The possibilities and perils of lithium development in the Imperial Valley -- wrote a book about it, got interviewed about it (with other cool USC researchers!). @usc today.usc.edu/powering-up-li…

This week we welcome Professor Timmermans UCLA Sociology to our department colloquium!

A new film about Lithium Valley, inspired by our book, Charging Forward, and directed and produced by Jacob Kornbluth. It's a remarkable balanced view of an incredibly complicated (and conflictual) situation. Check it out: video.kvcr.org/show/a-better-…

My latest article, just published in BJS, analyzes how political activists manage to coordinate radical action even among people who have not been radicalized by creatively changing the meanings of the same practices. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

This week we welcome Professor Kelley Fong Kelley Fong to our department colloquium!

🚨 my first solo-authored publication is officially out! I find that mothers must spend extraordinary amounts of time and money to stay connected to their incarcerated adult children. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/089124…

Congratulations to Hajar Yazdiha Hajar Yazdiha, Ph.D. who has been promoted to Associate Professor!!!🌟

🥳 I am so thrilled! Thanks to the best department for all their support!

Congratulations Dr. Murphy!!!🙌

Appreciate Inquest for publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons

Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! Dr. Brittany Friedman 🌹 USC Sociology USC bit.ly/POPfellows

Find out all about the University of Southern California’s Department of Sociology USC Sociology & other soc depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online & free for ASA members. Available for a fee to nonmembers. bit.ly/ASAGradGuide

“Female Advantages in Education & Union Formation”: @DanielaUrbinaJ uses DHS & Colombia National Census data to assess changes in union entry & assortative mating in a middle-income setting where women are, on average, better educated. USC Sociology ow.ly/nnqE50WG7zf

Jody Agius Vallejo and Manuel Pastor Dr. Manuel Pastor spoke with the Los Angeles Times to express their concerns about how recent events are affecting L.A. citizens. latimes.com/00000198-a5ac-…

Collective memory is the way to remember history and that becomes central to our idea of who we are as a people. It’s a process of storytelling and the most central stories to who we are as a people. So let’s talk about the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. (1/4)

Check out my latest work on the USC Equity Research Institute Blog! “DUIs already carry severe immigration consequences […] H.R. 875 would widen the net of immigration enforcement, extending it through traffic stops and sobriety checkpoints conducted by local officers.” dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2025/09/05…

📢Hot off the presses by Profs Hajar Yazdiha, Ph.D. and Courtney Boen at Social Forces examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-art…

This week we welcome Professor Rahim Kurwa Rahim Kurwa to our department colloquium!

USC Levan Book Chat: Join Michael A. Messner, professor emeritus of sociology, for a virtual discussion of his new book, The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024 (Rutgers University Press)📖 Register for the 9/18 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-bo…