Congratulations to Konrad Franco who was named as a recipient of a 2022 Horowitz Foundation Award for Social Policy for his research on the relationship between county jails and local safety net health care facilities that provide treatment for mental health disorders, substance use disorders, or general acute needs.
Congratulations to Jesse Kolber for being selected as the recipient of a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Graduate Student Category!
Winner: Yao Lu, “How are Racial Attitudes Shaped in Post-Colonial Contexts? Evidence from Zambia” Honorable Mentions: to Paola Langer, “Immigrant Detentions and Deportations and Birth Outcomes of Children Born to Foreign and US-born Latina Mothers” and Samantha Sime, “The Doula Field & Doula Culture in California: A Content Analysis of Individual, Hospital and Group Doula Websites”
The position supports the persistence, retention, and graduation of transfer students, including reentry students (defined as those ages 25 years or older), student parents, and other at-risk students.
The award is highly competitive and comes with a generous stipend, as well as travel funds and complimentary memberships to the SWS, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Congratulations to Rafi Grosglik (former Teaching Fellow from the Israel Institute, 2017-2020), who has accepted a tenure track position with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at his Israeli alma mater, Ben-Gurion University.
Congratulations to Sociology Ph.D. candidate Sean Arseo, who has accepted a position as a Senior Consultant at Pivot Learning, an educational consulting company that works with school districts to design and implement curricula that focus on educational justice.
