The number of COVID-19 diagnoses grows day by day, but the unequal rate of infection among Black and Latinx people and white people remains constant. Looking back at the AIDS epidemic, René Esparza, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, finds a striking similarity in the U.S.’s historical treatment of viruses that disproportionally affect minority communities.
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Caitlyn Collins interviewed for Marketplace Morning Report show
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Caitlyn Collins quoted in BBC article
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Caitlyn Collins quoted in Bloomberg
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Aida Wingfield quoted in USA Today
The participatory art project HT94 provides a space for reflection on the ongoing crisis at the border.
Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Recipient Caitlyn Collins quoted in Aljazeera
While the Department of Sociology’s growth over the past five years has been immense, Wingfield believes that the department is just getting started. “Our hope is to continue growing, remain a department where faculty continue to do excellent research and teaching, and to stay a place where undergraduate and graduate students can thrive.”
Weidenbaum Center Small Grant Recipient Caitlyn Collins quoted in Nonprofit Quarterly
Professor Jake Rosenfeld on how millennials are changing the social norm against discussing wages and salaries in the work place.
The Society for the Study of Social Problems presents the C. Wright Mills Award annually to the author of a new book that critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance. Wingfield's award-winning book addresses "racial outsourcing" in the health care industry.
Check out our postdoc John Kuk and his colleagues Zoltan Hajnal and Nazita lajevardi on their analysis on voters disenfranchisement