Sociology Department News
Caitlin Patler Wins Pacific Sociological Association Award
UC Davis Sociology Assistant Professor Caitlin Patler wins Sociological Perspectives Best Article Award.
Assistant Professor Patler's research on DACA wins the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award.
Ethan J. Evans, PhD MSW has been appointed editor of the column, National Health Line in Health & Social Work.
Ryan Finnigan's AJS article with David Brady and Sabine Hubgen was named the winner of the 2018 Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section Outstanding Article Award.
DACA Uncertainty May Undermine its Positive Impact on Wellbeing By Caitlin Patler, Erin Hamilton and Robin Savinar, UC Davis
Caitlin Patler, Assistant Professor of sociology, has been selected as a 2018 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.
Kristin McCarty selected as a Graduate Writing Fellow for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) 2018-2019.
Climate Information? Embedding Climate Futures within the Temporalities of California Water Management.
New Article by Baker, Zeke, Julia Ekstrom and Louise Bedsworth
Meteorological Frontiers: Climate Knowledge, the West, and Statecraft in the US, 1800-1850.
New Article by Zeke Baker
Climate State: Science-State Struggles and the Formation of Climate Science in the US from the 1930s to 1960s
New Article by Zeke Baker
Study on family instability and health published in Social Science Quarterly
New paper by Ethan Evans (Postdoctoral fellow UC Davis Center for Health Policy Research; UC Davis sociology, class of 2016), Bill McCarthy and two colleagues from the University of Victoria (Cecilia Benoit & Mikael Jansson)
John Hall's Zygmunt Bauman Remembrance Published
An essay by research professor John Hall remembering renowned Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has been published in the latest issue of the French journal Socio.
Caroline Staudenraus Receives Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship
Sociology major Caroline Staudenraus received a Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship this year for her honor's project, “Academic Preparation, Cosmopolitanism, and Self-Efficacy of Chinese International Students.”
Study on Former Foster Youth Published in The American Journal of Cultural Sociology
A paper by sociology doctoral candidate Julianne Smith, “‘I’m Not Gonna Be Another Statistic:’ The Imagined Futures of Former Foster Youth,” appears in the February 2017 issue of The American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
Ming-Cheng Lo has been elected as a council member for the Section on Sociology of Culture at the ASA.
Professor Ming-Cheng Lo has been elected a council member of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sociology of Culture.
Liann Tucker wins the 2017 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
Liann Tucker, a graduating senior in sociology, received a 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her research paper, “Suspension, Substance Use, and School Attachment.”
Patrick Carroll's Book Translated into Chinese for a Distinguished Science and Culture Series
Associate Sociology Professor Patrick Carroll's book Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation has been translated into Chinese as part of a series on science and culture by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press.
