Sociology

Roberto Gonzales of the School of Arts & Sciences says that DACA beneficiaries are frustrated by the inability to change their legal status, despite the program’s possibility for upward mobility.

On an episode of “Law and Disorder,” PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts addresses the widespread impact and damage done to Black Americans by agencies like Child Protective Services.

In an Op-Ed, Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that operational data like desk rejection rates and peer review processing times would be more useful for correcting sloppy journal practices than an “author’s bill of rights.”

Tukufu Zuberi of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the new Black History & Culture Collection from Getty Images represents an invitation to reorder and represent Black stories in Black spaces.

Fatemeh Shams of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Iranian protest chants have shifted emphasis from male political figures and systemic reform to teenaged female martyrs and rejection of any form of autocratic rule.

Barbara Riegel of the School of Nursing says that “treat yourself” consumerism doesn’t meet the definition of self-care.

A study co-authored by Adriana Perez of the School of Nursing identifies four key barriers stopping Hispanic Americans who want to be vaccinated.

PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno recalls when it was unheard-of to call doctors by their first names, both in his own family and in the popular culture of the 1960s and ’70s.

Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Michael Flynn’s “spiritual warfare” rhetoric in support of Christian nationalism is dangerous.