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Harrison Published in The Nation

Photo by Michael Ho Wai Lee / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images In the wake of the recent Supreme Court hearing on abortion, a Jessica Harrison, LCSW, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences (2017 cohort),  and colleague have been …

Sociology Faculty 2020/21: in the Media and Authored Papers

(note: this post will be updated through Summer quarter 2021)

Nápoles Receives 2021 ASA NSF DDRIG Award

Tessa Nápoles, MS, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, received $15,400 from the American Sociological Association National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA NSF DDRIG) for her project, Sorting and Stratifying…

Kristen Harknett and Co-Authors Receive W. Richard Scott Award

Kristen Harknett, PhD, associate professor in Social Behavioral Sciences, and her co-authors received the 2021 W.

Spiller Publishes article in Social Problems

“Screaming, ‘No! No!’ It was Literally Like Being Raped”: Connecting Sexual Assault Trauma and Coerced Obstetric Procedures Theresa Morris, Joan H Robinson, Keridwyn Spiller, Amanda Gomez Social Problems, spab024, https://doi-org.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/socpro/spab024 Published: 20 July 2021…

Wolfe & Harknett Issue Health Policy Brief

Sociology doctoral candidate Rebecca Wolfe, with Sociology professor Kristen Harknett,  have released a Health Policy Brief, "Inequalities at Work and the Toll of COVID-19", Health Affairs Health Policy Brief, June 4, 2021.  The Health Policy Brief was produced with the generous support…

Jeske Receives Honorable Mention for Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring

Sociology student Mel Jeske has received an honorable mention for the 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars! Now in its third year, this award was developed to help promote a culture of mentorship at UCSF, and to recognize the…

Wolfe Featured on AnthroDish Podast

Current 3rd year Sociology student Rebecca Wolfe has been featured on the AnthroDish podcast, Episode 90: HOW HAS PURITY CULTURE SHAPED EATING DISORDER EXPERIENCES? WITH REBECCA WOLFE.  Rebecca makes note that her research is in preliminary stages and this research is not yet peer…

Spiller named Program Assistant for The ACTIONS Team

Keridwyn (Keri) Spiller, current 1st year Sociology doctoral student, has been named program assistant for the ACTIONS program: Abortion Care Training Incubator for Outstanding Nurse Scholars (ACTIONS). 

Alumni News: Egorin named Assistant Secretary for Legislation at HHS

Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E.