Alumni Events and News

The Department of Sociology invites you to our Alumni Reception at the American Sociological Association meetings in Chicago. The reception will be held on Saturday, August 9, from 8:00 to 10:00pm at the Game Room bar of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, 12 S Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 (it’s located on 2nd floor of the hotel: https://www.chicagoathletichotel.com/restaurants/game-room/). We will have a dedicated section in the Game Room (the Grandstand) and enjoy games, drinks, and snacks.

We encourage alumni to email recent publications to Esther Peters for inclusion on this page. 

2025

Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley. 2025. Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector. Stanford University Press.

Jose Eos Trinidad. 2025. Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education. Oxford University Press.

Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin. 2025. What LGBTQ+ Christians Can Teach Us All About Relationships, Inclusion, and Justice. Oxford University Press.

2024

Rodney Coates. 2024. Critical Race and the Search for Truth. Bristol University Press. The book was featured in this Transforming Society podcast.  

Cynthia Cook. 2024. Voices in Medical Sociology: Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd Edition. Cognella Academic Publishing.

Stephen Ellingson. 2024. Planting with Purpose: How Farmers: How Farmers Create a Resilient Food Landscape. NYU Press.

Karlyn Gorski. 2024. "Sent out, Kept In: Detainment-Based Discipline in a Public High School." Sociology of Education 0(0).  

Derek Hyra. 2024. Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur. University of California Press. 

Melissa Osborne. 2024. Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility. University of Chicago Press.

Georg Rilinger. 2024. Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning. University of Chicago Press.

Clifford Young and Kathryn Ziemer. 2024. Polls, Pollsters, and Public Opinion: A Guide for Decision Makers. Cambridge University Press.

2023

James Farrer and David L. Wank. 2023. The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics. University of Hawaii Press.

Caterina Fugazzola. 2023. Words like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China. Temple University Press.

Constance A. Nathanson and Henri Bergeron. 2023. The Social Production of Crisis: Blood, Politics, and Death in France and the United States. Oxford University Press.

Silvia Pedraza and Carlos A. Romero. 2023. Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities. University Press of Florida.

Harry Perlstadt. 2023. Assessing Social Science Research Ethics and Integrity: Case Studies and Essays. Springer Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice Book Series.

Jaclyn S Wong. 2023. Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions. University of California Press.

2022

Dan Huebner. 2022. Reintroducing George Herbert Mead. Routledge.

Andrea M. Leverentz. 2022. Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry. University of California Press. 

Le Lin. 2022. The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry. University of Chicago Press.

Geneviève Zubrzycki. 2022. Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival. Princeton University Press.

2021

Elijah Anderson. 2021. Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press.

Barbara Schmitter Heisler and Lily M. Hoffman. 2021. Airbnb, Short-Term Rentals and the Future of Housing. Routledge.

Jennifer Johnson. 2021. Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging & the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border. University of Texas Press.

Dan Menchik. 2021. Managing Medical Authority. Princeton University Press.

David Schalliol. 2021. The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America. The University of Chicago Press.

2020

Jan Doering. 2020. Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods. Oxford University Press.

Gracia Liu Farrer. 2020. Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethnonationalist Society. Cornell University Press.

David Kirk. 2020. Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change after Hurricane Katrina. Oxford University Press.

Xuefei Ren. 2020. Governing the Urban in China and India. Princeton University Press.

Michael F. Sparks. 2020. Paradise Joe’s: A Cultural Sociology of a Christian College Community: An Exploration into the Meaning and Significance of American Evangelicalism. Bookbaby (second revised edition 2024).

2019

Mark Osiel. 2019. The Right to Do Wrong: Morality and the Limits of Law. Harvard University Press.