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Why the United Auto Workers GM Strike is Headed for Failure, by Prof. Josh Murray

Sep. 24, 2019—Prof. Josh Murray writes about the UAW strike for The Conversation.

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Prof. Dan Cornfield commented on the social and political implications of the UAW-GM strike in Politico and on NBC News Now.

Sep. 18, 2019—Prof. Dan Cornfield commented on the social and political implications of the UAW-GM strike in Politico and on NBC News Now.

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Prof. Larry Isaac publishes with recent PhD students Jonathan Coley, Anna Jacobs, and Allison McGrath

Aug. 12, 2019—Isaac, L. W., Jacobs, A., Kucinskas, J., & McGrath, A. (2019). Social movement schools: sites for consciousness transformation, training, and prefigurative social development. Social Movement Studies, 1-23. Isaac, Larry. W., Jonathan S. Coley, Daniel B. Cornfield, and Dennis C. Dickerson (2019). Pathways to Modes of Movement Participation: Micromobilization in the Nashville Civil Rights Movement. Social...

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Prof. Evelyn Patterson named a 2019 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

May. 13, 2019—Prof. Evelyn Patterson was named among eleven outstanding faculty members from across the university to be selected for the 2019 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise.Read More

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Prof. Rosevelt Noble awarded Sports & Society microgrant

Aug. 3, 2018—Seven Vanderbilt faculty were awarded microgrants through the Sports and Society Microgrant Program, which is designed to engage the campus in investigating how sports and society impact each other across a variety of disciplines. This micro-grant initiative was launched to identify ideas of faculty interest and expertise as the university explores designing a potential center....

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Prof. Dan Cornfield publishes “Equity & Engagement in the Arts: Regional Differences in the Missions of Local Arts Agencies in the United States”

Jul. 19, 2018—Dan Cornfield published “Equity & Engagement in the Arts: Regional Differences in the Missions of Local Arts Agencies in the United States,” a policy paper produced during his year as the 2017-18 Faculty Fellow in Arts Policy at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.  Cornfield co-authored the paper with...

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Prof. Mariano Sana publishes with Alexander Weinreb and Guy Stecklov in Bulletin of Sociological Methodology

Jul. 6, 2018—Prof. Mariano Sana, along with Alexander Weinreb from UT Austin and Guy Stecklov from Univ. of British Columbia/Hebrew University Israel, has published “Strangers in the Field: A Methodological Experiment on Interviewer-Respondent Familiarity” in Bulletin of Sociological Methodology.

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