The Sociology Dept. welcomes new professor Nikki Khanna , a specialist in biracial and multiracial identity. She is studying how others shape one's identity, and how the biracial individual works to assert his/her preferred racial identity to others.

Sociology welcomes new professor Ed Walker , who studies how government and citizens interact. His recent work looks at how large institutions now engage in "grassroots lobbying" campaigns that subsidize citizen activism to promote their interests before local, state, and federal legislatures.

Prof. Nick Danigelis and Prof. Steve Cutler were recently discussed in The New York Times, interviewed by the Stanford Social Innovation Review and also featured in UVM's The View regarding their recently published research (with Penn State's Melissa Hardy) on "Population Aging, Intracohort Aging, and Sociopolitical Attitudes" in the American Sociological Review. The piece in SIR, "Old Dogs, New Opinions," suggests that, contrary to stereotypes, people grow more liberal and tolerant as they age.

Assistant Professor Tom Macias recently published Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest.

Prof. Dan Krymkowski and Prof. Beth Mintz recently published, "What types of occupations are women entering? Determinants of changes in female representation: 1970–2000," in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.