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By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New EconomyThis guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10-13. #ASA19With the 2020 elec

By Robert A. Hummer, author of Population Health in AmericaThis guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10-13. #ASA19Over the last couple of weeks, President Trump has intens

By Thurston Domina and Benjamin G. Gibbs, editors of Education and Society: An Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of EducationThis guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10

UC Press is thrilled to share that Ranita Ray has won the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award for her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).First established in 1964, the C. Wright Mills A

By Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla, editors of Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden PopulationsThis guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 1

This post is published in conjunction with the 114th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in New York City, NY, August 10 – 19 2019. #ASA19UC Press is delighted to share that three UC Press titles have been selected as finalists for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award. First establish

By Tasseli McKay, Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir; authors of Holding On: Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and ReentryThis guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY

At this year’s American Sociological Association conference, we celebrate the work of our award-winning authors. Congratulations to our wonderful scholars, teachers, and activists. #ASA19 #ScholarActivistAbigail Leslie Andrews, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Me

This year’s American Sociological Association conference in New York City from August 10 – August 13 includes many exciting sessions featuring some of our wonderful UC Press authors! You can see the full online program schedule at the ASA website. #ASA19Saturday, August 10thRandol Contre

Elisabeth Becker is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, where her research focuses on Muslim migrant/post-migrant responses to exclusion in urban contexts. She is also Associate Editor of