Members News
Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott. 2024. Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls. Rowman & Littlefield.
10/10/2024
Nora Gross. 2024. Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools. University of Chicago Press.
10/07/2024
Linda Lobao and Paige Kelly. 2024. “Urban Austerity Theory, Politicizing Space, and Cutback Policies across Urban and Rural Communities.” City & Community 23 (2):87-109. e-copy.
10/01/2024
Lazarus Adua and Linda Lobao. 2024. “Transforming the Residential Built Environment: Land-Use policies and the Influence of the Growth Machine across the United States.” Social Science Research 122 (2024).
10/01/2024
Sefania Fiorentino, Amy Glasmeier, Linda Lobao, Ron Martin, and Peter Tyler. “’Left Behind Places': What Can Be Done about Them?” 2024. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society 17(2): 1-15.
10/01/2024
Christine M. Capili. 2024. “Multiraciality & Racialized Politics in the United States.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 31(4):1-23.
09/17/2024
Natasha Kabir was recently awarded a 2024 Research Grant for Graduate Students (RGGS) from The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School for "Survivors of Commercial Sex Trafficking: A Case Study of Bangladesh Intertwined with an Ethnographical and Netnographic Portrayal of Poverty."
09/10/2024
Muhammed Faisol Olaitan was named a Fellow in the Summer Program in Social Science (SPSS) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
09/09/2024
Monnica Gavin was promoted to Full Professor of Sociology at Clark State College.
09/09/2024
Christopher T. Connor. 2024. “The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema.” Symbolic Interaction.
09/09/2024
Christopher T. Connor. 2024. “Review Essay: Where have all the gay bars gone?” Social Forces.
09/09/2024
Christopher T. Connor; Matthew Hannah; Nicholas MacMurray (Eds.). 2024. Conspiracy Theories and Extremism In New Times. Lanham MD: Bloomsbury Press.
09/09/2024
Matthew N. Hannah and Christohper T. Conner. 2024. “Paranoid Publics: Conspiracy theories and the Public Sphere” Frontiers in Sociology. Volume 9 (intro to special issue title Paranoid Publics).
09/09/2024
Natasha Kabir was recently named a Wedu Purposeful Action Agent.
09/09/2024
Rodney D. Coates. 2024. Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth. Bristol University Press.
09/09/2024
Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn. 2024. “Renewal Without Replication: Expanding Durkheim’s Theory of Disruptions via Queer Nightlife.” British Journal of Sociology. Open Access.
09/09/2024
Tori Shucheng Yang and Amin Ghaziani. 2024. “Retheorizing Intersectional Identities with the Study of Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.” Social Problems.
09/09/2024
Amy Spring and Amin Ghaziani. 2024. “New Evidence from Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note.” Demography 61(4): 995-1009.
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09/09/2024
09/09/2024
Treviño. A. Javier. Investigating Social Problems, 4th edition. Sage, 2024. ISBN: 978-1071917817. The following SSSP members contributed chapters to the textbook: William Hoynes and Nick Hoynes (Media) E. Brooke Kelly (Poverty and Class Inequality), Janelle Pham (Sexualities), Jackie Zalewski (Work and the Economy), Lisa-Jo van den Scott (Science and Technology), Heather Dillaway, Allison Jendry James, and Nancy Mazey (Families), Matt DelSesto (Crime), and Val Leiter (Health).
09/09/2024
Colleen Sinclair, Andrew Burns, and Brett Burton. Taking Conspiracies to Extremes: How Extremist Groups Use Conspiracy Narratives to Stoke Violence. American Conspiracism An Interdisciplinary Exploration. Luke Ritter (ed.). 2025.
05/27/2024
J. Michael Ryan recently accepted a position as professor-researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) in Lima, Peru.
05/14/2024
Ritzer, George, J. Michael Ryan, Sarah Hayes, Mark Elliot, and Petar Jandric. 2024. “McDonaldization and Artificial Intelligence,” Postdigital Science and Education.
05/14/2024
Ryan, J. Michael, George Ritzer, and Hermann Strasser. 2023. “The McDonaldizaton of Academic Sociology,” Sociology Today [Soziologie Haute].
05/14/2024
Ritzer, George and J. Michael Ryan. 2024. Introduction to Sociology, 6th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
05/14/2024
Ryan, J. Michael. (ed.). 2023. Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. London: Routledge.
05/14/2024
Ryan, J. Michael. (ed.). 2023. COVID-19: Surviving a pandemic. London: Routledge.
05/14/2024
Ryan, J. Michael. (ed.). 2023. COVID-19: Individual rights and community responsibilities. London: Routledge.
05/14/2024
Ryan, J. Michael. (ed.). 2023. COVID-19: Cultural change and institutional adaptations. London: Routledge.
05/14/2024
Hadjisolomou, Anastasios, Kyla Walters, Dennis Nickson, and Tom Baum. 2023. "‘Boys will be Boys?’: Submissive Masculinity and Sexual Harassment in the Gay Tourism Industry." Hospitality & Society 13:173-200.
05/14/2024
Erika Dawson Head has received the inaugural Chancellor’s Emerging Leader Award.
05/10/2024
Dawson Head, Erika is an invited Speaker leading a workshop for the 2024 NCWIT Summit.
Creating Inclusive Climates for Students of Color with Erika Dawson Head
This interactive session will help you develop and/or advance your ability to support inclusive environments for students of color. This workshop was designed and created from a place of radical love, a yearning for social justice, and a desire to inspire real inclusion in higher education environments for students of color.
05/10/2024
Dawson Head, Erika is co-leading a workshop at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium:
Effective DEI Committees: Sharing and Refining Key Practices
This workshop is intended for faculty, staff, and students engaged in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work within their institution. It will build on participants’ experiences in other collaborative or committee-based work and on experiences with DEI.
05/10/2024
Ghaziani, Amin recently published Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution with Princeton University Press. The book was reviewed by The New York Times. "The sociologist Amin Ghaziani wants to turn a funeral into a party," the reviewer playfully remarked, and "Ghaziani shines as an academic."
05/10/2024
Chukhray, Irina was nominated for an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award at UC Davis.
05/09/2024
Cumberbatch, B. L. (2023). Rediscovering Citta: Vignettes on Violence and Healing in Life and Commercial Yoga Spaces. Race and Yoga, 7(1).
05/08/2024
Goode, Erich (2023). "Celluloid Mischief: Deviance and Crime on the Silver Screen."
05/08/2024
Goode, Erich (2023). "Deviant Behavior (the 13th)."
05/08/2024
Goode, Erich (2023). "What's Deviant? Topics That Instructors Highlight in Their Deviance Course" (Deviant Behavior volume 44, no. 9)
05/08/2024
Indar, Gayitri Kavita, Christine Sharon Barrow, and Warren E. Whitaker. 2023. "A Convergence of Violence: Structural Violence Experiences of K–12, Black, Disabled Males across Multiple Systems" Laws 12, no. 5: 80.
Johnson, Amy L., Christopher Levesque, Neil A. Lewis, Jr., and Asad L. Asad. 2024. “Deportation Threat Predicts Latino US Citizens and Noncitizens’ Psychological Distress, 2011-2018.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(9):e2306554121.
05/08/2024
Check out Khoshneviss, Hadi's note on: “Outcome Oriented Education: Denial of joy, Justice, and Freedom.”
05/08/2024
Khoshneviss, Hadi (2023). “State of Exception, necropolitics, and Puerto Rico: Naturalizing Disaster and Naturalizing Difference.” Capitalism Nature Socialism. 35(1), 75–89.
05/08/2024
Ward, Matthew (2024). “Slavery’s Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 10(2).
05/08/2024
