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Frankie Frank was appointed Graduate Student Council Representative for the Teaching and Learning Section of the American Sociological Association. This Section aims to improve the teaching of sociology from the high school through graduate level. It encourages and facilitates innovative and effective methods of teaching and research of teaching practices.
Congratulations to the following graduate students on receipt of their fellowships and grants! Nona Gronert is a 2021 National Academy of Education’s Spencer Dissertation Fellow through August of 2022. Walker Kahn received the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant Award. Kurt Kuehne won a Multi-Country Research Fellowship from Council of American Overseas Research …
The National Institutes of Health awarded Monica Grant, Professor of Sociology, a two-year R03 grant to study the reproductive consequences of schooling expansion for men in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda. This project builds on previous work conducted by Grant about the expansion of girls’ schooling in sub-Saharan Africa and the causal consequences of girls’ schooling …
Leafia Zi Ye’s paper “Continuous Integration or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Trajectories in Later Life” received the Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course. Ye began her graduate studies in the Department of Sociology in 2016 and her research uses quantitative methods to study immigrants …
Associate Professor John Eason has been selected to be one of eight Equity Scholars at the Urban Institute. This two-year program provides opportunity for the scholars to deepen their own policy-oriented research on race, equity, and structural racism. Working with other researchers at the Urban Institute’s equity-focused policy centers and labs, scholars will develop research …
The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position at the assistant or associate professor rank beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will have a primary appointment and tenure home in the Department of Sociology. Applicants must hold a PhD prior to the start of the appointment. Research specialization is open; however, we …
Congratulations to Kristina Fullerton Rico, who received a funded honorable mention for the Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green dissertation scholarship from the Sociologists for Women in Society. The scholarship offers support to women and non-binary scholars of color who are from underrepresented groups and are studying concerns that women of color face domestically and/or …
Casey Stockstill (Ph.D. 2018) was recently interviewed for the newsletter “Culture Study” by Anne Helen Peterson about her research on race and early childhood care. Stockstill is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, where she is finishing her book, Unequal Beginnings: Daily Life in Two Segregated American Preschools. The questions that …
Congratulations to Isabel Anadon who has been awarded an American Bar Foundation (ABF) / National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality. She is one of five outstanding scholars from a highly competitive application pool to receive a 2021-22 Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Isabel will study the intersection of punishment and migration with …
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s undergraduate scholarships. Congratulations go out to: Yuxin Liu, Alicia Lorta, Madison Johnson, and Yumeng Wang for receiving the Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship; and Yahvi Mahendra for winning the Andrea Michelle Sperka Sociology Fund. The Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship is an undergraduate scholarship …