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Departmental News, October 2025
Departmental News
Posted: Oct 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Publications
UNM PhD alum, Castillo, Florence Emilia, UNM BA alum, Angeles "Rubi" Castorena and Nancy López. Published “Unpacking the Performativity of Hispa
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Ranita Ray's paper “Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom"...
Award News
Posted: Sep 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Ranita Ray's paper “Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom.” Social Problems 70 (3): 682–697. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac009
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Nancy López was award the 2025 Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
Award News
Posted: Sep 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Nancy López was award the 2025 Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
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Graduate students Susana Echeverri Herrera, Alejandra Lemus, and Bianca Ruiz Negrón were awarded...
Award News
Posted: Sep 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Graduate students Susana Echeverri Herrera, Alejandra Lemus, and Bianca Ruiz Negrón were awarded the 2025–2026 UNM Center for Regional Studies Graduate Student Fellowship.
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Graduate student Susana Echeverri Herrera received Honorable Mention
Award News
Posted: Sep 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Graduate student Susana Echeverri Herrera received Honorable Mention in the Critical Race and Ethnic Study Division’s SSSP Student Paper Competition for “Border Disablement
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Departmental News, August 2025
Departmental News
Posted: Aug 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Publications
Along with colleagues in from Griffith University in Australia, Lisa Broidy published the article (2025). “Examining the timing of mental health contacts across fem
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Departmental News, May 2025
Departmental News
Posted: May 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Publications
Former graduate student Ella Siegrist and Lisa Broidy have an article titled “How jailed mothers envision future motherhood in the context of state intrus
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Lisa Broidy has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
Award News
Posted: Apr 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Lisa Broidy has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. “This designation is given to recognize scholarly contributions to criminology and distinction in the disc
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Departmental News, March 2025
Departmental News
Posted: Apr 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Publications
Graduate student Alicia Esquivel is co-author on the article “Cities’ investment in road infrastructure systems across regions” published in Region
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Departmental News, January 2025
Departmental News
Posted: Feb 01, 2025 - 12:00am
Publications
Jessica Goodkind and colleagues published the article “Is Cultural Appropriateness Culturally-Specific? Intersectional Insights from a Community-Based Participatory Ment
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Department News, September 2024
Departmental News
Posted: Oct 01, 2024 - 12:00am
Publications
Eli Wilson’s new book, Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer, was released by University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/
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Department News, August 2024
Departmental News
Posted: Sep 01, 2024 - 12:00am
Publications and Reports
Jessica Goodkind and colleagues (including PhD alum, C. Estela Vasquez Guzman) published a paper in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry titled &#
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Department News, April 2024
Departmental News
Posted: May 06, 2024 - 12:00am
Publications
Nancy López and co-authors released an article entitled ‘Black and Some Other Race?’: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Burea
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Department News, March 2024
Departmental News
Posted: Apr 05, 2024 - 12:00am
Publications
Lisa Broidy, and colleagues from Griffith University in Australia, published an article titled Offending Trajectories in an Australian Birth Cohort: Differences and Similarities ac
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Department News, February 2024
Departmental News
Posted: Mar 01, 2024 - 12:00am
Publications
Jessica Goodkind and PhD alum Ryora Choe, along with colleagues, published an article entitled “Measuring Culturally and Contextually Specific Distress Among Afghan
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Department News and Publications, January 2024
Departmental News
Posted: Feb 01, 2024 - 12:00am
Publications
Nancy López and coauthors published an article titled “Toward a Latinx Stratification Economics” in The Review of Black Political Economy, 0(0).
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2024 Spring Convocation
Departmental News
Posted: Jan 30, 2024 - 12:00am
Congratulations, Graduates!
The department of Sociology and Criminology is excited to announce that we will be holding a convocation ceremony for Sociology & Criminology undergraduate
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Sociologists for Women in Society, Winter 2024 Meeting
Departmental News
Posted: Dec 04, 2023 - 12:00am
The Sociologists for Women in Society's Winter 2024 Metting will be held January 25th to January 28th, 2024 at Santa Ana Pueblo here in New Mexico.
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Graduate student Lacey Hites was a Recipient of the 2023-2024 Glenda Lewi Cri
Award News
Posted: Oct 18, 2023 - 12:00am
Graduate student Lacey Hites was selected as 1 of 6 recipients of the 2023-2024 Glenda Lewis Critical Race Scholar Award program https://grad.unm.edu/funding/scholarships/critical-race
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Ranita Ray’s 2022 Gender & Society article titled “School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom” Received Multiple Awards
Award News
Posted: Oct 18, 2023 - 12:00am
Ranita Ray’s 2022 Gender & Society article titled “School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom”
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Nancy Lopez awarded the 2023 Dr. Jozi De Leon Advocate Award
Award News
Posted: Oct 18, 2023 - 12:00am
Nancy López was awarded the 2023 Dr. Jozi De Leon Advocate Award, LGBTQ Resource Center, UNM.
Congratulations, Nancy!
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Graduate Student Vittoria Totaro Awarded Graduate Fellowship
Award News
Posted: Oct 18, 2023 - 12:00am
Graduate Student Vittoria Totaro was awarded a graduate fellowship from the UNM Center for Regional Studies for the 2023/2024 academic year.
Congratulations, Vittoria!
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Sharon Nepstad receives a Fullbright Specialist Award to Brazil at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora.
Award News
Posted: Oct 18, 2023 - 12:00am
Sharon Erickson Nepstad has received a Fulbright Specialist Award to Brazil at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. She will be working with the social sciences division at the
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Department News and Publications, October 2023
Departmental News
Posted: Oct 10, 2023 - 12:00am
Publications
Jessica Goodkind and colleagues (David Lardier and Julia Hess) published a paper in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry titled “The Impact of Post-Re
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