Political Science APC Nate Monroe

Selected & Recent Unit Highlights:In the last 12 months…

- 16 Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Accepted

- Two Papers in top journal, American Political Science Review (7% accept. rate)

- Conrad & Ritter “Preventing and Responding to Dissent”

- Huang “International Knowledge and Domestic Evaluations…”

- Three Papers in American Journal of Political Science (8% accept. Rate)

- Monroe “On Legislative Agenda-Setting Power”

- Trounstine “Segregation and Inequality in Public Goods”

- Nicholson “Death and Turnout”

- Ritter award: best article in Journal of Conflict Resolution “Policy Disputes, Political

Survival, and the Onset and Severity of State Repression.”

- Dozens of quotes, cites, articles, blog posts, interviews, appearances in the media

Sociology APC Nella Van Dyke

Selected Recent Unit Highlights:

The Sociology Graduate Program was approved by the UC System and WSCUC

9 new graduate students enrolled in the Sociology Graduate Program

Paul Almeida and Nella Van Dyke were promoted to Full Professor

Paul Almeida was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their role in community well-being in Honduras

Tanya Golash-Boza's book, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, was published by Oxford University Press (2015).

Laura Hamilton received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association for her book, Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality (with Elizabeth Armstrong)

Zulema Valdez, (with J Wallander, S Ramirez, R DeLugan, and S Roussos) was awarded a 3 year, NIH CBPR Grant Award for the project, “A CBPR Initiative to Address Obesity Disparities for Latinos in the California Central Valley.”

Marjorie Zatz (and Nancy Rodriguez) published, Dreams and Nightmares: Immigration Policy, Youth, and Families, on the University of California Press (May 2015).

• B.A.: UC Berkeley

• M.A.: UC Davis

• Ph.D.: UC Davis

• Areas of Scholarly Interest: Economic History, Economic Growth and Financial

Economics

Social Sciences and Management APC Kurt Schnier

Jason Lee (LPSOE)

• B.A.: Universidad, Autonoma Chapingo

• M.A.: UC Santa Cruz

• Ph.D.: UC Santa Cruz

• Areas of Scholarly Interest: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Economic

Development, Applied Econometrics, Latin America Economies

Jesus Sandoval-Hernandez (LPSOE)

Social Sciences and Management APC Kurt Schnier

Selected & Recent Unit Highlights:Evan Heit – National Science Foundation

Justin Cook – Review of Economics and Statistics

Ketki Sheth – Journal of Human Resources

Rowena Gray – Larry Neal Prize for Best Article 2013-14

Economics Graduate Group – Graduate Proposal submitted to CCGA

Profile: Dr. Stephanie Shih

• B.A.: UC Berkeley (Linguistics, English, Music minor)

• M.A.: Stanford (Linguistics)

• Ph.D.: Stanford (Linguistics)

•Areas of Scholarly Interest: Phonology, Quantitative and Computational Linguistics, Poetic and Musical Forms

• Personal interests: Another Merced Foodie

Cognitive & Informational Sciences APC Jeff Yoshimi

New Faculty and Staff

Cognitive & Informational Sciences APC Jeff Yoshimi

Selected & Recent Unit Highlights:

UC Merced hosts the main professional conferences in cognitive science

Lots of exciting grants: google, NSF, etc.

Graduate student David Vinson awarded IBM Fellowship

Some excellent placements for grads and undergrads

Carolyn Jennings and David Noelle teach neuroscience in Tibet

Cool work on science communication and

Peter Vanderschraaf’s Oxford University Press book Strategic Justice is soon to be released.

Arturo Arias

Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Interests: Central American literature; indigenous literatures; social and critical theory; race, gender, and sexuality in postcolonial studies; cultural studies; ethnographic approaches

Maria DePrano

• Ph.D., 2004 — University of California, Los Angeles• M.A., 1997 — University of California, Los Angeles• B.A., 1990 — University of California, Los Angeles

Areas of Scholarly Interest: Renaissance Art History

New Faculty and Staff

History and World Cultures APC Ignacio López-Calvo

Selected Unit Highlights

History and World Cultures APC Ignacio López-Calvo

• Manuel Martín-Rodríguez, Award for Book and Full Prof. Step VI

• Dunya Ramicova, Distinguished Professor

• David Torres-Rouff, Tenured

• Cristián Ricci, UCEAP director for Chile and Argentina• Enrolled largest group of PhD Students

Profile: Associate Professor Nancy Burke

• B.A.: University of Tennessee

• M.A.: University of Oregon

• Ph.D.: University of New Mexico

• Areas of Scholarly Interest:

• Medical anthropology, social inequalities in health/health disparities, clinical trials recruitment/research participation, therapeutic misconception, subjectivity, bioethics, survivorship, (im)migration, spirituality, global health

• Recent publication

Taylor VM, Burke NJ, Ko LK, Sos C, Liu Q, Do HH, Talbot J, Yasui Y, Bastani R. Understanding HPV vaccine uptake among Cambodian American girls. J Community Health. 2014 Oct; 39(5):857-62.

Public Health Acting APC Paul Brown

New Faculty and Staff

Profile: Dr. Karina Diaz Rios (ANR Specialist)

• B.A.: University of Guanajuato

• M.A.: University of Guanajuato

• Ph.D.: University of Illinois

• Areas of Scholarly Interest:

Development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally sensitive nutrition education interventions to prevent chronic diseases in diverse and underserved populations

•Recent publication

Diaz Rios LK, Chapman L, Novakofski K, Malacara JM, Bollero G, Aradillas Garcia C, Garay, Sevilla ME. Metabolic and nutritional profile differences among Mexican, Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White children. Rev Invest Clin. 2014;66(1):31Y44 .

Public Health Acting APC Paul Brown

New Faculty and Staff