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CSUSB professor part of team analyzing latest trends in upcoming congressional and gubernatorial elections
FiftyPlusOne
July 31, 2026
Meredith Conroy (political science) was part of a team of political researchers and journalists who tracked every candidate in the 2026 congressional and gubernatorial primary elections and examined the key endorsers in those races “to examine what types of candidates each party is actually nominating, and what that might tell us about where the parties are headed.”
DC National Guard deployment extended through Trump’s term, one year after crime emergency
HNGN
https://www.hngn.com/articles/272673/20260810/dc-national-guard-deployment-extended-through-trumps-term-one-year-after-crime-emergency.htm
Aug. 10, 2026
Brian Levin, a professor emeritus of criminal justice at California State University, San Bernardino, commented on the extension through January 2029 of the National Guard's deployment in Washington, D.C., formalizing what began as a temporary crime-emergency deployment a year ago.
Levin "noted that crime in Washington was already declining before the deployment began, according to a report issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in January, and that while the surge likely intensified that existing decline, isolating its precise contribution is difficult. Levin has also cautioned that Washington's relatively small, dense footprint may make it an easier environment to police intensively than larger or more sprawling cities, limiting how directly the approach could translate elsewhere," the news site reported.
Faculty in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences have published their research recently.
- Psychology faculty Mark Agars and Gino Howard published “The Unseen Costs of Low-Income Work: Understanding the Relationship Between Parent Work and Child Cognitive and Academic Outcomes,” in Behavioral Sciences. “The purpose of this paper is to explicate the integration of Bioecological theory and Spillover-crossover theory to provide a framework for examining these factors and to highlight several areas in the work-family literature that are ripe for exploration of their role in child school outcomes.”
- Fabián A. Borges, professor of political science, with Merike Blofield (University of Hamburg) and Juliana Martínez Franzoni (University of Costa Rica), published “Protecting children from poverty in unequal democracies: The determinants of public opinion on child cash transfers in Latin America,” in Latin American Politics and Society. “Drawing on original, nationally representative surveys conducted in 2022 in seven Latin American democracies (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru), this article examines public support for cash transfers toward children across three dimensions: existence (yes/no), breadth (who should receive them) and adequacy (benefit levels).”
- Teresa Velásquez, professor of anthropology, and Kirsten Francescone (Trent University), published “Women’s plot-labor: Commoning against extractivism and the cultivation of emancipatory futures in Ecuador,” in Dialectical Anthropology. “This paper examines how Indigenous and campesina women in the southern Ecuadorian Andes mobilize agroecology as a form of territorial defense against large-scale metal mining.”
- Economics faculty Daniel MacDonald and Yasmin Dildar published “Uneven progress: Marital status and the motherhood penalty in the United States, 1978–2023,” in Feminist Economics. “Parenthood accounts for most of the current gender earnings gap in the United States. While many factors explain mothers’ lower earnings compared to fathers’, employment outcomes play a key role: after childbirth, mothers are more likely to stay at home for an extended period, and mothers are more likely to adjust labor force participation or work hours in response to childcare needs at home. This article contributes to this literature by documenting differences in the probability of exiting employment between mothers and fathers between 1978 and 2023 using linked Current Population Survey microdata.”
- Anahid Modrek, associate professor of psychology, published “Deeper learning offers opportunities for imagination without cost to content knowledge,” in Thinking Skills and Creativity. “As part of a much larger longitudinal project, this preliminary work provides new rubrics – new tools – for teachers and researchers alike. We report reliability and validity of the rubrics developed and employed in this study. Implications for curriculum, pedagogy and public policy are discussed.”
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