Sociology News

Jocelyn West presented a webinar about an ongoing collaborative research project on risk communication for landslides in Puerto Rico . The project team includes Lori Peek as well as students and scientists from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez and U.S. Geological Survey. You can view the webinar recording here...

David Pyrooz and Jenn Tostlebe , along with Ryan Labrecque (UCF) and Bert Useem (Purdue) published an article on prisoner perceptions of COVID-19 in Justice Evaluation Journal using mixed methods data from their ongoing study in the Oregon prison system: "Views on COVID-19 from Inside Prison: Perspectives of High-Risk Prisoners."

Hillary Steinberg received the United Government of Graduate Students Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her teaching this past year. Congrats Hillary! Our alumnus Angel Hoekstra was featured in this week’s ASA Footnotes on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic while working abroad. Congrats Angel! Jocelyn West presented a webinar...

Michael Sousa, Tim Wadsworth and Phil Pendergast (CU-PhD 2108) recently had their article, “Health Insurance and Bankruptcy Risk: Examining the Impact of the Affordable Act,” accepted for publication by the Brooklyn Law Review . In one of the first empirical efforts to demonstrate the relationship between the Affordable Care Act...

Kyle Thomas had a new paper published in Criminology (w/ Matt Vogel), titled “Testing a Rational Choice Model of ‘Desistance:’ Decomposing Changing Expectations and Changing Utilities.”

Rachel Rinaldo has published a commentary on the Immanent Frame. She is one of several sociologists asked to respond to the Religions and Social Progress chapter of The International Panel on Social Progress. (The IPSP project aims deliver a report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers...