Publications 

• Magan, Ifrah and Jessica Goodkind. 2025. “Understanding the Mental and Physical Health Consequences of the U.S. Citizenship Exam for Rohingya Refugees: Implications for Policy and Practice.” Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118138 
• Goodkind, Jessica, Julia M. Hess, C. Estela Vasquez Guzman, Kimberly Huyser, David T. Lardier, and Alexis J. Handal. 2025. “Immigrant Wellbeing Project Study Protocol: Addressing the Socio-Structural Determinants of Latinx Immigrant Mental Health.” Health Education & Behavior 52(1S): 11S-19S. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981251345381 
• Lardier, David, Meredith Blackwell, and Jessica Goodkind. 2025. “Longitudinal Trajectories of PTSD Symptom Severity and Associations with Risk and Protective Factors among Recently Resettled Refugees in the United States.” International Journal of Social Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640251339842 
• Echeverri Herrera, Susana, Bianca Ruiz-Negron, Alejandra Lemus, C. Estela Vasquez Guzman, Julia Meredith Hess, Janet Ramirez, Sonia Ramirez, Norma Casas, Margarita Galvis, Ivonne Aguirre, and Jessica Goodkind. 2025. “Centering Latinx Immigrant Knowledge and Action to Promote Wellbeing, Liberation, and Social Justice in Community-University Research Partnerships.” American Journal of Community Psychology 75(3-4): 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12782   
• Hess, Julia M., Ifrah Magan, and Jessica Goodkind. 2025. “Is Cultural Appropriateness Culturally-Specific? Intersectional Insights from a Community-Based Participatory Mental Health Intervention Study Conducted with Diverse Cultural Groups.” American Journal of Community Psychology 75(1):53-67. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12763 

Grants, Fellowships, and Contracts

• Lisa Broidy and co-PI with Jennifer Perillo (UNM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) along with lead agency partner, the First Judicial District, and the lead community partner Moving Arts Española, were recently awarded an Institutional Challenge Grant from the William T. Grant Foundation for their project “Promoting Innovative and Vital Opportunities for Transformation (PIVOT): A Prosecutor-Led Community Based Diversion Program for Youth and Young Adults To Reduce Ethnoracial Inequality.” https://wtgrantfoundation.org/announcing-the-2025-institutional-challenge-grantees
• Sharon Erickson Nepstad received a grant from the Norwegian Fulbright Commission and will be a visiting researcher at the Nobel Institute in Oslo during the Spring 2026 semester.

Awards and Honors 

• Graduate student Susana Echeverri Herrera received Honorable Mention in the Critical Race and Ethnic Study Division’s SSSP Student Paper Competition for “Border Disablement: How Embodied Borders Disable Latina Immigrants with Breast Cancer.”
• Graduate students Susana Echeverri Herrera, Alejandra Lemus, and Bianca Ruiz Negrón were awarded the 2025–2026 UNM Center for Regional Studies Graduate Student Fellowship.
• Nancy López was award the 2025 Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
• 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 won the 2025 American Sociological Association, Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

Conferences 

• Graduate students Alejandra Lemus and Susana Echeverri Herrera presented their dissertation projects on the panel “Pursuing Racial Justice to Improve Health Inequities in Historically Marginalized Groups” at SSSP:
  • “Transnational Care Webs: How Latina Migrants Navigate Exclusion and Challenge Oppressions,” Alejandra G. Lemus
  • “Border Disablement: How Embodied Borders Disable Latina Immigrants with Breast Cancer,” Susana Echeverri Herrera
• Several graduate students working with Jessica Goodkind on the Refugee and Immigrant Well-Being Project presented papers at the SSSP and ASA meetings:
  • Alejandra Lemus presented a co-authored paper at SSSP, “Families in Crisis: ‘No es Justo’: Latina Immigrants Navigating Racialized-Gendered Reproductive Labor, Transnational Care, and Support during COVID-19.” 
  • Bianca Ruiz Negrón and Alejandro Tovar presented at the ASA Section on Sociology of Mental Health panel “The Work-Wellbeing Paradox: Exploring the Emotional and Bodily Dimensions of Intersectional Capitalism among Latinx Immigrants.” Graduate student 
  • Bianca Ruiz Negrón and Auroral Arreola presented at SSSP on the panel “Intersectionality in Action: Bridging Mental Health and Social Problems Theory to Address Complex Social Issues,” with their paper “The Paradox of Work: Exploring the Emotional and Bodily Dimensions of Intersectional Capitalism among Latinx Immigrants in the U.S.” 
  • Susana Echeverri Herrera and Dulce Medina presented a co-authored paper at the ASA Racial and Ethnic Inequality panel “New Frontiers of Research,” titled “Rethinking Border Violence: Continuities of Harm within a Socio-Structural Analysis of Latinx Immigrant Health and Well-Being.” 
  • Alejandra Lemus presented her dissertation research “Transnational Care Webs: How Latina Migrants Navigate Exclusion and Challenge Oppressions.”in the ASA paper session “Towards an UnRuly Latinx Sociology,”

• Nancy Lopez and colleagues, including postdoctoral fellow Sharan Mehta and graduate student Attiya White presented several papers at ASA: 
  • Sharan Mehta, Edward Vargas, Yasmiyn Irizarry and Nikita Rupani presented the first empirical paper using the street race measure (https://cmps.ss.ucla.edu/) in a quantitative analysis of Asian Americans highlighting the importance of Multidimensional Measures of Race for Equity Use
  • Nancy López, Sharan Mehta, Attiya White, Joaquin Arguello, Michelle Johnson, Yasmiyn Irizarry, and Edward Vargas presented archival research on Census & OMB on Statistical Gaslighting, Fetishization of Data and Dual Evidentiary Data Systems: Census and OMB as Sites of Racial Formation
  • Dr. Yasmiyn Irizarry and Dr. Nancy López presented on intersectionality and quantitative methods at the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational & Mixed Methodologies Summit in June 2025 lead By Dr. Odis Johnson at Johns Hopkins University as a critical space for cultivating the next generation of scholars and practitioners in data science.  https://www.icqcm.org/ 

• Grad student Libby Vigil presented her preliminary dissertation proposal, “Comparing Movement Approaches: A Discussion of the Relationship Between Movements Against Policing/Prisons and Those Against ICE/Detention” at the Justice Studies Association annual meeting in June. Libby also participated in a Critical Dialogue on “The Everyday Work of Abolition” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) annual meeting in August.

Other news

• First, with my band Black Tie (Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/j5bh5eks) (Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/mtu7549x).  
• Second, the debut record from my solo project (ARGIE) is available on limited edition cassette (Link to reserve & arrange purchase: https://forms.gle/fMDJ8s6o8brGiyEv9). Every penny of sales from this record will be donated to Casa-Q (http://www.casaq.org) in Albuquerque.