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01/15/2025
Morewitz, Stephen J. 2025. Forensic Social Sciences. Theory, Research, and Practice. Cognella, Inc.
Mueller, Jason C. 2025. "Medelacide: The Intentional and Systematic Destruction of Healthcare Infrastructure." Global Social Challenges Journal, 1-28.
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. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo246051255.html
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. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Wiley+Blackwell+Encyclopedia+of+Sociology%2C+12+Volumes%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780470655504
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: https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/sbg/vol10/iss1/6
05/08/2025
Ritzer, George and J. Michael Ryan. 2024. Introduction to Sociology, 6th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/introduction-to-sociology/book275190
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. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6614/sexuality-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
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. https://www.routledge.com/Transformations-in-Social-Science-Research-Methods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic/Ryan-Visanich-Brandle/p/book/9781032646817
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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00475-3
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 https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXAFE. 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. Please see: https://blog.taaonline.net/2025/05/steven-barkan-receives-2025-taa-social-justice-award/?mc_cid=05e160add4.
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2024.2372268
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
