Sociology Department News
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.
Mindy Romero's Research Cited in the Sunday LA Times and Associated Press.
Mindy's recent research continues to be cited by a wide range of media sources during the election season. Recently, she released policy briefs analyzing Latino and Asian voter registration, as well as the state of youth (18-24) voter registration in California. In addition to the LA Times and AP, Mindy and her work have also been quoted in two front page Sac Bee articles, HuffPost Voces. and a variety of other newspaper, radio and television pieces. Here is a link to the full media coverage of her work....http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/projects/ccep-in-the-media
Jane Le Skaife is the 2012-2013 recipient of the Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award
The Southeast Asian Archive is a unit of the Department of Special Collections and Archives in the University of California, Irvine Libraries. It was established in 1987 to document the experiences of refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (the countries of the former Indochina) who resettled in the United States after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. The archive collects materials relating to the resettlement of these refugees in the United States (and to a lesser extent, worldwide), the development and growth of Southeast Asian American communities, and the culture and history of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The archive's collection is the strongest of its kind in the U.S. Jane Le Skaife is the 2012-2013 recipient of the Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award, named after the founding librarian of the archive and made possible by an anonymous donor. http://seaa.lib.uci.edu/seaa-research-award.html
Mindy Romero's Research Receives Television and Radio Press
As Project Director of the UC Davis California Civic Engagement Project, Mindy just released the first in a series of policy briefs. The brief outlines her research on voter registration disparity for Asian and Latino populations. Although Latinos and Asians make up half of California's population, they register to vote in far smaller percentages. The voter registration gap means that these ethnic groups have proportionately less say in the electoral process compared to the general population. Read about the exiting press the research has received, including Mindy's interview on CPR's Insight. http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/projects/ccep-in-the-media