American Sociological Association, Human Rights Section, Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award 2022
American Sociological Association, Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention 2022
Eastern Sociological Society, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award 2022
Law and Society Association, Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Honorable Mention 2022
American Sociological Association, Human Rights Section, Best Article Award 2022
In a in The Conversation, Prof. Jennifer Elrick discusses the nature of immigration targets as a migration management tool and how the power of big numbers can lead to anti-immigrant sentiments unless they are contextualized in public debates.
Prof. Elrick's new book, 听has been featured in a book symposium in the latest issue of .
2022-23 CAnD3 Fellow Christopher Yurris recently co-authored听听in Policy Options on fiscal federalism in Canada鈥檚 three territories.
Congratulations to听Daniel Sailofsky, one of our Ph.D. students, who has accepted a tenure track position as Lecturer (the equivalent of an Assistant Professor position in North America) at the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University, London, UK.
Daniel wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on athlete-perpetrated violence against women and its effects on their career outcomes.
2021-22 CAnD3 Fellow Feinuo Sun recently published her first dissertation paper in Social Science & Medicine. This is among the first studies examining the opioid crisis in the U.S. from a spatiotemporal perspective. The paper examines how rurality impacts the prescription of opioids across U.S. counties, using a spatiotemporal dataset (2006-2018) from a variety of national data sources, such as the U.S. Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps and the American Community Survey.
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New research from 2021-22 CAnD3 Fellow Julia Nakamura听and colleagues听finds that higher satisfaction with aging could lead to improved health and well-being outcomes. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, a cohort of 13,752 US adults over 50 years old, the researchers used 35 indicators of physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health and well-being to capture a comprehensive suite of outcomes. Out of the 35 indicators, improvements in 27 were associated with better aging satisfaction.听
Around the world increasing mental health inequalities between women and men following the COVID-19 pandemic represent a major public health concern. According to a new study, the lockdown measures due to the pandemic profoundly and unequally disrupted the work-family balance for many graduate students, exacerbating mental health problems.
Professor Jennifer Elrick was invited to share her thoughts on the legacy of Canada鈥檚 official multiculturalism policy on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Her contribution appears in in a special edition of the Canadian Issues series published by the Association for Canadian Studies, which was guest edited by Prof. Will Kymlicka (Queen鈥檚 University). The publication can be accessed free of charge.
Professor Pesando was awarded a 2022-2024 , a globally competitive Fellowship dedicated to improving the development, learning, and living conditions of children and youth worldwide
The Department of Sociology at 海角社区 was ranked 40th in the 2020 and 50th in the 2021 recently-released Academic Ranking of World Universities by
Congratulations to Golshan Golriz, one of our recent Ph.D. students, who graduated at the beginning of the year and has accepted an Assistant Professor tenure track position at Queen's University's Department of Sociology.
