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Dorothy Roberts was featured on Bill Nye's Science Rules! podcast
Dorothy Roberts was interviewed by Bill Nye on his podcast Science Rules!Tukufu Zuberi Gives Keynote Address at UCPop's Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event on October 9, 2020
Tukufu Zuberi gave the keynote address at UCPop's Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event on October 9, 2020.Video - Daniel Aldana Cohen co-moderation; Green New Deal in Latin America
This event on Transforming Energy and Economic Systems in the Latin American Green New Deal is organized and moderated byC’22 Sociology major and peer tutor Rowana Miller recently wrote an article for Slate Magazine about the role of the Zoom chat in online learning
C’22 Sociology major and peer tutor Rowana Miller recently wrote an article for Slate Magazine about the roleShawn (Sangeun) Kim (C’21) received the Campaign for Community Award
Shawn (Sangeun) Kim (C’21) received the Campaign for Community Award to fund his senior thesis project which is looking at how race-related school programs impact the experience of minority students within mTyler Baldor has published a paper, "Acquainted Strangers: Thwarted Interaction in Digitally Mediated Urban Gay Bars" in Social Problems.
Tyler Baldor has published a paper, "Acquainted Strangers: Thwarted Interaction in Digitally MediateDavid Grazian Presents 60-Second Lecture: New York City in the Time of Covid-19
David Grazian presented a 60-Second Lecture:Ross Koppel Pens Op-Ed for STAT on Youth Suicides and Antidepressants
Ross Koppel co-wrote an op-ed with STAT about failed FDA warnings regarding youth suicides and antidepressants.Hans-Peter Kohler new research Oct 2020
Hans-Peter Kohler is part of a new research project, funded by National Institutes of Health, and in collaboration with the Columbia University Health Sciences and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
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Faculty Bookshelf
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life, With an Update a Decade Later
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children.
The Power of the Internet in China
Citizen Activism Online
A pioneering and award-winning study of the innovative forms and multi-institutional dynamics of internet activism in China.
Birth Control Battles
How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Develops a performance theory of Red Guard factional violence and traces the ritual process of the transformation of a political generation over a period of forty years.
Putting Poor People to Work
How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor
by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, Jerry Jacobs
