social sciences

Faculty position established with $1.5 million gift from Drs. Harvinder and Asha Sahota

After a nationwide competition, Samantha Ku, a 2018 UCI graduate in political science, has been selected to receive a 2019 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the prestigious award is administered by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Ku is currently […]

Such adverse natal outcomes are linked to intergenerational health, socioeconomic disadvantages

Political science professor Etel Solingen, the Thomas T. & Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Global Peace & Conflict Studies, has received a $718,350 grant for her project entitled “The Role of Design & Production Networks in East Asia Peace & Security.” As part of a $3.7 million research/training award from the UC Laboratory Fees Research […]

Six UCI anthropology Ph.D. students have been awarded a total of $109,777 from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to pursue social and cultural fieldwork at various sites around the globe. The recipients are: Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Elizabeth Hanna Clark Rubio, Oviya Govindan, Angela Okune, Ann Kathryn Wilkinson and Jennifer Zelnick. “These anthropology graduate students are conducting research […]

Understanding the ‘weaponization’ of social media is the first step

The UCI A-team placed 3rd in the national mock trial tournament, in which 48 teams from across the country competed. Hosted by Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., the competition was held in Minneapolis April 20-22. For the first time in five years, UCI qualified two national teams – A-team and B-team. In the collegiate […]

Donation will support graduate student research, scholarship in social sciences

The School of Social Sciences’ graduate program in logic & philosophy of science and the School of Humanities’ graduate program in philosophy have done well in the 2017-18 Philosophical Gourmet Report, which assesses the quality and reputation of Ph.D. programs in philosophy throughout the English-speaking world. The PGR provides both overall and specialty rankings based […]

Jennifer B. Kane, UCI assistant professor of sociology, has been named a 2018 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her exceptional research as an early career scientist. She specializes in applying quantitative methods in the analysis of social inequality, population health, family, fertility and the inter-generational transmission of health and […]