Category: Department Updates
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Title 42 Isn’t About Public Health — It’s About Keeping Immigrants Out
Published in The Intercept, Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Manuel Pedroza on the conflicting concerns about public health when it comes to immigration during the Trump Administration.
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It’s about time: Parent’s direct care for children in Hispanic noncitizen households across state immigration policy contexts
Published open access in Population Research and Policy Review, Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Manuel Pedroza and Sociology Graduate Student Elena Losada use time diaries from a national survey to study parent-child activities in immigrant families.
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Power Over Precision: Jenny Reardon featured on Computer Says Maybe podcast
Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Science and Justice Research Center, on the history of genomics — and the absolutely mind-melting parallels it has with the trajectory of the AI industry.
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Hawthorne enters as 2024-2025 Sociology Fellow at Stanford
In fall 2024, Associate Professor Camilla Hawthorne entered as a Sociology Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Through this 2024-2025 academic year fellowship, Hawthorne will be researching historical and contemporary ties between Black liberation struggles in southern Europe and North America to illustrate connective narratives between diaspor
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Riley publishes on health equity, hosts Indigenous Health and Social Networks Research Collaborative
In fall 2024, Assistant Professor Alicia Riley published a solo-authored article in Social Science and Medicine demonstrating how a single state policy, cigarette taxes, can weaken the educational gradient in mortality by increasing the lifespan for the lowest educated. Her article can inform efforts to modify other long-standing inequities in population health. Riley is also co-PI of the MRPI-funded Indigenous Health and Social…
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Pandemic retelling: What GoFundMe posts reveal about the socioeconomic context of COVID-19 death and bereavement among Latinx & Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
Assistant Professor Alicia Riley published this 2023 article in Advances in Global Health, which was co-led by two former UCSC undergraduate students and was initiated during their Building Belonging fellowships. The study explores the social relationships, economic factors, and emotional experiences that surround COVID-19 deaths among the members of Spanish-speaking Latinx communities in the United…
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The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity
Associate Professor Camilla Hawthorne co-edited this 2023 book for Duke Press Contributors to explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities,…
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Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
Associate Professor Hillary Angelo and Professor Miriam Greenberg co-authored the 2023 introduction of a special edition of City and Community, calling for an environmentalization of urban sociology. Urban sociology, like sociology as a whole, has traditionally excluded the natural environment. They explore the epistemological and political reasons why environmentalization has been a challenge and describe…