:00am

Advance at UNM works to recognize the accomplishments of women and minority faculty. Recently they have "shouted out" the accomplishments of three UNM sociology professors, Drs. Lisa Broidy, Eli
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