News

The Office of Academic Diversity, a unit of the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is proud to announce Maxine Craig will be the new faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Science, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH).

Asia Ivey, who will graduate with her PhD in Sociology this summer, has accepted a position with UC Davis Health as a Research Data Analyst for the Violence Prevention Research Program. Congratulations, Asia! 

Professor Beamish's article, "Americans used to unite over tragic events--and now are divided by them" can be read in full here. 

The American Sociological Association's Sex & Gender section announced that Joss's article, "Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–2018" (American Journal of Sociology) is a co-winner of the section's distinguished article award.

The full article can be read here.

Professor Ariana Valle's article, "‘He begins by targeting Mexicans and he will end with Puerto Ricans’: Unpacking Florida Puerto Ricans’ politics of immigration," published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, has received Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology Section’s Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award. 

Chendong Pi was awarded the UCD Dean’s Summer Graduate Fellowship, as well as the China Times Cultural Foundation Scholarship for Doctoral Dissertation Research. Congrats, Chendong! 

Joss Greene's "The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color," published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society48(4), 873–896, won the American Sociological Association's Section on Body & Embodiment article award.

Veronica Lerma's article “Intersectional Criminalization: How Chicanas Experience and Navigate Criminalization through Interpersonal Relationships with Latino Men and Boys” published in Sociological Perspectives 66(2), 311-330, received the American Sociological Association's Section on Crime, Law & Deviance James F. Short Distinguished Article Award.

Tens of thousands of citizens are gathering outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei to protest against several controversial bills. Lo’s Op Ed piece discusses this ongoing political crisis in Taiwan and can be read in full here. 

This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Maxine Craig's article "Perfect smiles, aesthetic citizenship, and the U.S. State" traces the development of the social expectation in the United States for perfected smiles, produced through orthodontic treatment, and discusses its implication for two dimensions of citizenship: rights and sense of belonging. Belonging is facilitated by normative embodiment. In the contemporary United States, an irregular smile is a mark of alterity, indicating poverty, parental neglect, or foreign birth.

Irina Chukhray has also been nominated for the 2023-2024 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, which recognizes the contributions of graduate students to teaching and learning at UC Davis.

Irina Chukhray presented her dissertation research "Are school counselors the best informational resources for immigrant-origin students seeking college admission?" at the Pacific Sociological Association's Annual Conference in March.