Sociology News

David Pyrooz contributed to reporting by Texas Public Radio on heat-related deaths in the Texas prison system.

David Pyrooz and Jose Sanchez (w/ coauthors John Leverso and James Densley) published an article in the Annual Review of Criminology , titled “History, linked lives, timing, and agency: New directions in developmental and life-course perspective on gangs”

Skye Niles ' paper, Colorblind Racism and Market Based Development, was one of the co-winners of this year's ASA Sociology of Development Section Graduate Student Paper Award. This paper is based off of Skye's third year paper research.

Tracy Fehr published, "The Multiplicity, Contradictions, and Shifting Status of Widowhood in Post-Earthquake Nepal". "I have been affiliated with Women for Human Rights Nepal since 2013, and following the 2015 earthquakes had the opportunity to speak with many single women about their post-disaster experiences in various districts. These initial conversations...

Robert Scott 's article, "A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities," was published in Qualitative Sociology

Lori Peek was recently featured on National Public Radio regarding Dominica’s bold efforts to become the world’s first “climate resilient nation.”

Leslie Irvine wrote an opinion piece that came out in Scientific American . It draws on her co-authored research on emotional apprenticeship in the 4-H youth livestock program. People who raise animals for slaughter do hard, emotional labor that spares everyone else who eats meat from that burden, concludes a sociologist.

Jocelyn West has published a new journal article Social Vulnerability and Population Loss in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in Population and Environment. This research began in David Pyrooz's research design course, developed through Data 1 and 2 with Jason Boardman and Kyle Thomas, and further improved as a third...

Ian Whalen gave an invited lecture titled "An Interesting Tension: Contextualizing the Emergence of Queer Subjectivity in the Rural South" at the University of Mississippi, where he presented some of his dissertation findings to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. His lecture was a part of the Oxford Pride Week...

Don Grant’s new book, Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers , was featured in a recent edition of the Colorado Arts and Science Magazine