Sociology

UNM researcher awarded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for intersectionality research on Latino Student Success in Higher Education  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $110,000 for a yearlong study on how universities employ...

There’s more that meets the eye when it comes to most things in life. In one specific area of research, however, the impulse to dive deeper and look beyond the surface had long been avoided.    That’s something UNM Sociology Professor and director and...

Kennedy Chavez-Silver’s life was forever changed in 2015 when her older brother was killed in a driveby shooting by a bullet intended for someone else. Jaydon Chavez-Silver, a 17-year-old with hopes of joining the United States Air Force, was standing...

It’s no secret that newly sworn-in Vice President of the Navajo Nation Richelle Montoya has made history. Every time you search her name, you see her groundbreaking accomplishment: the first woman to take on that helm. Still, there’s so much that lies...

Applications for a cohort-based program will open in the Fall 2023 semester at The University of New Mexico for students interested in research with Black communities. Black Research 101 was developed by Celine Ayala, a doctoral student in the...

Twelve faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2022 Women in STEM awards. Award recipients will look at patterns of cancer disparities in New Mexico, consider an interdisciplinary lens for algorithmic justice, examine...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico, the Allende Program in Social Medicine in Albuquerque and the Global Institute of Public Health in India report in a new study of vaccine distribution in different parts of the world that vaccines are most...

The UNM College of Arts and Sciences recently announced the winners of its 2022 Teaching Excellence Awards. This year’s honorees are Cindy Gevarter, assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Colin Olson, senior lecturer III in...

Associate Professor Georgiann Davis from the Department of Sociology at The University of New Mexico was an invited speaker at a recent virtual roundtable event with the White House to commemorate Intersex Awareness Day and discuss the treatment of...

Black and immigrant girls often face indifference and even cruelty in the classroom, which is a hostile learning environment for many, according to newly published research by Ranita Ray, a new associate professor of Sociology and Maxine Baca-Zinn...