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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.
Morewitz, Stephen J. 2025. Forensic Social Sciences. Theory, Research, and Practice. Cognella, Inc. 03/12/2025.
Mueller, Jason C. 2025. "Medelacide: The Intentional and Systematic Destruction of Healthcare Infrastructure." Global Social Challenges Journal, 1-28. 03/27/2025.
Pericak, Kaitlin. 2025. Body Factory: Exploiting University Athletes’ Healthcare for Profit in the Training Room. Temple University Press.
Vasquez-Tokos, Jessica. 2025. Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation. New York: New York University Press.
05/07/2025
05/07/2025
LaBranche, Jillian and Savelsberg, Joachim. 2025. "Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison." American Journal of Cultural Sociology (Online First).
05/07/2025
Moss-Pech, Corey. 2025. Major Trade-Offs: The Surprising Truths About College Majors and Entry-level Jobs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sáenz, Rogelio, Maria Cristina Morales, and Coda Rayo-Garza. 2025. Latina/os in the United States: Diversity and Change. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
05/07/2025
Ritzer, George, Chris Rojek, and J. Michael Ryan (eds.). 2025. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition. London: Wiley.
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael, George Ritzer and Hermann Strasser. 2025. "The McDonaldization of Academic Sociology," Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics: Vol. 10.nAvailable at:
05/08/2025
Ritzer, George and J. Michael Ryan. 2024. Introduction to Sociology, 6th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael, and Helen Rizzo (eds.). 2024. Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael, Valerie Visanich, and Gaspar Brandle (eds.). 2024. Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic. London: Routledge.
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael. 2024. “Unshared Problems, Semi-shared Consequences, and Fully Shared Solutions: Ethical dilemmas in combating contemporary social challenges,” Sociology Journal.
05/08/2025
Ritzer, George, J. Michael Ryan, Sarah Hayes, Mark Elliot, and Petar Jandric. 2024. “McDonaldization and Artificial Intelligence,” Postdigital Science and Education.
05/08/2025
Zerai, Assata. 2025. Black Feminist Interventions to Decolonize the Westernized University: epistemology, citational justice, research methodology, and pedagogy. The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies. London: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.
05/09/2025
Barkan, Steven E. received the 2025 Social Justice Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.
05/24/2025
Gwathney, Ashley was selected as the 2024-2025 Post-Doctoral Associate Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series at Rutgers University–Newark.
05/24/2025
Santana, E., Walsh, P., Gwathney, A.N., Payne, C., Majewski, K., Wingfield J., Simpson, P., Neyman, J. (2025). New Jersey Department of Education Promising Practices Project: Qualitative Findings. New Jersey State Policy Lab and Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies.
05/24/2025
Gwathney, A.N. (2024). "Through a social workers lens: Examining school administrators discipline perspectives and practices." Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1–12.
Smith, David A. and Paul Ciccantell. “The Political Economy of Trade, Work and the Economy: Deglobalization – or Re-globalization?” (2024) New Global Studies (online).
05/26/2025
Potiker, Spencer; Smith, David A.; Ciccantell, Paul; Sowers, Elizabeth; and McKenzie, Lucas. “Labor Organizing at Chokepoints along Amazon’s Supply Chain: Locating Geostrategic Nodes.” (2024) Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 6(5)1521-1538.
05/26/2025
Leffel, Benjamin; Smith, David A.; and Maharens, Helge. “Hong Kong versus Shanghai: Understanding International Financial Centers through the Global City Hypothesis.” (2025) Journal of Urban Affairs (online in April).
05/26/2025
Ciccantell, Paul; Potiker, Spencer Potiker; Smith, David A.; Sowers, Sowers and McKenzie, Lucas. (2025) “From Africa to Amazon.com: Creating Peripheries Using Racialized Labor From the 16th through the 21st Centuries.” Critical Sociology (online in February).
05/26/2025
Morewitz, Stephen J. San Jose State University (SJSU) and Forensic Social Sciences Association, won an SJSU Annual Authors, Inventors, and Artists Award 2024 for co-editing the Handbook of Understanding Terrorism. Forensic Social Sciences Case Studies (Springer 2024) with Professor Martine Herzog-Evans, Universite de Reims.
06/02/2025
Morewitz, Stephen J. San Jose State University (SJSU) and Forensic Social Sciences Association, won an SJSU Annual Authors, Inventors, and Artists Award 2024 for publishing Klinische und Psychologische Perspektiven des Foulspiels (Springer 2024).
06/02/2025
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
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
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 3 months.
