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Assistant Professor Ariana Valle published an article in a Special Issue of The Florida Historical Quarterly (vol. 102 no. 2).  The article, "Political Bridging and Struggles in Puerto Rican/Latino Solidarity Politics in Orlando" focuses on Puerto Rican and Latino politics making in Florida; specifically, it examines how a politics of solidarity is forged between Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Orlando metro during the 2016 election.

Jennifer Krebsbach has received the Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award of the Pacific Sociological Association for her paper titled, “Firewomen ‘Promote a Culture of Safety,’ but Firemen ‘Face Hazardous and Unpredictable Situations’: Gendered Job Description Narrative Outputs by Large Language Models.”

Associate Professor Orly Clerge has been selected to be a part of the incoming class of Visiting Scholars at the Russell Sage Foundation. During this prestigious fellowship, she will complete her book project on race, youth, and political consciousness. You can learn more about Professor Clerge's project here. 

Jennifer Krebsbach won Best Research Award for her work "Analyzing Gendered Job Description Narrative Outputs by LLMs: When Computational Methods Analyze the Results, But Miss the Context" at the CSS Escape 2025 hosted by UC Davis' CSS DE, Center for AI and Experimental Futures (CAIEF), and AI Center in Engineering. 

Congrats, Jennifer!

Professor Xiaoling Shu co-authored an article with Kelsey D. Meagher. The article, "Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 2018" can be read in full here. 

Professor Xiaoling Shu co-authored an article with Ph.D. alumnus Yiwan Ye. The article, "Unequal but Widespread Despairs: Social Inequalities and Self-Rated Health Trends in the United States in 1972-2018," published in Social Science and Medicine, sheds light on declining health trends in the United States and deepens our understanding of health inequalities and their dynamics in high-income countries. It can be read in full here. 

Professor Xiaoling Shu co-authored an article in the Journal of Marriage and Family. The article, "Classifying and mapping gender ideologies: Gender attitudes in 47 countries at the turn of the 21st century" can be read here. 

Wen Guan was selected to be a 2025 Equity Scholar in the NORC at the University of Chicago, Equity Scholars Program. This program will assist Wen's research on reimagining community safety for AANHPI communities with effective non-carceral solutions to combat anti-AANHPI hate crime.

Axl Kaminski presented a working paper titled "Diagnosing Dangerousness: The Discursive Struggle Over Spoiled Identities in California Board of Parole Hearings" at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Associate Professor Orly Clerge published a new paper titled "Ain't I a Migrant?: Global Blackness and the Future of Migration Studies" with co-author Jean Beaman in the International Migration Review. The article argues for the necessity of a global Blackness perspective on global migration, and can be read in full here. 

Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research Jacob Hibel was featured on the Center's faculty spotlight. The full article can be read here.

Professor Bob Faris participated in The Museum of Modern Art’s 50th Salon titled "The Age of the Bully" as part of the MoMA Research & Development series. 

Assistant Professor Tina Law recently published a new article on AI in Socius titled “AI Policymaking: An Agenda for Sociological Research.” The article is part of a new Socius special issue on the Sociology of AI.

Jennifer Krebsbach's article, "Increasing Online Attendance Using Insignificantly Impactful Extra Credit as Positive Reinforcement" was recently published in the Journal of Educators Online. The full article can be read here.

Associate Professor Jacob Hibel received a research grant from the Urban Institute for a project titled "What Skills Help Students with Disabilities Thrive?" This research will investigate how the services and supports provided to students with disabilities during their K–12 education relate to their academic and life outcomes in early adulthood, including postsecondary attainment, income, and more. Using linked data from Oregon and the U.S. Census Bureau, the study will evaluate how outcomes vary depending on the services students received and their duration.