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Kelly H. Chong's documentary film to be screened at the 2026 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, Oct. 23-25!
Dr. Chong's film, "Invisibility and Rage: Asian Americans, Racial Trauma, Mental Health", has been selected to be screened at the 2026 Silican Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, Oct. 23-25. ...
Congratulations to these Sociology Faculty Members and Lecturers for their KU Anniversaries!
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Congratulations ChangHwan Kim for the 2026 James Coleman Best Article Award!
ChangHwan Kim has received the 2026 James Coleman Best Article Award, ASA Sociology of Education Section. ...
Congrats to ChangHwan Kim for honorable mention for the 2026 Louis Wirth Best Article Award!
ChangHwan Kim has received the 2026 Louis-Wirth Best Article Award, ASA International Migration Section. ...
ChangHwan Kim has joined ASR’s editorial board.
ChangHwan Kim is a faculty member of the Sociology department at KU. ...
Congrats to Fithawee Tzeggai! Fithawee has been accepted into the CLAS FRESSH program
Fithawee Tzeggai from the Sociology Department at the University of Kansas has been accepted into the CLAS FRESSH program. ...
Drs. Lisa-Marie Wright and Tracey A. LaPierre from the University of Kansas are the recipients of the 2026 Carla B Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Grants.
Their project, “Training Future Faculty: A Multi-level Use of the Benchmarks Framework for Holistic Graduate Student Pedagogical Training,” will implement holistic evaluation practices into their department’s pedagogical training of future faculty. ...
Congrats to Sepideh Yadegar for the publication in the Women & Criminal Justice Journal!
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08974454.2026.2692722
Jennifer Babitzke, Doctoral Candidate, is a recipient of the 2026 Summer Research Scholarship Award.
Jennifer is a Graduate Student in the Sociology Department. ...
Tyler Myroniuk contributed article to the South African Journal of Public Health
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/race-gender-and-internal-migration-shape-healthcare-seeking-behavior-in-south-africa-study-finds-ARTICLE-V0ZVYJ-ARTICLE-V0ZVYJ
Joane Nagel contributed a chapter to the "Handbook on Gender and Violence"
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/perilous-partnership-among-gender-violence-military-scrutinized-in-new-book
Paul Stock is part of the NSF KU fungi library cornerstone $1.9M grant researching crop drought tolerance
Researchers at the University of Kansas and their collaborators landed a $1.9 million grant to research drought tolerance in wheat and rice. ...
ChangHwan Kim contributed article for Social Science History. Online publication.
Meritocracy with Multiple Rules: How Special Civil Service Examinations Reproduced Privilege in Joseon Korea...
ChangHwan Kim contributed research article for the Korean Journal of Sociology
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10879613
Congrats to Mehrangiz Najafizadeh! Mehrangiz has earned a third Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.
Fulbright U.S. Scholars are accomplished faculty, researchers, administrators and established professionals who teach or conduct research in partnership with institutions around the world. They are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstrated leadership, and they seek to advance knowledge and innovation, foster solutions to complex global...
Congrats to Jarron Saint Onge! Jarron has received the Ruth Bohan Teaching Professorship at KUMC.
The Ruth Bohan Teaching Professorship is the most prestigious teaching award given at the KU School of Medicine. ...
Kelly H. Chong's documentary film to be screened at the 2026 Kansas City FilmFest International!
Dr. Chong's film, "invisibility and Rage: Asian Americans, Racial Trauma, Mental Health", has been selected to be screened at the FilmFest, September 18-20th. ...
Paul Stock honored with the American Sociological Association's Environment and Technology section's Teaching and Mentoring Award (honorable mention)
https://envirosoc.org/Newsletters/Summer2026
SOC Faculty member Tracey LaPierre has been promoted to Full Professor!
Joane Nagel and Sam Kendrick co-author article "Gender Climate Change and the Production of Scientific Knowledge" in Research Handbook on the Sociology of Knowledge (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing)
Gender, climate change, and the production of scientific knowledge...
SOC faculty Lisa-Marie Wright and Kevin McCannon speaking at Annual Teaching Summit
Register for the Annual Teaching Summit9 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 14...
Department of Sociology announces their NEW Health and Society MAJOR, beginning Fall 2025!
https://www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2024/dec/17/ku-wants-to-start-fall-semester-one-week-earlier-than-normal-in-part-due-to-changing-football-schedules/
Congrats! Brian Donovan's Sage Journal article recognized in KU's College Research Review.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00943061251341186r ...
Congratulations to Dr. ChangHwan Kim on paper featured in KU News!
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/women-of-color-fare-better-in-personal-earnings-where-racial-minority-men-struggle-most-study-finds
Congratulations to Rachael Hampton! Rachael is selected as one of the 2025-26 Self Memorial Scholars.
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-announces-new-2025-2026-self-memorial-scholars. The Sociology Department is pleased to announce Rachael will be joining the KU Sociology Graduate Program in Fall 2025. ...
Congratulations Tracey LaPierre! Dr. LaPierre was awarded the 2025 Barbara Schowen Undergraduate Mentor Award from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships and Academic Affairs.
"Tracey has worked with so many students over the years with great success. Thank you, Tracey, for your dedication to Sociology students and to the first gen Health & Society students we will be meeting soon. Lovely trophy!" (Interim Chair Joane Nagel)...
Congratulations to Jennifer Babitzke!
Graduate student Jennifer Babitzke has been awarded the Graduate Student Grant-Writing Incentive Fund of the FY25-26 Research Excellence Initiative (REI) award from the College Dean's Office. She will use this fund to facilitate her dissertation research. ...
ChangHwan Kim and Yurong Zhang co-author article for Social Science Research.
"Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers." ...
ChangHwan Kim contributed an article to the American Sociological Review.
"Culture and Immigrant Selectivity in Shaping Asian American Education: Evidence from Historical Census Data." ...
Liz Felix journal article is published in The Sociological Quarterly.
"Who is Labeled a Potential Mass Shooter? Mental Health Status, Perceived Propensities for Mass Violence, and Mental Health Stigma." ...