Chase Billingham, associate professor of sociology, published an op-ed in USA Today on the economy and its impact upon voters’ feelings leading up to this year’s presidential election. Examining new data on the Supplemental Poverty Measure, Billingham argued, can help contextualize the economic nostalgia expressed by many working-class voters, which may have important implications for the electoral results.

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Chase Billingham, associate professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of Sociology, has been selected as the next book review editor for Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains.

The journal, produced at Kansas State University in collaboration with the Kansas Historical Foundation, is an esteemed, peer-reviewed outlet for new research on the history of Kansas and the surrounding Plains region of the United States. Billingham has previously published two articles on the history of Wichita in the journal.