Jessie Luna speaks at CLA’s Great Conversations Season Kickoff Event “Does Technology Cause or Heal Partisan Divides”

Story by Serena Bettis. Originally published by The Collegian.  Great Conversations explores technology, partisan divides Great Conversations kicked off its 24th season with a community conversation in the Lory Student Center Theatre Sept. 26, focusing on the question “Does technology create or heal partisan divides?” Panelists Evan Elkins, assistant professor of communication studies, Michael Humphrey, assistant […]

Lynn Hempel and Keith Smith published by Society & Natural Resources

Society & Natural Resources published Lynn Hempel and Ph.D. student Keith Smith’s paper “Evangelical Protestantism, Politics, and the Environment: When and How Do Biblical Beliefs Matter?” ABSTRACT Literature on environment-related outcomes highlights the role of political and religious factors—in particular, political orientation, party affiliation and biblical beliefs. Less is known about how these factors independently and interactively […]

The Conversation publishes Pat Hastings’ work on inequality

Story by Pat Hastings and Daniel Schneider (Berkeley). Originally published on The Conversation.  A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes how much they invest in their kids Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race. While 84% of children whose mothers have a bachelor’s degree or higher-level education live with married […]

Josh Sbicca speaks at Colorado Food Insecurity event

Josh Sbicca was a panelist for Colorado Food Insecurity event held September 13 on campus. Participants were invited to learn how they can contribute to Colorado State University’s ongoing efforts to address food insecurity among students. Panelists from CSU and Larimer County Food Bank discussed examples of successful food insecurity reduction programs. • Dr. Jennifer […]

161 undergrads and 10 new M.A. and Ph.D. students join Sociology

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, […]

The Conversation publishes Josh Sbicca’s “US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal”

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 […]

ACJS President Prabha Unnithan visits international conferences

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) […]

Stephanie Malin’s climate crisis work published by The Conversation

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 […]

Michael Carolan invited keynote at European Society of Rural Sociology (ESRS) 2019 Congress

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 […]