Paper Awards 

• Benjamin Fields and Justin Huft received the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Honorable Mention from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the ASA for their 2024 article, “Troubled Meanings: An Affect Control Theory Exploration of the Conflict in Northern Ireland,” published in Social Currents. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23294965241254057 
• Justin Huft and Benjamin Fields received the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Quantitative Methods from the UCR Sociology Department for their 2024 article, “Cross-National Governmental Treatment Toward Atheists Since 1816,” published in Sociological Forum 39:281-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13009

Teaching Awards

• Emily Angelo received the 2025 Department of Sociology Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Emily Angelo received a 2025 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Shayda Ines Hami received a 2025 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Justin Huft received a 2025 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Fellowships and Grants

• Tyler Cohen received two 2025 Gluck Fellowships for participating in Artistic Expression of Original Research exhibitions off campus and at UCR. 
• Elvira De La Torre received a 2025 Presley Center Fellowship that will support her dissertation research.
• Justin Huft received the 2025 Ralph Gallagher Grant from the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

Publications

• Grindal, Matthew, Justin Huft, and Dilshani Sarathchandra. 2025. “White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies.” Youth 5(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5010019
• Huft, Justin, Matthew Grindal, and Kristin Haltinner. 2025. “Ethnic-racial Socialization and Support For Far-Right Political Support Among Whites.” The Sociological Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2024.2446527
• Huft, Justin, Timothy Fong, Elizabeth Hall, Farrah K Khaleghi Aizenman, and Tal Leshem. 2024. “Clinical Characteristics of Early Leavers From a Private Dual-Diagnosis Program.” Journal of Dual Diagnosis 21(1), 24–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/15504263.2024.2434434
• Huft, Justin, and Peyman Hekmatpour. 2024. “Income Inequality, World Polity and Political Secularization: A Comparative Historical Analysis (1870 – 2014).” Sociology of Religion srae021. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srae021