Veronica Everett co-authored an article, "Telehealth counseling plus mHealth intervention for cannabis use in emerging adults: development and a remote open pilot trial," published in the Journal of Substance Use Addiction Treatment.
Clare Hammonds has been promoted to Senior Lecturer 2.
Jennifer Lundquist was featured on a National Public Radio podcast for how she integrates movement into her daily routine, and into her students'.
Joya Misra has been promoted by the UMass Amherst Chancellor to Distinguished Professor, and she delivered her Keynote Address, "Sociology as Solution: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy" as the 115th ASA President at the American Sociological Association conference in August (photo on left). Additionally, Joya's book with alum Kyla Walters, Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work, was awarded the ASA Honorable Mention of the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, for both the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility and the Race, Gender and Class Sections. Joya's article, "US is way stingier with maternity leave and child care than the rest of the world," originally published in 2018, was updated in May 2024, with more recent data. Joya was also an expert panelist on the webcast, " How Investing in Faculty Well-Being is Investing in Your Institution," in June, and quoted in an article about the pay gap between men and women, redistributed by redistributed by AOL, Yahoo! Finance.
Joya Misra, Ember Skye Kane-Lee, Ethel Mickey, and Laurel Smith-Doerr's article, "I don't believe that I have been wanted": Processes of Overinclusion and Exclusion in Racialized and Gendered Organizations, has been published in Social Problems.
Jasmine Kerrissey and co-author Judith Stepan-Norris were awarded the 2024 Distinguished Book Award from the Labor and Labor Movement Section of the American Sociological Association for their book Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement.
Sancha Medwinter has been selected to serve as the ADVANCE Faculty Fellow for the Department of Sociology for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Mark Pachucki has new publications; "Determinants and facilitators of community coalition diffusion of prevention efforts" (PLOS Complex Systems); and " Network spillover effects associated with the ChooseWell 365 workplace randomized controlled trial to promote healthy food choices" (Social Science & Medicine).
Amy Schalet was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the Enchanted Ridge Dance Retreat in California, destroyed by a wildfire in July.
Ofer Sharone and his book, The Stigma Trap, was cited in an article about a CEO's viral LinkedIn post about his positive experience hiring someone over age 55. Ofer was also quoted in Business Insider, discussing the effects of long-term unemployment in an article about LinkedIn's "Open to Work" banner.
Laurel Smith-Doerr, Joya Misra, and Sociology graduate student Shuyin Liu published in Inside Higher Ed, based on research conducted within the UMass ADVANCE program, "COVID's Lasting Impacts on Faculty Inclusion."
Don Tomaskovic-Devey was awarded the 2024 Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section, awarded annually to mark and celebrate the field's most fundamental accomplishments (Photo on the left, Tomaskovic-Devey on the right). Additionally, Don has a new publication in the American Journal of Sociology, " The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies."
Eve Weinbaum has been promoted to full professor.