Recent News

Chioun Lee was promoted to Associate Professor.
Matthew Mahutga received the Sociology Department's 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentorship Award.

Brint, Steven and Benjamin Fields. 2023. “The Disruption in U.S. Public Higher Education Enrollments, 2009–2019: Sources of Inter-State Variation by Tier.” The Journal of Higher Education 94(2): 256-285.
Emmons Allison, Juliann and Ellen Reese. 2023 (August). Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520388383/unsustainable
Kroska, Amy, Sarah K. Harkness, Kelsey N. Mattingly, and Mollie A. Lovera. 2023. “Psychiatric Labels: Exploring Indirect and Direct Assessments of Task Performance.” The Sociological Quarterly https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380253.2023.2200474.
Nieri, Tanya and Justin Huft. 2023. "Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States." Societies 13:114.
Zhao, Wei and Jianhua Ge. 2023. “Different While Being Similar: The Dual Institutional Process and Differential Organizational Status.” The British Journal of Sociology 74(2):241-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12996

Elvira De La Torre received the 2023 Sociology Department’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award in the category of Qualitative Methods/Theory for her paper, “’All We Want is to be Near Our Husbands’: How Latina Prison Wives Navigate Formal and Informal Social Controls.”
Benjamin Fields received the 2023 Sociology Department’s Graduate Student Paper Award in the category of quantitative/mixed methods for his paper, “ACTing Like a Lawyer: An Affect Control Theory Explanation of Gender Gaps in Law.”
Benjamin Fields and Steven Brint received the 2023 Sociology Department’s Christopher Chase-Dunn Paper Award for their paper, “The Disruption in U.S. Public Higher Education Enrollments, 2009–2019: Sources of Inter-State Variation by Tier.”

Emily Angelo received a Graduate Division 2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Manjing Gao received a Graduate Division 2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Ralph Pioquinto received the Sociology Department's 2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Corinne Tam received a Graduate Division 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Students.

Elizabeth Bogumil received a 2023-24 California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Dissertation Fellowship.
Elizabeth Bogumil received a 2023 California State University Pre-Professor Program (PREPP) Fellowship.
Elvira De La Torre received a 2023 Ford Foundation Honorable Mention ($1000) for her fellowship application.
Benjamin Fields received a 2023 Graduate Division Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship.
Justin Huft received a 2023 Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship for training from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research summer program.
Ana Ojeda received a fellowship to attend the 2023 Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute for Advanced Doctoral Students at the University of Texas.
Ralph Pioquinto received a 2023 Graduate Division Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship.
Alexander Scott received a 2023 Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Haynes Foundation.

Bogumil, Elizabeth. 2022. “COVID Diaries: Quotidian Snapshots of Life During the Pandemic.” Visual Studies.
Brint, Steven and Benjamin Fields. 2023. “The Disruption in U.S. Public Higher Education Enrollments, 2009–2019: Sources of Inter-State Variation by Tier.” The Journal of Higher Education 94(2): 256-285.
Huft, Justin. 2022. "Monsters, Michael Myers, and the Macabre as Tools to Explain Ideological Framing." Teaching Sociology 50(4):372–383.
Nieri, Tanya and Justin Huft. 2023. "Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States." Societies 13:114.

Jinuk Bae received the Department of Sociology's 2023 Outstanding Graduate Award
Tamara Sezer received the Department of Sociology's 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Award