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No Money, No Vote: How Imposed Fines, Fees and Cost Keep Black People From Voting
Spiritual Virtuoso
The Spirtual Virtuoso:  Personal Faith and Social Transformation.  By Steve Pfaff and Marion Goldman, reviewed by Susan Pitchford
Liz Litzler's photo
Flipping the Script on Deficit Models of Student Success
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Making Money:  How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy.  Written by Emeritus Professor Gary Hamilton and Cheng-Shu Kao
CapeTown
UW brings the Data Revolution to the International Population Conference in Cape Town
Children
Ande Reisman's Dispatch from the Field:  Liminal in Nepal
Kashima
Adjunct Professor Tetsuden Kashima honored with Imperial Decorations by the Government of Japan
air pollution
Sociology led team reveals how air pollution impacts mental health
How air pollution clouds mental health
Luther
On the Quincentennial of Luther's 95 theses, Steve Pfaff discusses how Luther's spiritual practice helped spread the Reformation.
Twitter immigration collage
Using a clever design and twitter data, Flores' research reveals how anti-immigration laws embolden those with anti-immigrant sentiments.  
Using Facebook data as a real-time census
An American Sickness
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal.  Recommended to us by Donna Shalala
Emilio Zagheni
Emilio Zagheni's work leverages Facebook advertising data to estimate migrant populations
Tolnay Retirement
Tolnay Symposium and Reception: Program of Events
Tolnay Retirement
An Appreciation of Stew Tolnay, Written by María Vignau Loría 
Dreamland
Dreamland by Sam Quinones.  Recommended by Stew Tolnay
The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.  Recommended by Edgar Kiser
Modern Romance
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg.  Recommended by Steve Karceski
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.  Recommended by Katherine Beckett
Pettinicchio
David Pettinicchio (PhD 2012) and Michelle Maroto (PhD 2012) examine employment discrimination against persons with disabilities
No Jargon
No Jargon:  René Flores discusses immigration and the 2016 Presidential Election with Theda Skocpol.
LaValle
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle.  Recommended by Steve Pfaff
Changing the Game
Cesare Miscarriage
NPR highlights Nina Cesare's research on how people discuss miscarriages on Twitter