Paper Awards

• Ben Fields and Justin Huft received the Sociology Department’s 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for Quantitative/Mixed Research for “’Troubled’ Meanings: An Affect Control Theory Exploration of the Conflict in Northern Ireland," which is forthcoming in Social Currents.
• Justin Huft, Tanya Nieri, and Matthew Grindal received the Sociology Department’s 2024 Chris Chase-Dunn Paper Award for "Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White American Families and Young Adult Political Attitudes," published in The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Teaching Awards

• Vladimir Borel received a 2024 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Ben Fields received a 2024 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Justin Huft received the Sociology Department’s 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Justin Huft received a 2024 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Ralph Pioquinto received a 2024 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Fellowships and Scholarships

• Ben Fields received a 2024 Hendry Fund Grant on Organizational Effectiveness in Higher Education.
• Ben Fields received a 2024 Genocide Studies Grant from the UCR Department of Religious Studies.
• Justin Huft received a 2024 Mercatus Center Carl Menger Fellowship.

Publications

• Bogumil, Elizabeth, Pauline Delange Martinez, and Carmen Estrada. 2023. Inland Empire Master Plan for Aging Riverside & San Bernardino Counties. Inland Coalition on Aging. Available at: https://www.inlandaging.org/mpa 
• Brint, Steven G. 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.
• Brint, Steven G., Megan Webb, and Benjamin C. Fields. 2024. “An Uneasy Peace: How STEM Progressive, Traditionalist, and Bridging Faculty Understand Campus Conflicts over Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Free Expression.” Minerva.
• Fields, Benjamin C. 2023. “ACTing Like a Lawyer: An Affect Control Explanation of Gender Gaps in Law.” SOCIUS 9:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294965241254057
• Fields, Benjamin C. and Justin Huft. 2024. “‘Troubled’ Meanings: An Affect Control Exploration of the Conflict in Northern Ireland.” Social Currents. Forthcoming.
• Harari, Lexi, Sharon S. Oselin, and Bruce Link. 2023. “The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64(4):578–592.
• Huft, Justin and Benjamin C. Fields. 2024. “Cross-National Governmental Treatment towards Atheists since 1816.” Sociological Forum. Forthcoming.
• Huft, Justin and Peyman Hekmatpour. 2024. "Income Inequality, World Polity and Political Secularization: A Comparative Historical Analysis (1870 – 2014).” Sociology of Religion. Forthcoming.
• Huft, Justin, Tanya Nieri, and Matthew Grindal. 2024. "Ethnic-racial Socialization in White American Families and Young Adult Political Attitudes." Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 1-22. doi:10.1017/rep.2024.4
• Nieri, Tanya and Justin Huft. 2023. "Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States." Societies 13:114.
• Stets, Jan E., Emily Angelo, Benjamin C. Fields, and Peter Burke. 2023. “Identity Nonverification, Coping, and Depression and Anxiety During the Pandemic.” Society and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/215686932312130