Sociology Department News
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.
Professor Ryken Grattet presented with the 2010 Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award by the UC Davis Academic Senate
Professor Grattet was given the award for his research and public service on hate crime law and the California prison and parole system.
Raoul Lievanos invited to participate in the Advanced Spatial Pattern Analysis workshop at UCSB
Raoul Lievanos was one of 24 Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows, and early faculty members invited to participate in the National Institutes of Health-supported Advanced Spatial Pattern Analysis national workshop offered by The Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences.
New Article by Drew Halfmann and Michael P. Young on Grotesque Images and Social Movements
The article examines the uses and effects of grotesque imagery in the antislavery and antiabortion movements and considers implications for theories of movement framing and mobilization.
Professor Thomas D. Beamish analysis of the Gulf of Mexico Platform Heritage Disaster, "The BP Disaster and the Hobson's Choice of Oil Production" has been published online at ClimateProgress.com and MIT Press
Why weren't containment chambers on shore and ready for deployment? That is one of the many questions that Dr. Thomas D. Beamish poses in this guest post.
Daniel Herda's Article, "How Many Immigrants?" Forthcoming in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 2010
This paper explores the tendency to over-estimate minority and immigrant population sizes across 21 European nations, using data from the 2002 European Social Survey.
Kim Ebert invited to attend the Young Scholars Conference hosted by The Center for the Study of Social Movements
Kim Ebert was one of the 12 nominees selected to be a participant in the "Young Scholars Conference" hosted by The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame on April 9, 2010.
Robin Pleau's article "Gender Differences in Post-Retirement Employment" forthcoming in Research on Aging, May 2010
This paper examines gender differences in post-retirement employment, using 1992-2006 data from the Health and Retirement Study on Americans born between 1931 and 1941. Gender is shown to be an important factor in understanding transitions into post-retirement employment for this cohort.
"Alliance-Building Across Social Movements: Bridging Difference in a Peace and Justice Coalition" by Thomas D. Beamish and Amy J. Luebbers published in Social Problems
Alliance building across social movement groups is an important aspect of social movement dynamics, contributing to their viability and capacity to promote social change. Yet, with few exceptions, cross-movement coalitions have received little sustained theoretical or empirical attention.
Sarah Ovink Awarded AERA Dissertation Grant
Sarah Ovink was awarded one of 15 dissertation grants ($20,000) from the American Education Research Association (AERA).
Diane Felmlee, David Orzechowicz, and Carmen Fortes's article, "Fairy Tales: Attraction Processes in Same-Gender Relationships," published in Sex Roles
Article challenges stereotypes about same-gender relationships often found in discourses on same-gender marriage.
Raoul S. Lievanos and co-authors Fraser Shilling and Jonathan K. London published in Environmental Science and Policy
New article by Raoul S. Lievanos and co-authors Fraser Shilling and Jonathan K. London published in a special issue on collaborative governance and adaptive management in California’s Water Program, CALFED, in the international journal, Environmental Science and Policy.
Bruce Haynes designated for 2009 Chancellor's Award
Bruce Haynes was awarded the 2009 Chancellor's Award, Soaring to New Heights Special Citation for Diversity and Principles of Community. This award recognizes staff members who, through their own personal efforts, have made significant contributions to affirmative action/equal employment opportunity or heightened awareness and sensitivity to diversity.
Professor Natalia Deeb-Sossa and Eric Nelson nominated for Teaching Award
Professor Natalia Deeb-Sossa and Eric Nelson have been nominated as finalists for the 7th annual Excellence in Education award in the College of Letters of Science.
Graduate students present at PAA 2009
Four sociology graduate students – Cassie Hartzog, Dan Herda, Robin Pleau and Jesse Rude – recently presented their research at the 2009 meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) in Detroit, Michigan. This is the most successful showing of our students at PAA to date. They presented in regular paper sessions and poster sessions, received a lot of interest and positive feedback from discussants and session participants, and were even the subject of a Wall Street Journal blog entry.
Bruce Haynes designated the 2009 Martin Luther King Outstanding Educator by the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund
Bruce Haynes has been designated the 2009 Martin Luther King Outstanding Educator by the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund. Last week, he was honored for this at a large dinner and awards ceremony which also honored new mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson, and others who were recipients of scholarships, lifetime achievement awards, and outstanding community service awards.
Ryken Grattet's paper, "The Urban Ecology of Bias Crime: A Study of Disorganized and Defended Neighborhoods" published in the February issue of Social Problems
Ryken's article examines the neighborhood characteristics that affect bias crime and compares bias crime to other kinds of criminal offending.
Bill McCarthy and Teresa Casey's paper, "Love, Sex and Crime: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Offending" published in the American Sociological Review
Bill McCarthy and Teresa Casey's paper, Love, Sex and Crime: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Offending, was recently published in the American Sociological Review (ASR) and was highlighted in the ASA December newsletter's Hot Off the Press: Journal Highlights section and on the ASR homepage.
Eric Nelson will receive the "Kenny Joseph" award from the Peace Officer's Research Association of California (PORAC)
Eric Nelson will receive the award from the Peace Officer's Research Association of California on November 22 2008. The "Kenny Joseph" award is given to an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the advancement of police welfare in the last year. Earlier this year Eric was requested by State Assembly Majority Speaker Karen Bass to research Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in police officers and firefighters in order to quantify the extent of the problem, and the statistical likelihood that MRSA infections are work related. Eric testified five times before California Senate and Assembly committees, leading to passage of AB2754 which Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law recently. The findings will be submitted for publication shortly.
Ryken Grattet has a new article in the September 2008 issue of Social Forces entitled "Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice."
For decades sociologists, criminologists, political scientists and socio-legal scholars alike have focused on the symbolic and instrumental dimensions of law in examinations of the effects of social reform and policy implementation. Following in this tradition, we focus on the relationship between hate crime policy and hate crime reporting to identify the conditions under which a symbolic law is accompanied by instrumental effects at the initial phase of the law enforcement process – the official recording of a hate crime event.
Laura Grindstaff offered and accepted a three-year term as Director of the Consortium for Women and Research
We begin this new academic year with an announcement about our colleague Laura Grindstaff, who has been offered (and has accepted) a three-year term as Director of the Consortium for Women and Research.
