Professor Mears to join Institute for Advanced Study
Professor Ashley Mears to join as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest with Central European University. Please click here to view.
Professor Villarreal’s work featured on ASA podcast
Professor Ana Villarreal’s article “Domesticating Danger: Coping Codes and Symbolic Security amid Violent Organized Crime in Mexico” was featured in a Sociological Theory podcast. Click here to listen!
Professor Mears and Gowayed publish in American Behavioral Scientist
Professors Ashley Mears and Heba Gowayed publish in American Behavioral Scientist, “Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Situational Human Capital and Responses to Sudden Job Loss”. Please click here to read.
Professor Gowayed to join Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
Professor Heba Gowayed was selected to join the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as a member in the School of Social Science, where she will be in residence during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Professor Mears cited in New York Times
Professor Ashley Mears is cited in the New York Times. Please click here to read.
Professor Gowayed Publishes in The New Humanitarian
Professor Heba Gowayed publishes “The Human Toll of Migration” in The New Humanitarian where she reflects on racism, borders, and the promise of refuge. Reflecting on the fledgling Ukrainian exodus is complicated both by its newness and by the racist realities of borders and systems that make it easier or more difficult for people to seek […]
PhD Candidate Kimberly Rhoten publishes in Sexualities
PhD candidate Kimbery Rhoten publishes a new article appearing in Sexualities, “U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents”. This paper reviews polyamorous parents’ efforts towards achieving legal and societal legitimatization, finding significant parallels with legal strategies LGBTQ parents utilized to seek legal recognition and protection prior […]
Professor Kibria Publishes in The Hechinger Report
Professor Nazli Kibria published an opinion piece in The Hechinger Report, ” Opinion: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality”. Please click here to read.
Professor Mijs Publishes in Social Problems
Professor Jonathan Mijs publishes in Social Problems, “How Information about Inequality Impacts Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Australia, Indonesia and Mexico”. Please click here to read.
Professor Mijs interviewed in MarketWatch
Professor Jonathan Mijs was interviewed in a MarketWatch report, “Racial and economic inequality persists. Why do many people deny it?” It cites his recent research papers on people’s growing belief in meritocracy, on trends in socioeconomic segregation in the US and on efforts to address misperceptions of inequality. Please click here to read the article.