Simon Gottschalk (Sociology, Emeritus, retired) just published the chapter: "Sensory Degradation and Somatic Labor: Critical Sensory Ethnography for Hypermodern Times" in the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Combining scholarship on the senses, sensory ethnography, and hypermodernism, the chapter discusses three…

Associate professor Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) and his research collaborators outside of UNLV utilized data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to understand family socioeconomic context that contribute to the relationship between physical maltreatment in childhood and depressive symptoms in later life in China.…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), Samantha John (Brain Health), and Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) published "Cognitive Functioning among U.S. Older Adults Differs by Gender and Urbanicity" in Syracuse University Lerner Center's Population Health Research Brief Series.

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) and a colleague wrote a profile on the 2024 American Sociological Association (ASA) president in the publication Footnotes.

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published a chapter titled, ‘“Between A Rock and A Hard Place’: Undocumented Immigrants and Mixed-Status Families Negotiating Migration Returns to Visit Ill and Dying Family Members.” This chapter is in the newest edition of Families as They Really Are edited by Virginia Rutter, Kristi Williams, and…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) published a chapter titled, "Terminal Violence: Online Interactions and Infra-Humanization," in the edited volume People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life (Routledge). The chapter uses vignettes of interactions with terminals and with people through terminals to denounce…

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) presented a paper at the American Quilt Study group titled, "My 'Christopher Columbus' Eleanor Beard Quilt," tracing the design elements of a 1930s quilt to a 1600s quilt. Eleanor Beard Studios employed as many as 1000 rural Kentucky women during the Great Depression while marketing to very high end clientele.

Professor Robert Futrell (Sociology) was interviewed and quoted in the Vox article, "2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons." Futrell has published several articles on citizens movements that successfully reshaped deliberative processes and technological decisions made by the U.S. Army in its bid to destroy the…

Professor Robert Futrell (Sociology) gave a keynote talk at the opening session for the Mobilization Conference on Protest, Resistance, and Democratic Retreat in San Diego, California, on June 9, 2023. The talk, “The Constellation of Extremist White Supremacism: A Cognitive-Emotional Approach,” explained how white supremacist extremism endures,…

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) had her quilt, "Indigo Autumn Hunter Star," accepted into the "Best of the West" exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, California, on July 6-8.

Simon Gottschalk, Daniel Okamura, Jaimee Nix, and Celene Fuller (all Sociology) just published their chapter, "Violent Revenge, Derealization, and Deadly Violence: White Supremacist Websites and Mass Shootings," in the book, All American Massacre: The Tragic Role of American Culture and Society in Mass Shootings. The book is edited by Eric…

Assistant professors Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing) and Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) collaborated with Case Western Reserve University colleagues Eva Kahana (Sociology) and Frances Payne Bolton (Nursing) to publish a study, "Prayer and Mental Health in Later Life: The Role of Positive Emotions," examining the mechanisms underlying the positive effect of…