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Grad student Rachel Underwood awarded 2020-2021 Mellon Fellowship
Jun. 29, 2020—Graduate student Rachel Underwood has been awarded a 2020-2021 Mellon graduate fellowship at the Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities.
Grad student Amanda Brockman receives Graduate Teaching Fellowship from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching
Jun. 24, 2020—Grad student Amanda Brockman receives Graduate Teaching Fellowship from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching
Grad student Elizabeth Barna awarded a 2020-2021 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
Jun. 23, 2020—Elizabeth Barna has been awarded a 2020-2021 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vanderbilt’s Digital Humanities Center, for her ongoing work bridging academic sociology with the world of museums and public engagement.
Prof. Christy Erving receives a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship
Jun. 16, 2020—The Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship Program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities. The Fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
NEA research grant supports study of diversity initiatives in arts agencies
Jun. 16, 2020—Prof. Dan Cornfield, principal investigator, and Prof. Alexandre Frenette, co-principal investigator, receive a two-year, $17,000 National Endowment of the Arts research grant to support a Vanderbilt analysis of how the characteristics and practices of more than 500 local arts agencies and their communities help or hinder their pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals.
Prof. Lijun Song publishes a co-edited book with Ronald S. Burt, Yanjie Bian and Nan Lin
Jan. 8, 2020—Ronald S. Burt, Yanjie Bian, Lijun Song, and Nan Lin (eds.). 2019. Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification: An Analysis of the Sociology of Nan Lin. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete
Jan. 8, 2020—Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete By: Josh Murray, Michael Schwartz At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, automobile manufacturing was the largest, most profitable industry in the United States and residents of industry hubs like Detroit and Flint, Michigan had some of the highest incomes in the country....
Prof. Joshua Murray receives the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Jan. 6, 2020—Professor Joshua Murray was recognized for his excellence in teaching undergraduates by being presented with the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism co-edited by Holly McCammon
Jan. 3, 2020—McCammon, Holly J., and Lee Ann Banaszak, eds. 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism. Oxford University Press, 2018.
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements co-edited by Holly McCammon
Jan. 3, 2020—Snow, David A., et al., eds. The Wiley Blackwell companion to social movements. John Wiley & Sons, 2018.