🌟 Forthcoming books 📚 from the brilliant 🧠 faculty and graduates 🎓 from UC Irvine Sociology. Congratulations 👏 Emily K. Carian and Liz Chiarello.com!!

In American Sociological Review, Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank 🏳️‍🌈, & Evan Schofer show that survey measures of academic freedom for 155 countries from 1960 to 2022 are positively associated with democracy and negatively associated with state religiosity and militarism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Huge congrats to Kristin Turney on winning the UCI Academic Senate's 2024 Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research! UC Irvine Sociology #bestandbrightest 🥳🎉👏🌷 socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/new…

🎊 Congratulations to Wang Feng from UC Irvine Sociology on another extraordinary lifetime achievement - a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship! 🎊 news.uci.edu/2024/04/11/wan…

Fifty years ago...data on "Women and Minorities in Sociology" from Footnotes ASA Sociology

Trends in academic freedom journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

"Instead of despondent and unnoticed, LIFTED and seen worthy of a second chance at LIFE." - S. Hoffman II How the LIFTED program opened my eyes and gave me hope sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/06/21/opi…

🌟💐 TENURED!! 💐🌟 Congratulations to UC Irvine Sociology Associate Professor Julia Lerch on her tenure and promotion!!

nbcsandiego.com/local/first-st… 👏🎓 Teaching for UCI LIFTED has been one of the great joys of my teaching career. Congrats to our 23 new UC Irvine Sociology BAs!! You humble and inspire me. 🎓👏

💯🌟AWARDED! Congrats to UC Irvine Sociology's Kelley Fong on her triple win!!! Book Award ASA Section on Family; Book Award ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility; and Book Award Honorable Mention ASA Section on Crime, Law, & Deviance for INVESTIGATING FAMILIES!!! 🌟💯

👏👏👏CONGRATULATIONS to UC Irvine Sociology's Yang Su on the Honorable Mention for his book Deadly Decision in Beijing. Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre from the American Sociological Association! 👏👏👏

🌟🎓 DOUBLE CONGRATS to UC Irvine Sociology's Cherry Ji and @KaylinBourdon on their ASA dissertation awards -- Cherry's from the Section on Culture and Kaylin's from the Section on Collective Behavior abd Social Movements!! We are proud of our winners!! 🎓🌟

💯🥇HUGE CONGRATS to UC Irvine Sociology's ASA Student Paper Award Winners!! Weijun Yuan (Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements) and Minyoung Kim (Section on Emotions)!! 🥇💯

🏆📕 WINNERS!! Congratulations to UC Irvine Sociology's Professor Emerita Judith Stepan-Norris and PhD Jasmine Kermissey on their Book Award from the ASA Section on Labor & Labor Movements for Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement!! 📕🏆

🌟💯 HONORED!! Congratulations to UC Irvine Sociology's Wang Feng on winning the Distinguished Contribution to the Field Career Award from the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America!! 💯🌟

CONGRATS to UC Irvine Sociology PhD Peng Huang! “Parameter Estimation Procedures for Exponential-Family Random Graph Models on Count-Valued Networks” won an Article Award Honorable Mention from the Section on Methodology and Student Paper Award from the Section on Mathematical Soc!!

New article! "The contemporary anxieties about competition are mainly indicators of the university’s expansion and cultural centrality. A world in which universities were starving would not be one full of struggles for world-class status." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

👏👏CONGRATS to UC Irvine Sociology PhD Liz Chiarello.com!! "Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice" (ASR) won an Article Award from the Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance & an Article Award Honorable Mention from the Section on Soc of Law!

✌️💥 HONORED!! Congratulations to UC Irvine Sociology's Dave Snow on winning the 2024 Aldon Morris Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sociology from the ASA's Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements!!💥✌️

Why is fascist joy fashionable? I was invited by Harper’s BAZAAR to write about the racist rhetoric and humor at last Sunday’s Trump rally. I co-wrote some thoughts with my good friend J Finley. Thanks @surlybassey for the invite! See full article here: harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…