Barb Brents (Sociology) was interviewed about her career, her research, her new book, Paying for Sex in the Digital Age, and the similarities between the sex industry and mainstream businesses in the UK podcast, "Brave, Bold and Brilliant" with Jeanette Linfoot.

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) has published "Intercohort Variations in the Education–Health Gradient: Sociohistorical Changes in Early-Life Selection Mechanisms in the United States" in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. Drawing from the Health and Retirement Survey (1992–2012), this study examines whether changes in early-life selection mechanisms…

Korey Tillman (Sociology), Claytee White (Oral History Research Center), and alum Leslie Turner were featured on the KNPR story, "You Can't Live There: A Long Struggle For Black Rights In Las Vegas." This story covered the history of race and racism in Las Vegas and its implications for today's Black liberation struggle. 

Colleen Hall-Patton (Sociology) was featured in the latest issue of Quiltfolk magazine which focuses on both influential and unknown people, organizations, and businesses in the quilt world. Each issue covers a different state, and this is the Nevada edition. The article covers her work as a researcher, quilter, and antique quilt…

Marta Soligo (Sociology and International Gaming Institute) and Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute) co-authored a paper on the Venetian Hotel and Casino for the International Hospitality Review. The paper analyzes the concepts of experience economy and promotion of authenticity by exploring the resort’s tangible and…

Michael Borer (Sociology) recently was elected to serve as president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). He will start as president-elect in 2020-21, serve as president in 2021-22, and past president in 2022-23. UNLV sociology alumni Chris Conner, '15 PhD Sociology, now of the University of Missouri, and Nick Baxter, '19…

Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology) and colleagues published an article, "Health Lifestyles and the Transition to Adulthood," in Socius.

Betty Burston (Health Care Administration), Jennifer Keene (Sociology), and co-authors published an article, "The Use of Online Health-Management Tools and Health Care Utilization Among Older Americans," in The Gerontologist. This study identifies disparities in access to online health-related technology, and investigates associations between…

Korey Tillman (Sociology) recently published a short story with The Sociological Review. In conversation with the events that have caused recent protests in the U.S., the story is a haunting portrayal of the plight of Black bodies within this country. 

Marta Soligo (Sociology, International Gaming Institute) and David Dickens (Sociology) published an article in Tourism Culture & Communication about the increasing frequency of tourist visitation to "Hollywood memorial parks," which host the graves of some of the most famous stars in the world. Their study found…

Ranita Ray (Sociology) received multiple scholarship awards. Her book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2018), was awarded the 2020 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award, and it was also selected as a finalist for the 2020…

Marta Soligo (Sociology, UNLV International Gaming Institute) published a blog post in Northern Notes, the blog of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds in the UK, titled "The Local is the New Tourist: Sociological Perspectives on Italy’s Travel Market Recovery." In the post, Soligo examines…