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Dr. Melanie Gast named 2025 Cardinal Principles Champion Mar 26, 2025
Sociology tech support staff, Anthony Hundley, wins 2025 UofL Outstanding Performance Award for exceptional service Mar 25, 2025
Sociology participates in annual Admitted Students Day last Saturday Mar 24, 2025
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
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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