Category: Department Updates
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Hawthorne published in book review, co-edits special issue in “Black Italia”
Associate Professor Camilla Hawthorne was published in the AAG Review of Books for her co-edited volume, The Black Geographic. The book forum features an introduction from Hawthorne and her co-editor, Jovan Scott Lewis of UC Berkeley, plus commentaries by UC Santa Cruz graduate students. Hawthorne recently co-edited the special issue “Black Italia” for California Italian…
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2025-2026 Sociology Lecture Pool
The Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an ongoing pool of lecturers who may be appointed to teach various undergraduate courses.
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Title 42 Isn’t About Public Health — It’s About Keeping Immigrants Out
Published in The Intercept, Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Manuel Pedroza on the conflicting concerns about public health when it comes to immigration during the Trump Administration.
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Power Over Precision: Jenny Reardon featured on Computer Says Maybe podcast
Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Science and Justice Research Center, on the history of genomics — and the absolutely mind-melting parallels it has with the trajectory of the AI industry.
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Hawthorne enters as 2024-2025 Sociology Fellow at Stanford
In fall 2024, Associate Professor Camilla Hawthorne entered as a Sociology Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Through this 2024-2025 academic year fellowship, Hawthorne will be researching historical and contemporary ties between Black liberation struggles in southern Europe and North America to illustrate connective narratives between diaspor