Graduate Student Publications and Media Mentions

"Punishing Status and the Punishment Status Quo: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention Facilities, 2013-2017" featured by the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists.

My immigrant parents lost their jobs; the CARE Act won't help.

How does culture influence the political and economic processes shaping cities?

Although there is burgeoning research on the impact of therapeutic culture in the construction of the individual Self, the ways in which emotional discourse and therapeutic style shape the collective Self have been overlooked.

In a blog post for the ASA Consumers and Consumption Section, graduate students in Sociology Alana Haynes Stein In a blog post for the ASA Consumers and Consumption Section, graduate students in Sociology Alana Haynes Stein and Nadia Smiecinska describe how individualizing “citizen-consumer” discourses were promoted by countries at the 2015 World Expo in Milan as they discussed solutions to world hunger.

UC Davis Sociology alumnus Zeke Baker recently published a piece in the Washington Post with co-author Jamie Pietruska, a historian at Rutgers University.

In a blog post for the LSE Business Review, graduate student Christopher Lawrence explains why bitcoin is primarily treated as an investment as opposed to a method of payment.

New Article by Baker, Zeke, Julia Ekstrom and Louise Bedsworth

New Article by Zeke Baker “Meteorological Frontiers: Climate Knowledge, the West, and Statecraft in the US, 1800-1850.” Social Science History.

New Article by Zeke Baker “Climate State: Science-State Struggles and the Formation of Climate Science in the US from the 1930s to 1960s.”