Dr. Pat Hastings was quoted in a USA Today article, “Hilary Duff’s husband, Ashley Tisdale and why modern parenting is so messy” about modern parenting and mom groups. “These spaces that give advice and companionship are also places where parents are going to implicitly or explicitly compare themselves to other people and their parenting,” said […]
How do zoos reinforce cultural stereotypes we may not know we hold and what is prison agricultural labor and why does it exist?
A recent community-driven health study co-led by CSU sheds light on the environmental and health disparities for the more than 11,000 residents of the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods.
The highly-regarded French journal Alternatives Économiques reached out to Dr. KuoRay Mao seeking his expertise in green criminology, specifically in regards to China’s environmental strategies and what the trajectory could mean for worldwide sustainability. In the journal’s article “Is China really becoming an ecological country?” Dr. Mao shares valuable insight on how China’s model of […]
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, […]
Story and photo by Carmen Guerrero. Originally published on CSU Source. Warner College student Mark Samolej receives prestigious Voyager Scholarship Mark Samolej is one of just 100 students nationwide to receive the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service – known as the Voyager Scholarship – which honors his commitment to public service and ecological restoration. A third-year restoration ecology student at Colorado […]
Dr. Vanessa Centelles’ new research “Exploring Subgroup Differences in Offending among Latine Adults in the United States” has been published by Criminal Justice and Behavior ABSTRACT Research examining subgroup differences in offending among Latine individuals in the United States remains limited. Using a nationally representative sample of U.S. Latine adults, we assess variation in violent […]
Erin’s serendipitous journey began when she crossed paths with alumni and victims of violence during an eye-opening sociology course. Later on she would arrive to her internship interview and discover the role had shifted to a victim-centered program she was not familiar with. “What I heard intrigued me,” she says. Braving the unknown early on […]
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 […]
