Sociology Department News
Ryken Grattet's article "Societal Reactions to Deviance" published in the Annual Review of Sociology
Ryken's piece discusses the past, present, and future of the sociology of deviance.
Ryken Grattet's article "Supervision Regimes, Risk, and Official Reactions to Parolee Deviance" published in the May issue of Criminology
Ryken Grattet, Jeffrey Lin, and Joan Petersilia’s article draws on data collected in the California Parole Study, funded by the National Institute of Justice, to examine the role of parole supervision in accounting for the extraordinarily high rate of parole violations among California parolees. The article considers how parolees risks of violations is affected by how they are supervised.
Bill McCarthy and Eric Grodsky's article "Sex in School: Adolescent Sex and Education" will be published in the May 2011 issue of Social Problems
Bill McCarthy and Eric Grodsky presented the paper at last summer’s ASA meetings and the paper generated considerable interest. The paper was summarized by Alicia Chang, a science writer from the Associated Press, and reprinted in several hundred newspapers from around the world.
Former graduate student and current Ohio University Professor Ursula Castellano publishes dissertation monograph.
"Outsourcing Justice," published this month, is based on Ursula's ethnographic dissertation project on the role of nonprofits in a local criminal justice system.
Robert Faris and Diane Felmlee's article "Status Struggles: Network Centrality and Gender Segregation in Same- and Cross-Gender Aggression" published in American Sociological Review
Matt Bakker's article "Mexican Migration, Transnationalism, and the Re-scaling of Citizenship in North America" published in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Jesse Rude and Daniel Herda's article, "Best Friends Forever? Race and the Stability of Adolescent Friendships" published in Social Forces.
Professor Bruce Haynes' research profiled in the New York Times
Professor Haynes', along with his wife, Syma Solovitch, is working on research project about the life of his grandfather George Edmund Haynes, who was one of the founders and the first executive director of the National Urban League. The elder Haynes was also one of the first African Americans awarded a Ph.D. in the United States (Columbia University). He went on to found the School of Social Sciences at Fisk University. George Edmund Haynes was an important figure in the largely forgotten history African American social scientists in the early part of the 20th Century.
Prof. David Kyle's book, "Human Traffic: Imagining Mobility in Unsettling Times", presented at Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Interpol in Lyon, The University of Utrecht, and UC Davis.
Daniel Herda's article, "How Many Immigrants?: Foreign Born Population Innumeracy in Europe," featured on the Psychology Today website.
"Beyond the Ballot: Immigrant Collective Action in Gateways and New Destinations in the U.S." by Dina Okamoto and Kim Ebert published in Social Problems
Professor Dina Okamoto awarded grant from the West Coast Poverty Center to study CBOs and immigrant parents
Professor John Hall's book, "Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity," wins the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion section.
Melanie Jones awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity
Professor Bruce Haynes was invited to speak at the National Urban League's Centennial Conference on July 28th-31st in Washington, D.C.
Professor Carole Joffe featured in the article "The New Abortion Providers" in The New York Times Magazine
Fred Block and Matt Keller's article, "Transformations in the U.S. National Innovation System, 1970-2006," has been selected to receive the annual prize for the best article to appear in SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW in 2009.
Vicki Smith, Chair of the Sociology Department, has been elected to the Committee on Nominations of the American Sociological Association.
Bill McCarthy and Teresa Casey's paper, "Love, Sex and Crime: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Offending" that appeared in the American Sociological Review 73 (6):944-969 been awarded the 2010 American Society of Criminology Outstanding Paper Award.
Jennifer Haylett selected to be the recipeient of 2010 Mayhew Award
The Mayhew Award is given to the best graduate student qualifying paper completed in the academic year.
"Hybrid Cultural Codes in Nonwestern Civil Society: Images of Women in Taiwan and Hong Kong" by Ming-Cheng Lo and Yun Fan published in Sociological Theory
Scholars have established that cultural codes and styles of expression in civil society must be recognized as informal mechanisms of exclusion, calling into question the possibility of the Habermasian normative ideal of the public sphere. This article joins theoretical discussions of how to remedy this problem.