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June 18, 2019

Dr. Stacy Torres is the 2019 recipient of the William Foote Whyte Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology. The award recognizes a scholar who has made notable contributions to sociological practice and public sociology for the discipline. and will be conferred in August at the ASA Annual Meeting in New York City.

 

May 30, 2019

How Unstable Work Schedules Affect Individuals and Families

 
May 2019 Diana Austin
May 30, 2019

Initiative Will Leverage UCSF’s Economic Power to Promote Health Equity in San Francisco

By Lisa Cisneros and Dan Fost

Building on its 150-year public service mission, UC San Francisco announced its intention to leverage more of its economic power and collaborative partnerships to improve the long-term health and welfare of communities in its own hometown.

Stacy Torres
May 14, 2019

Stacy Torres has a new op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, "Happy 'Other' Mother's Day," which celebrates the contributions of "other" mothers, such as aunts, teachers, grandmothers, and other community members, and mentions the work of sociologists Patricia Hill Collins, Carol Stack, and Madonna Harrington Meyer:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-torres-mothers-day-community-20190512-story.html.

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