Dr. Claire Decoteau has been elected as section chair for the Theory Section Council at ASA. Dr. Decoteau will serve as Chair-elect for the 2023-2024 Academic year and will serve as Chair during…
UIC Sociology graduate students will be shaking things up at ASA this upcoming year (s). Yesenia Vargas has been elected as the student representative for the ASA Sociology of Culture council. Fructoso Basaldua…
Undergraduate student Admad Bell receives Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) award to conduct research for his senior thesis. The LASURI award grants undergraduate students a stipend/scholarship while they complete research…
Dr. Rebecca Abbott successfully defended her dissertation titled, ” Predicting Mass Killings: Enhancing Theoretical Value of Models through Complimentary Techniques.” Abstract: This dissertation aims to improve the accuracy and understanding of forecasts for…
Dr. Max Cuddy has successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “School Consolidation in the Unequal City: Race and Class Politics, Changing the Status Quo in Urban Education, and Rethinking Racial Justice.” Dr. Cuddy will…
Dr. Sigrid Luhr has published a new article titled, “We’re Better than Most: Diversity Discourse in the San Francisco Bay Area Tech Industry,” in Social Problems. Great work, Dr. Luhr! Abstract Despite recent…
Graduate students Aidé Hernandez and Alexia Palomino-Cortez has been selected to participate in the 2023 Summer cohort for the Crossing Latinidades Humanities program. This program offers a two week intensive program for pre-doctoral…
Isaiah Jeong has published his first co-authored manuscript titled, “Racial and Religious Convergences and Divergences among Christian Students’ Approaches to Color-Blindness, Color-Cognizance, and Race in Christian Organizations,” in Journal for the Scientific Study…
Based on three years of ethnographic and community-engaged research and 38 interviews with trans and queer organizers and activists in Chicago, this dissertation explores the organizing tactics, motivating ideologies and political underpinnings of…
