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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.
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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.
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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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Summer 2021 Department News and Publications
Departmental News
Posted: Jul 15, 2021 - 12:00am
Awards/Recognitions
Dr. Sharon Nepstad has won the ASA Peace, War, & Social Conflict section's Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for distinguished contributions & an outstanding scholarly career in the st
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Statement of Solidarity and Support in Response to the Killing of Daunte Wright
Departmental News
Posted: Apr 14, 2021 - 12:00am
We write to acknowledge and denounce the killing of another Black man in Minneapolis, Daunte Wright, at the hands of the police. Only miles away from the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer wh
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Congratulations to Dr. Sofia Locklear for Successfully Defending Her Dissertation, and New Position as Assistant Professor
Departmental News
Posted: Apr 14, 2021 - 12:00am
Congratulations to Dr. Sofia Locklear for successfully defending her dissertation, “ White Identity and American Indian and Alaska Native Culture in the Pacific Northwest,” with distincti
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April 2021 Department News and Publications
Departmental News
Posted: Apr 14, 2021 - 12:00am
Publications:
Barker, Kristin, Alexis M. Kenney and R. Neil Greene. “Wrong versus Right(eous): Online Reader Comments as Scientific Boundary-Work.” Sociological Forum 36(N3). First
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Standing in solidarity with the Asian American community
Departmental News
Posted: Mar 18, 2021 - 12:00am
On Tuesday evening, eight people were shot to death in Atlanta, Georgia. Seven of the victims were women, and most of them of Asian descent. Though the attacks remain under investigation, these horri
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March 2021 Department Publications and News Coverage
Departmental News
Posted: Mar 15, 2021 - 12:00am
Publications:
Hernandez, Maricarmen. 2021. “Toxicity and Informal Living in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.” Contexts, feature article, 20(1):31-35. doi:10.1177/1536504221997866  
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