Student Profiles
Dr. Bob Carini interviewed about 2020 co-authored paper on black cats and shelter outcomes
Jun 16, 2025
Congratulations to Zohal Ghoura for successfully defending her thesis and earning her MA in sociology
May 29, 2025
Congratulations to SOC PhD student Jon Ellis on winning 2nd place in AKD graduate paper competition
May 19, 2025
Dr. Melanie Gast and SOC doctoral candidate Solomon Amoatey have article published in Socius
May 12, 2025
New graduates, Dr. John Broadus and Dr. Trisha Douin-Manning, participate in commencement
May 10, 2025
Dr. Kushan Dasgupta to be Bingham Faculty Fellow in 25-26
May 08, 2025
Gast, Melanie. J., Ovink, S. M., & Amoatey, Solomon. (2025). “Giving Back”: Filipina and Latina Mothers’ Intersecting Burdens in Schools and Community-Based Organizations. Socius, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251334160
Gast, Melanie. J., Mekawi, Y., Sajadi, Kristin. H., Roelfs, David. J., & Nasraoui, O. (2025). Racial and gender disparities in faculty perceptions of discrimination, exclusion, and inequities across department and university levels. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdhe0000653
Carini, Robert M. (2025). Customization of U.S. Holidays: Agency and Nonconformity. Social Sciences, 14(3), 179.
Vincent J. Roscigno, Jasmine Whiteside, Erick Axxe, Anne Mcdaniel, and Oded Mcdossi. (2025). Being first-generation. Context, vol 24(1), pp.72-74.
Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, Bernard Koch. (2024). Confronting the “Weaponization” of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere. The Hastings Report, 54(S2).
Whiteside, J. L. (2024).Race, ethnicity, and stratification within the first-generation student experience. Race Ethnicity and Education, 1–20
Dasgupta, Kushan, Nicole Iturriaga, and Aaron Panofsky. (2024). “Racist Agnotology: How Myth-Making About Institutions and Knowledge Production Contributes to Racialized Ignorance.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity.
Gast, Melanie Jones, Yohimar Sivira-Gonzalez, James Chisholm, & Trisha Douin. 2024. “Multilingual Adolescent Mentors and Tailored College Knowledge for Students of Immigrant Backgrounds.” Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin: New Insights from Research, Policy, and Practice, edited by Blake Silver & Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Meet grad student, Trisha Douin
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Watch PhD alum, Dr. Heidi Williams' TED talk here
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