Sociology Faculty 2024/25: in the Media and Authored Papers

 

 

(note: this news item will be updated through Summer 2025)

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Publications

 

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."