Dr. Pat Hastings and Ph.D. student Amber Obermaier have published “Growing up Different(ly than Last Time We Asked): Social Status and Changing Reports of Childhood Income Rank” in Social Psychology Quarterly. Three cheers for faculty-student collaborations! Abstract How we remember our past can be shaped by the realities of our present. This study examines how changes […]
CSU SOC superstar Anne Uhlman defended her dissertation, “Sources of Care in Systems of Control: Understanding the Perspectives and Experiences of Those Supporting Loved Ones in Community Corrections,” at 10am on a Monday morning, then took us on a deeper dive into her research that same afternoon. When her Sociology-in-Progress (SiP) talk began at 2pm, […]
Critical Criminology has published PhD student Adam Snitker’s article, “Expanding Wildfire Research with Insights from Green Criminology.” ABSTRACT Green criminology examines how human activity harms living entities, including ecosystems, humans, and nonhumans; how those harms are produced; and the roles of state and non-state actors in manufacturing environmental harm. Given these interests, the field provides […]
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Emilia Ravetta who has received a P.E.O. Scholar Award for 2025-26! P.E.O. awards scholarships to women of the U.S. who are pursuing doctoral-level degrees and have the potential to make significant contributions to their fields and positively impact society. Emilia’s award will help fund her dissertation research. “My research project focuses […]
Taylor Ellis, M.A. (’21) has published “Gender rules in the community corrections context: Examining how case managers navigate trans client supervision in a binary setting” in Probation Journal based on research she conducted for her thesis. Taylor is currently a Data Analyst for the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office. Abstract This article explores one US residential […]
Jessica Thrasher visited Washington D.C. in September with HECHO, an advocacy group for Latinos who value our nation’s public lands. In celebration of HECHO’s 10th anniversary and Hispanic Heritage Month, members of HECHO’s Hispanic Conservation Leadership Council traveled to the nation’s capital to advocate for solutions to environmental issues affecting their communities. They met with […]
This summer, Azmal Hossan interned with Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance (GPTWA), a South Dakota-based grassroots tribal organization working for self-determination and water justice in the Northern Great Plains. He conducted in-depth interviews with water resource managers of the federally-recognized tribal nations in South Dakota to assess their climate change adaptation water needs. This project is funded by […]
As part of both a USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities and Conservation Innovation Grant, James Hale and Michael Carolan received over $700k from the Colorado Department of Agriculture to research the social dimensions of a soil health program called STAR (Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources) over the next four years. Adam Snitker is and will be […]
Ph.D. student Shawna Bendeck and Dr. Pat Hastings published “Linking Individual and Collective Social Capital: Operationalization, Association, and Sociodemographic Heterogeneity” in Sociological Spectrum. ABSTRACT: Despite the ubiquity of “social capital” in sociological research, this measure has broadly been conceptualized as both an individual and collective level measure. We explore the link between these two levels within the United States using […]
Emily Haberlack’s M.A. thesis project “Settler-Colonialism and the Role of Military Government Relationships in Environmental Crises: Extended Case Study of Peterson Air Force Base PFAS Water Contamination” has been accepted for funding by the Colorado Water Center. Emily will begin data collection as she studies how a local community’s relationship with the military may shape […]
