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Promotions and Awards
  • Chioun Lee was promoted to Associate Professor.

  • Matthew Mahutga received the Sociology Department's 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentorship Award.

Publications
  • 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

Paper Awards
  • 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.”
Teaching Awards
  • 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.
Fellowships and Scholarships
  • 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.
Publications
  • 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