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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). ht
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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.  For more information, please click here.&#160
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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”   https
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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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Fall 2023 Colloquium Schedule

Departmental News

Posted: Oct 03, 2023 - 12:00am

Please see the flyer below for the Sociology & Criminology Department's Fall 2023 Colloquium Series.  If you are unable to attend in person, please email jordancilley13@unm.edu for a Zoom l
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Current Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Sociology

Departmental News

Posted: Sep 28, 2023 - 12:00am

Assistant Professor of Sociology The Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of New Mexico invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Criminology to beg
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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

Award 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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