Orestes (Pat) Hastings and Kassandra K. Roeser (B.A. ’18) published “Happiness in Hard Times: Does Religion Buffer the Negative Effect of Unemployment on Happiness?” in Social Forces. Dr. Hastings and Kassie wrote this paper while she was an undergrad in our Environmental Sociology concentration. She is now pursuing her master’s degree in Sociology at Stanford. […]
Ajhanai Newton (Sociology, ’15) is an instructor for CSU’s Master of Sport Management. She researches leadership, gender, and race in collegiate athletics.
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 […]
Grace Costello successfully defended her M.A. thesis entitled, “Procedural Justice and Predatory Policing? Student Opinions of Interactions with Police on the St. Petersburg State University (Russia) Campus” on November 18, 2020. Grace’s research focuses on the applicability of the concept of procedural justice to a Russian campus setting where policing is carried out by a […]
KuoRay Mao, Lou Swanson, and Pete Taylor presented virtually at the 2020 International Forum on the Theory & Practices of Poverty Alleviation and Ecological Revitalization in the Yellow River Basin. The forum was held November, 7, 2020, in Shandong, China, and organized by Beijing Forestry University, Institute of Ecological Civilization, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences […]
Joshua Sbicca’s latest book A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City was released by NYU Press in July 2020. Along with Alison Hope Alkon (University of the Pacific) and Yuki Kato (Georgetown University), Dr. Sbicca co-edited contributions about gentrification’s effects on food landscapes in cities and towns across the United States […]
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 […]
What the Election Should Have Been About By Steve Dandaneau. Originally published by CounterPunch. Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Consult Roger Cohen in the Times on the “shrinking American mind” or Max Boot in the Post on the “sleaziest presidential campaign ever,” or any number of kindred spirits, and it is clear that the pundit class is dissatisfied with […]
Energy Research and Social Sciences published Stephanie Malin’s latest research article, “Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States.” It is referenced below in her most recent article for The Conversation. When fracking moves into the neighborhood, mental health risks rise Article by Stephanie Malin. […]
People living near unconventional oil or gas wells report chronic stress and depression related to their uncertainty about environmental and public health risks as well as noise, pollution, and truck traffic.
