Dr. Zsuzsa Gille is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign where she is also the Director of Global Studies. Dr. Zsuzsa Gille has recently co-edited "The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies" which focuses on the new field of waste studies and the systems...
Faculty Publications
Graduate student, Nehal Elmeligy, recently published an article in Gender & Society titled "Airing Egypt's Dirty Laundry: BuSSy's Storytelling as Feminist Social Change." The full paper can be found here. Abstract...
Professor Reuben A, Buford May recently published a paper in Sociological Forum entitled “Exploring the Use of Exclusionary Practices Against African Americans in Urban Nightlife.” The full article can be found here. ...
Reuben A. Buford May has been working alongside statisticians out of University of Pennsylvania on topics in sport. They recently published an article titled "Retrospective survey of youth sports participation: Development and assessment of reliability using school records." The article is focused...
Congratulations to Bu Qingyu and Professor Ruby Mendenhall on their recent publication "Educating Latinx and African American Students in Charter Schools: A Comparative Study from Chicago," in SAGE Journals. The full publication can be found...
Doctoral Student, Miguel A. Avalos, recently published "Border regimes and temporal sequestration: An autoethnography of waiting” in The Sociological Review. His article is now ranked 14 out of all top Sociology Journals! Congratulations Miguel! For the full article click...
Doctoral Candidate, Amirhossein Teimouri recently published "Google Plus as a Contentious Field of Revolutionary Identity: The Rise and Fall of the Rightist Islamist Anti-Nuclear Deal Movement in Iran." For more information on the publication click...
Former graduate student Liqun Zeng and Dr. Tim Liao recently published "Social Exchange in Mate Selection of...
Current graduate student Brian F. O'Neill and former graduate student Matthew Schneider were recently published in the Society Pages. The article "Fracking, Public Health, and Biden’s Green New Deal...
Matthew Soener recently published "Growth, climate change, and the critique of neoclassical reason; New possibilities for economic sociology" in the European Economic Sociology Newsletter. For the full article click ...
Cynthia Buckley, Ralph Clem, and Erik Herron published "Peer/Near-Peer Challenges to Strategic Stability: The Need to Securitize State Capacity" in Present and Future Challenges to Maintaining Balance Between Global Cooperation and Competition. For the full article click...
Cynthia Buckley recently published "Abortion and Reproductive Health in Eurasia: Continuity and Change," Chapter 47 in The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europea and Eurasia," Katalin Fabian, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda Eds. Routledge. For information on the book click...
Cynthia J. Buckley, Ralph S. Clem & Erik S. Herron recently published "The COVID-19 Pandemic and State Healthcare Capacity: Government Responses and Citizen Assessments in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine." Problems of Post-Communism. The full article can be found...
PhD candidate, Heba M Khalil, recently published "Revolution in Parallel Times: An Egyptian Village’s Lived Revolution." Abstract: "This paper explores revolutionary and rural politics through the case study of Al-Tahseen, a small village in the Egyptian Delta that witnessed an...
Professor, Matthew Soener, recently published "Did the ‘Real’ Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Contours of Financialisation in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector" Abstract: "The ‘financialisation’ of the economy is considered a key phenomenon of our time, but we lack large-scale empirical...
PhD candidate Hany Zayed was recently published in the journal Theory, Culture, and Society. Abstract: "The causes and consequences of revolutionary change have long been the subject of scholarly debate. Through a...
Graduate student Jessennya Hernandez was recently published in the journal Humanity & Society. Abstract: This paper explores the grounded realities of how foster youth attempt to improve their own lives by navigating the foster care system. From 2014 to 2016 in southern California, I...
Dr. Tim F. Liao was recently published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (an American Sociological Association journal). Abstract: Using social comparison theory, I investigate the relation between experienced happiness and income inequality. In the analysis, I study...
Professor Asef Bayat recently had a book published by the University of California Press. For full book details click here. Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking...
Professor Jose Atiles' article was published in the State Crime Journal. Click here for the full text. Abstract: The COVID-19 global pandemic brings about...
Professor Tim Liao's article "Using Sequence Analysis to Quantify How Strongly Life Courses Are Linked" was published in Sociological Science January 19, 2021. To read more, click here.
Tim F. Liao, PhD and Fernando De Maio, PhD co-authored the article "Association of Social and Economic Inequality with Coronavirus Disease 19 Incidence and Mortality Across US Counties". The article was published in JAMA Network Open on January 20, 2021. To read more, click...
Professor Zsuzsa Gille and Hilary E. Kahn, PhD co-authored the article "Un-Framing and Re-Framing the Global: An Introduction" which appears in New Global Studies Volume 14: Issue 3. To read more, click here.
PhD Candidate, Po-Chia Zeng's article "Framing the Material Global: The Grounded Politics of HIV Testing Scale-Up" has been published in New Global Studies Volume 14: Issue 3. To read more, click here.
Professor Zsuzsa Gille's article “Emptiness, Vacancy and Waste” has been published in Cultural Anthropology. To read, click here.
