In memory of

Prof. Alicia Cast

Goleta, CA

1968 - February 22, 2024

1968 - Feb 22, 2024

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In memory of

Prof. Alicia Cast

Passed

February 22, 2024
Born

1968
Resided

Goleta, CA

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We lost a beloved member of our department. Alicia Cast passed away on February 22, 2024. The faculty, staff, and students are in mourning. We extend our deep sympathies to those of you who were close to Alicia and especially to her two sons Ben and Oliver and other family members.

Alicia was an exceptional teacher, an ideal colleague, and a quiet force to be reckoned with. She will be greatly missed.

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Alicia Cast was a gifted sociologist and social psychologist who passed away on February 22, 2024. She will be deeply missed. She was most renowned in sociology for her work on the role of emotions in identity formation, and relationships of identity to attitudes, behaviors, and social outcomes, including mental and physical health and patterns of inequality. She was theoretically sharp, quantitatively sophisticated, and analytically insightful.

Alicia’s primary empirical focus was on examining how the …

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