“Disinvestment echoes through all services that schooling provides — what the activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes as “organized abandonment.” At the same time, schools have taken on a policing function, pathologizing interactions…
Department Chair Beth E. Richie has received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, and Class Section. The award recognizes her significant contributions through research, teaching, and service. Congratulations…
Professor Susila Gurusami has won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. She has also received an honorable mention from ASA’s Family Section for her…
“Each year, celebrating the achievements of our social work graduates is a joyful and momentous occasion. In 2020, we continue this spirited tradition through a virtual event to be held Sunday, June 14…
“… unlike the healthcare professionals working in hospitals and other medical facilities, incarcerated healthcare workers are laboring under conditions of extreme coercion, risk, and absent even marginal pay or public recognition.” Read the full story at Medium.com
Congratulations to Kayla Martensen on the new and timely article, “Review of Carceral State Studies and Application” in Sociology Compass (https://buff.ly/3h8K3Eo) and to Alex Davis who has accepted an offer to join the faculty…