Department News, February 2026

Departmental News

Posted: Feb 28, 2026 - 12:00am

Publications 

Lisa Broidy and her colleagues in Australia published a paper titled “Developmental trajectories of outpatient mental health service contact from childhood to early adulthood in an Australian birth cohort” in Frontiers if Psychiatry
Lisa Broidy and her colleagues in Australia published a paper titled “Identifying variations in experiences and life events across female offending trajectories in an Australian birth cohort” in Psychology, Crime & Law
Eli Wilson and his colleague Adam Schoenbachler (Cornell post-doc) have an article forthcoming in Work & Occupations about how people build careers in and around creative industries. It is titled, "Balancing Acts: Composite Careers in Nashville''s Music and Service Industries." 

Conferences and Presentations

Tyler Bateman gave a talk titled, “Problem-Solving with Students: Primary and Library Research" for the Problem Solving Sociology speaker series. It was recorded and it will be uploaded here: https://www.problemsolvingsociology.com/problem-solving-panels

Public Facing Sociology

Nancy López was quoted (2/4/26) in press release reporting on the inaugural Black History Month Afro-Latino Roundtable on  sponsored by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Garifuna Caucus in Washington DC: https://chc.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/chc-hosts-inaugural-black-history-month-afro-latino-roundtable
Nancy López published  a essay  as part of the AfroLatino Forum Pensamiento series (2/6/26) on the urgency of intersectionality as critical inquiry and praxis in federal data collection: https://www.afrolatinoforum.org/pensamientos-blog/intersectionality-as-critical-inquiry-and-praxis-comment-by-dr-nancy-lpez 
Nancy López was an invited speaker at the for a roundtable on Black Immigrants (2/25/26) sponsored by the U.S. Immigration Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute.

Nancy López presented (2/11/26) at the CAnD3 (short for Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making is a collaborative SSHRC and partner-funded training initiative bringing together graduate fellows in population and health research from more than 15 universities globally to develop their skills to support evidence-informed decision-making in aging societies. You can see the current cohort of international fellows here: https://www.mcgill.ca/cand3/our-people/fellows-2025-26

Nancy López co-led a workshop on Intersectionality and Modeling in Quantitative Research at the Institute in Critical Quantitative Computational and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM) Summit sponsored by Johns Hopkins University in New Orleans, LA, 2/26/26-3/1/26. Sharan Mehta (UNM RWJF postdoctoral Fellow) shared her work as an invited scholar.

Nancy López and Claudia Diaz Fuentes were awarded (2/10/26) the Unidos Partnership Travel Grant, Florida International University for advancing student success through intersectionality as critical inquiry and praxis in STEM.