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Kate Pride Brown, PhDVanderbilt Department of Sociology Colloquium Wednesday, September 23, 2015 -3:30pm
Sep. 24, 2015—Speaker: Kate Pride Brown, PhD Talk Title: “A Tale of Two Lakes: Transnational Activism and Perceived Possibility” Talk Date: September 23, 2015 Talk Location: Garland Hall 209
Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ColloquiumFriday, September 18th, 2015- 12:00 pm Garland Hall 209
Sep. 18, 2015—Speaker: Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Talk date: Friday, September 18th, 2015-12:00 pm Talk title: “Precarious Lives: Insecurity, Exclusion and Well-Being in Post-Industrial Societies” Talk location: Garland Hall 209
Professor Holly McCammon and graduate students, Allison McGrath and Megan Robinson (Sociology) and Ashley Dixon (Peabody), gave a Plenary presentation at the ASA’s Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop in Chicago, Illinois.
Sep. 2, 2015—Their paper was presented by Allison McGrath and titled, “Targeting Culture: Feminist Activism and Sexism in Law School Education.” http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/cbsm-workshop/agenda.aspx
Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville
Aug. 25, 2015—Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville. By: Dan Cornfield
Professor Dan Cornfield's Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Princeton University Press) has just been published.
Aug. 25, 2015—Professor Dan Cornfield’s Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville (Princeton University Press) has just been published. Based on in-depth interviews with 75 Nashville music professionals, Cornfield offers a new sociological theory of “artist activism” in recreating artist community for our contemporary era of indie art-making and precarious employment.
Professor Evelyn Patterson and Professor Christopher Wildeman publish in Social Science Research.
Jul. 28, 2015—Professor Evelyn Patterson and Professor Christopher Wildeman published “Mass imprisonment and the life course revisited: Cumulative years spent imprisoned and marked for working-age black and white men” in Social Science Research.
Professor Lijun Song publishes in Social Science & Medicine.
Jul. 28, 2015—Professor Lijun Song publishes “Does Knowing People in the Positional Hierarchy Protect or Hurt? Social Capital, Comparative Reference Group, and Depression in Two Societies” in Social Science & Medicine.
Professor Evelyn Patterson publishes with former graduate student Helena Dagadu in ASA Journal, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Jul. 23, 2015—Professor Evelyn Patterson with former graduate student Helena Dagadu published “Fractures in the Color Line: Consequences of Constructions of Race and Ethnicity on Measures of Imprisonment” in ASA Journal, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
The American Sociological Review, edited by Professors Larry Isaac and Holly McCammon, is once again ranked #1 among all sociology journals.
Jul. 21, 2015—In the newly released Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for articles published in 2014, the ASR had the top impact factor score of 4.390.
Professor Katharine M. Donato and graduate students Bhumika Piya, and Anna Jacobs received the 2014 IPUMS Research Award for the Best Publication on International Research for the following paper, published in International Migration Review.
Jul. 7, 2015—Donato, Katharine M., Bhumika Piya, and Anna Jacobs. 2014. “The Double Disadvantage Reconsidered: Gender, Immigration, Marital Status, and Global Labor Force Participation in the 21st Century.” International Migration Review S1(Fall): S335-376.