Sociology Spotlight

A team of faculty from the University of Colorado Denver (along with partners at Texas A&M University) has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the recovery of mobile home parks in the Houston metropolitan area following Hurricane Harvey. Assistant Professor of Sociology Esther Sullivan...

Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich's book Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines was overwhelmingly selected as the 2018 Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award by the Pacific Sociological Association. She will be honored at the Pacific Sociological Association’s 89th Annual Meetings/Conference at the end of the month in Long Beach,...

New publication from CTT Assistant Professor of Sociology, Maren Scull, " Managing Identity in a Dirty Occupation: Male Strippers Experiences with Social Stigmas ." Sociological Spectrum 37(6): 390-411. In this research, I explore the social stigmas male strippers experience for engaging in a deviant occupation and the identity work they...

Associate Professor of Sociology Keith Guzik (together with Onook Oh and Ronald Ramirez from the CU Denver School of Business, and Tony Tong from the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder) recently received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a 3-year project examining the impact of...

Sociology Associate Professor Stacey Bosick was recently awarded a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, from the American Sociological Association. The award provides additional funding to a project that she is conducting with the Denver DA’s office entitled, "The Power of Discretion: Racial Disparities in Criminal...

Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccine , by Jennifer A. Reich , Associate Professor of Sociology, was released last month by NYU Press. For or over a decade, Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that...

Keith Guzik , Associate Professor of Sociology discusses the plausibility of regulating guns like cars. License and registration, please: how regulating guns like cars could improve safety The Conversation , June 26

The CU Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors (UCDALI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the University of Colorado Denver CLAS Non-Tenure Track Faculty Professional Development grants for spring 2017, selected from a pool of impressive candidates. Masoud Asidi-Zeybadadi and Richard Geyer , Department of Physics, will continue work...

A team led by Humanities and Social Sciences Instructor Jordan Hill has launched North/East Denver Change , a website dedicated to nonpartisan information about developments and the neighborhoods being affected. An interdisciplinary group of graduate students taking the “Critical Public Humanities” course launched the organization they have been creating for...

A new study from Adam Lippert , Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, and published in the journal Health and Place, found that certain school environments have an impact on electronic cigarette use among teenagers. Lippert’s research showed that students attending schools where e-cigarette use was very common were...