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).
Social Sciences and Management
APC Kurt Schnier
Jason Lee (LPSOE)
• B.A.: UC Berkeley
• M.A.: UC Davis
• Ph.D.: UC Davis
• Areas of Scholarly Interest: Economic History, Economic Growth and Financial
Economics
Jesus Sandoval-Hernandez (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
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
Cognitive & Informational Sciences
APC Jeff Yoshimi
New Faculty and Staff
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
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.
History and World Cultures
APC Ignacio López-Calvo
New Faculty and Staff
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
History and World Cultures
APC Ignacio López-Calvo
Selected Unit Highlights
• 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
Public Health
Acting APC Paul Brown
New Faculty and Staff
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 .