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Liz Felix article published by Sage Journals, in Society and Mental Health. Oct 2024.
Unmasking the Aversive Stigmatizer: Integrating Deliberate and Automatic Cognition in the Study of Mental Health Stigma and Perceived Dangerousness ...
KU TODAY: Liz Felix presents IPSR Research Luncheon - EMAIL ipsr@ku.edu to attend
Liz Felix, Assistant Professor of Sociology, talk "Social Networks and Stigma by Association" on Nov. 1, 11:30-1:00, Watson Library, 3 West Reading Room. Liz will present on perceived discrimination experiences among friends and family of people with mental illness. ...
Brian Donovan's Kansas City Star article on Taylor Swift election impact
Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris could have a real impact on the election | ...
Two Sociology students awarded Undergraduate Research Awards this fall!
Congratulations to ChangHwan Kim and Heeyoun Shin on their recent article!
The Gender Gap in Earnings Growth at the Early Stage of Work Careers in Korea...
Congrats to ChangHwan Kim and Andrew Taeho Kim on their recent publication!
Persistent Educational Advantages of Asian Immigrants' Children, 1940 to 2015-2019...
Congrats to ChangHwan Kim and Heeyoun Shin on their recent article!
How Do Children Self-Locate Themselves in the Social Hierarchy? Educationally Homogamous Parents, Working Mothers, and Children’s Subjective Social Status...
Sociology Department in the Top 40 of Sociology Graduate Programs!
KU law, medical schools among nation’s best in latest U.S. News & World Report rankings...
Kevin McCannon receives the 2023-24 KU Edwards Campus Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
This award is based on Kevin's outstanding quality and innovation in teaching, and, dedication to students. The award was presented at the KU Edwards Campus Fall Kickoff event on August 29, 2024. ...
Brian Donovan will contribute to the six-part series exploring Taylor Swift’s music, lyrics, business strategy and more
Scholars will present Taylor Swift-themed speaker series at KU...
Congrats to Liz Felix on Journal Article "Marked by Association(s): A Social Network Approach to Investigating Mental Health-Related Associative Stigma" (Opens in new window)
Journal of Health and Social Behavior. ...
Congrats to Paul Stock (Sociology & Environmental Studies) - This week in College Research (Opens in new window)
Environmental Violence and Agriculture: Incorporating Jacques Ellul’s Theory of Technique and Technological Morality into the Environmental Violence Framework. Pp. 301–17, Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement, edited by R. A. Marcantonio, J. P. Lederach, and A. Fuentes. Cambridge University Press. ...
Congrats to Sociology Ph.D. student Darcy Sullivan, on her honorable mention from the National Assoc. of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (Opens in new window)
Darcy Sullivan recently graduated with a doctorate degree in Sociology. She received an honorable mention for her poster, "Unmet Healthcare Needs Among People with Pre-Existing Disability and Long COVID: An Exploratory Analysis." ...
Jarron Saint Onge will participate as Co-PI for NIH, NIGMS, Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)
Jarron Saint Onge will participate as (Co-PI) NIH, NIGMS, Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Phase 1, 2024-2028: Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women’s Health (PI: Heather Desaire: Chemistry). ...
Mehrangiz Najafizadeh selected for the KU International Travel Fund for Humanistic Research Grant, Summer 2024 (Opens in new window)
Faculty travel grants will support international travel expenses for interdisciplinary, humanistic research projects, as well as academic collaborations in Asia and Latin America. Travel grants for graduate students support internationally focused academic or training opportunities and preliminary dissertation field activities in Latin America and Africa. ...
David Smith presented the lecture "Authoritarianism and Democracy" at William Paterson University
The conference explored the origins and allure of authoritarian politics in contemporary global contexts. It also assessed the capacity for democracy to endure in an era marked by resentment and inequality...
Heeyoun Shin selected as a recipient of the FY25 Research Excellence Initiative Award
Congratulations to KU Sociology graduate student Heeyoun Shin! Heeyoun has been selected as a recipient of the FY25 Research Excellence Initiative (REI) award from the College Dean's Office. She will use this fund to facilitate her dissertation research. ...
Join the Institute for Policy & Social Research for doctoral research fellow presentations
Mehrangiz Najafizadeh honored with 2023 Woodyard Award
Qixin Pan receives CLAS Outstanding Thesis Award (Opens in new window)
KU Sociology graduate student Qixin Pan has been selected as a winner of the 2024 CLAS Outstanding Thesis Award. Congratulations, Qixin! ...
Yurong Zhang receives Office of Graduate Studies Summer Research Scholarship (Opens in new window)
KU Sociology graduate student Yurong Zhang has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Office of Graduate Studies Summer Research Scholarship. Congratulations, Yurong! ...
Jarron Saint Onge co-authored article for Journal of Healthcare Quality (Opens in new window)
Urban Rural Differences on Accessing Patient Centered Medical Home Among Children With Mental/Developmental Health Conditions/Disorders...
Jarron Saint Onge co-authored article for the Journal of Healthcare Management (Opens in new window)
Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Children with Developmental Disabilities Following Value Based Care Coordination Policies. ...
Trafficking Narratives and the Prosecution of NXIVM (Opens in new window)
Although cults often inflict significant damage upon their followers, the prosecution of cult abuse is a challenging feat because of the legally incoherent nature of the harms. Increasingly, prosecutors have addressed cult abuses by prosecuting cult leaders for human trafficking. We examine the 2019 trial of Keith Raniere, the founder...
Taylor Swift joined Chiefs Kingdom and reshaped the NFL audience (Opens in new window)
NFL games have gained an estimated 2 million female viewers since international pop star Taylor Swift began appearing regularly at Kansas City Chiefs games. ...
MAGA World Is About to Meet Taylor Swift's Fandom. It Won't Go Well. (Opens in new window)
Taylor Swift has many titles: cultural juggernaut; international pop star; billionaire businesswoman. She can now add MAGA conspiracy theory target to the list. ...
"Aging and the Rise in Bottom Income Inequality in Korea" (Opens in new window)
Korea is one of the world’s fastest-aging societies, with poverty and low income prevalent among the elderly population. Unlike other advanced economies, where top income inequality has driven the rise in income inequality, fluctuations in income inequality in Korea in recent decades have been dominated by changes in the bottom...
For Some Professors, Taylor Swift Is a Student-Engagement Tactic (Opens in new window)
Elizabeth Scala was having trouble, trouble, trouble. It was 2021, in the middle of the pandemic. Scala, a professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, had tried several themes, including the Harry Potter series, to engage students in a course she’s been teaching for years, a freshman...
Argun Saatcioglu co-authored "Structure and Agency in Resistance to Schooling: Class, Race, and the Reproduction of Unequal Outcomes" in Social Science Research (Opens in new window)
This article examines how social class and race intersect to shape students’ resistance to schooling. ...
Jarron Saint Onge recently voted President-elect of the Southern Demographic Association
Professor Saint Onge is a sociologist and social demographer by training. He has expertise in nationally representative survey data, U.S. Census data, and quantitative data analysis. His research has been focused on understanding how social determinants of health continue to influence health disparities, by sociodemographic characteristics such as race/ethnicity or...