Where has curiosity taken sociologists in 2017 so far?

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Wed, 06/14/2017 - 00:00

Drug use in Puerto Rico. Cognitive radio sharing. Labrador Inuit communities.

The kinds of topics that faculty, students, and alumni of the Department of Sociology have been researching in the last six months.

Faculty: Kirk Dombrowski, Robin Gauthier, Bilal Khan

Students and alumni: Ian Duncan, Patrick Habecker, Courtney Thrash, Melissa Welch-Lazortiz

To be published

  • Courtney Thrash, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Robin Gauthier, Bilal Khan, Roberto Abadie, Yadira Rolón Colón, Sandra Miranda De León, Kirk Dombrowski “Rural versus Urban Injection Drug Use in Puerto Rico: Network Implications for HIV and HCV Infection.” Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse.
  • Roberto Abadie, Camila Gelpi-Acosta, Carmen A. Davila-Torres, Angelica Rivera-Villegas, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Kirk Dombrowski, "It Ruined My Life": The Effects of the War on Drugs on People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Rural Puerto Rico.” International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Mohammad Abu Shattal, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Bilal Khan, Anna Wisniewska, and Kirk Dombrowski, “Evolution of Bio-Socially Inspired Strategies in Support of Dynamic Spectrum Access” WS07-Workshop on Flexible Networks (FlexNets).
  • Anna Wisniewska, Bilal Khan, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Kirk Dombrowski, and Mohammad Abu Shattal, “Evolutionary pressures in emerging societies of secondary users in cognitive radio networks.” 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, IEEE ICC 2017.
  • Joshua Moses, Bilal Khan, Vladimir Ponizovsky, G. Robin Gauthier, Kirk Dombrowski “Confounding Culture: Drinking, Country Food Sharing and Traditional Knowledge Networks in a Labrador Inuit Community.” Human Organization
  • Anna Wisniewska, Bilal Khan, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Kirk Dombrowski, and Mohammad Abu Shattal, “When Brands fight over Bands: Sociality in the Cognitive Radio Ecosystem.” Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, IEEE ICC 2017.
  • Mayra Coronado Garcia, Courtney R Thrash, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, G. Robin Gauthier, Roberto Abadie, Camila Gelpi-Acosta, Juan Carlos Reyes, Kirk Dombrowski, “Using Network Sampling and Recruitment Data to Understand Social Structures Related to Community Health in a Population of People Who Inject Drugs in Rural Puerto Rico.” Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal.

2017

  • Roberto Abadie, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski “Social Determinants of HIV/HCV Co-Infection: A case Study from PWID in Rural Puerto Rico.” Addictive Behaviors Reports 5 (June 2017): 29-32.
  • Ian Duncan, Roberto Abadie, Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Juan Carlos Reyes, Ric Curtis, Kirk Dombrowski “Injection Partners and HCV Status among Rural Persons Who Inject Drugs in Puerto Rico” Preventive Medicine Reports 6(1): 38-43.
  • Melissa Welch-Lazoritz, Patrick Habecker, Kirk Dombrowski, Angelica Rivera Villegas, Carmen Ana Davila, Yadira Rolón Colón, Sandra Miranda De León, “Differential outcomes for people who inject drugs associated with lack of access to syringe exchange in rural areas.” International Journal of Drug Policy 43(1): 16-22.
  • Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Patrick Habecker, Holly Hagan, Samuel R. Friedman, Mohammed Saad “The Interaction of Human Social Systems and Virus Natural History in the non-Spreading of HIV.” AIDS and Behavior 21(4):1004-1115.

 

2016

  • Kirk Dombrowski, Patrick Habecker, G. Robin Gauthier, Joshua Moses, and Bilal Khan, “Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit population movements and inequalities in the land claims era”, Current Anthropology 57(6): 785-805.
  • Anna Wisniewska, Bilal Khan, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Kirk Dombrowski, and Mohammad Abu Shattal, “Social deference and hunger as mechanisms for starvation avoidance in cognitive radio societies.” IWCMC 2016: Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing 12 (2016): 1063-68.