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”
Orly Clerge, an assistant professor of sociology, is studying how suburbs change when Black residents “infuse their identity, their politics, their economic rationales into the overall structure of these places.”
“The Civil Sphere and the End of Modernity: Phenomenological Meditations.” Paper presented at the Civil Sphere Theory Working Group, first meeting, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, October 18, 2021.
Laura Grindstaff was quoted on the intersection of cheer and gender in a New York Times article titled "The Highs and Lows of the 'Cheer Mom'." Read the full article here.
The faculty member helping her colleagues learn to balance their work with new children has a conundrum: Many parents are too busy for a meeting to talk about how busy they are.
The growth of the service economy, widespread acceptance of cosmetic technologies, expansion of global media, and the intensification of scrutiny of appearance brought about by the internet have heightened the power of beauty ideals in everyday life.
Eli Alston-Stepnitz shares his story on how his engaged scholarship is transcending disciplines in a blog post for the office of Public Scholarship and Engagement.
Highlights from the article include how Latinx nurses try to mitigate Latinx patients' feelings of undeservingness, and the tensions the nurses face between ethnic solidarity and professional boundaries.
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 article examines the radical ecological philosophy developed by the MOVE organization in the early 1970s and the purchase it may have for the contemporary Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
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.
