Fatima Suarez (Sociology) published a book titled, Latino Fathers: What Shapes and Sustains Their Parenting, with New York University Press. Use code NYUP30 for 30% off at checkout at nyupress.org.

Fatima Suarez (Sociology) published a book titled, Latino Fathers: What Shapes and Sustains Their Parenting with New York University Press. 

Chenghui Zhang (Sociology) coauthored a book chapter titled, "Bias-Based Bullying and Hate Crimes in Schools," in The Routledge Handbook on Marginalized Groups in the United States and their Challenges. This chapter provides an in-depth review of the challenges associated with bias-based bullying and hate crimes when they occur in school…

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has selected Simon Gottschalk (Emeritus, Sociology) as the recipient of the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Accomplishments in Symbolic Interaction. It is presented to a scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of symbolic interactionism and recognizes a scholar's…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) was interviewed about her latest publication, “The Affective Bargain: How the Latino Children of Immigrants Create Joy, Love, and Pride Through Mariachi.” 

Fatima Suarez (Sociology) published a paper in Men and Masculinities titled, "Latino Fathers' Hybrid Marginalized Masculinities."

Robert Futrell (Sociology) recently published a co-authored chapter, "A Constellation Framework for White Supremacy," in Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe: Media, Identity, and Parties (Routledge). The chapter offers a more complex, nuanced, and useful conceptual approach to understanding the expansion and normalization of…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) collaborated with colleagues from UNLV and other universities to author a book chapter entitled the title "The Intersections of Gender and Caste, Cumulative Dis/Advantage and Later-Life Health in Nepal" for the Routledge publication "Population Aging in Societal Context." This chapter uses Nepal as a model to…

Tirth Bhatta (Sociology) co-authored an updated report on aging in Nevada titled, "Aging Trends & Challenges in Nevada," in "The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (edited by Dmitri N. Shalin)." The report was published by UNLV Center for Democratic Culture.

Summer publications from the UNLV Behavioral Addictions Lab: Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues published a paper, "Recommendations for Diagnosing and Quantifying treatment outcomes in clinical trials of compulsive sexual behavior disorder" in Addictive Behaviors Reports.  Noa Vana, Bailey Way, Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (all…

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) published a paper in Ethnic and Racial Studies titled, "The Affective Bargain: How the Latino Children of Immigrants Create Joy, Love, and Pride Through Mariachi.”

Celene Fuller (Sociology) was recently announced as the 2025-2026 Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellow. The Robert E. Lang Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding UNLV Ph.D. student completing a dissertation in metropolitan public policy broadly defined with special consideration given to applicants focusing their research on the…