Faculty Publications

Brian F. O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Recently, Brian F. O'Neill just had a new article released titled "Desalination as a New Frontier of Environmental Justice Struggle: A Dialogue with Oscar Rodriguez and Andrea...

Asef Bayat is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Professor Bayat was interviewed by the Academic Journal of Protest, click here to read the full interview.  Abstract: Asef Bayat is...

Dr. Tim Liao is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Dr. Liao published a new paper titled "Sequence Analysis: Its Past, Present, and Future". To read the full piece, click...

Miguel A. Avalos and Ghassan Moussawi recently published a co-authored paper titled  "(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism". Miguel A. Avalos is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in...

Dr. Tim Liao is the Department Head at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Sociology. Recently, Dr. Liao had a new paper published titled "Understanding Anti-COVID-19 Vaccination Protest Slogans in the US". To read the full piece, click...

Brian F. O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Recently, Brian F. O'Neill had a new piece published titled "Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California". Click...

Brian F. O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Recently, Brian F. O'Neill had a new sociology piece published titled "Demystifying the Global 'Just Transition' - On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains". Click...

Leslie Miller is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Leslie Miller had one of her dissertation articles published titled "Marginalization in the Medical Encounter: Ostomy Patients Experience of Perceived...

Ghassan Moussawi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Professor Moussawi received an award on his co-authored article "A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness”. Click...

Amirhossein Teimourigerdeh is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Amirhossein had an article published titled "The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (...

Brian F. O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Brian F. O'Neill was named a semifinalist for the 2022 Graduate Student Image of Research. To read more about the competition and Brian's research, click...

Brian F. O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Brian F. O'Neill had a sociology piece published titled "Desalination and the Political (Blue) Economy of Climate Adaptation". Click...

Brian F. O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Brian F. O'Neill published an article on his conversation with Frank Cancian titled "Documentary Photography as Vocation: Reflecting on Frank Cancian's Contribution...

Dr. Zsuzsa Gille is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign where she is also the Director of Global Studies. Dr. Zsuzsa Gille has recently co-edited "The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies" which focuses on the new field of waste studies and the systems...

Graduate student, Nehal Elmeligy, recently published an article in Gender & Society titled "Airing Egypt's Dirty Laundry: BuSSy's Storytelling as Feminist Social Change." The full paper can be found here. Abstract...

Professor Reuben A, Buford May recently published a paper in Sociological Forum entitled “Exploring the Use of Exclusionary Practices Against African Americans in Urban Nightlife.” The full article can be found here. ...

Reuben A. Buford May has been working alongside statisticians out of University of Pennsylvania on topics in sport. They recently published an article titled "Retrospective survey of youth sports participation: Development and assessment of reliability using school records." The article is focused...

Congratulations to Bu Qingyu and Professor Ruby Mendenhall on their recent publication "Educating Latinx and African American Students in Charter Schools: A Comparative Study from Chicago," in SAGE Journals. The full publication can be found...

Doctoral Student, Miguel A. Avalos, recently published "Border regimes and temporal sequestration: An autoethnography of waiting” in The Sociological Review. His article is now ranked 14 out of all top Sociology Journals! Congratulations Miguel! For the full article click...

Doctoral Candidate, Amirhossein Teimouri recently published "Google Plus as a Contentious Field of Revolutionary Identity: The Rise and Fall of the Rightist Islamist Anti-Nuclear Deal Movement in Iran." For more information on the publication click...

Former graduate student Liqun Zeng and Dr. Tim Liao recently published "Social Exchange in Mate Selection of...

Current graduate student Brian F. O'Neill and former graduate student Matthew Schneider were recently published in the Society Pages. The article "Fracking, Public Health, and Biden’s Green New Deal...

Matthew Soener recently published "Growth, climate change, and the critique of neoclassical reason; New possibilities for economic sociology" in the European Economic Sociology Newsletter. For the full article click ...

Cynthia Buckley, Ralph Clem, and Erik Herron published "Peer/Near-Peer Challenges to Strategic Stability: The Need to Securitize State Capacity" in Present and Future Challenges to Maintaining Balance Between Global Cooperation and Competition. For the full article click...

Cynthia Buckley recently published  "Abortion and Reproductive Health in Eurasia: Continuity and Change," Chapter 47 in The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europea and Eurasia," Katalin Fabian, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda Eds. Routledge. For information on the book click...