Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) wrote a blog for Latinx Talk titled "Arpaio's Pardon and the Insidious Relationship Between Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Latinx Sentiment."

Lauren Galloway (Sociology), Jillian Socea (Life Sciences), Kimberly Stevens (Psychology), and Monia Kazemeini and Sogol Pirbastami (both Mechanical Engineering) have been chosen to receive the fall 2017 Southwest Travel Awards. Recipients of the awards receive a round-trip travel voucher from Southwest Airlines to allow them to travel to a…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was quoted in the Kingman Daily Miner article "Millennials appear to be missing from the religious landscape." Borer has published on related issues about religion and popular culture in articles as well as in his books including Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most…

Jennifer J. Reed (Sociology) was quoted in an AlterNet piece titled "Here Come the Ecosexuals." She is a Ph.D. candidate and is writing her dissertation research on the ecosexual movement as a case study of intersectional activism.

Marta Soligo (Sociology) published an article, "Film Imaginaries for Tourism – An Innovative Promotional and Sustainable Approach," in the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) volume Innovation in Tourism – Bridging Theory and Practice.

Robert Futrell (Sociology) recently was interviewed by US News and World Report and Kaiser Health News about the Charlottesville, Virginia, events and the rise of white supremacy. He is the co-author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate.

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) received the 2017 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section's Distinguished Book Award for her 2015 New York University Press book Contesting Intersex The Dubious Diagnosis. She also received the section's 2017 Feminist Scholar Activist Award.

Ranita Ray (Sociology) published her paper "Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals" in one of the premier sociology journals, Social Problems. She is the author of the forthcoming University of California Press book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty…

Robert Futrell (Sociology) was interviewed by FOX 5 Las Vegas about domestic hate groups and also was interviewed by Las Vegas News Now. He is the co-author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate.  

Andrew Spivak (Sociology) and colleagues published an article, "Self-interest and Public Opinion in Health Policy: Smoking Behavior and Support for Tobacco Control," in Social Theory & Health.

Jennifer Reed and Barb Brents (both Sociology), along with UNLV alumna Crystal Jackson, '03 BA Psychology, '07 MA Sociology, '13 PhD Sociology, published a co-authored book chapter titled "Strange Confluences: Radical Feminism and Evangelical Christianity as Drivers of US Neo-Abolitionism" in Feminism, Prostitution, and the State. Jackson is now a…

Three UNLV graduate students recently received a national Love of Learning Award from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. They are among 100 award recipients nationwide. Erick López, a doctoral student in sociology, will use funds from the award to travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend a research methods training titled "Health…