Sociology, UC Irvine

Party tomorrow!! Please come.

CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Eddie Telles!! He just won the 2026 Distinguished Career Award from the ASA International Migration Section!

Winner!! Congratulations to Irene Vega! Her book Bordering on Indifference just won the 2026 Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award from ASA International Migration Section!

Irene I. Vega. 2025. Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality. Princeton University Press.

The ASA party returns!!

This year in NYC, UCI will join with our fellow UC campuses to host a UC-wide party at the Grisly Pear. Mark your calendars!

New book from David Snow!
A Cancer Odyssey
A man’s epic voyage through sickness, treatment, and a global health crisis.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-cancer-odyssey-david-a-snow/1150040855?ean=9798900520315

UCI PROUD! CONGRATS TO DAVE SNOW!!!!

David A. Snow, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology
Professor Snow's work shapes understanding of protest dynamics, identity formation and mechanisms of social change. He co-developed the concept of "framing" in social movements and is a leading scholar of homelessness, advancing understanding of adaptive and subsistence behaviors. Among his scholarly awards is the American Sociological Association's 2025 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.

6 UC Irvine professors are elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences Faculty from engineering, education and social sciences lauded for scholarly excellence

UCI PhD Leah Ruppanner -- in the news!

🔊 Listen Now: Feeling drained? Here's how to lighten your mental load Life Kit on NPR One | 24:42

Justice Beyond the Courts: The Role of Knowledge in Securing the Rights of Families with Neurodivergent Children https://share.google/spBkQ3s19Zi7NxpGu

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5713974/trump-shared-a-racist-joke-that-humor-is-an-american-tradition

UCI grad Raúl Pérez on Trump's racist jokes...

Trump shared a racist "joke." That humor is an American tradition : Code Switch When President Trump shared a racist video on his Truth Social account last week, the blowback was real. But the video is also part of a tradition that has existed in the U.S. since the early 1800s — of using "humor" to spread and crystallize racist ideals. On this episode, we speak with Raul Pere...

Introducing...DASA! Check out our new video, thanks to Luis Fonseca!

Consider an M.A. in Demographics and Social Analysis (DASA) | UC Irvine, School of Social Sciences Master's in Demographics and Social Analysis (DASA) - UC Irvine School of Social SciencesDemography is the scientific study of human population. Because pers...