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Recent News

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.
  • 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, T., Yoo, M., & Tam, C. In press. Ethnic-racial socialization in mono-racial Asian American and Pacific Islander families: A 21-year systematic literature review. Sociology Compass.
  • Nieri, Tanya and Justin Huft. 2023. "Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States." Societies 13:114.
  • Oselin, Sharon S., Justine Ross, Qingfang Wang, and Wei Kang. Forthcoming. “Fair Chance Act Failures? Employers’ Hiring of People with Criminal Records.” Criminology & Public Policy.
  • Oselin, Sharon S., Matthew C. Mahutga, and Humberto Flores. 2023. "Day Reporting Centers and Recidivism: The Role of Social Support." Criminal Justice and Behavior 50(10): 1526–1546.
  • Stets, Jan E., Emily Angelo, Benjamin C. Fields, and Peter J. Burke. 2024. “Identity Nonverification, Coping, and Depression and Anxiety During the Pandemic.” Society and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1177/21568693231213089
  • 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, 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 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.
  • Fields, Benjamin C. 2023. “ACTing Like a Lawyer: An Affect Control Explanation of Gender Gaps in Law.” SOCIUS 9:1-14.  https://doi.org/10.1177/237802312312162
  • 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.
  • 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