This fall we are proud to welcome 161 Sociology majors including first-year, transfer and adult students and student veterans. We are excited to also welcome ten new graduate students to the department. 2019 INCOMING M.A. STUDENTS Emma Casey: crime, deviance, law, social psychology, symbolic interactionism, global political economy, ethnography, and social inequality Taylor Ellis: the criminal justice system, […]
By Maywa Montenegro (UC-Davis), Annie Shattuck (UC-Berkeley), Josh Sbicca (CSU). Originally published on The Conversation. US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal These are difficult times in farm country. Historic spring rains – 600% above average in some places – inundated fields and homes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that this year’s corn and soybean crops will be the […]
Prabha Unnithan, 2019-2020 president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, traveled internationally this summer representing the ACJS and CSU Sociology. The Asian Criminological Society held its 11th annual conference in June in Cebu City, Philippines. This year’s theme was “Contextualizing Challenges In Criminology And Criminal Justice In Asia.” The 2019 British Society of Criminology (BSC) […]
By Becky Alexis-Martin (Manchester Metropolitan University), James Dyke (Univ. of Exeter), Jonathon Turnbull (Cambridge), Stephanie Malin (CSU). Originally published on The Conversation. Climate crisis: migration cannot be the only option for people living on ‘drowning’ islands The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to climate change often have social and political motivations, rather than addressing […]
The Scientific Committee for the European Society of Rural Sociology (ESRS) invited Michael Carolan to be the keynote speaker for its 2019 Congress held in Norway June 25–28. The conference theme was “Rural Futures in a Complex World,” and Carolan’s talk was “Rural Sociology Revival: Overcoming Divides, Affording Additions, Confronting Injustices.” The ESRS was founded […]
Stephanie Malin, Adam Mayer and colleagues published “Putting on partisan glasses: Political identity, quality of life, and oil and gas production in Colorado” in Energy Policy.
Pat Hastings and co-authors Daniel Schneider and Joe LaBriola, both at University of California-Berkeley, have been awarded the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2019 Family Section Article of the Year Award for “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments.” The study was published by American Sociological Review in May 2018. The award will be presented to Hastings and his colleagues […]
Jessie Luna presented a paper “Cultural and economic treadmills explaining herbicide use in Burkina Faso” and moderated a session at the Pesticide Politics in Africa conference held in May at the Tropical Pesticide Research Institute (TPRI) in Arusha, Tanzania. She was also on the conference’s Scientific Committee. This interdisciplinary, international conference focused on the use, […]
The Board of Larimer County Commissioners invited Professor of Sociology and President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Prabha Unnithan to facilitate the public forum on Larimer County’s jail improvement and expansion plans. The forum was held Saturday, June 1 at the Old Town Library in Fort Collins. A panel of seven local experts took questions […]
Carina Roman-Solis chose CSU because it felt like home after spending many summers here with her high school’s Upward Bound program. This spring she took the podium as she walked the stage. Carina is one of two students chosen for what is a first in recent history—student speakers at CLA commencement, one spoke at each […]
