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Department Articles
Check out the recent work from our faculty and graduate students!
The affective strategies of White unknowing: how police violence reveals the expression of racialized emotions on Twitter
by Hajar Yazdiha & Courtney E Boen
*published August 30, 2025
Female Advantages in Education and Union Formation: The Case of Colombia
by Daniela R. Urbina
*published August 1, 2025
National Work-Family Policies and Gender Earnings Inequality in 26 OECD Countries, 1999 to 2019
by Jennifer Hook & Meiying Li
*first published online July 30, 2025
Perceived Fairness of Couples’ Division of Housework: Evidence From a Multi-Factorial Experiment in the United States
by Daniela R. Urbina & Daria Tisch
*first published online May 18, 2025
It’s Heartbreaking. It’s Expensive. It’s Hard: How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Mothers
by PhD Candidate Raquel Delerme
*first published online April 24, 2025
The New Sociology of Bereavement
by Emily Smith-Greenaway, Ashton M. Verdery & Deborah Carr
*first published on April 9, 2025
Beyond the residential neighborhood: A scoping review of research on urban neighborhood networks
by PhD Candidate Thalia Tom, Noli Brazil, Jennifer Candipan & Brian Levy
*first published online March 13, 2025