Michael Carolan wins international Business Impact Award for A Decent Meal

Michael Carolan received the Frankfurt Book Fair’s getAbstract 2022 International Book Award for Business Impact. Carolan was flown to Germany in October and honored during a formal ceremony. Carolan’s newest book, A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America, was selected from 10,000 non-fiction titles. The jury chose it “for its timely relevance that […]

Building Bridges to Better Communities: Sociology PhD candidates use their skills in CSU Extension internships

Working with Grow and Give and the Family Leadership Training Institute respectively, Emilia Ravetta and Milagro Núñez-Solis, both Ph.D. candidates in sociology, connected food pantries with gardeners and youth with opportunities to strengthen their local communities in their CSU Extension summer internships.

Joshua Sbicca interviewed by Civil Eats about agrihoods and “green gentrification”

Agrihoods Promise Fresh Food and Community. Can They Add Equity to the List? Agrihoods promise to save farmland by turning it into a residential amenity. Can this effort to bridge housing and farmland support environmental justice? Article by Greta Moran. Originally published by Civil Eats.  Please click here to read.

Food Sleuth Radio interviews Joshua Sbicca about prison agriculture

By Melinda Hemmelgarn. Originally appeared on Food Sleuth Radio. Did you know that over 600 U.S. prisons include agricultural activities of some kind? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Joshua Sbicca, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab at Colorado State University. […]

Applications are being accepted through August 29 for two tenure track Assistant Professor positions: 1) Critical Criminology & 2) Sociology of Race

Our Sociology Department is seeking applications for two Assistant Professor, tenure track, nine-month positions, beginning August 16, 2023. Salary is competitive for an entry-level position. One position will be in critical criminology and the other in the sociology of race. The department offers undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology. The successful candidates must be […]

Forbes interviews PhD student Azmal Hossan about climate justice

Young Climate Justice Activists Are Fighting For Our Collective Survival Article by Madhukar Pai. Originally published by Forbes. Wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and floods. Climate change is a code red for humankind. But politicians and world leaders are yet to take strong, decisive, collective action. Young people are nervously watching the lack of action by grown-ups. They are […]

Jeffrey Nowacki interviewed by Colorado Public Radio about criminal justice system

Just a handful of Denver neighborhoods are home to a disproportionate number of imprisoned people Article by Allison Sherry and Veronica Penney. Originally published by Colorado Public Radio. Photo by Hart Van Denburg/CPR News. Denverites living in one of a few small neighborhoods — Elyria-Swansea, Globeville and Sun Valley — are much more likely to be incarcerated […]

Stephanie Malin releases latest book Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change

Stephanie Malin and co-author Meghan Kallman published Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change through Rutgers University Press. In April, CSU’s Center for Environmental Justice hosted a launch event with special guests Tatewin Means and Cody Two Bears to preview a couple of the case studies presented in the book and share how their communities are building […]

Student film festival starts new annual tradition 

The Through the Student Lens Film Festival—the first and only film festival created for CSU students and alumni—got its start just as the pandemic forced festivals and events all over the world to go virtual. Thankfully the festival’s founder, Teaching Associate Professor and professional filmmaker Usama Alshaibi, chose to persevere. With the help of dedicated student volunteers and staff, Through the Student Lens (TSL) hosted its first in-person premiere on April 21, 2022 in Eddy Hall.