Lisa Broidy (with co-authors) published one book chapter (“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persistent Female Offending”)and two technical reports in 2009. With her co-authors, she has four papers currently under review and is working on two funded research projects.
Beverly Burris is working on a book manuscript on academic corporatism and the transformation of the academic workplace since 1980.
Richard Coughlin currently has two research projects in progress and is working on a monograph on reformulating social policy.
Robert Fiala is presenting a paper at the 2010 ASA on “Ideology and Utopia in Educational Systems: A Critical Assessment,” and is working on related papers for submission.
Jane Hood had a book chapter (“Parenting a Youthful Offender”) accepted for Nov. 2010 publication in a research annual. She also has several articles and a book manuscript (Dismantling the Achievement Gap in the Southwest--with Nancy Lopez) in process.
George Huaco has an article (“Marx and Heidegger on Late Modernity”) under review and is working on an article on Foucault and Heidegger for submission.
Roberto Ibarra is PI on a new project (funded by LAII) that involves cataloging and annotating over 1,000 documents, photographs and letters from the family of General Diego Ybarra of Venezuela. He is also a participant in an NSF-funded project (UNM ADVANCE) aimed at helping UNM recruit more women into leadership positions, especially in STEM fields.
Nancy Lopez has been working on revising her first book (Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys) and also has a new book manuscript (Dismantling the Achievement Gap in the Southwest—with Jane Hood) in process. She also completed the data collection for the Discipline Study and the Indigenous Education Study Group, a Public Education Department Grant that examines the state of education for Native Americans in New Mexico.
Christopher Lyons has recently had two papers accepted at Law and Society Review; one is in print and the other will be published in June 2010. He has also been invited to be a member of the Racial Democracy and Criminal Justice Network, which meets at Ohio State every June.
Philip May, whose major duties have been in research with the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA) for the past eleven years, has been working as principal investigator all year on his three NIH research grants studying the epidemiology and neurobehavioral phenotype of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. He and some of his research team have published four journal articles this year and have two in press on the following subjects: problem gambling in New Mexico; the prevalence and characteristics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in various populations, and alcohol use and abuse among American Indians.
Sharon Nepstad completed a new book manuscript in 2009 (Nonviolent Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century), currently under review at Oxford University Press. She also has a peer-reviewed book chapter forthcoming, a journal article under review, and two book reviews published in 2009.
John Roberts published a 2009 article (with Aki Roberts) in Policing: “Impact of network ties on change in policy agency practices.” He is also participating on an NSF-funded project (“The structure and dynamics of social networks within the late prehispanic Southwest”).
Wayne Santoro has a forthcoming (co-authored) article in Political Research Quarterly on generational status and Mexican American political participation. He also will present work at the upcoming conference of sociologists and political scientists who study race at Stanford University and has a co-authored paper (with Stacy Keogh) under review at Social Forces.
Andrew Schrank published "Incubating Innovation or Cultivating Corruption: The Developmental State and the Life Sciences in Asia" (with Cheol-Sung Lee) in Social Forces. He was also invited to give a second paper, "Co-producing Workplace Transformation: The Dominican Republic in Comparative Perspective," at the Harvard Business School International
Research Conference.
Susan Tiano published a co-authored paper (“Gender Matters in Maquila Employment Trends: The Case ofr Cd. Juarez”—with Moira Murphy) in the Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies in 2009.
Maria Velez had two peer-reviewed papers published in 2009 on 1) the impact of racial inequalities in local lending patterns on homicide levels in Chicago and 2) the relationship between recent immigration, neighborhood disadvantage, and local homicide levels in Chicago neighborhoods. Her paper (with Christopher Lyons) “Assessing the directionality of Residential Bank Loans and Crime: An Analysis of Seattle Neighborhoods (1981-2000) was selected to be used by Maria at the Summer Research Institute at Ohio State University, where she will spend three weeks preparing this paper for manuscript submission.
Howard Waitzkin published four co-authored papers in refereed journals, and one single-authored book chapter (“Culture, communication and somatization in health care”); he has two journal articles and one book chapter forthcoming. He won UNM’s Presidential Teaching Fellowship, the university’s highest teaching award, in 2010.
Rich Wood has been named the new co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series "Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion, and Politics." He will also serve as the principal investigator on a new research collaboration between UNM and the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), focused on understanding the impact of dynamic new forms of Christianity on political culture, civil society, and politics in Central America.
