Emma Casey “Victimhood and Actorhood: Constructions of agency in anti-trafficking advocacy” Emma’s thesis identified and critically analyzed patterns among antitrafficking organizations in their constructions of victimhood and victim agency. Emma will continue her intellectual pursuits as a PhD student in sociology at Stanford University. Committee: Lynn Hempel, Tara Opsal, Tony Roberts, and Sammy Zahran (Economics). […]
Ph.D. student Emilia Ravetta and M.A. student Thai Binh Tran were accepted for CSU’s annual Graduate Student Showcase held virtually on November 18, 2020. Binh’s presented “Effects of Religion on Empowerment Rights: A Cross National Study.” Emilia presented “An Inductive Analysis of Mixed-status Families and Legal Clinic Participation.” In the Showcase’s new virtual platform, you can watch […]
This summer Azmal Hossan began working with the COVID-19 and Food Insecurity interdisciplinary research group, one of the CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research. The groups’ projects are supported by the National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards […]
Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan has been accepted to the Agents of Change in Environmental Health Fellowship, a joint initiative of George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health and Environmental Health News. In spring 2021, his cohort will begin a nine-month program to receive rigorous training on writing and publishing academic pieces on environmental health […]
Dr. KuoRay Mao and Ph.D. student Nefratiri Weeks co-published three recent articles. KuoRay Mao, Shuqin Jin, Yu Hu, Nefratiri Weeks & Liangjun Ye “Environmental Conservation or the Treadmill of Law: A Case Study of the Post-2014 Husbandry Waste Regulations in China” – International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Read it here ABSTRACT As industrialized animal agriculture expanded […]
Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan has been invited to attend two prestigious summer schools at renowned European universities. Global Environment Summer Academy 2020 is jointly organized by the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and the Global Diversity Foundation. The Academy was to be held at the University of Oxford in the UK this fall. It […]
Deviant Behavior published “‘That’s Just What You Do’: Applying the Techniques of Neutralization to College Hazing” by Ph.D. student Kellie Alexander and Associate Professor Tara Opsal. ABSTRACT Hazing is a prevalent behavior on college campuses that is harmful and can be dangerous, yet remains understudied in sociological literature. While research demonstrates that a majority of […]
Joshua Sbicca and Ph.D. student Becca Clark-Hargreaves organized and participated in a virtual session in April for the annual American Association of Geographers Meeting. The session was titled “Food and Carceral Intersections: From Geographies of Confinement to Enactments of Abolition.” There were over forty participants who attended this session.
“Fracking the Rockies: The production of harm” by Ph.D. student Kellie Alexander, Tara O’Connor Shelley (Tarleton State University) and Associate Professor Tara Opsal is chapter 19 in the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Find out more about the book here.
KuoRay Mao, Yiliang Zhu, Zhong Zhao, and Ph.D. student Yan Shan’s work “Authoritarian environmentalism and environmental regulation enforcement: A case study of medical waste crime in Northwestern China” is chapter 21 in the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Find out more about the book here.
