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Professor Larry Isaac published “Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes”

Aug. 23, 2022—Larry Isaac along with past Vanderbilt PhDs, Jonathan Coley (Oklahoma State University), Quan Mai (Rutgers University), and Anna Jacobs (Independent Scholar) published “Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (2022).

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Professor Larry Isaac published “Repressing Worker Dissent: Lethal Violence against Strikers in the Early American Labor Movement”

Aug. 23, 2022—Paul Lipold and Larry Isaac published “Repressing Worker Dissent: Lethal Violence against Strikers in the Early American Labor Movement.” LABOR HISTORY (2022).

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Prof. Larry Isaac published “Pitting the Working-Class Against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement.”

Jul. 28, 2022—Larry Isaac (Vanderbilt), Rachel McKane (post-doc at Brown University), and Anna Jacobs (Independent Scholar) published “Pitting the Working-Class Against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement.” SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY (2022).

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Dan Cornfield, Chancey Herbolsheimer, and Savannah Bastian Present at Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts Conference

Jun. 9, 2022—Dan Cornfield, Chancey Herbolsheimer, and Savannah Bastian presented their invited paper, “In Pursuit of Cultural Equity: DEI Grantmaking Practices of U.S. Local Arts Agencies in Community Context,” at an international conference on “Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts.”  The conference was sponsored by the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill...

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Prof. Dan Cornfield is quoted by KUT Austin NPR

May. 4, 2022—Prof. Dan Cornfield is quoted by KUT Austin NPR discussing Austin Starbucks workers’ efforts to unionize. Read and listen here.

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Grad Student Hannah Regan published in Sexualities

Dec. 6, 2021—Regan, Hannah. 2021. “Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital.” Sexualities OnlineFirst. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/doi/full/10.1177/13634607211056878 Young adults have gone from consulting matchmakers to app-makers, as they seek ways to meet sexual and romantic partners. Each dating application is constructed in a distinctive manner, creating unique “sexual fields” on each platform....

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Professor Lijun Song published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior with graduate students, Philip J. Pettis and Yvonne Chen, and the postdoctoral fellow, Marva Goodson-Miller

Jul. 26, 2021—Professor Lijun Song published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior with graduate students, Philip J. Pettis and Yvonne Chen, and the postdoctoral fellow, Marva Goodson-Miller: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465211029353 ​Song, Lijun, Philip J. Pettis, Yvonne Chen, and Marva V. Goodson-Miller. 2021. “Social Cost and Health: The Downside of Social Relationships and Social Networks.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Special...

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Prof. David Hess, Grad Student Kaelee Belletto, and Post Doc Fellow Rachel McKane publish an article in Energy Research and Social Science

Apr. 23, 2021—Prof. David Hess, Grad Student Kaelee Belletto, and Post Doc Fellow Rachel McKane publish an article in Energy Research and Social Science: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621000979

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Grad Student Darwin Baluran and Dr. Evelyn Patterson: Forthcoming – Coauthored Article at Demography

Feb. 9, 2021—Grad Student Darwin Baluran and Dr. Evelyn Patterson’ coauthored article accepted for publication at Demography, the official journal of the Population Association of America. This article is based on Darwin’s M.A. thesis. Examining Ethnic Variation in Life Expectancy among Asians in the United States, 2012-2016   As the fastest growing racial group in the United...

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Professor Holly McCammon and graduate student Cathryn Beeson-Lynch published in Law & Social Inquiry

Feb. 1, 2021—Professor Holly McCammon and graduate student Cathryn Beeson-Lynch published in Law & Social Inquiry.

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