News from the Department of Sociology
A shout out to SOC professor Jennifer Darrah-Okike for being part of the UH Mānoa Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) team.
News link - https://t.co/0TjAiZktwu
As part of the 2nd Annual Open Borders Conference (Nov. 21, 2020), @fabiorojas interviews No Borders activist/scholar @nsharma101 on her new book, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. To register: https://t.co/1CFMtm9NTk
#openborders
Join in the GSSA (Graduate Student Sociological Association) organized series - "Meet the Faculty with Dr. David Johnson and Dr. Le Lin", on Thursday, 11/12 from 5 to 6 pm HST.
Congratulations to @ashleytrubin as her book “Rocking Qualitative Social Science” is going to be published in August 2021. If interested in participating in a workshop on #qualmeth, book talk, or any info related to the book, please sign up here -
https://t.co/JQq4J1cost
Congratulations to the UHM SOC graduate student Morsaline Mojid for receiving the Jagdish P. Sharma Memorial Scholarship for the 2020-21 academic year.
Join in the GSSA (Graduate Student Sociological Association) organized series - "Meet the Faculty with Dr. Wei Zhang and @ashleytrubin ", on Monday, 10/26 from noon to 1pm HST.
Join in the event series hosted by GSSA - "Meet the Faculty with Dr. Katherine Irwin and Dr. Nandita Sharma", on Thursday, 10/22 from 10-11am HST.
@NathaliePRita Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and @nsharma101, professor of Sociology contributed to a special issue of @chronicle. Their piece titled, “The Future is at Stake: Trump Waged War on International Students. If He Wins, We All Lose”.
Link: https://t.co/mDooPsY2GZ
Dr. Patricia Steinhoff, UHM Emeritus Professor of Sociology, is giving a talk titled, “Why it matters: The long-term impact of the protest cycle of the late 1960s-early 1970s on Japanese society today”, on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, noon - 1:30pm.
Congratulation to Sociology Professor Manfred B. Steger for the fifth edition of his best-selling book "Globalization: A Very Short Introduction" @OxUniPress. You can listen to a short podcast of it here - https://t.co/leRYOFL1Zi
#globalization
POSTPONED: “Nationalism and the Transformation of Land into Sovereign Territory” with Nandita Sharma
This Thursday’s Brown Bag has been rescheduled to Tuesday, November 24 at noon HST. We apologize for any confusion and hope to see you at next week’s Brown Bag.
UHM SOC professor @nsharma101 is giving a talk titled, “Nationalism and the Transformation of Land into Sovereign Territory” @CBRHawaii on this Thursday (9/24) from Noon to 1:15PM.
Zoom Meeting ID: 998 7044 6389
Password: ZR52XC
UHM SOC grad students Alex Kisitu and Omar Bird (@OmarTBird) published an op-ed @CivilBeat titled - "Silver Bullets? Medical Sociologists Know They Are Hard to Come By". Click here-
Silver Bullets? Medical Sociologists Know They’re Hard To Come By
Yet there have been virtually no campaigns related to preventive health and building a healthy lifestyle.
www.civilbeat.org
Find the paper, co-authored by UHM SOC professor Wei Zhang on Leisure Activity Engagement among old people of China on @PublicHealth.
The paper is available here - https://t.co/PkHvevpORi
UHM SOC Professor Wei Zhang co-authored a paper that examines Advance Care Planning (ACP) among older Chinese Americans published on @JAMDAcom. The paper is available here - https://t.co/soSUrCcFnz
UHM SOC Professor Wei Zhang and PhD student Margaret Walkover's co-authored research on COVID-19 related community impacts was featured in @UHawaiiNews. You can access Dr. Zhang and Walkover's paper from the link: https://t.co/Tc0cBaJQsb
UHM Sociology Department is very happy to announce that Dr. Krysia Mossakowski will be serving as the Chair of the Graduate Studies’ Committee starting tomorrow, on 8/1.
Many thanks for Dr. Sun-Ki Chai for serving as the Graduate Chair over the past two years.
UHM Sociology Department is very happy to announce that Katherine Irwin (@KatyOrtizIrwin) will be be serving as the Chair of the Undergraduate Studies' Committee starting tomorrow, 8/1.
Many thanks for Dr. Aya Kimura for serving as the Undergraduate Chair over the past two years
A very special opportunity to listen to the award-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond @just_shelter speaking about the housing crisis and COVID eviction in Hawaii on July 28 9am HST.
Register to this event from: https://t.co/jm7fVpKhjJ
4 in 10 Oahu tenants couldn't pay rent last month. Learn how we can stop a Covid eviction surge and tackle Hawai‘i’s chronic housing crisis with Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond @just_shelter.
July 28 9am HST.
Register here: https://t.co/ImcQz1upOL.
UHM SOC prof. Dr. Katherine Irwin (@KatyOrtizIrwin) has published #SocPerspectives article, “Punitive Exclusion and Therapeutic Support: Race, Gender, Class, and Multidimensional Control of High School Girls” on @SOC_Persp_PDX. Access the article from: https://t.co/VOUuCHTu80