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Fall 2023 Meetings Welcome Meeting: Join the sociology club to learn about upcoming events and get to know other sociology students! This club is not restricted to majors or minors so bring your friends. Tuesday, September 26th, at 5:00 p.m. in
David Pyrooz published an article, “The residue of imprisonment: Prisoner reentry and carceral gang spillover,” in Justice Quarterly
Corrie Grosse and Brigid Mark. “A Review of Native-led Renewable Electricity in the United States: Supports, Barriers, and Recommendations for Solar and Wind Development that Advances Sovereignty.” Energy Research and Social
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-
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
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