Accomplishments: Department of Sociology
Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) was interviewed about her latest publication, “The Affective Bargain: How the Latino Children of Immigrants Create Joy, Love, and Pride Through Mariachi.”
Fatima Suarez (Sociology) published a paper in Men and Masculinities titled, "Latino Fathers' Hybrid Marginalized Masculinities."
Robert Futrell (Sociology) recently published a co-authored chapter, "A Constellation Framework for White Supremacy," in Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe: Media, Identity, and Parties (Routledge). The chapter offers a more complex, nuanced, and useful conceptual approach to understanding the expansion and normalization of…
Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) collaborated with colleagues from 51ԹϺ and other universities to author a book chapter entitled the title "The Intersections of Gender and Caste, Cumulative Dis/Advantage and Later-Life Health in Nepal" for the Routledge publication "Population Aging in Societal Context." This chapter uses Nepal as a model to…
Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) co-authored an updated report on aging in Nevada titled, "Aging Trends & Challenges in Nevada," in "The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (edited by Dmitri N. Shalin)." The report was published by 51ԹϺ Center for Democratic Culture.
Summer publications from the 51ԹϺ Behavioral Addictions Lab:
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper, "Recommendations for Diagnosing and Quantifying treatment outcomes in clinical trials of compulsive sexual behavior disorder" in Addictive Behaviors Reports.
Noa Vana, Bailey Way, Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (all…
Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published a paper in Ethnic and Racial Studies titled, "The Affective Bargain: How the Latino Children of Immigrants Create Joy, Love, and Pride Through Mariachi.”
Celene Fuller (Sociology) was recently announced as the 2025-2026 Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellow. The Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding 51ԹϺ Ph.D. student completing a dissertation in metropolitan public policy broadly defined with special consideration given to applicants focusing their research on the…
Chenghui Zhang (Sociology) published an article titled, "Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response," in the Journal of Criminal Justice. This work was supported by a Summer Research Award (2023) from the College of Liberal Arts.
Adrianna Munson (Sociology) discussed the cultural impact of "failed" adulthood in a recorded interview for Sage Video.
Annaliese Grant (Sociology) recently published a book chapter titled, "Caring Through It: Mothers' and Daughters' Perspectives on Disability and Interdependence in Financially Struggling White Families," in the book, Disability and the Family: Challenges, Resources, and Resilience. Co-authored with a former undergraduate student, the chapter…
Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) authored a study that uses autoethnographic data obtained from the authors to examine cultural (cultural perception of care, sense of familism, care reciprocity, and gendering of care), social (use of technology), and economic factors (role of remittance) and their interactional effects on the health outcomes of older…