Dr. Claire Laurier Decoteau receives the 2026 Distinguished Book Award from the Midwest Sociological Society for her book Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life.
Dr. Alexia Palomino-Cortez has successfully defended her dissertation: “Ten Cuidado: Gendered Carceral Care Work & Miseducations of Love in Latina/o Youth Intervention.” Based on a year of immersive fieldwork in a California police department’s…
UIC Sociology grad album, Dr. Ilā Ravichandran, was recently interviewed by Truthout about recent PCRG book Imperial Policing and the ongoing anti-immigrant policing in Chicago.
Social Science & Medicine, Special Issue: Stratified Biomedicalization Co-Editors: Claire Decoteau and Paige Sweet Commentary by Janet Shim and Laura Mamo Contributions by: Emily Vasquez, Jill Fisher, Santiago José Molina, Melissa Creary, Cal Garrett,…
Dr. Popielarz’ paper is titled “Obstacles to change in racialized organizations: Imprinting, memory, and legacy” and discusses White supremacy and the history of the Fraternal Order of Police. It’s part of a book…
In this podcast episode, Joseph Harris sits down with University of Illinois-Chicago Professor of Sociology Claire Decoteau. They discuss her latest book – Emergency: COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life – which…
In Emergency, sociologist Claire Laurier Decoteau documents and theorizes the emergencies of COVID-19 by looking at the experiences of Chicagoans and the policies that shaped their lives. She describes the uneven racial impact…
Public health crises tend to expose existing structural inequities. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Latino Americans were more likely to get sick and die from the illness than other racial…
