Sociology Department News
Daniel Herda's article on discrimination fear named winner of the 2013 ASA Section on Children and Adolescents Graduate Student Paper Award.
Ming-Cheng Lo has received a UC Pacific Rim Research Grant for her project, "The Day After: Civic Engagement and Identity Reconstruction in Response to Natural Disasters in Taiwan and Japan."
Ming-Cheng Lo and Roxy Bahar's article, "Resisting the Colonization of the Lifeworld? Immigrant Patients' Experiences with Co-Ethnic Healthcare Workers," has been published in the current issue of Social Science and Medicine.
Diane Wolf's article with Yen Le Espiritu "The Appropriation of American War Memories: A Critical Juxtaposition of the Holocaust and the Vietnam War" will be published in Social Identities in May 2013.
Raoul Lievanos to present dissertation research at University of the Pacific Sustainability Forum, April 2.
This winter Drew Halfmann gave lectures on abortion politics at UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Oxford.
Drew Halfmann received the 2013 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association for his book Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain and Canada.
David Kyle is the Co-Organizer (with John Dale) of a SSSP/ ASA-sponsored one-day conference in New York City on August 12th, entitled: "Re-Imagining Human Rights: The Challenge of Agency, Creativity, and Global Justice." There is a CFP due by March 31st.
Bill McCarthy and colleagues' paper on violent victimization and crime published in Violence and Victims
David Kyle has been awarded a grant from the US/Mexico binational "Research Program in Migration and Health"
Daniel Herda's article "Too Many Immigrants? Examining Alternative forms of Immigrant Population Innumeracy" accepted for publication at Sociological Perspectives.
Prof. Dina Okamoto was awarded a major grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for a project on immigrant-native relations in 21st-century America.
Raoul Lievanos accepts a tenure-track assistant professorship, with primary specialization in environmental sociology, at Washington State University
Daniel Herda's paper, "Too Many Immigrants?: Examining Alternative Forms of Immigrant Population Innumeracy", selected as the winner of the 2012 Pacific Association of Public Opinion Research (PAPOR) Student Paper Competition.
Ethan Evans' paper Unequal access: insurance coverage and immigrant generational status of diverse children will be published.
Bill McCarthy and colleagues article on sex work legislation published in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science Volume 8, 255-71.
Written with Cecilia Benoit, Mikeal Jansson and Kat Kolar, this paper, "Regulating Sex Work: Heterogeneity in Legal Strategies" examines various legal strategies used to regulate the sale and purchase of sexual services. It discusses laws directed toward the control of three groups: sellers, buyers, and third parties. It focuses on three common legal strategies (full criminalization, partial decriminalization, and full decriminalization) and presents a critical assessment of each legal approach.
