UNM PhD alum, Castillo, Florence Emilia, UNM BA alum, Angeles "Rubi" Castorena and Nancy López. Published “Unpacking the Performativity of Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Designation: Holding the University of Accountable and Developing a Call to Action,” in Social Sciences, Special Issue: Restorative Justice Practices Within Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm, 14(10):585-92. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14100585

Irizarry, Yasmiyn and Nancy López have a forthcoming chapter titled “Combatting Statistical Gaslighting & Ventriloquism in the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) & U.S. Census Bureau Race & Ethnicity Measurements Cultivating Liberatory AfroLatin@ Futures,” in The Afro-Latin@ Reader: Volume 2,  Section: "Afro-Latin@ Forum, Opening: The Futurities of AfroLatinidades,” Durham, NC: Duke University.

Kiwoong Park and his colleague published “Gendered Mental Health Consequences of Violent Victimization: An Asymmetric Fixed Effects Analysis” in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-025-09852-5

 

Jack Thomas and his north campus collaborators and published a new article, "Interpreting discordant results in mixed-method research: data triangulation, participant voices, and epistemic issues in health research" in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology

 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2025.2569682

Graduate student Jaqueline Martinez received the GPSA Student Research Grant to present my research at the National Association for Chicano and Chicano Studies in San Antonio Texas.

Graduate student Jiang Meng received an Asia Library Travel Grant from the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan 

Nancy López and UNM PhD alum Kasim Ortiz spoke as invited panelists for "Uncharted Pathways: Heterogeneity within Hispanic Populations," at the 25th Annual Scientific Conference of the hosted by University of Miami on the future of Hispanic Health Science. National Hispanic Science Network, October 25, 2025, Miami, FL. 

 

Eli Wilson was an invited guest speaker for Texas State University's "sociology week", organized by the Department of Sociology where he presented on his book Handcrafter Careers.

Nancy López was interviewed (9/18/25) by Daisuke Nikai, reporter for The Asahi Shimbum one of Japan's leading daily newspapers on the need for multi-dimensional measures of race that include both self-identified race and race as a visual status for interrogating inequalities (e.g., street race/visual status). She pointed to how the 2024 OMB revisions making race and ethnicity "co-equal" contributes to what she calls "statistical gaslighting" and the erasure of race data for apportionment, voting rights and program evaluation. 

 

Nancy López wrote an invited essay, "Advancing Health Justice Through Interconnected Equity," for the newsletter of the Michigan Department of Health and Human services (forthcoming November 2025). She underscored that intersectionality-recognizing the simultaneity and overlapping systems of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, citizenship status and migration status, etc. provides a more complete picture of complex health inequities and potential solutions.

Graduate student Jiang Meng joined the communication committee of Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section (SKAT) of ASA.

George Weddington recently re-activated the UNM Undergraduate Debate Team. They had their first tournament on the weekend of October 11 where both UNM entries earned the first UNM debate wins in over 20 years. The team has a healthy and sustainable level of interest of around 12 students and is looking to raise funds to participate at regional tournaments in person as well as online. Eight students entered and preparing for our next tournament, hosted at Wake Forest University, on November 15th. The topic for this year is: Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially strengthen collective bargaining rights for workers in the United States.