The Sociological Quarterly publishes Michael Carolan’s research on COVID-19’s impact on gendered household food practices

Michael Carolan published “COVID-19’s Impact on Gendered Household Food Practices: Eating and Feeding as Expressions of Competencies, Moralities, and Mobilities” in The Sociological Quarterly on January 21, 2021. ABSTRACT This article is based on research conducted in Colorado in late-2019 and again post-COVID outbreak, from April through May of 2020. In addition to (virtual) face-to-face […]

Tara Opsal’s community cohesion research featured in CLA magazine

Originally appeared in CSU’s College of Liberal Arts Magazine. Story by Carmen Ruyle Hardy. Economic viability and the health of a community: tackling wicked problems begins at the kitchen table When an oil and gas boom busts, a rural community can be left in such poverty that residents are willing to consider all possibilities for […]

Congratulations Fall 2020 Graduates!

CSU’s virtual Fall Commencement is Friday, December 18. Department of Sociology Chair Pete Taylor congratulates graduates in this message. CSU’s Ceremonial Walk Across the Oval was held the week before Fall Break in lieu of an in-person ceremony and livestreamed. Lauren Wilkerson is pictured here in her cap & gown. Congratulations, Fall 2020 Sociology Graduates! David […]

Inspired by semester-long discussions around equality, poverty and stratification, Jason Downing’s students continue record-breaking donations for the Food Bank of Larimer County

Fifteen years ago Jason Downing’s students began stacking cans of donated food in the corner of their Front Range Community College (FRCC) classroom. He would load the items into his trunk and make a single trip to the Food Bank of Larimer County. Soon he began also teaching sociology at CSU, and cans started closing […]

Pat Hastings and Kassie Roeser published by Social Forces

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. […]

Emilia Ravetta and Thai Binh Tran accepted for Graduate Student Showcase

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 defends her M.A. thesis, undergrads Zoe Mack and Lauren Wilkerson defend their Honors theses

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 invited speakers at international forum on poverty and ecology

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 […]

Media appearances continue for Joshua Sbicca following new book on food and gentrification

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 […]