KuoRay Mao promotes to tenured Associate Professor

President McConnell has approved the granting of tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Sociology of Dr. KuoRay Mao, effective July 1, 2021. Congratulations, KuoRay!  Please read KuoRay’s profile here and kindly type his name into the search tool located at the top right corner of this page to find his recent scholarship, outreach, and […]

Jason Downing and SOC students win service-learning awards

Each year, CSU celebrates the teaching, research and service achievements of students, alumni and friends, academic faculty, administrative professionals and classified staff with Celebrate! Colorado State awards. This year, Jason Downing, Sociology students and the Food Bank for Larimer County were recognized as the 2021 Celebrate! Colorado State Service-Learning Award winners. Exceptional Achievement in Service-Learning […]

Annabel Ipsen receives Ann Gill Faculty Development Award

CSU’s College of Liberal Arts held its annual All-College Awards Reception virtually April 21, 2021. CLA announced the 2021-22 college award winners and recognized staff and faculty for their contributions to their units, the college, the university, and to their colleagues and their profession/discipline. Annabel Ipsen received an Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for her […]

Pat Mahoney receives International Award for Excellence for The Journal on Tourism and Leisure Studies

Dr. Pat Mahoney has been named the recipient of the 2020 International Award for Excellence for The Journal on Tourism and Leisure Studies. The Tourism and Leisure Studies Research Network selected Dr. Mahoney’s article “Behold, The Horror Of Man: Dark Tourism In The Anthropocene” from among the highest-ranked articles emerging from the peer-review process. The research […]

KuoRay Mao featured by CLA as Best Teacher Award winner

Originally appeared in Source. Article by Peyton Daily Best Teacher Award winner KuoRay Mao helps students become problem solvers for real world issues Great teaching embodies much more than the transmission of knowledge; it is characterized by a willingness to dedicate the classroom to the growth of the students. This commitment to students is just […]

Elena Windsong and Tara Opsal honored as Faculty Institute for Inclusive Excellence Fellows

Joyce McConnell, President of CSU, and Shannon Archibeque-Engle, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Assessment in the Vice President for Diversity office, recognized Tara Opsal and Elena Windsong at the 2020 Faculty Institute for Inclusive Excellence Awards Ceremony. Joyce wrote about the institute in her weekly email message to the campus community: “Last week, […]

KuoRay Mao named a 2020 Best Teacher Award winner

By Tony Phifer. Originally published on Source. BEST TEACHER AWARDS Seven outstanding teachers to be honored at the 2020 Best Teacher Awards Each year, students, faculty and alumni nominate the teachers who’ve inspired them and made an impact in their lives for the Best Teacher Awards. The 2020 recipients of the Best Teacher Awards, representing five […]

KuoRay Mao receives Outstanding Article Award from The American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice (DCCSJ)

KuoRay Mao was awarded The American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice’s (DCCSJ) Outstanding Article Award for his work “The Treadmill of Taxation: Desertification and Organizational State Deviance in Minqin Oasis, China” published by Critical Criminology. Please find the article here. 

ASA awards Pat Hastings 2019 Family Section Article of the Year Award

Pat Hastings and co-authors Daniel Schneider and Joe LaBriola, both at University of California-Berkeley, have been awarded the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2019 Family Section Article of the Year Award for “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments.” The study was published by American Sociological Review in May 2018. The award will be presented to Hastings and his colleagues […]

Michael Carolan awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Michael Carolan has been selected for a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award. This is among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program and requires candidates be eminent scholars with significant publication and teaching records. Find out more about the program here. Dr. Carolan will spend the next 12 months conducting a cross-cultural comparison between Canada […]