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Research by Monnat, Sun Cited in New York Times Article on COVID Vaccination Rates
A research study on COVID vaccination rates co-authored by Professor Shannon Monnat and Ph.D. student Yue Sun was cited in the New York Times article, "In Rural America, COVID Hits Black and Hispanic People Hardest."
See related: COVID-19 , Racial Inequality , Social Inequalities , Urban and Rural
Huber Explores the Climate Change Crisis as a Class Problem in New Book
Matt Huber, professor of geography and the environment, has written a new book, “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet” (Verso, 2022).
See related: Climate and Climate Change , Politics
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Age Pattern of Adult Mortality
"Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Age Pattern of Adult Mortality," written by sociologists Andrew London and Scott Landes, was published in Biodemography and Social Biology.
See related: Life Expectancy and Mortality
Monmonier Traces the Invention of the Clock System in New Book
Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment, has published a new book, “Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address” (University of Iowa Press, 2022).
See related: Cartography , G.I.S. & Geospatial Geography
Gueorguiev Explores How Chinese Communist Party Has Maintained Power in New Book
Maxwell School faculty member Dimitar Gueorguiev investigates how the Chinese Communist Party has maintained power in the People’s Republic of China throughout reforms and rapid development in his new book, “Retrofitting Leninism: Participation without Democracy in China” (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Mazur Addresses Causes of Ice Ages and Effects on the Social History of Humanity in New Book
Allan Mazur, professor emeritus of policy studies at the Maxwell School, has published a new book, “Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History” (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
See related: Climate and Climate Change
Ackerman Examines Two Nationalist Insurrections to Explain Origin of the Mass Party in New Book
See related: Political Parties , Latin America & the Caribbean , Government , Power, Capital and Politics
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Drake Addresses Long-Standing Problems of Educational Inequality in New Book
In his new book, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (University of California Press, 2022), Sean J. Drake looks at how race and class intersect, contributing to educational inequality and modern school segregation.