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 ...
- 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 in International Migration Review titled "Fertility of Female Filipino and Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong". To read the full article, click...