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Professor Katharine Donato publishes Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age

Apr. 24, 2015—Professor Katharine Donato publishes Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age

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Professor Lijun Song publishes in the American Behavioral Scientist

Apr. 20, 2015—Professor Lijun Song publishes “Does Knowing People in Authority Protect or Hurt? Authoritative Contacts and Depression in Urban China” in the American Behavioral Scientist.

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Joseph B. Richardson, Jr., Associate Professor of African-American Studies, University of Maryland Colloquium Friday, April 3, 2015- 3:15 pm Garland Hall 301F

Apr. 3, 2015—Speaker: Joseph B. Richardson, Jr. Associate Professor of African-American Studies at University of Maryland Talk Title: I’m on Papers: Analyzing the Intersection of Criminal Justice Supervision and Synthetic Cannabinoid Use among Violently Injured Young Black Men Talk Date: Friday, April 3, 2015, 3:15 pm Talk Location: Garland Hall 301F        

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G. William Domhoff, Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz Colloquium Wednesday, February 25, 2015 -12:00pm

Feb. 25, 2015—Speaker: G. William Domhoff, Research Professor University of California, Santa Cruz Talk date: February 25th, 2015, 12:00 pm Talk title:”The Social Security Act vs. The National Labor Relations Act: Class, Power, and the Nature of Corporate Elite Influence in Policy-making” Talk location: Sarratt 189.

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Professor Nikolas Rose of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King's College London Colloquium Wednesday, February 18, 2015-4 pm, Stevenson Hall 4309

Feb. 19, 2015—Contested Global Biopsychiatry: Establishing an International Partnership For Critical and Constructive Global Mental Health. Lectures and a workshop featuring Professor Nikolas Rose and other scholars from February 18-20, 2015. Funded with support from the Vanderbilt International Office and aResearch Scholars Lecture Series grant. Participants include Aimi Hamraie,  Alex Cohen,  Bahr Weiss,  Caroline Audet,  Dominique Behague,  Emily Nacol,  Eugene...

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Jenny Trinitapoli, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Religious Studies at The Pennsylvania State University Colloquium Tuesday, February 17, 2015 -12:15pm Sarratt 189

Feb. 17, 2015—Speaker:  Jenny Trinitapoli, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Religious Studies The Pennsylvania State University Talk Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 12:15 pm Talk title: HIV Prevalence in Religiously and Ethnically Diverse Societies Talk location: Sarratt 189

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Professor Shaul Kelner receives fellowship from the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan

Jan. 29, 2015—Professor Shaul Kelner will spend Spring 2016 as a Fellow of the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. The Institute’s 2015-16 theme is Secularization/Sacralization. Prof. Kelner will work on a book project that examines the intersections of religion and politics in the Cold War-era movement to secure emigration rights for Soviet Jews....

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Professor Laura Carpenter publishes with former graduate student, Heather Hensman Kettrey The Journal of Sex Research

Jan. 28, 2015—Laura M. Carpenter and Heather H. Kettrey published “(Im)perishable Pleasure, (In)destructible Desire: Sexual Themes in US and English News Coverage of Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting” in The Journal of Sex Research.

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