Current News

UT Department of Sociology Biodemography Job Posting
University of Texas at Austin. The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenured position (associate or full professor) starting in Fall 2009.

UT Department of Sociology Criminology Job Posting
The Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a position as an assistant professor or early associate professor with principle interests in sociology of law or criminology/criminal justice/delinquency.

UT Department of Sociology Religion Job Posting
The Department of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a position at the assistant professor or early associate professor level who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship in the sociology of religion.

Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty
By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Manges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder


Jennifer Karas Montez Elected Student Representative to ASA Section Council
Jennifer Karas Montez was recently elected as the Student Representative to the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and Life Course.

Catherine Riegle-Crumb's Research Featured on "Science Careers"
Catherine Riegle-Crumb is quoted in an article about underrepresentation of African-American bachelor degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA
Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodríguez
with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Lawrence S. Graham, Pedro Jacobi, and Allison M. Rowland


XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference Call for Abstracts
The XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference website is now open and ready to accept submissions for papers and posters.

The deadline to submit short and long abstracts is September 15, 2008.

The Conference will take place in Marrakech, Morocco from September 26 to October 2, 2009. Please check the Conference website regularly for more information.

Professor Aletha Huston's SRCD Presidential Address Published
In 2007, Dr. Aletha Huston—The Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development in the Department of Human Ecology at UT and former Associate Director of the Population Research Center—completed her two-year term as president of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), the world’s largest professional association dedicated to the study of human development. As president, Dr. Huston oversaw a membership of nearly 6,000 researchers and practitioners from over 50 countries, encouraging the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals from multiple disciplines as well as the applications of scientific research.

The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population
After years of research, researchers have a grasp of some of the complex issues and social and behavioral patterns surrounding health that impact older Hispanic people, especially those of Mexican ancestry.
The Health of Aging Health Hispanics