Faculty Accomplishments

  • Burns, Stacy. “Lay and Professional Competencies: Linking Garfinkel’s Tutorial Exercises to a Study of Legal Work,” Pp. 43-60 in The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel (P. Sormani and D. vom Lehn, Eds.), part of The Anthem Companion to Sociology series (Anthem Press, 2023).

    Burns, Stacy. Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice (with M. Peyrot) (Lynne Rienner Publishers, June 2022).

    Burns, Stacy. Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice(with M. Peyrot). Lynne Rienner Publishers (forthcoming 2022), [Lynne Rienner Publishers | Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice] (https://www.rienner.com/title/Social_Problems_and_Social_Control_in_Criminal_Justice)

    Burns, Stacy "'They Sacrificed...for Us, We Need to Give Them a Helping Hand Now': Local Reasoning in Combat Veteran's Court," Ethnographic Studies, Vol. 15: 106-121 (2018).

    Burns, Stacy Making Settlement Work: An Examination of the Work of Judicial Mediators, in the Law, Justice and Power Series, Routledge Revival Series, Routledge Press (Reissued 2018).

    Burns, Stacy "Doing Justice and Demonstrating Fairness in Small Claims Arbitration" (Human Studies, Vol. 32: 109-131 [2009]), translated into Japanese and published in Tokai Law Review 55: 112-163 (2018).

    Burns, Stacy “Public Policy and Social Problems: Recent Trends in the Formal Control of Individual Behavior” (With M. Peyrot), pp. 57-76 in The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems, edited by Javier Trevino, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 2018.

    Burns, Stacy Book under advance contract with Lynne Rienner Publishers, entitled Social Problems and the Criminal Justice System (with M. Peyrot).

    Burns, Stacy “Harold Garfinkel.” 2015. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition), ed. James D. Wright. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, pp. 598-604.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie A. 2024. “Business as Usual: Framing Labor Exploitation in the UN Global Compact.” Globalizations https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2407207

    Limoncelli, Stephanie A. 2020. “There’s an App for That? Ethical Consumption in the Fight against Trafficking for Labor Exploitation.” Anti-Trafficking Review 14:33-46. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201220143

    Sisli, Zeynep and Limoncelli, Stephanie. 2019. “Child Brides or Child Labor in a Worst Form?” Journal of Labor and Society 22(2):313-324.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie 2017. “The Global Development of Contemporary Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy.” International Sociology 32(6):814-834.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie 2017. “Globalising Service-Learning in the Social Sciences.” Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences 10(2):25-40.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie 2017. "Legal Limits: Ending Human Trafficking in Supply Chains." World Policy Journal 34(1):119-123.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie 2016. “What in the World are Anti-Human Trafficking NGOs Doing? Findings from a Global Study.” Journal of Human Trafficking 2(4):316-328.

    Muraco, Anna, et. al. 2018. "Lifesaving in every way: The role of companion animals in the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults age 50 and over." Research on Aging, 40(9), 859-882.

    Muraco, Anna, et. al. 2017. “Who Says I Do: The Changing Context of Marriage and Health and Quality of Life for LGBT Midlife and Older Adults.” The Gerontologist, 57(S1): S50-S62.

    Muraco, Anna, et. al. 2017. “Social Network Types and Mental Health among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults.” The Gerontologist, 57(S1): S15-S29. S84-S94

    Muraco, Anna, et. al. 2017. “The Unfolding of LGBT Lives: Key Events Associated with Health and Well-being in Later Life,” The Gerontologist, 57(S1): S15-S29.

    Muraco, Anna & Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen. 2016. “Turning Points in the Lives of Lesbian and Gay Adults Age 50 and Older.” Advances in Life Course Research, 30: 124-132.

    Sager, Rebecca, Article- Wood, Richard, Brad Fulton, and Rebecca Sager. “Strategic Alliances: The Religious Left and Secular Collaborations” Mobilization: An International Quarterly (2023) 28 (3): 279–300.

    Adler Jr, G. J., Ortiz, S. E., Plutzer, E., Mayrl, D., Coley, J. S., & Sager, Rebecca. (2021). Religion at the frontline: How religion influenced the response of local government officials to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociology of Religion, 82(4), 397-425.

    Sager, Rebecca and Laskota, B. LA Times article, “The evangelical church has become leaner and arguably meaner.” May 31, 2018 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sager-loskota-evangelical-20180531-story.html

    Sager, Rebecca 2017. “Progressive Faith-Based Organizations: Tactics and Strategies”. In Progressive Religion and Social Activism: New Approaches to Understanding Faith and Politics in America. Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist, Rhys H. Williams, editors (New York University Press).

    Sager, Rebecca and Keith Bentele. 2016. “Co-opting the State: The Conservative Evangelical Movement and State-Level Institutionalization, Passage, and Diffusion of Faith-Based Initiatives” Religions 7(6): 71.

    Villalta, Sara, Tienda, Marta, Goldberg, Rachel E., Koffman, Dawn, 2023. "Adolescents' Love Lives: Heterogeneity in Relationship Status Trajectories and Links with Affect". Journal of Youth and Adolescence, A Multidisciplinary Research Publication, 1325-1339.

    Clarke, Adele E., Carrie Friese, and Rachel Washburn. 2023. “Critical Situational Analysis After the Interpretive Turn,” in Sage Handbook of Qualitative Inquiry, 6th edition, Norman Denzin, Yvonna Lincoln, Michael Giardina, and Gaile Cannella (Eds.) (pp. 369-384). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

    Washburn, Rachel, Anna-Lisa Klages, and Anna Mazur. 2023. “Reflections on Situational Analysis and its Use for Analyzing Visual Discourses” in Die Situationsanalyse als Forschungsprogramm: Theoretische Implikationen, Forschungspraxis und Anwendungsbeispiele. Leslie Gauditz, Anna-Lisa Klages, Stefanie Kruse, et al (Eds.) (pp.53-66). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

    Washburn, Rachel “Conceptual Frameworks in Scientific Inquiry and the CDC’s Approach to Pesticide Toxicity, 1948-1968.” American Journal of Public Health. 109(11): 1548-1556. (2019)

    Clarke, Adele E., Carrie Friese, and Rachel Washburn. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Released August 2017.

    Washburn, Rachel 2017. Clarke, Adele E., Carrie Friese, and Rachel Washburn. "Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn, Second Edition." Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

    Washburn, Rachel, et. al. (Editors). 2015. Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Research with Grounded Theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

    Washburn, Rachel 2015. “Reflections on Mapping Human Biomonitoring,” in Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Research with Grounded Theory, Adele E. Clarke, Carrie Friese, Rachel Washburn (Eds.). (pp. 261-269).Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

    Zamora, Sylvia 2023. “Can’t We All Finally Get Along?: Public Opinion on Race in L.A. Twenty-Five Years After King.” In Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies, edited by Pawan Dhingra and Nadia Kim. New York University Press.

    Zamora, Sylvia. 2022. Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border. Stanford University Press.

    Zamora, Sylvia "Mexican illegality, Black citizenship, and White power: Immigrant perceptions of the U.S. socioracial hierarchy" Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (July 2017) 

  • Burns, Stacy. Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice (with M. Peyrot) (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022), reviewed in CHOICE Reviews, March 2023, Vol. 60, No. 7 and Criminal Justice Review, On-line First, April 6, 2023. 

    Burns, Stacy. Back cover endorsement for Henry Fradella, Criminal Law: An Introduction to Key Concepts and Cases, Oxford University Press, 2022.

    Burns, Stacy. Back cover endorsement for the book, Law at Work. 2015. Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch and Tim Berard, eds. 2015. Oxford Studies in Language and Law, Oxford University Press.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie A. 2010. The Politics of Trafficking: The First International Movement to Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women. Stanford University Press. (paperback edition2012)

    Sager, Rebecca. (January 2010). Faith, Politics, and Power: The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives.New York: Oxford University Press.

    Sager, Rebecca. Fierce Faith: Progressive Religious Activism and Political Action. (Under Contract, expected publication summer 2020). New York University Press, NY, NY.

    Sager, Rebecca. (2018). Book Review: “A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing For Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy.” By Richard Wood and Brad Fulton. Mobilization(23:1): 132-133.

    Washburn, Rachel. Invited review of Cordner, Alissa. Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health. New York: Columbia University Press. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 31(2). (2017)

    Washburn, Rachel. 2017. Invited Review of Cordner, Alissa. "Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health." New York: Columbia University Press. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (published online November 21, 2016)

    Zamora, Sylvia. "Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border." USC Equity Research Institute: Data and Analysis to Power Social Change, Blog. February 13, 2023.

    Zamora, Sylvia:  Book, Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border (Stanford University Press, 2022), was favorably reviewed in Social Forces, Volume 101, Issue 4, April 2023.

    Zamora, Sylvia. Book Review, "South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A." by P. Hondagneu-Sotelo and M. Pastor. City & Community 00(0) 1-2.

    Zamora, Sylvia. 2019. Words of Passage: National Belonging and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants. Contemporary Sociology. 48(5):532-534.

  • Adeyinka-Skold, Sarah: 2024 Faith & Justice Research Grant for grant proposal titled "(S)Wiped: Christian Dating in the Digital Age".

    Burns, Stacy: part of a research team that was awarded an Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada in the amount of $87, 003 for their project on police-involved fatal shootings.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie: 2024 BCLA Faculty Research and Writing Grant. The Business of Advocacy: Companies and NGOs in the Fight against “Modern Slavery.”

    Limoncelli, Stephanie and Washburn, Rachel: Summer Assessment Grant, 2018

    Muraco, Anna: Consultant, NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation at Seattle University to Jodi O'Brien (Award 1629875), 2016-2020.

    Muraco, Anna: BCLA Summer Research Account, 2017

    Sager, Rebecca:: National Science Foundation Grant- . $568,773 Gary Adler, Jonathan Cooley, Damon Maryl, Eric Plutzer, Rebecca Sager. Summer 2023 - Summer 2025.

    Sager, Rebecca: Louisville Institute Grant-Research Grant, Spring 2019

    Sager, Rebecca: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion-Jack Shand Research Grant-Spring 2019.

    Sager, Rebecca: BCLA Summer Research and Writing Grant-Spring 2019.

    Sager, Rebecca: 2017 BCLA Faculty Research and Writing Grant recipient

    Sager, Rebecca: 2017 BCLA Immersion Course Grant recipient

    Washburn, Rachel: Faith and Justice Curriculum Development Grant, 2018

    Zamora, Sylvia and Muraco, Anna: 2020 Academic Research Grant, Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging.

    Zamora, Sylvia: 2017 Research and Writing Grant, Loyola Marymount University BCLA Division

    Zamora, Sylvia: Awarded an inaugural​ Leavey Center Faculty Research Fellowship for the grant project: “Can’t We All Finally Get Along?: Race Relations in Los Angeles Twenty-Five Years After King” ​

    Zamora, Sylvia: ​​2017 BCLA Faculty Research and Writing Grant recipient

  • Sarah Adeyinka-Skold 2024-25 Staff Senate Committee member on the BCLA Social Sciences, WGST and Ethnic Studies committee.

    Stacy Burns. Fall 2022-Spring 2023: Chair, BCLA Faculty Development Committee.

    Stacy Burns 2019. Reviewer for Bristol University Press (Policy Press) of proposal for new journal, the Journal of Forensic Social Sciences: Civil and Criminal Law and Public Policy, as the official journal of the Forensic

    Stacy Burns has been appointed a founding member of the Editorial Board of Social Science Today, an international and interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed print and on-line journal for scholars across the social sciences (2019).

    Stephanie Limoncelli was elected as Chair of the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2015-2017).

    Anna Muraco, Super Advisor, BCLA/LMU New Student Orientation.  Summer 2021, Summer + Academic Year, 2023-24. Session Organizer, Aging Section, 2024 American Sociological Association National Conference. Interim Member, Committee on Rank and Tenure, LMU 2023-24.  Disability Support Services Committee Member, 2022-present.  External Program Reviewer, Department of Sociology California Lutheran University, 2023. EEO Hearing Panelist, 2021-present. Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Selection Committee, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociology Association, 2023. Council Member (Elected), SEction on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociology Association, 2022-2024. 

    Rebecca Sager: 2023-2025 Department Chair, 2024 Cabinet Associate for the Provost Office.

    Rebecca Sager: Loyola Marymount University: Moderator, CSJ Panel on Homelessness, Spring 2019.

    Rachel Washburn: Doctoral Qualification Committee Member for Maristela Julia Fernandes, Graduate Program in Psychology, Pontifical University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, Spring/Summer 2018.

    Rachel Washburn: Organizer and Presider, “Situational Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Panel” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, May 19, 2017.

    Sylvia Zamora: Research Advisor, LMU Honors Program; LMU Grievance Committee 2022-2025, Council Member of the American Sociological Association Latino Sociology Section, 2021-2024; Awards Committee Chair, ASA Latino Sociology Section 2023-3-24; LMU McNair Program Mentor.

    Sylvia Zamora is serving as elected Council Member of the American Sociological Association Latino Sociology Section for a three-year term (2021-2024).

  • Stacy Burns’ book, Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice (with M. Peyrot) was favorably reviewed in CHOICE Reviews, March 2023, Vol. 60, No. and Honorable Mention, Law and Society Division, 2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems. Reviewed in Criminal Justice Review, On-line First, April 6, 2023.

    Anna Muraco was awarded the 2024 BCLA Outstanding Faculty Advising Award from the Student Engagement and Success Committee. BCLA Faculty Advisors provide invaluable individualized academic advising and support to advisees within their discipline, and that Faculty Advisors serve as an impactful resource in a student’s educational experience allowing students to achieve their full potential

    Anna Muraco was awarded The Daum Professorship in Spring 2017.  Created from a legacy received from Harry M> Daum, Class of 1938, The Daum Professorship is given annually to a tenured professor in BCLA with full rank who has exhibited a record of excellence in teaching and advising, scholarship or creative work, service and leadership to the department, college and university.  Nominees must demonstrate consistent excellence in all areas of faculty responsibility commensurate with rank.

    Rebecca Sager: 2023/2024 Team Teaching Award (with Brett Hoover, Theology)

    Sager, Rebecca 2022. National Science Foundation Sociology (NSF) research grant in summer 2022. They received a total of $568,773 for their project. Local Government Officials and the Management of Religion-State Relationships in a New Era from the NSF.

    Sager, Rebecca 2022. Outstanding Paper Award at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference in 2022 for "Religion at the frontline: How religion influenced the response of local government officials to the COVID-19 pandemic" in Sociology of religion, 82(4), 397-425 (with Adler Jr, G. J., Ortiz, S. E., Plutzer, E., Mayrl, D., Coley, J. S., 2021).

    Sager, Rebecca: President’s Award-Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Fall 2019.

    Zamora, Sylvia. 2023 Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award for “Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigration and Race Across the Border.” Presented by the American Sociological Association Latina/o Sociology Section.

    Sylvia Zamora received an LMU Ascending Scholar Award in April, 2023. This award was created in 2019 by the Office of the Provost to recognize excellence and promise in faculty scholarship. The award was presented at the Faculty Recognition Ceremony on April 24, 2023.

    Sylvia Zamora's book, Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border (Stanford University Press, 2022), was favorably reviewed in Social Forces, Volume 101, Issue 4, April 2023.

    Zamora, Sylvia: Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2020)

    Zamora, Sylvia: Received the 2019 Article Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research from the American Sociological Association Section on Latino/a Sociology for her paper (2018) “Mexican illegality, black citizenship, and white power: immigrant perceptions of the U.S. socioracial hierarchy.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(11):1897-1914.

    Zamora, Sylvia: College Fellowship, Loyola Marymount University, BCLA Division (2019)

    Zamora, Sylvia: Summer Research Fellowship, LMU Center for the Study of Los Angeles/BCLA (2017).

    Zamora, Sylvia: Engaged Learning Grant, Loyola Marymount University BCLA Division (2017).

  • Sarah Adeyinka-Skold, March 2024- The Influencer Shera Seven, Guru of Corrupt Male-Female Relationships: Ultra Radical Feminist or Puppet of the Patriarchy (Causette, a French magazine)

    Sarah Adeyinka-Skold, March 2024-“Should Black Women Stop Going on Love Is Blind,” (Vox)

    Sarah Adeyinka-Skold,  August 2023-“Live, Laugh, Love: Just So You Know,” (Gold Comedy)

    Limoncelli, Stephanie A. March 2024: “The Business of Advocacy: Companies and NGOs in the Fight against ’Modern Slavery.’” Harvard History, Culture and Society Workshop.

    Limoncelli, Stephanie A. June 2023: “Will the Real Victim Please Stand Up? International Organizations, Businesses, and the Framing of Labor Exploitation in the UN Global Compact. International Sociological Association, Melbourne, Australia.

    Stephanie Limoncelli and Zeynep Sisli (2021) “The Right to Life at Work as a Human Right” Fourth ISA Form of Sociology, Porte Alegre, Brazil.

    The Social Scientist Petition to the Trump Administration that started with the LMU Sociology Department Statement was published in the Boston Globe, April 22, 2017, to coincide with the global March for Science.

    Anna Muraco, Sarah Trainer & Jodi O'Brien (2021) "I Know My Problems Aren't As Serious": Faculty Stress and Inequity in Higher Education pre-and during Covid-19, Pacific Sociological Association

    Rebecca Sager: Fauria, Krysta. “Virginia Revival to Protest 'Toxic' Christianity”, Associated Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btw8iCCPyHw&t=7s

    Sylvia Zamora. February 2024. Author Meets Critic Book Event for “Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border.” UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration.

    Sylvia Zamora. April 2024. Keynote Address, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, CSU San Bernardino.