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Graduate student Walter Goettlich awarded an REI grant under the Social Justice Research Award (SJA) (Opens in new window)
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Graduate student Elyse Neumann recognized by Graduate Student Awards and Publications (Opens in new window)
Graduate student Elyse Neumann wins the REI Graduate Student Grant-Writing Incentive Award. ...
Graduate student Heeyoun Shin is recognized by the Korean Labor Institute (Opens in new window)
Heeyoun Shin won the paper proposal competition award from the Korean Labor Institute. ...
Kelly H. Chong receives KU Racial Equity Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award for documentary
Documentary film "Invisibility and Rage: Asian Americans, Racial Trauma and Mental Health" ...
Kelly H. Chong co-authored article " 'The Model Man:' Shifting Perceptions of Asian American Masculinity and the Renegotiation of a Racial Hierarchy of Desire." (Opens in new window)
Although Asian-descent men in the United States have been subjected to negative race-gender stereotyping and sexual racism, evidence suggests that mainstream perceptions and Asian American men’s self-definitions are in flux. Drawing on in-depth interviews of U.S.-born and -raised, middle-class, heterosexual Asian American men, supplemented by popular media textual analysis, we...
Paul Stock served as a Virtual Visiting Professor
Paul Stock served as a Virtual Visiting Professor at the School of Life Sciences and Technology within the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia, in November 2021, which included a lecture and some workshops exploring potential collaborations. ...
David Smith published a chapter in the book Rethinking Alternatives with Marx
David Smith's chapter "Accumulation and Its Discontents: Migration and Nativism in Marx's Capital and Late Manuscripts" was edited by Marcello Musto (Palgrave Macmillan). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-81764-0_8...
ChangHwan Kim co-authors article "Taste-based Gender Discrimination in South Korea" (Opens in new window)
Among the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, South Korea shows the worst female earnings disadvantage. Women's career disruption associated with marriage and childbearing is said to be the primary factor behind the huge female disadvantage in Korea. Recent studies, however, demonstrated that substantial female disadvantage appears...
David Smith spoke on a panel for the British Sociological Association
The Last Years of Karl Marx: A Conversation between Marcello Musto, Kevin B. Anderson, Himani Banerji & David N. Smith. The panel was organized by the Theory Study Group. Event Videos (britsoc.co.uk)...
David Ekerdt's retirement article in Wall Street Journal (Opens in new window)
“The Enigma of Arrival” is the title and theme of a novel by the Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul. What is it about arrival that is mysterious? Simply that one’s imagination of a destination, even a place for which one has prepared and striven, will never quite be one’s eventual experience...
Joane Nagel, David Heath Cooper, Timothy Lee and Trevor S. Lies co-author "Unmasking the Racial and Gender Politics of the U.S. Pandemic" (Opens in new window)
Peace Review: Vol 33, No 1. ...
Gerald Kevin McCannon awarded a CTE Assessment Innovation Award at the Student Learning Symposium (Opens in new window)
Gerald Kevin McCannon leveraged the pandemic to prompt students to interview their own family members about their experiences while in crisis. Students then pooled these interview observations and analyzed them with qualitative research methods. He plans to use the seminar to develop inclusive teaching tactics, especially for discussion, for his...
Kevin McCannon accepted to a CTE Faculty Seminar on Incorporating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in a COVID-19 informed class to develop a teaching practice for his Death and Dying class
The seminar’s focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism aligns with the growing recognition of the importance of these principles in education and healthcare. As educators and professionals, we have the opportunity to lead by example and promote positive change. Let us continue to engage in conversations, share knowledge, and...
Eric Hanley published "Sexism as a Political Force: The Impact of Gender-Based Attitudes on the Presidential Elections of 2012-2016" (Opens in new window)
This article examines the effect of gender attitudes on the voting behavior of whites in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. ...
Jarron Saint Onge co-authored article "Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology" (Opens in new window)
Reasons for Black-White disparities in smoking abstinence are not well understood. This study examined area-level socioeconomic disadvantage as a contributor to lower quit rates for Blacks who smoke among 223 Black and 221 White low-income individuals who smoke enrolled in a smoking cessation trial. Outcome was cotinine-verified abstinence at week...
Paul Stock published "Food Utopias, (Mature) Care, and Hope" (Opens in new window)
The current period is one of worry and concern over collapse. While many still go hungry, we anticipate a future of food without farmers. Yet in the wake of multiple disasters, the new can emerge. With a focus on food systems centred on care, utopias provide us with tools for...
Tracey LaPierre invited to panel for The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (Opens in new window)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has invited Tracey LaPierre to be on the panel reviewing grant applications for the Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement Study Section this summer. The study section deals with the impact of medical errors on cost, quality, efficiency and effectiveness of care, quality...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored article "Education, Gender, and Social Mobility: Has the Gender Gap in Stratification Declined in Korea?" (Opens in new window)
Seoul: PY Books, in Korean. ...
Mehrangiz Najafizadeh named Fulbright Scholar
LAWRENCE — Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, associate professor of sociology, has received a Fulbright Scholar award to teach and conduct research in the Republic of Azerbaijan during the spring 2022 semester. ...
KU researchers to study safety effects of pandemic on in-home, long-term care providers
Tracey LaPierre receives 2nd $30,000 contract for her role as a lead qualitative researcher on the Opioid Management Project
Kansas City Quality & Value Innovation Consortium (KC QVIC) Opioid Management Project: This project addresses the critical issue of opioid use and misuse. It is a regional quality improvement initiative led by the Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality. The project collaborates with the Missouri Hospital Association and implements the...
Paul Stock interviewed by Science News in relation to his newly published article (Opens in new window)
‘Green’ burials are slowly gaining ground among environmentalists. Awareness of eco-friendly death care is low even as the industry grows. ...
Joane Nagel co-authors article with David Heath Cooper "Lessons from the Pandemic: Environmental Sociology, Climate Change, and COVID-19" (Opens in new window)
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy...
Jarron M. Saint Onge co-authors a book chapter "Health and Social Class" (Opens in new window)
Social class, or socioeconomic status (SES), has major implications for health and survival. Higher SES is consistently linked with better health. For example, those with a baccalaureate degree live about six years longer than those with secondary school degrees (Krueger et al. 2015). Social class disparities in health are substantial...
Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, Scott Tuttle and Yurong Zhang co-author "COVID-19 and the Decline in Asian American Employment" (Opens in new window)
The unemployment rate has sharply increased as a result of the lockdown associated with the spread of COVID-19. The negative effect of the lockdown is more conspicuous among the less-educated workers than the highly-educated workers. Because Asian Americans are more likely to have a bachelor or higher degree than any...
Faculty honored for innovative assessment at Student Learning Symposium
LAWRENCE — Nine University of Kansas faculty members were recently recognized for their innovative work in improving student learning. ...
Paul Stock co-authors article with Mary Kate Dennis "Up in Smoke or Down with Worms? Older Adult Environmentalist's Discourse on Disposal, Dispersal, and (Green) Burial" (Opens in new window)
Also available via KU ScholarWorks. ...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored article "Education Premium: Has the Labor Market Value of the College Education Declined in Korea?" (Opens in new window)
Seoul: PY Books, in Korean. ...
Jarron Saint Onge co-authored article "Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research" (Opens in new window)
The concept of health lifestyles is moving scholarship beyond individual health behaviors to integrated bundles of behaviors undergirded by group-based identities and norms. Health lifestyles research merges structure with agency, individual-level processes with group-level processes, and multifaceted behaviors with norms and identities, shedding light on why health behaviors persist or...