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Sociologists in the Public Square

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.

 
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

Y. Li and R.L. Rayburn, N. Lozano, and T. Diaz. 2025. Understanding pro-police sentiment in a marginalized community: Evidence from a Hispanic border community. The Howard Journal of Communications, 1–18. 
1/20/2026

Y. Li and R.L. Rayburn. 2025. Legal cynicism and Blue Lives Matter: An exploration in a selected Hispanic community. The Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 23(3), 285–300. Advance online publication. 
1/20/2026

Jill Manuel designed and led the Empower U! workshop series supporting students with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
1/27/2026

Jill Manuel named Research Affiliate, Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, GMU. 2025.
1/27/2026

Jill Manuel elected to the George Mason University Staff Senate. 2025.
1/27/2026

Jill Manuel received the Mason Impact Award recipient. 2025.
1/27/2026

Jeffrey C. Dixon and Haly Buchmann. 2026. “Are Large Language Models Reliable Across Services and Over (a Short) Time? An Exploratory Study in Sociology with Pedagogical Implications." Teaching Sociology (Teaching Note). 
2/26/2026

Casey Jakubowski is the author of Settling Conflict in Rural New York. The book examines the history of rural education community in a metro centered state.   
3/2/2026

Jerome Krase was recently honored by an award established in his name by the City University of New York Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The Award is presented yearly to associate professors in recognition of outstanding research in the humanities or sciences, including social and life sciences. Awardees are selected from all CUNY campuses and receive university-wide recognition of their work. The award is named after Jerome Krase, founding member of the CUNY Academy and longstanding member of the board. 
3/2/2026

Steven E. Barkan. Social Problem: Continuity and Change, 3e. Boston: Flatworld. 
3/2/2026
Hannah Regan. Dating Apps, Modern Romance, and Social Inequality. Bloomsbury Academic.
3/10/2026
3/11/2026
Amy Zhou. 2026. Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi. 1st ed. University of California Press. 
3/17/2026
 

 

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.

Jeffrey C. Dixon. 2025. “working with for ai” Contexts blog, September 23.
09/25/2026

Jeffrey C. Dixon. 2025. “The US really is unlike other rich countries when it comes to job insecurity – and AI could make it even more ‘exceptional’.” The Conversation, August 26. 
09/25/2026

Jeffrey C. Dixon. 2025. “As AI enters the workforce, the future of American workers is up in the air.” Interview with “Marketplace,” September 15. Minnesota Public Radio. 
09/25/2026

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