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).
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.
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.
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.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research Jacob Hibel was featured on the Center's faculty spotlight.
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.
Brian Halpin's article, "Subject to Change Without Notice: Mock Schedules and Flexible Employment in the United States" in the Journal Social Problems was reprinted last year in the most widely used text book for the Sociology of Work.
Associate Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, Jacob Hibel, speaks about the Broadening Participation in Social Inequality Research program, which provides up to two years of mentorship and training in research for undergraduates from Hispanic Serving Institutions across California.
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.
