Faculty Publications

Mona Khneisser Receives the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award

Congratulations to PhD student Mona Khneisser on being awarded the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award from Critical Sociology.

“Olympic Music and Cultural Taste: Olympic Ice Dancing in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games” by Park D, Shin N, Sydnor S, Clarke C.

A collaboration of Professor Caitlin Clarke's, “Olympic Music and Cultural Taste: Olympic Ice Dancing in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games," was recently published in the Sociology of Sport Journal. (2020)

"How Austerity is Worsening Coronavirus" by Professor Matthew Soener

In the "Faces of the Pandemic" Dossier from Books and Ideas.

"The Socialist Good Life" - A New Book Co-Authored by Zsuzsa Gille

"The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe." (2020, Indiana University Press) Edited by Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincyte and Zsuzsa Gille

"Individual Components of Three Inequality Measures for Analyzing Shapes of Inequality."

By Department Head Tim Futing Liao in Sociological Methods and Research.

"Data Collection for Migrant Live-in Domestic Workers: A Three-Stage Cluster Sampling Method."

By Department Head Tim F. Liao, Roger Yat-Nork Chung, and Eric Fong.

"Filipino & Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong: Their Life Courses in Migration."

By Department Head Tim F. Liao and Rebecca Yiqing Gan.

"Exceptionality and Colonial-State - Corporate Crimes in the Puerto Rican Fiscal and Economic Crisis"

By Dr. José Atiles. Published March 10th, 2020 in the journal Latin American Perspectives

“‘One of the most corrupt places on earth:’ Colonialism, (Anti)Corruption, and the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019” By Dr. José Atiles

Published in Society + Space

Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut - a new book by Ghassan Moussawi

Professor Ghassan Moussawi's new book is the first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence. From Temple University Press.

"The Fraught Nature of Exceptional Gay Spaces" by Professor Ghassan Moussawi published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Professor Ghassan Moussawi was published in the latest edition of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, which focuses on the concept of queering urban studies.

“Recovering the Missing Middle: A Mesocomparative Analysis of Within-Group Inequality” by Tom VanHeuvelen published in the American Journal of Sociology

This study assesses the causes of within-group inequality, or the inequality occurring among workers and households otherwise similar on observed characteristics.

“Terminal Identities: The Racial Classification of Immigrants in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Death Records" by Monica McDermott published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Death certificates are a means of assessing the racial classification of foreign-born Americans that is based neither on a set of formal racial identification criteria nor self-identification. Instead, local informants typically report the race of decedents.

"Historians and the Study of Protest" by Professor Brian Dill and Ronald Aminzade included in Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines, 2nd ed.

In this chapter, we reflect on the distinctive ways in which historians have contributed to our understanding of social movements and collective action. We find that historians interrogate the historical record in at least one of three ways.