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Holly McCammon’s undergraduate research team was chosen as one of the winners of the 2015 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair. Meredith Compton (Political Science & Medicine, Health, and Society major) and Jacqueline Scott (Sociology & American Studies major) won top recognition for their research, “The ABC’s of Feminist Litigation Arguments, Briefs, and Counsel.”

Sep. 28, 2015—

Dan Cornfield comments about “automotive workers and the American Dream” in a New York Times article (September 24, 2015) about a recent UAW victory in Piedmont, Alabama.

Sep. 25, 2015—

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

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.

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.

Candice Batton, one of our Ph.D.s (1999), has been promoted from Director, Criminology & Criminal Justice to Assistant Vice-Chancellor, University of Nebraska Omaha.

Jun. 10, 2015—

Professor Holly McCammon gave a talk recently to the American Society of Trial Consultants at the group’s annual conference.

Jun. 9, 2015—

Helena Dagadu accepts a tenure-track Endowed Assistant Professor position in Sociology at Loyola University-Chicago.

May. 28, 2015—

Courtney Thomas accepts a tenure-track faculty position in Sociology and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.

May. 27, 2015—

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