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Professor Xiaoling Shu co-authored an article with Kelsey D. Meagher. The article, "Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 2018" can be read in full here. 

Professor Xiaoling Shu co-authored an article with Ph.D. alumnus Yiwan Ye. The article, "Unequal but Widespread Despairs: Social Inequalities and Self-Rated Health Trends in the United States in 1972-2018," published in Social Science and Medicine, sheds light on declining health trends in the United States and deepens our understanding of health inequalities and their dynamics in high-income countries. It can be read in full here. 

Professor Xiaoling Shu co-authored an article in the Journal of Marriage and Family. The article, "Classifying and mapping gender ideologies: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century" can be read here. 

Wen Guan was selected to be a 2025 Equity Scholar in the NORC at the University of Chicago, Equity Scholars Program. This program will assist Wen's research on reimagining community safety for AANHPI communities with effective non-carceral solutions to combat anti-AANHPI hate crime.

Axl Kaminski presented a working paper titled "Diagnosing Dangerousness: The Discursive Struggle Over Spoiled Identities in California Board of Parole Hearings" at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Associate Professor Orly Clerge published a new paper titled "Ain't I a Migrant?: Global Blackness and the Future of Migration Studies" with co-author Jean Beaman in the International Migration Review. The article argues for the necessity of a global Blackness perspective on global migration, and can be read in full here. 

Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research Jacob Hibel was featured on the Center's faculty spotlight. The full article can be read here.

Professor Bob Faris participated in The Museum of Modern Art’s 50th Salon titled "The Age of the Bully" as part of the MoMA Research & Development series. 

Assistant Professor Tina Law recently published a new article on AI in Socius titled “AI Policymaking: An Agenda for Sociological Research.” The article is part of a new Socius special issue on the Sociology of AI.

Jennifer Krebsbach's article, "Increasing Online Attendance Using Insignificantly Impactful Extra Credit as Positive Reinforcement" was recently published in the Journal of Educators Online. The full article can be read here.