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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism co-edited by Holly McCammon

Jan. 3, 2020—McCammon, Holly J., et al., eds. The Oxford handbook of US women’s social movement activism. Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Dec. 11, 2019—

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Prof. David Hess receives the Faculty Advisor Award for social sciences

Dec. 10, 2019—Professor David Hess was recognized for his excellence in and dedication to undergraduate advising by being presented with the Faculty Advisor Award in Social Sciences.

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Prof. Holly McCammon publishes with PhD candidate Amanda Brockman in Sociological Forum

Nov. 1, 2019—2019. Holly J. McCammon and Amanda J. Brockman. “Feminist Institutional Activists: Venue Shifting, Strategic Adaptation, and Winning the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.” Sociological Forum 34:5-26.

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Grad Student Philip Pettis has won the Martin Levine Student Paper Award

Sep. 24, 2019—Graduate student Philip Pettis was presented with the Martin Levine Student Paper Award at the Sociologists’ AIDS Network (SAN) meeting during the American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting of 2019. Pettis’s paper is titled “An Examination of the Role of State-Level Contextual Factors on HIV Infection Rates: The Case of Men Who Have Sex with...

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Holly McCammon receives the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research for her book, The U.S. Women’s Jury Movement and Strategic Adaptation.

Aug. 28, 2014—Professor Holly McCammon received the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research for her book, The U.S. Women’s Jury Movement and Strategic Adaptation. The book traces the events that led to women winning the right to sit on juries in 15 U.S. states. It was published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press.

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