We Penn State PRI (@pop.psu.edu🦋) are excited to welcome our new Visting Scholars 2023-2025 cohort! Many congratulations to Ariel Azar @StephCanizales Pat Hastings Dr. Patricia Homan @LucieKalousova & Kasim Ortiz! Jenny "2+2=4" Van Hook and I and all of our PRI community are so excited to welcome you!

UC Merced Sociology major Annette Aguilar received the 2023 Health Justice Scholar Award - we are proud of you Annette!!!

Congratulations Ruben!!!

UC 2023 Labor Summer Kick Off ✅ Thank you United Farm Workers SEIU Local 2015 Chavez Foundation #Agbayani Village California Federation of Labor Unions for the workshops, stories, and wisdom! Looking forward to tomorrow! 💫

Thank you to CA foundations & worker orgs that visited the Central Valley for our Rural & Farmworker Educational Series on climate and work. How we improve climate & economic resilience here has lessons for the world--and should inform strategic philanthropy in the 21st century.

New article out today, "Interpreting Repressive and Economic Threats: Música contestataria and Collective Resistance in Central America" published in Latin American Perspectives (#LAPerspectives Latin American Perspectives). Free download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

New article in npj Climate Action demonstrates the importance of labor and community based organizations in mobilizing participation in local climate meetings... …inabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/investin…

Former UC Merced Graduate Student, Dr. Maria De Jesus Mora (Cal State Stanislaus), inaugurated as President-Elect of the California Sociological Association (CSA) during annual CSA conference this weekend in Sacramento Graduate Division California Sociological Association #CSA2023 #CSAConference2023

Some recent publications by UC Merced Affiliates: Christian M. Smith, Amber D. Villalobos, Laura T. Hamilton, and Charlie Eaton. 2023. “Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities. Social Forces doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

Publications by UC Merced Affiliates Part II: Konrad Franco, Caitlin Patler, & Whitney Laster Pirtle. 2023. COVID-19’s Unequal Toll: Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life by Gendered and Racialized Groups. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. doi.org/10.1177/002214…

Recent Publications by UC Merced Affiliates Part III: Stephanie L. Canizales. 2023. “Between Obligations and Aspirations: Unaccompanied Immigrant Teen Workers’ Transnational Lives and Imagined Futures.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. doi.org/10.1080/136918…

UCM Sociology Class, Climate Change and Society (SOC 112), holds 2024 Earth Day event on campus to raise awareness about planetary warming

UC Merced graduate student presence at the annual Mobilization social movements conference this week...🙌

.UC Merced Sociology Graduate Program debuts strongly in the U.S. News rankings at No. 64! Read more about the 10-year-old program: ucm.edu/81aqqr

Sociology Graduate Program Debuts Strongly in U.S. News Rankings! Read full article here: news.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/soci…