Congratulations to Yusuf Karipek on the recent publication of his paper Ties that bind, documents that trap: transnational repression through abuse of consular services, examining how states exert power over emigrant citizens across borders. Read the article in the latest edition of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration...
A new article co-authored by Sociology faculty member Dr. Ghassan Moussawi and PhD students Jacob Richardson and Theo Greene is available online now. Congratulations to the authors!"Beyond Positionalities: Moving Toward a Queer Embodied Approach to Researching LGBTQ+ Space and Placemaking" was published online September 24, 2025 in the ASA Sex & Sexualities Journal....
Sociology PhD student Mahbubeh Moqadam's paper "‘I’m the Common Pain; Dance with Me’: Fractality, Affect, and Embodiment in Circulation of Resistance" has been published in the journal Critical Sociology. The paper is available to read online. Congratulations, Mahbubeh!
Sociology PhD candidate Miguel A. Avalos recently published his research paper "Queer Limitrophic Dwelling" in the GLQ special issue "Queering the Domestic."
Nehal Elmeligy, a Sociology PhD candidate, has been awarded the Honorable Mention for the 2023 Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Society for her article “Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storyelling as Feminist Social Change.”
Jose Atiles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Atiles recently had an article titled "Coloniality of Anti-Corruption: Whiteness, Disasters, and the US Anti-Corruption Policies in Puerto Rico" published in the Sociological Review Journal. To read the full article, click here. ...
Ghassan Moussawi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Dr. Moussawi had an article published in the journal Feminist Formations titled "In Defense of Specters: Ambivalent Mourning as Queer Affect". To read the full article, click here. Abstract: ...
Dr. Kevin Leicht is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Leicht has recently been working on developing an app to alert health care professionals to misinformation on social media. To learn more about this development, click...
Dr. Kevin Leicht is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Leicht recently had a new paper published in The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences titled "The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Disinformation Warnings and the Spread of Misinformation Regarding COVID-19". To read the full paper, click...
Dr. Tim Liao is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Liao recently had a new paper published titled "A Study of cumulative COVID-19 Mortality Trends Associated with Ethnic-Racial Composition, Income Inequality, and Party Inclination among US Counties". To read the full article, click ...