“I read Dr. Gálvez’s book, Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico, when I was a master’s student here and her work really sparks my interests in studies on immigration, unequal exchange, and the world food system depends on the western hegemonic arrangements.,” says Yue Xu, CSU Sociology Ph.D. student. Dr. Alyshia Gálvez […]
“Reading Ian Haney López’s work (Dog Whistle Politics) changed the way I understand the relationship between racial politics and peoples’ attitudes toward the government,” says Dr. Jessie Luna, CSU Sociology Assistant Professor. “It has informed my thinking about research a continent away (in Africa), and inspired new ideas for future research.” Dr. López holds an […]
“I read Professor Bonilla-Silva’s work during graduate school in the 1990s and it transformed the way I think about racism. Prior to reading and reflecting on his work, I was among those who thought of colorblindness as a way to end racism. His arguments pointed out how colorblindness it itself a form of racism that […]
Dr. Joon K. Kim is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and a faculty associate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. His research interests include Political Economy of Labor, Immigration, and Race in Asia and the U.S.; Multiculturalism and Diversity; Labor Migration and Civil Society. Since joining CSU faculty in […]
Dr. Jeffrey Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Denver. His research interests include crime, corrections, inequality, media coverage, and quantitative methods. Professor Lin focuses on the complex interactions between institutions and individuals in the criminal justice system. In particular, Professor Lin is interested in the […]
Professor Kim is a Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. He is specialized in the areas of stratification, work and organizations, race and ethnicity, Asian American studies, Korea studies, and quantitative methodology. The common concern of his research is to contribute to the generation of the critical knowledge and information that […]
“I continue to work on a book length project entitled Foundational Violence: U.S. Settler Colonial Articulations of Racialized and Gendered Citizenship. This project builds on and expands ideas developed in my 2015 article in the inaugural issue of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. It takes the settler colonial origins of the U.S. seriously as foundational to […]
“I am a sociologist with interests in gender and feminist theory, postcolonial sociology and the emerging middle classes. My site of research is India. My interest in gender is fundamental to my work as a scholar, even as how I study gender has continually evolved. Here’s a brief description of my areas of work: Social Movements: […]
Yu Xie is Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and has a faculty appointment at the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University. He is also a Visiting Chair Professor of the Center for Social Research, Peking University. His main areas of interest are social stratification, demography, statistical methods, Chinese studies, […]
Pun Ngai is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from University of London, SOAS in 1998. She is the winner of 2006 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, “Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace” (Duke University Press, 2005). […]
