Please join me in congratulating Kam Cox on his new article publication "Forget About FERPA: How FOIA Protects Student-Athlete Privacy in the NIL Era” in The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology. Kam’s current research is focused on problems at the intersection of sociology, education, and law.
- Please join me in congratulating our wonderful TAs who have appeared on the list of teachers ranked as excellent for Fall 2023: Seray Bircan-Afsin Alex Kaiser Yusuf Karipek Maya Rodriguez-Reyes Thank you for your labor as section TAs for SOC 100 and keep up the great work!!
- Please join me in congratulating Jessennya Hernandez who has accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Sociology at California State University-Northridge with a start date of August 2024!!! Jessennya successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! Congratulations, Dr. Hernandez!!!
- Fatou was awarded the The Barbara A.Yates International Fellowship, from the Women and Gender in Global Perspective's Program. The Fellowship is designed to support policy-oriented research on socioeconomic issues related to women and gender in developing countries. The Fellowship is for the academic year and will include a stipend up to $18,000 (starting 2024-2025) and...
- NACADA promotes and supports quality academic advising in institutions of higher education to enhance the educational development of students. NACADA provides a forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of ideas pertaining...
- Cancer clinical trials remain highly underrepresented from racial and ethnic minorities. The lack of diversity in clinical trials significantly impacts the generalizability of drug treatments approved for cancer patients. This review intends to discuss recent shifts in cancer clinical trials to increase equitable participation across all patient populations....
- Jessennya Hernandez PhD Dissertation Defense 10:00am CST Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 via Zoom (see below for details) Queering Urban Autonomy in Greater Los Angeles: Latinx Poli-creative Survival Strategies...
- Drawing on evocative autoethnographic accounts of cruising for sex in public, this article examines the cruising subculture within gay culture as a voluntary risk-taking leisure activity and thereby a form of edgework. Moreover, this article seeks to push the theoretical conceptualization of edgework beyond the gendered interpretations associated with the theory by using queer theory to re-...
- Eradicating the mistreatment of Puerto Rican women and people that local and U.S. governments enact has been a major transformative goal for Puerto Rican feminist movement communities. The celebration of International Working Women’s Day presents optimum opportunities for organizations to celebrate and make visible the monumental achievements of Puerto Rican women and people. Similarly, they...
- Jacob Richardson, “Silence, Shame, and Disrupting Heteronormative Ethics in Sexualities Research: Autoethnographic Reflections of a Queer Researcher” Quinesha Bentley, “No Legislation No Protection: How Volunteers Advocate Against Structural Dimensions of Gender-Based Violence” Musa Hamideh and Justin Holmes, “Is the...