Friends of UCLA Sociology

Wisam Alshaibi, a recent graduate and currently Assistant Professor at NYU-Abu Dhabi, just had his article, “The Anatomy of Regime Change: Transnational Political Opposition and Domestic Foreign Policy Elites in the Making of US Foreign Policy on Iraq," accepted for publication in the American Journal of Sociology. The article is based on the research he conducted while at UCLA.

Luis Manuel Olguin recently accepted a postdoctoral position in the Department of Family Medicine at UCLA and will start on July 1st, 2024!

Pamela Prickett and Professor Stefan Timmermans’ new book (The Unclaimed) was the subject of two new prominent review essays, including one by distinguished writer Alex Kotlowitz in The Atlantic and another review in the New Republic which also reviews the new book from former PhD student Neil Gong (Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles). Congratulations to Stefan, Pamela and Neil!

Assistant Professor of sociology from Washington State University, Steven Mejia, has a recent publication in the Social Science Research Journal. Take a look here:

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Former UCLA Sociology graduate student Pamela Prickett (now at the University of Amsterdam) and Professor Stefan Timmermans published their book The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels with Penguin Random House.

Congratulations Pamela and Professor Stefan!

Congratulations Professor Jason Sexton!

Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison: On Evangelicalism’s Eugenic Logic and Mass Incarceration | Journal of Law and Religion | Cambridge Core Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison: On Evangelicalism’s Eugenic Logic and Mass Incarceration

Professors Omar Lizardo, Aliza Luft, Stefan Timmermans, and Natasha Quadlin each had publications that were among the Top Downloaded Articles in ASA journals for 2023(asanet.org)

Congratulations to you all!

Former UCLA undergraduate Sociology student Julieta Goldenberg and Professor Rogers Brubaker published "Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair,” in Sociological Science (http://sociologicalscience.com)

Congratulations to you both!

Professor Hannah Landecker recently published "Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology" in the journal Science, Technology and Human Values, access here : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439241233946

Congratulations Hannah!

Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology - Hannah Landecker, 2024 Anthropogenic pressures now shape the development, interrelations, and evolution of microbes, plants, animals, and humans. In an age of oxidative stress and fai...

Professor Jennie Brand was was interviewed for her recent book Overcoming the Odds on Faculti. Jennie also, in her capacity as President of the Association of Population Centers (APC), participated in the PAA/APC Advocacy Day on the capitol in Washington, DC.

Congratulations Jennie!

As a reminder, Professor Laura Gomez will have a retirement symposium happening at UCLA Law School on Friday March 15. There will be a dinner and reception, and Sociology faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited and welcomed to all events. RSVP is required if you’d like to join RSVP by March 8.

https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/critical-race-studies/laura-gomez-symposium

I’d like to share the general departmental news that an alumna of our undergraduate program, Nathalie Reyes, was recently confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Croatia. In a recent Daily Bruin interview she talked about her time in our program.