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SSSP provides space for members to share news of recent publications, interviews, awards and fellowships, nominations and grants, promotions/tenure/new jobs/retirement, social activist work, and other personal accomplishments. If you wish to post your recent accomplishments, please email ssspgra@utk.edu. News and Announcements will remain posted for 6 months.

 
08/22/2025
 
Jerome Scott and walda katz-fishman (2025) recently published Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
09/08/2025
 
Jerome Krase, "Terrorism and an Autoethnography of 9/11,"Special Issue on Terrorism, American Behavioral Scientist, Harvey W. Kushner, et al Ed.s,  2025,  69 (11): 1414-1435.
09/09/2025

Jerome Krase, "Discovering Community in Urban Society: Autoethnography of a Journey," in Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume Two by Italo Pardo and Giuliana Prato (Eds), 2025: 57-75.
09/09/2025

Chie Togami, Caitlin Schroering, Marcela González Rivas, and Talor Musil. 2025. “Environmental Justice Victory? Waste Colonialism and the Afterlife of Lead Water Pipes.” Environmental Justice. DOI: 10.1177/19394071251372726
09/09/2025

Isabella Irtifa and Xochitl de Anda Arellanes. Building Radical Hope: An Ode to Community. SPARK, 5, 31-43. 2025.
09/10/2025
 
09/10/2025
 
Isabella Irtifa was named a Humanities Without Walls Fellow (2025)
09/10/2025
 
Isabella Irtifa was named a Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship Recipient, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2025)
09/10/2025
 
Isabella Irtifa was named a COSP Travel Grant Recipient, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2025)
09/10/2025
 
Isabella Irtifa was named a Race, Indigeneity, Gender, Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) Critical Reading Group Grant Recipient for "Abolition Futures: Migration, Belonging, Resistance", University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2025)
09/10/2025
 
Isabella Irtifa was named a mentor for Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights graduate program (2023-present)
09/10/2025

Christine A. Beach: Christine [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-a-beach-phd/] is a board-certified medical laboratory scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, College of Education, at the Center for the Study of Higher Education.
09/10/2025

Christine A. Beach was recently awarded a SUCCESS (Strategic Uplift for Completion, Community Engagement, and Student Success) scholarship from their college. They are a 2026 - 2027 Fulbright U.S. Scholar applicant and three-time [2023 – 2026] National Science Foundation (NSF) Cultures of Science Fellow for the BRIDGES (Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences) program. Christine is a First Generation/Working Class (FG/WC) mentor for the American Sociology Association (ASA); and an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division I (professions) mentorship committee graduate student representative.
09/10/2025

Christine A. Beach will kick off a two-month Photovoice – inspired photography exhibit, titled “Drawing With Light: An Exploration of International Medical Learner Experiences in U.S. Academic Medical Centers through Informed Photography (A Photovoice Exhibit),” one of the culminating works from their dissertation, at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library in Tucson, AZ on October 15, 2025 (noon – 1 PM). If you will be in Tucson, please contact Christine for further details about the exhibit at christinebeach@arizona.edu.
09/10/2025 

Kat Fuller and Quinnehtukqut McLamore. "Moral Panic, Transphobia, and Cultural Marxism" Conspiracy as Genre: Narrative, Power, and Circulation: Advances in Sociolinguistics Catherine Tebaldi Bloomsbury Academic - Bloomsbury. 2025. 
09/10/2025
Tirth R. Bhatta, Nirmala Lekhak, Moushumi Roy, Kat Fuller. The Intersections of Gender and Caste | 11 | Cumulative Dis/Advantage in Population Aging in Societal Context. 2025.
09/10/2025
 
Stella M. Čapek and Natalia Ruiz-Junco. 2025. "Liberating Silence: Sociological Explorations."  Humanity & Society 49,2: 1–27.
09/11/2025
 
Jeffrey C. Dixon. 2025. “To Be or Not to Be…Self-Employed? Toward Addressing the Job Quality Debate and Its Challenges.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. Online version available.
10/28/2025

Hamide Elif Üzümcü and Morena Tartari (guest editors). Faith and Non-Faith Worldviews in Understanding Family Relationships. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 45(7–8): 629–742. 
11/10/2025

Zehra Sahin Ilkorkor. 2025. “Comparison of Bias-based Bullying and Non-bias-based Bullying: Prevalence Rates, Impacts on Students, and the Buffering Role of Social Support," Aggression and Violent Behavior.
11/24/2025

Kat Fuller and Quinnehtukqut McLamore co-edited BATS' Special Issue on Transphobic Online Disinformation (open access) and wrote the introduction "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation: Introduction to the Special Issue." 2025.
12/1/2025

Nicole Trujillo-Pagán. 2026. Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings. NYU Press.
1/15/2026

Jerome Krase. 2025. "Finding Things in Common," Dear Higher Education: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain, Volume 2.
1/15/2026

Michael O. Johnston. 2025. "Club Rules: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of a Regular a Mulligan’s," Social Currents 12(6).
1/16/2026

Loretta E. Bass. 2025. Migrant Children and Youth: Wellbeing and Integration around the World. Vol. 36, Emerald. DOI: 9781835496060, 
1/16/2026
 
Bonner, E. R. D. and Loretta E. Bass. 2025. The Price Is Not Right: Grocery Taxation, Race, and Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sociology Compass.
1/16/2026
Beatriz Padilla and Villach Vaquer. 2025. “Argentinean Diaspora in the United States: contributions of the scientific-professional highly-skilled Diaspora in the country of destination (and origin)," (in Spanish and Galician), Tempo Exterior, 51, 30-45. DOI: 10.64130/temex.51.30-45
1/16/2026
    
Cecilia Melella, Gisele Kleidermacher and Beatriz Padilla. 2025. “Senegaleses and Venezuelans in the online press in Argentina”, REMHU, Vol 33 e332137 (1-17) (in Spanish) 
1/16/2026
 
Thais França and Beatriz Padilla. 2025. “Modern, skilled, entrepreneurs: Is there a “new” discourse about Brazilian women in the Portuguese media?”, in Boesen, Elisabeth, Karl Heinz Arenz, Cristina Donza Cancela and Antonio Otaviano Vieira Junior (Editors), Changing Lusospheres. Europe, Brazil, Africa. On Old and New Connections between Centers and Peripheries, Current Trends in Luxembourg Studies 7. Melusina Press, 76 – 107.
1/16/2026
 
Thais França and Beatriz Padilla. 2025. “Female African students in Brazil: considering gender and racial intersectionality in international students’ mobility dynamics”, in Student Mobilities from the Global South - Study Abroad and International Students, Dedgjoni, D. and Bauschke-Urban, C. (Eds), Routledge, ISBN: 9780367480998, 137-161.
1/16/2026
 

 

SSSP’s mission is to serve researchers, practitioners, teachers, and advocates in the pursuit of social justice. This site will showcase members' non-peer reviewed writings, legislative testimony, media appearances, podcasts, op-eds, letters to the editor, and blog posts in local, state, national, and international arenas.

Allow us to highlight and celebrate your recent achievements in the public square. Please email the relevant information, including links, to the GRA & Webmaster at ssspgra@utk.edu. Works will remain posted for 6 months.

Janice McCabe. “I Study Friendship. Here’s How You Make Lasting Friends.” The New York Times. Online edition 1/3/26. Print edition 1/5/26, page A17. 
1/16/2026

Beatriz Padilla. 2025. "The Portuguese who made Venezuela their home," Newspaper: Público.
1/16/2026
 
Beatriz Padilla. 2025. Second Forum on Human Rights and Migration in Mendoza, organized by the National University of Cuyo (Argentina) and the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean of the University of South Florida.
1/16/2026
 
Beatriz Padilla. 2025. The Central University of Chile, Santiago, hosted an event on "Latin American Migrations in times of polarization: contemporary continuities, returns and resistances", discussing migration across Latin America and how the agenda on migration research is being impacted due to current policies. 
1/16/2026