Robert Futrell, chair of the department of sociology, was recently cited in an article in The New Yorker, "San Bernardino and the Mechanics of a Double Life," drawing on his work with UNLV Sociology alumnus Pete Simi on extremists. 

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is organizing a symposium titled "Hyperconnected Individuals, Accelerated Society: Tensions and Transformations" with the International Center for Research on the Hypermodern Individual and Society, ESCP Europe, which will take place in Paris in June.

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) has published a book chapter titled "Playing Music" in the edited book Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015). 

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) brought her intersex expertise, both professional and personal, to the CBS daytime audience as a special expert guest on the Dr. Phil television show Nov. 30. In addition to publishing numerous articles on intersex in both scholarly and popular press outlets, she is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) delivered the 2015 George Herbert Mead Lecture during the annual convention of National Communication Association (NCA) at the Rio Conference Center in November. Borer’s lecture was titled, “Sensuous Knowledge and the Rise of Aesthetic Urbanism.” In the lecture, he noted that cities are chock full of…

Barb Brents (Sociology)  participated in the panel on California Prostitution Law at Stanford University on Nov 11. Other panelists were Casey Bates, deputy district attorney for California's  Alameda County; Maxine Doogan, president of the Erotic Sex Providers Legal, Education and Research Project; and Shelby Quast, policy director for…

Doctoral student Erick B Lopez and professor Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) published their paper, "Acculturation, Income and Vegetable Consumption Behaviors Among Latino Adults in the U.S.: A Mediation Analysis with the Bootstrapping Technique" in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is the author of a new book, Inter-face-work: Symbolic Interaction in the Digital Age, which has been published by Kurumuny Edizioni. The rapid colonization of everyday life and consciousness by technologies of computer-mediated communication both multiplies the risks of miscommunication and compromises the…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was honored with the Early-in-Career Award by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). This newly designated award is given to “scholars who have made significant contributions within the first 10 years since the completion of their PhDs.” In that time period, Borer has published a solo-authored book…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) collaborated with three authors on an article discussing social innovation — its meanings, manifestations, and impacts on sustainability. The article was published in the 14th  issue of  Salute e Societa, an Italian scholarly publication in the field of health and society. He also is co-organizing an…

Simon Gottschalk and Mark Salvaggio (both Sociology) co-authored the article "Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places,"  which appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.  

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) is the author of the book  Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis, which was published this year by NYU Press. This book and Davis' other work on intersex issues, has led to additional media and scholarly attention, including an article in Buzzfeed and a guest piece in Contexts, as well as an invitation to…