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Assistant Professor Tina Law recently published two new articles on generative AI in Sociological Methods & Research.

Yao Lu received the American Sociological Association (ASA) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. The grant supports highly talented doctoral students who are conducting cutting-edge sociological research that has the potential to both advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the public good.

Professor David Kyle was interviewed by Washington Post (12/24/24) in the article, “Texas puts up billboards warning of rape, kidnapping to deter migrants." The article can be read in full

Prof. David Kyle’s pioneering research on Cognitive Migration was featured in the UC Davis Letters & Science Magazine article, "How We Imagine Who We Will Be in a New Place,” and can be read in full here. 

Zoa’s research examines the intersectional impacts of climate change on racially, socioeconomically, and environmentally marginalized communities in California’s Central Valley. Using mixed methods, her study explores how language and public policy shape climate perceptions and outcomes while also contributing to debates about the role of quantitative methods in intersectional research. Zoa's mentor is Professor Veronica Lerma.

Dr. Joss Greene has  been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Faculty Category. The award honors his exceptional commitment to undergraduate mentorship and the deep, lasting impact of his work with students.

Sociology undergraduate honors student, Ananya Nipane, was awarded 3rd place in the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research.  The Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research recognizes undergraduate students whose research projects make extensive use of library resources, services or expertise, or advance the students’ understanding of the academic research process.

Assistant Professor Ariana Valle co-authored an article with Nicholas Vargas (UC Berkeley) and Stephanie Dhuman (Hamilton College), which has been published in Annual Review of Sociology as a review in advance.  The article, “Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization”, can be read in full here. 

Associate Professor Orly Clerge received the Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship (2025-2026) to work on her book project, In the Time of Duvalier: Family, Migration and the Afterlife of Revolution, and the corresponding 'Haiti Remembrance Project,' an archival collection of the lives lived and lost under the Duvalier Dictatorship in Haiti (1957-1986).

Assistant Professor Ariana Valle published an article in a Special Issue of The Florida Historical Quarterly (vol. 102 no. 2).  The article, "Political Bridging and Struggles in Puerto Rican/Latino Solidarity Politics in Orlando" focuses on Puerto Rican and Latino politics making in Florida; specifically, it examines how a politics of solidarity is forged between Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Orlando metro during the 2016 election.