UofL ranks #2 academically among March Madness teams - thanks, in part, to several sociology students Mar 21, 2025
Dr. Bob Carini's article, "Customization of U.S. Holidays: Agency and Nonconformity," published Mar 19, 2025
Dr. Lauren Heberle and SOC MA student Jordan Gatewood attended 2025 Eastern Sociological Society conference Mar 11, 2025
Dr. Melanie's Gast co-authored article recently accepted to Journal of Diversity in Higher Education Feb 28, 2025
2025 Rieger Speaker Series held March 19: Anne Nelson, "Dictatorship: Compliance or Resistance? Lessons from Nazi Germany" Feb 26, 2025
Dr. Jasmine Whiteside's co-authored paper, "Being first-generation" appears in 2025 Winter issue of Contexts magazine Feb 24, 2025
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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