(note: this news item will be updated through Summer 2025)
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Publications
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"I Used to Laugh at My Chilean Father's Paranoia About Life in the U.S. — Not Any More," an essay by Stacy Torres, PhD, assistant professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, was published in The Guardian on April 27. Torres also shared her expertise in Everyday Sociology's April 21 blog post "Teaching and Learning During Catastrophe."
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Spillover Effects of an Agricultural Livelihood Intervention Among People Living with HIV on Community Empowerment in Kenya — Shari Dworkin, PhD, MS, Feb. 25, 2025
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Effect of the Protect Youth Human Trafficking Prevention Program on School Staff Knowledge and Perceptions of and Confidence in Responding to Human Trafficking in Schools — Erin McCauley, PhD, MEd, MA, Feb. 7, 2025
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Between-Firm Sorting and Parenthood Wage Gaps in the US Service Sector — Kristen Harknett, PhD, Oct. 20, 2024
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Marginalized Measures: The Harmonization of Diversity in Precision Medicine Research — Melanie Jeske, PhD, MS (alumna, not pictured), Janet Shim, PhD, Oct. 7, 2024
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Early Effects of California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage: Large Wage Increases with No Effects on Hours, Scheduling, or Benefits — Kristen Harknett, PhD, Oct. 9, 2024
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Stacy Torres, PhD, provided her expertise for The San Francisco Chronicle's Oct. 5 article "Vance's Views on Older Women are an Opportunity for Harris."
- The Case for Heartbreak Workplace Support — Stacy Torres, PhD, Sept. 23, 2024
Media
- Kristen Harknett, PhD, professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, offered testimony to legislative hearings in the Washington State Senate and House on proposed legislation that would raise the minimum wage. Harknett shared her research on the impact of California's fast food minimum wage increase to $20 per hour in 2024. Her findings show that the wage increase did not lead to unintended consequences in the form of reductions in work hours or fringe benefits.
- Stacy Torres, PhD, assistant professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, shared her expertise in the American Society of Aging's Feb. 20 article "How Shifting DOT Funding Priorities Hurts Grandma, Grandpa and Their Families."
- An excerpt from "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America," the new book by Stacy Torres, PhD, assistant professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, was featured in the American Society on Aging's Jan. 30 story "Another New York Story."