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Dean's Welcome 2023
 
 
featured:
Welcome home, Anteaters!
 
A fall message from Bill Maurer, UCI social sciences dean

 
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Jeanett Castellanos, Davin Phoenix, Glenda Flores, Long Bui, Anita Casavantes Bradford
 
 
featured:
First-rate advice for first-year and first-generation Anteaters
 
UCI social sciences first-generation faculty share tips for navigating the college experience

 
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Students celebrating, jumping in the air
 
 
Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report rank UCI among nation's top 10 public universities
 
Undergraduate programs in economics and psychology ranked in nation's top 15 among public universities
 
 
Anita Casavantes Bradford
 
 
Celebrating UC changemakers: Meet 10 Latino leaders creating a more equitable future for us all
 
Anita Casavantes Bradford, Chicano/Latino studies and history, and the First-Generation Faculty Initiative
 
 
 
Samuel Atiye
 
 
Goal oriented
 
From his West African roots to his German upbringing, UCI men's soccer midfielder and sociology major Samuel Atiye balances heart and ambition
 
 
Steve Platt
 
 
Creating community connections
 
UCI Social Sciences Dean's Leadership Society member Steve Platt '03 builds UCI's ties in Los Angeles
 
 
 
 
Jeff Kopstein
 
 
Building bridges
 
New director discusses goals for UCI's Center for Jewish Studies
 
 
Kamal Sadiq
 
 
The science of peace
 
UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies enters its 40th year with a new leader
 
 
 
SAEP Group Photo
 
 
Breaking down barriers
 
UCI School of Social Sciences Summer Academic Enrichment Program's new director is fostering research and preparing the next generation of scholars for graduate, professional success
 
 
Ethics Center summer interns on Zoom
 
 
A lasting mark
 
How the popular UCI Ethics Center Mentoring Program creates meaningful impact
 
 
 
 
Jenks, Rosales
 
 
Social sciences leadership in diversity, equity and inclusion
 
UCI anthropologist Angela Jenks takes reins as associate vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion, sociologist Rocío Rosales steps in as social sciences vice associate dean of faculty development and diversity
 
 
Jim Danziger
 
 
Outstanding Emeritus
 
Jim Danziger, political science, honored for university service post-retirement
 
 
 
Christiensen, Brewer, Jenkins
 
 
Celebration of Teaching
 
Three from social sciences honored for contributions to undergrad education at UCI
 
 
Lauren Ross
 
 
Ross receives grant to develop framework for causal complexity
 
Three-year funding provided by John Templeton Foundation
 
 
 
 
Stepan-Norris, Kerrissey
 
 
Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement
 
New book by sociologists Judith Stepan-Norris, professor, UC Irvine, and Jasmine Kerrissey '12 UCI Ph.D., associate professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, explores reasons for swings in union activity from 1900-2015
 
 
Emily and Andrew Penner
 
 
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality
 
New book by UC Irvine professors Emily K. Penner, Andrew M. Penner and UNC Chapel Hill's Thurston Domina examines positive and negative roles identities play in the student experience
 
 
 
Beckmann and DeSipio
 
 
ICYMI: Expert UCI insight on potential government shutdown
 
Political scientists Beckmann and DeSipio offer comments on the event's lasting impact
 
 
New Faculty 2023
 
 
ICYMI: UCI Social Sciences welcomes 13 new faculty
 
Coming from universities across the globe, research interests span topics in race, social movements, mathematical logic, environmental justice, vision, language, politics, and much more
 
 
 
 
 
 
soc sci
in the media
 
Social sciences faculty and graduate students are consistently sought by media for their expertise in areas ranging from digital play to gender pay. Check out some of our top hits, self-authored pieces, and on-air interviews below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 
Marty Wattenberg

Opinion: 'This is going to be the most important election since 1860'

Marty Wattenberg, poli sci, explains the importance of the youth vote for the 2024 election, courtesy of the New York Times.
 
Claire Jean Kim
 
Kim on race
 
CBS
 
Louis DeSipio
 
DeSipio on politics
 
Sky News
 
 
 
David Neumark
 
Neumark on
subsidies
 
Yahoo Finance
 
Rueben Rumbaut
 
Rumbaut on immigration
 
Factchequeado
 
Anita Casavantes Bradford

Column: What first-generation college students actually need

Anita Casavantes Bradford, Chicano/Latino studies and history, gives perspective, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times.
 
Matt Beckmann
 
Beckmann on
debates
 
OC Register
 
Louis DeSipio
 
Swanson on interest rates
 
NerdWallet
 
 
 
Megan Peters
 
Peters on
AI
 
New York Times
 
Tony Smith
 
Smith on
politics
 
KNX
 
 
 
 
mark your
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
OCT
 
   
 
Ethno-Graphing Global Environmental Justice
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

featuring Alexander Huezo, Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
OCT
 
   
 
Birds of a Feather Born Together? On Siblings, Crime, and Punishment
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

featuring Sara Wakefield, Rutgers University
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
OCT
 
   
 
Global Apartheid: Global Capitalism, Incarceration, and the Spatial Social Control of Poor Working Class Barrios
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

featuring Oscar Soto, UC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
OCT
 
   
 
Some Were Neighbors: Choice, Human Behavior, and the Holocaust
 
5:30-8:00 p.m. | Langson Library
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
OCT
 
   
 
To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care - Book Salon
 
6:30-7:30 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
 
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
OCT
 
   
 
Reflections on the Independence Thesis
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science B, Room 1222
 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
OCT
 
   
 
UC Irvine & PEN America Free Expression Student Summit at UC Irvine
 
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. | Social Science Lecture Hall and Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (room numbers to be shared upon verified registration)
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
OCT
 
   
 
China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future: A Book Talk with Journalist Ian Johnson
 
4:00-5:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1010

featuring Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
OCT
 
   
 
Afro-Caribbean Education in the Diaspora
 
3:30-4:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

featuring Suzanne Model, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and CPIP Research Associate
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
OCT
 
   
 
Sholeh Wolpé reading of new book Abacus of Loss
 
4:00-6:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Sholeh Wolpé, Iranian-Born Poet, Playwright and Librettist
 
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
OCT
 
   
 
Conspiracy Thinking in American Politics
 
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)
 
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
OCT
 
   
 
Banned! A Panel Discussion on Book Bans, Censorship, and Citizenship
 
5:30-7:00 p.m. | Paul Merage School of Business SB1, 1st Floor Auditorium

featuring Elana K. Arnold, UCI alumnus and American children's and young adult author | Eliot Schrefer, American author of both adult and young adult fiction and non-fiction | Brandy Colbert, American author of children's and young adult fiction and non-fiction | Allison Lee, PEN America’s Los Angeles Director | Moderated by Bill Maurer, Dean, UCI School of Social Sciences
 
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
OCT
 
   
 
Anthro Fall Quarter Movie Night
 
6:10-8:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
 
 
 
 
 
 
27
 
OCT
 
   
 
Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Kelley Fong, Assistant Professor, Sociology, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
27-28
 
OCT
 
   
 
Symmetry and Structure Workshop
 
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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