Sociology

In one of the most detailed studies of its kind, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers have vividly chronicled the harmful public health impacts of the economic austerity measures imposed on Greece's population in the wake of the global economic ...

The University of New Mexico Latin American Iberian Institute presents a lecture, reception and book signing for the publication, "Borderline Slavery: Mexico, the United States, and the Human Trade" (Ashgate Press, 2012), a volume co-edited by Susan ...

Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology from Harvard University, presents, "Will Health Reform Survive and Flourish after 2012?, a public lecture, on Thursday, Sept. 20 from 7-9 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel, Airport, Alvarado ...

Four faculty from the University of New Mexico Department of Sociology received accolades for their published works. Sharon Erickson Neptstad and Howard Waitzkin, recently won major national book awards; and Maria Velez and Christopher Lyons have an ...

The University of New Mexico Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy presents its two part Spring 2012 Lecture Series, "Plural Perspectives on Health and Health Policy."Spero Manson will present, "The Special Diabetes Program for Indians: ...

UNM is joining more than 70 campuses around the country holding teach-ins as a way of building awareness with the Occupy Wall Street movement. UNM's teach-in is Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 9-10, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. each day on the south side of the ...

Professor Emeritus Howard Waitzkin, UNM's 2010-2012 Presidential Teaching Fellow, is the author of an Advice essay that appeared recently in the online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The essay, "Strangers in Paradise: Reaching Out to ...

Sociology Professor Susan Tiano, who also directs the University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute, has been appointed for a three-year term to the Inter-American Foundation's (IAF) Advisory Council. "It's an incredible honor for me to ...

Howard Waitzkin discusses and signs copies of his new book Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire (Paradigm Publishers) at the UNM Bookstore Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 1 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.The untold story of how ...

Mellon Fellow Andrea Mays began thinking about stories and race when she was a kid watching old movies on television when she came home from school. "I loved old black and white movies, not only for the fact that they were really these elaborate ...