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Robert Scott won a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support his dissertation research on wildland firefighters.

Jessica Austin was recently named a National Science Foundation Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate 乐播传媒 awardee. Jessica will work with Esri , a leading global Geographic Information Systems software company, utilizing data from the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network to tell the story of social science researchers鈥� work...

Research conducted by Leslie Irvine and Casara Andre, DVM, on pet fatalities during the 2021 Marshall Fire received extensive media coverage over the fire鈥檚 December 30 anniversary. They have collaborated with Animal Help Now on the development of a pet rescue app. PetHelp&Rescue will be released for iOs later this...

CU Boulder Sociology undergraduate student, Ciara O鈥橬eil , conducted research that was recently featured in the Arts & Sciences Magazine: 鈥淯ndergrad Uncovers Evidence Suggesting that CU Pioneer Favored Eugenics鈥�

Corey Dolgon "Sociology for Social Justice: The revolutionary potential of Social Science" The talk will brief and examine the role of revolutionary praxis and pedagogy for developing a contemporary radical movement where sociology is a tool for struggle and not a disciplinary or professional goal in and of itself. Corey...

Jonathan H. Turner 鈥淭he Consequences of the Transforming of American Sociology Association, and Sociology More Generally, into a Movement Organization鈥� Abstract: Over the last fifty years, sociology has been moving toward activism, while at the same time reducing its earlier commitments to science. It was perhaps inevitable that the conflict...

Monica Prasad "Does it Work in Theory?" Abstract: This talk introduces problem-solving sociology as an attempt to resolve several problems that arise within the rationalist, emancipatory, and skeptical traditions of sociology. Strategies for conducting problem-solving sociology are discussed, and frequently voiced objections are addressed (e.g. "who decides what is a...

Rahman, M. M., Islam Arif, Md. S., Mahdi, I., Rafi, Md. A., Chisty, M. A., & Khan, S. J. (2022). Cyclone vulnerability in ethnic minority: A case study among Rakhain community of Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , 83 , 103449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103449 .

Rick Rogers published an article in Demography . The lead author, Andrea Tilstra, graduated from our department and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford鈥檚 Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.