Pat Hastings’ income inequality research published
Pat Hastings published “Who Feels It? Income Inequality, Relative Deprivation, and Financial Satisfaction in U.S. States, 1973–2012.” in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Pat Mahoney recognized as Scholar Contact by CSU’s Community for Excellence
Pat Mahoney was recognized as a Scholar Contact at CSU’s Community for Excellence (C4E) 8th Annual Celebration of Graduates Ceremony. “You have helped me figure out how to think sociologically. I believe that has led me to understand the world in a better way,” said his C4E student Zain Rana.
Faculty and graduate students present at 2019 Western Social Science Association Conference
Western Social Science Association’s (WSSA) 61st annual conference was held in San Diego in April. Shawna Bendeck presented “The Effects of Aging Out of Foster Care on Social Capital and Life Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Study of Experiences and Outcomes.” India Luxton (pictured) presented “Mapping Movements: A Call for Qualitative Social Network Analysis.” Bailey Mellott also attended the conference, […]
Laura Raynolds and Josh Sbicca receive highly competitive SoGES fellowship awards
CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) has announced the selection of Dr. Laura Raynolds and Dr. Josh Sbicca as Resident Faculty Fellows. The Department of Sociology is very proud to house two of only four fellows chosen from what SoGES calls a competitive field of proposals. According to this SOURCE article, the fellowship awards are intended to encourage […]
Criminal Justice Policy Review publishes Jeff Nowacki’s paper on Gender Equality and Sentencing Outcomes
Criminal Justice Policy Review recently published Dr. Jeff Nowacki’s paper “Gender Equality and Sentencing Outcomes: An Examination of State Courts.” Abstract: An important source of racial disparity in policing is traffic enforcement. The level of discretion afforded to officers for traffic enforcement is generally greater than it is for other policing decisions. One way to control […]
Jeff Nowacki’s research published in the International Journal of Police Science & Management
Dr. Jeff Nowacki and co-author Tyrell Spencer, Southern Illinois University, recently published “Police discretion, organizational characteristics, and traffic stops: An analysis of racial disparity in Illinois” in the International Journal of Police Science & Management. Abstract: This paper addresses traffic enforcement as an important source of racial disparity in policing. The level of discretion afforded to […]
Prabha Unnithan elected president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Unnithan has been a faculty member at CSU since 1987. His research and teaching involve a range of topics related to criminology and criminal justice.
Jeni Cross, Hannah Love and IRISS offer social science research to CSU faculty
Story by Jeff Dodge. Originally published on SOURCE. For social science research, CSU faculty can now pick IRISS For social science research, CSU faculty can now pick IRISS Faculty who need to conduct focus groups, design a survey for a research project, or carry out other types of social science research now have a place […]
Pete Taylor presents at International Studies Association
Pete Taylor and David Sonnenfeld presented “Liberalism, Illiberalism and the Environment: an Exploration of Two Cases of Polycentric Water Governance” during the session on “Hidden Figures and the Worlding of Global Environmental Polics” at the International Studies Association annual convention held in Toronto in March.
Michael Carolan speaks about recent book to CSU Composition students
Michael Carolan and his Food Systems research team colleague Becca Jablonski presented “Rural-Urban Linkages Instead of Divides: Connecting Metropolitan Food Plans to the Countryside” in Clark A101 in March (shown above right). CSU’s Department of English has been assigning his books to composition students for close to a decade. Carolan released The Food Sharing Revolution in December 2018.