Archived Sociology Department News

In The Press: ____________________________________

Feb 16th: Leslie Irvine on WNYC! More Info Below

Dec 6th: Colorado Daily on the Department's "Diversity in the Classroom" talk

Dec 5th: Our Faculty talk of "White Privilege" in the Colorado Daily

Dec 4th: Colorado Daily on the Soc Department & Diversity

Nov 28th: Tom Mayer on White Privilege

Nov 17th: Peek, Fothergill and Tierney in Press!

Oct 18th: Denver Post Q & A with Dr. Hillary Potter!

Sept 26: Dr. Hillary Potter in the Rocky Mountain News!

Sept 16: Dr. Kathleen Tierney speaks about disasters on NPR!

Sept. 1: After Katrina, Dr. Kathleen Tierney speaks about disasters on PBS "News Hour"

Aug 16: Dr. Leslie Irvine in a NSF Press Release

Aug 15: Dr. Leslie Irvine in the Colorado Daily

Accomplishments:___________________________________

2008:

Week of December 19, 2008:

Congratulations to Leslie Irvine on a new publication: "Animals and Sociology," Sociology Compass 2(6):1954-1971 (2008). You can find the citation information and download a PDF offprint here.

Also, Leslie will be interviewed about the growing numbers of people giving their animals to shelters because of the recession:

KGNU's "Morning Magazine" (88.5), Friday 12/26 (between 8:10 and 8:27 a.m.)

850 KOA Saturday 12/27, 6:22 a.m.

Congratulations to Bethany Everett, Justin Denney, and Jeff Dennis, who all successfully passed their Population and Health specialty comprehensive exams. Bethany's committee included Professors Boardman, Belknap, Fernando Riosmena in Geography, and Rogers (Chair), Justin's committee was Professors Boardman, Pampel, Menken, and Riosmena (Chair), and Jeff's committee, chaired by Professor Mollborn, included Professors Rogers, Pampel, Boardman, and Riosmena. Great news to end the year with.

Week of December 12, 2008:

Congratulations to Susie Strife (ENVS), who successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The Concrete Jungle: Environmental Awareness and Experiences of Nature among Urban Children."

Lori Hunter recently attended a meeting in Beijing at the Institute of Population Research at Peking University on "Urbanization, Environment, and Development in China." She participated on behalf of the journal Population & Environment to facilitate creation of a special issue based on research presented at the Beijing symposium.

Medical Sociologist Mike Radelet recently attended a conference in St. Croix on Health Disparities and consulted on a grant on Health Disparities in the Virgin Islands, funded by National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Among those attending were six or eight members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Civil Rights icon John Lewis.

Kathleen Tierney has been selected to serve on the National Research Council's Committee on America's Climate Choices--Panel on Informing Effective Decisions and Actions Related to Climate Change.

Congratulations to Traci Lacock, whose first professional paper was accepted for publication this week. Her paper entitled "Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists" (coauthored with Mike Radelet) will be published in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, one of the top journals in the field.

And special kudos to Tom Mayer, who yesterday taught his last class at CU. Tom will be on phased retirement and not teaching Spring 2009, and formally retires at the end of Spring semester, after 40 years on our faculty. Congratulations!

A huge congratulations to Dr. Tara Opsal, who successfully defended her dissertation this morning.

Tara did extremely well on the job market this fall, and will be joining the faculty at the University of Northern Iowa in the fall.

Week of December 5, 2008:

This week’s Friday Kudos comes to you from Carambola Beach.

Congratulations to Tamara Williams, who had an abstract entitled "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Feminist Theater as Sexuality Research" accepted for presentation at the Sexual Literacy Western Regional Training, which took place at San Francisco State University 10/30-31/08. And, during the selection process, a panel of students and staff at SFSU selected her paper as the best student presentation, for which the National Sexuality Resource Center paid for her flight and registration to attend the 2008 Annual Meeting and Conference for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 5-9.

Congratulations to Tim Wadsworth, who (with John Roberts) has a paper in the current issue of Criminology: "When Missing Data are not Missing: A New Approach to Evaluating Supplemental Homicide Report Imputation Strategies."

Congratulations to Bryce Merrill, who successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Making it, not Making it: Creating Music in Everyday Life."

Congratulations to Christine Bevc, who successfully defended her dissertation proposal on Monday (and to her Chair, Kathleen Tierney).

Congratulations to Amy Wilkins, who has won a $2,500 award from CARTSS to support her project, "Race, Class, Gender, and Military Identities."

Congratulations to Jenn Bair, who has won a $2,000 award from CRCW to support a conference she is organizing in February on "commodity chain analysis." The conference will be held at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Week of December 2, 2008:

Special Kudos to Amy Wilkins and James Rose, who find themselves in a "family way," with the stork expected to arrive in mid-June. Good work!

Week of November 21, 2008:

Congratulations to Lori Hunter, who has won a $2,000 award from CARTSS to help support her project entitled The Reciprocality of Social and Environmental Well-Being: Reforestation in Rural Kenya.

Congratulations to Dr. Emmanuel David, who successfully defended his dissertation, Women of the Storm: An Ethnography of Gender, Culture and Social Movements Following Hurricane Katrina on Monday.

Congratulations to Eric Bonds, who last week became the proud papa of Carson Taylor Bonds, who checked in at 8 pounds, 5 ounces. And congratulations also to his wife, Emily (the mama).

Congratulations to Amy Wilkins and Hillary Potter, both of whom received unanimous positive votes on their Comprehensive Reviews from the Personnel Committee, College of Arts and Sciences.

Week of November 14, 2008:

Congratulations to Amy Wilkins, whose proposal for special funding to offer a Maymester course on Youth Sexuality has been funded by the Associate Vice Chancellor for Summer Sessions.

Congratulations to Jenn Bair, who edited (with Peter Gibbon and Stefano Ponte) the current issue of Economy and Society (Vol. 37, No. 3, August 2008), a special issue on "Governing Global Value Chains." In addition to an introduction to the collection, Jenn also has a sole-authored paper included, entitled "Analysing Economic Organization: Embedded Networks and Global Chains Compared."

And … also appearing in her mailbox on the very same day was a copy of her just-published book: Jennifer Bair (ed.), Frontiers of Commodity Chair Research (2008 Stanford University Press). Just in time for holiday presents!

And … congratulations to Jenn for winning a $700 travel grant from the Dean’s Fund for Excellence.

Jenn is not the only one with a new book this week -- congratulations to Hillary Potter on the publication of her monograph, "Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse," published by NYU Press: http://www.nyupress.org/books/Battle_Cries-products_id-7897.html

NOTE: At this rate, our faculty will publish 104 books in the next year. Finally, congratulations to Erica Kuligowski, now working at NIST in Maryland, who successfully defended her dissertation proposal last week (Kathleen Tierney, Chair).

Week of November 7, 2008:

Congratulations to Rep. Paul Weissmann, who yesterday was elected to the post of House Majority Leader, Colorado House of Representatives. Of course, Paul's first love remains the Sociology course he is teaching for us: SOCY 2011, "Contemporary Social Issues and Human Values". This is a wonderful honor for a wonderful person!

Population Program faculty and students were active at this year's Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting in Greenville, South Carolina, October 30-November 1, 2008. Justin Denney, Rick Rogers, and Robert Hummer presented "Investigating the Education Gap in Mortality: The Case of Cigarette Smoking." Bethany Everett, Rick Rogers, Bob Hummer, and Anna Zajacova presented Educational Degrees and Mortality in the U.S." And Rick Rogers chaired a session, Mental Health.

Week of October 31, 2008:

Some unusually terrific faculty accomplishments to report this week …

Congratulations to Hillary Potter, whose article entitled “An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African American Women’s Experiences with Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach” has won an Award for “Outstanding Journal Article” for Volume 1 of Feminist Criminology. A Committee reviewed all journal articles published in that volume and decided that hers was most notable based on several criteria including: significance and originality of contribution, feminist approach, potential impact on the field, quality of writing and coherence, and quality of research design and analysis (or theoretical development). Hillary will receive the award (including a plaque and a check from Sage Publications) at the meetings of the American Society of Criminology in St. Louis in a couple of weeks.

Congratulations to Tim Wadsworth, whose three-year faculty reappointment has been unanimously approved by the Personnel Committee, College of Arts and Sciences.

Congratulations to everyone in the Department for building one of the country’s top Sociology programs in Gender. The most recent newsletter from “Sociologists for Women in Society” announced that our department got three awards from them: making the list of departments with the highest proportion of female faculty in the country (at sixth place in the nation with 60% female faculty), getting the SWS Seal of Approval for Gender Scholarship with 32% of our faculty listing gender or inequality among our specialties, and receiving the SWS Seal of Excellence for meeting both of these criteria, which just 22 departments did.

Lori Hunter was interviewed for "Earth and Sky," a syndicated radio broadcast that plays on a global network of 1600 radio outlets. The broadcast explores her collaborative research on HIV/AIDS and natural resources in rural South Africa, and over the next couple of months, the interview will be heard 12 million times across the globe. You can lisen to podcast here: http://www.earthsky.org/clear-voices/52841/lori-hunter-connects-aidsenvironment-in-south-africa.

Week of October 25, 2008:

Thanks to some funding from the Arts and Science Dean's Office, the Sociology Department has gotten permission to give a "sabbatical leave" to one of our GPTIs. Each semester, until the money runs out, we will pay the full GPTI stipend to one grad student, but excuse that person from teaching so she or he can concentrate on finishing the dissertation. Congratulations to Dawn Stanley for being the first recipient of this Award. On Monday we will cancel her Spring course, and she will receive the full stipend.

Also, congratulations to eleven graduate students who will split about $8,000 in one-shot research funds as gifts from the Sociology Department: Christie Sennott, Christina Kahl, Leith Lombas, John Reid-Hresko, Dan Haught, Dawn Stanley, Shelby McKinzey, Bryan Snyder, Devon Thacker, Jesse Smith, and Patrick O'Brien.

Lori Hunter gave an invited talk at The Nature Conservancy on Monday entitled “From Boulder Open Space to Global Hotspots: Highlighting the Social Dimensions of Conservation.” Several key players in the development of TNC’s Africa program were there and Lori is working hard to get them to integrate social aspects into their emerging conservation strategies – and also hoping they’ll be interested in collaborating on research within their fascinating environmental initiatives.

Also on Monday, Jason Boardman gave an invited talk to the Carolina Consortium on Human Development, Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entitled "Gene-environment interplay among adolescents and young adults."

Last week I mentioned that Jane Menken gave the 2nd Annual Joan Huber Lecture in Population, Ohio State University, "Women, Health, and Fertility in Bangladesh: Intended and Unintended Effects of Interventions,: on October 3. One of my students asked who Joan Huber was, so I thought I would pass it along: Joan was one of the founders of Sociologists for Women in Society and served as President of SWS, the Midwest Sociological Association, and ASA. She told Jane that she was the FIRST woman dean at Ohio State University - and that was in 1984. I have know her since I was an undergraduate at Michigan State, 40 years ago. She is a real hero.

Jane Menken was also a coleader and presenter in the HIV and AIDS session of the first annual Perspectives on Global Health at CU-Denver on October 17. She presented on AIDS in the developing world and a case study of the South Africa Agincourt Project run by the University of the Witwatersrand.

Week of October 17, 2008:

Congratulations to Marshall Smith for passing his specialty comprehensive exams.

Congratulations to Dawn Stanley for defending her dissertation proposal.

Congratulations to John Reid-Hresko for passing his specialty comprehensive exam in Environmental Sociology with focus on literature exploring rends in globalization, neoliberalism and the environment, and political ecology (Committee members: Hunter, Downey, Bair, Yeh (GEOG) and Goldman (GEOG)).

Congratulations to Laura Patterson for passing her specialty comprehensive exam in Environmental Sociology with focus on the literature on environmental concern and on the relationships between environmental perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors (Committee members: Hunter, Downey, Boardman, Tierney, Zimmerman (PHIL and ENVS)).

Congratulations to Lori Hunter, who won $900 from the ASC Dean’s Fund for Excellence. Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who was a plenary speaker at Speaking Their Truth, the 23rd Annual International Compassionate Living Festival, held in Durham, North Carolina, October 3-5. She spoke about her work on animal selves, particularly the research in her book, If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with Animals.

Congratulations to Jane Menken, who gave the 2nd Annual Joan Huber Lecture in Population , Ohio State University, "Women, Health, and Fertility in Bangladesh: Intended and Unintended Effects of Interventions," on October 3.

Congratulations to Janet Jacobs for two new publications:

Jacobs, Janet, "Memorializing the Sacred: Kristallnacht in German National Memory", in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47 ( Fall 2008):485-498.

Jacobs, Janet, "Gender and Collective Memory: Women and Representation at Auschwitz", Memory Studies 1 (May 2008): 211-225.

Week of October 3, 2008:

Congratulations to Terence Thornberry, who received a new $300,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to study gang prevention programs.

Congratulations to Peter Lovegrove, who received a well-deserved unconditional pass on his comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Brandi Gilbert, who received a grant from the American Evaluation Association/Duquesne University Graduate Education Diversity Internship Program for 2008-2009. This highly competitive and prestigious award is intended to train graduate students in evaluation research methods and involves participation in four evaluation seminars as well as an opportunity to attend the American Evaluation Association annual conference.

Congratulations to Bob Regoli, who has been invited to serve as a “Coach of the Game” for the Texas football game on Saturday, October 4th. For each home game, two faculty/staff members are selected to serve in this capacity. As Coach of the Game, he attends position meetings and practice during the Tuesday prior to the game. In addition, he joins the team on the sideline during the game on Saturday.

And … Bob has also been named a “CU Volleyball Professor of the Match.” Throughout the season, CU Volleyball players have been selecting professors who have impacted them as students in a positive way, and Bob will be recognized at an upcoming home match. He was nominated by undergraduate Sociology major and CU vollyball star Amber Sutherland.

Week of September 25, 2008:

We need one of those pin maps of the western hemisphere to see where our faculty are hiding out:

Tomorrow Lori Hunter is giving a lecture at Arizona State University (Tempe) on her research on HIV/AIDS and natural resources in rural South Africa.

Tomorrow Jason Boardman will present a paper entitled "A Sociological Examination of Gene-Environment Interplay," at Penn State University.

Tomorrow Mike Radelet is presenting a paper on historical research on the death penalty at University at Albany, New York. Last weekend he gave one of the keynote addresses to 230 felony attorneys at the meeting of the Colorado Public Defenders Association in Crested Butte.

On Tuesday, Jenn Bair will be presenting a paper entitled ”Una industria global cambiante: Impactos e implicaciones para America Latina" as the opening plenary of a three-day conference organized by the Maquila Solidarity Network (a Canadian labor-rights NGO) in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Her talk focuses on the theme of labor rights and working conditions in the global clothing and footwear industry. Basically, she will be discussing how trade liberalization and preferential trade agreements in the Americas are reshaping the geography of production and with what consequences for firms and workers in Mexico and Central America.

Joanne Belknap gave an invited talk, "The Sexual Abuse Histories of Incarcerated Women," at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Sept 11, 2008.

New Publication: McDaniels-Wilson, Cathy, and Joanne Belknap. (2008) "The Extensive Sexual Violation and Sexual Abuse Histories of Incarcerated Women." Violence Against Women, 14(10):1090-1127. The Department has received a very nice note of thanks for our warm hospitality from Michael Goldman, following his September 11 visit to Boulder.

Week of September 19, 2008:

Congratulations to Isaac Reed, who just published a review essay entitled "Social Theory, Post-Post-Positivism, and the Question of Interpretation" in the journal International Sociology. In the editor's introduction, the essay is described thusly: "Reed surveys theoretical treatises written in different parts of the world that seek to decipher the meaning of sociology in a 'post-post-positivist' era." It can be read here: http://iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/5/665

Congratulations to Bob Regoli, who has been named by the Boulder Faculty Assembly as our representative on the system-wide Privilege and Tenure Committee.

Congratulations to Angel Hoekstra, whose first article has been accepted for publication. The paper, "Vibrant student voices: Exploring effects of the use of clickers in large college classrooms," will be published in an international British peer reviewed journal called "Learning, Media, and Technology."

Congratulations to Patti Adler, who will be honored at this year's Homecoming football game (Oct. 4; Texas) for the Teaching Recognition Award that she won earlier this year. As part of the celebration, she will ride in style in the October 3 Homecoming Parade.

Week of September 5, 2008:

Congratulations to Amy Wilkins, who has been invited to present a paper at the University of California-San Diego sociology department's winter culture workshop, and at their interdisciplinary Christianities studies group. She has also been invited to kickoff San Francisco State's sexualities colloquium this fall. All these invitations are indications of Amy's rising national visibility -- a rising star as we call them. And risen star, veteran Lori Hunter, has several new feathers in her hat. She was lead Guest Editor of a special issue of the journal Population and Environment (Vol. 29 Nos. 3-5) devoted to HIV/AIDS and the Environment. She, along with co-editors and co-authors Roger-Mark deSouza (Population Reference Bureau) and Wayne Twine (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) also wrote the opening article entitled "The environmental dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a call for scholarship and evidence-based intervention."

Lori recently had an article published in popular press (World Watch Magazine) on the biodiversity hotspot development initiatives in which she has been involved over the past 2 years. Entitled "Population, Health, and Environment Through a Gendered Lens," the article offers an overview of gender roles as related to fertility and environment with examples of integrated development interventions. Hunter, Lori M. 2008. "Population, Health and Environment Through a Gendered Lens." World Watch Magazine. 21:5, pp. 16-21. On Friday, September 12, Mike Radelet will be a guest of the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University (Joanne Belknap's alma mater), presenting a lecture entitled "Emerging Issues in Contemporary Death Penalty Debates."

Week of August 28, 2008:

Congratulations to Liam Downey, who this week learned that he is receiving two NIH awards. The first is an R21 award for Liam (PI) and Kyle Crowder: "Exploring Micro-level Sources of Environmental Inequality," National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $250,000. The second award, which is for the same research project, is from the NIH Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment Program, which will pay 50% of Liam's student loans. The research project will examine racial and ethnic differences in household-level residential mobility between census tracts with varying environmental hazard levels, using innovative GIS techniques to merge household-level PSID data, environmental hazard data from multiple EPA datasets, and decennial U.S. census data. Data will be collected for the contiguous United States for the years 1990-2003.

Congratulations to Patti Adler, who was invited by the editors of the American Sociological Review to serve on their Editorial Board for a 3-year term beginning in January. Patti was also invited by the Program Chair of the American Society of Criminology to give a full-day workshop on Qualitative Analysis during the ASC meetings in St. Louis in November.

Congratulations to Jade Aguilar, who successfully defended her dissertation last week.

Congratulations to Joanne Belknap, who has been appointed to Presidential Candidate Barack Obama's Criminal Justice Policy Recommendation Committee.

Congratulations (and thanks) go to Rebekah Dury, Janie McKenzie, and Leslie Irvine for their exceptional work in making the front office run so smoothly over the past seven weeks while Rajshree's desk has been empty. Angela Stauffer joins us first thing Tuesday morning, and peace and tranquility will again return to 219 Ketchum.

Week of August 22, 2008:

Congratulations to Christi Sue, who has won a grant from the American Sociological Association’s “Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline” (with monies from NSF), to continue her work on how Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles select names for their babies.

Congratulations to Adina Nack, a CU Sociology alum who earned her Ph.D. in 2001, who has had her first book published. Damaged Goods? (Temple University Press) delves into the lives of women who are dealing with genital herpes and HPV infections. It has received positive reviews by respected scholars, and may be useful for courses in gender and women's studies, social psychology, deviance/stigma, and medical sociology. While the book is based on the dissertation research and theoretically grounded, the author's goal was for it to be accessible to college-educated readers. Adina hopes that it will be helpful to those who are struggling with a STD diagnosis, those considering the cervical cancer vaccine, and medical practitioners who want to have a better understanding of how their patients might experience the social and psychological impacts of these stigmatizing diseases. For more information, including reviews and an interview with the author, please see http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1936_reg.html or visit her website: adinanack.com

The University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC) and Population Program recently funded five outstanding developmental grants, which totaled approximately $30,000. These awards represent an invaluable way to support junior and senior faculty, fund graduate students, bridge programs, and encourage interdisciplinary research. The proposals grapple with central demographic issues and are quite likely to result in cutting-edge research contributions. The CUPC and Population Program Developmental Grant Review Committee – which consisted of Lori Hunter and Jane Menken – made the following awards to Sociology faculty:

Jason Boardman, “Gene Environment Interplay in the Development of Antisocial Behavior”

Tim Wadsworth, Rick Rogers, and Fred Pampel, “Individual and Contextual Factors Contributing to Suicide Mortality”

The Population Program and CUPC expect to make similar awards next year.

Week of August 8, 2008:

Our Department was well-represented at the Add Health Users Conference at NIH in late July. Jason Boardman was a coauthor for one of the plenary presentations, "Genetic Studies of Substance Use in Add Health: Progress and Pitfalls." Two papers by CU SOCY folks were presented in the session called "Sexuality: Contributors to Risk and Well-being": "The Correlates and Consequences of Incongruence in Parents' and Teens' Reports of Teens' Sexual Activity" by Stefanie Mollborn and Bethany Everett, and "The Dynamic Relationships between Sexual Minority Status and Health: A Longitudinal Analysis" by Bethany Everett. Bethany's presentation was especially well-received and generated a lot of interest from researchers and funding agencies.

Congratulations to Jill Williams, who has another paper in print: "Spatial Transversals: Gender, Race, Class and Gay Tourism in Cape Town, South Africa," Race, Gender and Class: An Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Journal. Volume 15, Number 1-2, 2008.

Congratulations to Christie Sennott, who won the 2008 Sociology AIDS Network (SAN) Scholarly Activity Award. The proposal she submitted describes a project aimed at investigating the relationship between gender, adolescent sexual behavior and fertility, and marriage on HIV/AIDS risk in rural South Africa utilizing a mixed-methods approach. The award was presented last Friday at the ASA meetings in Boston.

Week of July 27, 2008:

Congratulations to Jarron Saint Onge, Rick Rogers, and Patrick Krueger on a new publication: Saint Onge, Jarron M., Richard G. Rogers, and Patrick M. Krueger. 2008. “Major League Baseball Players’ Life Expectancies.” Social Science Quarterly 89(3):817-30. We examine the importance of anthropometric and performance measures, and age, period, and cohort effects in explaining life expectancies among Major League Baseball (MLB) players over the past century. We use discrete time hazard models to calculate life tables with covariates with data from Total Baseball, a rich source of information on all players who played in the Major League. Compared to 20-year-old U.S. males, MLB players can expect almost five additional years of life. Height, weight, handedness, and player ratings are unassociated with the risk of death in this population of highly active and successful adults. Career length is inversely associated with the risk of death, likely because those who play longer gain additional incomes, physical fitness, and training. Our results indicate improvements in life expectancies with time for all age groups and indicate possible improvements in longevity in the general U.S. population.

Congratulations to Joanne Belknap, who was elected as Executive Counselor (one of two), American Society of Criminology.

Congratulations to Matthew Brown, who was recently honored by the Office of Disability Services for his exemplary work in teaching students with disabilities.

Congratulations to Angel Hoekstra and Stef Mollborn, who will be presenting a 45-minute interactive session combining practical information and some results of our research on clicker use in sociology at the upcoming COLTT 2008 conference, Aug. 12-13, in the ATLAS building. More specifically: Stefanie Mollborn and Angel Hoekstra. “Strategies for Using Clickers in the Social Sciences and Humanities.” To be presented at the 2008 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference, Boulder, CO.

Lori Hunter is featured in a Population-Health-Environment video playing on YouTube. "Population, Health, and Environment: Exploring the Connections," an original ECSP video, offers a lively, brief, and accessible explanation of population-health-environment connections, with examples and photos from successful programs in the Philippines. View the video on YouTube, then rate it, comment on it, favorite it, or post a video response. Presenter Lori Hunter of the University of Colorado, Boulder, spoke at the Wilson Center earlier this year as part of ECSP's PHE meeting series.

Congratulations to Traci Lacock and Mike Radelet, who received $5,000 from the Tides Foundation, San Francisco, to study the opinions of top criminologists on the question of whether the death penalty offers better deterrent effects than long imprisonment.

And, a lengthy report on the multiple activities that several faculty and graduate students were involved in during June and July in South Africa: Faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, and staff from the Population Program were active in teaching and research in South Africa. Christie Sennott, Casey Blalock, Liz Morningstar and Laura Patterson helped Jani Little, Nizam Khan, and Jane Menken deliver a 2 week intensive course on longitudinal data management and analysis at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

After the course these students along with Rick Rogers and others visited the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site in rural South Africa and then attended the 6th annual Wits, Brown, Colorado, APHRC Colloquium on Emerging Population issues in Johannesburg, South Africa. Several people chaired sessions, acted as discussants, and presented papers.

Rick Rogers presented "Reconceptualizing the Epidemiologic Transition Theory: Applications in Developing Countries."

Jane Menken presented "The Stalled Fertility Transition in Bangladesh: The Effects of Gender and Number Preferences"

Casey Blalock presented "Village and Household-Level Determinants of Temporary Labor Migration

Christie Sennott presented a research proposal, "Adolescent Fertility, Marriage, and Disadvantage in Rural South Africa

The multiple activities provided a great opportunity for CU students and faculty to interact with faculty and students from Wits, Brown University, and the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. These activities are likely to result in future collaborations and research projects, such as dissertation research and grant proposals, and provide a wonderful way to integrate teaching and research across continents.

Week of July 18, 2008:

This week's Friday Kudos are reserved, of course, for Rajshree Shrestha, who leaves us today after three years of exceptional service. In large part because of her wisdom and hard work, she leaves the Department (in general) and the front office (in particular) in a whole lot better shape than it was in when she arrived. Thank you Rajshree, and we all wish you nothing but the best in the challenges that lie ahead!

Week of July 11, 2008:

Congratulations to Tracy Kirkland. The research she has been doing this summer with Dr. Jill Litt at the UC-Health Sciences Center in Denver has been accepted for presentation at the 7th Annual International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) in Vancouver in October. This year's conference theme is "Knowledge Integration: Successful Interventions in Urban Health." Their abstract is entitled "Community in the Balance: Community Gardens, Collective Efficacy and Health in Denver, Colorado." Dr. Litt is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics at UC-Health Sciences Center and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Congratulations to Terry Thornberry, whose receipt of the Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology resulted in a nice write-up in yesterday's Silver & Gold.

Week of June 27, 2008:

Congratulations to Tracy Kirkland, who was also married this week -- the second Traci in our department to be married in the past eight days!

Congratulations to Isaac Reed, whose paper entitled "Maximal Interpretation in Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Towards a New Epistemology" came out in the journal Cultural Sociology. See http://cus.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/2/2/187.

Congratulations to Jenn Bair, whose paper entitled "Analyzing Economic Organization: Embedded Networks and Global Chains Compared" will be published in v. 37, no. 3 of Economy and Society (August 2008). Jenn is also one of the guest editors of this special issue on "The Governance of Global Value Chains."

Congratulations to former faculty member David Pellow, who has taken a new (and very prestigious) position at the University of Minnesota: David Naguib Pellow Professor and Martindale Chair of Sociology Department of Sociology University of Minnesota 909 Social Sciences Building 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 dpellow@umn.edu (612) 624-4300

Week of June 20, 2008:

Congratulations to John Reid-Hresko, who received a $1000 grant from CARTSS in support of preparatory work for his dissertation. John aims to examine how knowledge about HIV/AIDS is mobilized through conservation training programs at two wildlife colleges in sub-Saharan Africa. According to CARTSS, there was a "tremendous response so it was a very competitive process," and John's proposal was "very highly ranked by the board members."

Congratulations to Traci Garrett, hereinafter known as Traci Lacock, who is marrying Tom Lacock today in Wyoming.

Rick Rogers taught Demography of Adult Morbidity and Mortality through the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) at the University of Southampton, England, June 11-13, 2008. Course participants included graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty, and staff members from government agencies, including Imperial College, University of York, University of Southampton, the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, and the Office for National Statistics.

Rick also presented a paper entitled Sex Differentials in Mortality: The Importance of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Behavioral Factors, the Division of Social Statistics, University of Southampton, June 10.

Congratulations to Mike Radelet, who recently won two grants: $56,000 from the Tides Foundation, San Francisco, to conduct several information sessions for Familiess of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons around the State of Colorado this summer (with Howard Morton), and, earlier this week, $50,000 from the Vital Projects Fund, New York, to continue his three-decade old project collecting data on Florida death penalty cases.

Congratulations to Sara Steen, whose project entitled Education Lawmakers and Criminal Justice Professionals about Parole Revocation won a $5,000 grant from the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee.

2006:

Week of Dec 21st:
Congratulations to Hannah Brenkert-Smith, who has accepted a prestigious policy fellowship through the National Academies of Science.  Beginning in January, Hannah will spend 10 weeks with the Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change (a part of the National Research Council's Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences) in Washington, DC.  Congratulations Hannah!

From their  website: The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis that informs the creation of science and technology policy and to
familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. As a result, students develop essential skills different from those attained in academia and make the transition from being a graduate student to a professional.  More information can be found at:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/policyfellows/

Week of Dec 14th:
Congratulations to Amy Wilkins, who not only sold her house in Missouri this week, but also had a paper accepted in Signs:"Unconventional Heterosexualities and Intimacy Talk: Recuperating Masculinity in Two Young Adult Subcultures."

Congratulations to Jane Menken, who  chaired the "Panel on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Africa" of the Committee on Population, National Research Council, which is the research and policy group of the U.S. National Academies of Science.  That group held a meeting on Aging in Africa in Johannesburg two years and produced a just-published volume: Barney
Cohen and Jane Menken, eds., Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Washington: The National Academies Press, 2006 (lots of books, including that one, can be downloaded free from The National Academy Press website: books.nap.edu).  Randall Kuhn and Jane also have a paper in that volume:  Randall Kuhn, Omar Rahman, and Jane Menken, "Survey measures of health: How well do self-reported and observed indicators measure health and predict mortality?"  Pp.
314-341 in Cohen and Menken (eds.), Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Washington: The National Academies Press (2006).

We all owe our collective thanks to Marilyn McDowell, who not only stayed until 2:00 Wednesday grading exams, but is in the office again today (Friday) wrapping up the final grades before she leaves on vacation next week.

Congratulations to two individuals who we interviewed for faculty positions this Fall.  Shamus Khan has been offered a faculty position at Columbia in New York City, and Andrew Papachristos has accepted a position at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.

Week of Dec 7th:
Congratulations to Christine Bevc, Kathleen Tierney, and their team at the Natural Hazards Center, on the publication of their 456 page book, "Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina."  Among the chapters is one by Duke Austin and Michelle Miles, "Crisis in Black and White: Katrina, Rita, and the Construction of Reality," and another by Emmanuel David,"Emergent Behavior and Groups in Post-disaster New Orleans: Notes on Practices of Organized Resistance."  A copy of the book is available in the faculty lounge.

Emmanuel David also edited (with Edward J. McCaughan) a special issue on "Art, Power, and Social Change," for Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order . Vol. 33, No. 2 (2006).

For those looking for Holiday gifts for young kids, check out "The Animated Bunny's Tail," by Professor Emeritus Paul Wehr.  Profits from the book support the University of Colorado Peace Studies Program.  The book kit is available at
the Boulder Bookstore or at <www.wehranimations.com>

Congratulations to Bill Rocque, who has accepted a tenure track job at the University of Redlands.

Congratulations to Pat Gillham (Ph.D. 2003), who has moved from the University of Alaska-Anchorage to the University of Idaho.  Pat and his wife,
Tami, recently had their first child.

Congratulations to Tara Opsal, who was awarded a very prestigious NSF doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($4,560).

And Lori Hunter's first writing assignment for her Population Reference Bureau fellowship is now on the web: www.prb.org (scroll ½ way down,"HIV/AIDS and the Natural Environment."

Week of Dec 1st:
Congratulations to Stef Mollborn and Janet Jacobs for doing such a wonderful job with the Sociology Undergraduate Club.  On Tuesday Stef hosted several students for some informal conversation over at the UMC.  Last night, she and the members of the undergraduate Sociology Club (especially Patrick Potyondy and Amber Camus) hosted a documentary and panel discussion on Darfur.  Over 120 people turned out for a moving and informative presentation.  Janet Jacobs gave a fantastic talk that closed the evening.

Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who was interviewed by the Associated Press for a podcast on why Americans don't eat horsemeat. The interview will be part of coverage on pending legislation banning the slaughter of horses in the U.S.  She was also interviewed for an article in the Rocky Mountain News on why Americans spent 5 billion dollars on holiday gifts and treats for their pets. The article is scheduled to appear in Monday's paper.

Congratulations to Tara Opsal, recipient of one of the 2006 CU-LEAD Alliance Faculty Appreciation Awards ("In grateful recognition of your dedication and commitment to the success of CU-LEAD Alliance scholars at the University of Colorado at Boulder").  The award was presented to her by one of her students, Adam Milner.

Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who has received an IMPART grant from the Vice Chancellor's Office for a project entitled "The Interracial Domestic Abuse Project" ($3,846).

New Publication!! Congratulations to Lori Hunter on a new publication: Hunter, Lori M. 2006. "Household Strategies in the Face of Resource Scarcity: Are They Associated with Development Priorities."  Population Research and Policy Review. 25:157-174. Abstract: In many developing regions, women and young girls spend several hours daily in the collection of natural resources.  Still, the link between these household resource strategies and stakeholder perceptions of development priorities remains unexplored.  This project examines this association with survey data representative of the adult population from Ghana's
Coastal Region.  Although natural resource scarcity and the sustainability of resource use represent key development challenges, there are others (e.g., energy, sanitation, employment and educational opportunities).  As such, even in the face of natural resource scarcity, individuals may place greater importance on other dimensions of development, especially if household resource strategies are perceived as relatively efficient.  The analytical
focus here is on water and the results suggest that gender roles shape household water collection strategies, while also shaping these strategies' perceived opportunity costs. Specifically, Ghanian adults more often see drinking water provision as their primary development need when water sources are distant and/or when male household members collect water (particularly male heads).  In the end, I argue that social science inquiry benefits by contextualizing social dynamics within environmental context, particularly within cultural settings in which human subsistence is intimately tied to the state
of the natural environment.

Week of Nov 27th:
Congratulations to Dawn Stanley and Tim Carpenter, both of whom have successfully completed the requirements for a Master's Degree.

Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who was appointed as a member of the Ethics Committee, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (by my informal count, her 713th committee).

Congratulations to Kathy Noonan, the A&S Advisor who has been housed in Sociology (in the office next to Terry Thornberry's) for the past several weeks. On Sunday she delivered a 9 pound 9 ounce (sic) son at Foothills Community Hospital (in the room next to Sara and Alison Steen).

Week of Nov 15th:
Several people to congratulate for some terrific accomplishments this week:
1. Eric Bonds, who was awarded a $2,000 Service Learning grant.
2. Bob Regoli, who has been invited to visit Yanka Kupala State University in the Republic of Belarus (as a Fulbright scholar).
3. Amy Wilkins, who won an Instructional Grant for Maymester 2007 to develop and teach a course on "Race, Gender and Sexuality."
4. All of us, for not only surviving another season of faculty recruitment, but for doing a downright decent job at it.

Congratulations to Stef Mollborn, who has received a $4,000 CARTSS scholars grant for a project on teenage fatherhood. Assisting her on the project will be Lovegrove. Congratulations to possible new faculty member Tim Wadsworth, who has received a conditional acceptance from the American Journal of Sociology of a paper entitled "Hispanic Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Examining the Effects of Economic Disadvantage, Immigration, and Cultural Assimilation" (Tim Wadsworth and Charis Kubrin).

Week of Nov 6th:
Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who was re-elected to a second 2-year term as Secretary/Treasurer of the Division on People of Color and Crime, American Society of Criminology.

New Publication!! Liam Downey, "Using Geographic Information Systems to Reconceptualize Spatial Relationships and Ecological Context," was just published in the current issue of the American Journal of Sociology. Please send an e-mail to Liam if you would like a copy. Already the paper has been adopted as required reading in a graduate seminar on Spatial Analysis of Social Data at Mississippi State University.

Week of Oct 30th:
Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who was elected Executive Counselor to the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.

Congratulations to Emmanuel David, who gave an invited presentation at the University of Denver last week.  He was joined by two friends, both former Gulf Coast residents, Allaina Howard and Florence Fetterer.  The collaborative presentation was given to Dr. Kris De Welde's quarter-long seminar titled "Hurricane Katrina: Unpacking a Catastrophe." Kris De Welde received her Sociology PhD from CU Boulder in 2003.

Congratulations to Duke Austin, whose article on Robert E. Park has been accepted for the SAGE Reference project, "Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society."

Week of Oct 23rd:
Joanne Belknap gave a talk, "Pathways to Prison: A Gendered Analysis," as part of the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences 2006 Lecture Series October 18th.

First year graduate student Jeff Dennis presented a paper last weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Chinese Studies, in Riverside, CA.  The title of the paper was "Place, Status, Social Capital and Health among the Contemporary Taiwanese," which Jeff co-authored with his advisor from Texas Tech, Dr. Yung-mei Tsai (Ph.D. from CU, 1973).

Mike Radelet is doing a call-in radio show today, 11:00-noon our time, on two north-central Florida Public Radio stations, about the recent execution of serial killer Danny Rolling.  You can listen, e-mail a question (ask about the Xerox machine!), or call in.  See <http://www.wuftfm.org/WUFT-FM.asx>
 
Week of Oct. 16th:
Congratulations to Lori Hunter, who last week gave an overview of her South Africa research on HIV/AIDS and the natural environment at the East Boulder Senior Center.  This is part of a program sponsored by CU and the City of Boulder to bring faculty and graduate student research into the community.

Congratulations to Mike Radelet, who won "Volunteer of the Year Award" from FOHVAMP (Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons) at their annual meeting in Denver on October 14.  Attending were some 150 family members of homicide victims where the case has not yet been solved by the police.  By the way, Radelet's Award mysteriously disappeared from the counter above the faculty mailboxes last Monday morning, and he and FOHVAMP would appreciate it if it was found).

Gratitude.  We all have many things to be thankful for.  This week I am particularly thankful for a terrific group of first-year graduate students and the overall work of all our graduate students in helping us recruit to our faculty some of the very top young sociologists in the U.S.  And I am really really really grateful for having Janie McKenzie in 219 Ketchum -- she is doing wonderful work for us all, and she is downright fun to work with!!

Week of Oct 9th:
Congratulations to Hannah Brenkert-Smith, who attended the EPA STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Graduate Fellowship conference in Washington, DC, September 24-27th.  Her poster was among those selected to be displayed at a reception for Senators, Representatives, and Congressional staffers.  While in Washington, Hannah also visited the offices of Colorado officials to urge
continued support for EPA fellowships for graduate research.

Congratulations to Professor Del Elliott, who was among those selected to attend President Bush's conference on School Violence, which is being held this week in Chevy Chase, Maryland. CLICK HERE for more Info.

New Publication!!! Congratulations to Liam Downey, whose paper entitled "Metropolitan Area Variation in Environmental Inequality Outcomes" has been accepted for publication in "Urban Studies."

New Publication!!! And congratulations to Shannon Coffey, Eric Primm, and Bob Regoli, whose paper entitled "Are Social Markers Related to the Utilization of Hip-Hop Pedagogy?" has been accepted in the journal "Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology."

Week of Sept 25th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Jarron M. Saint Onge, Lori M. Hunter, and Jason Boardman, on their paper recently accepted by Social Science Quarterly, "Population Growth in High-Amenity Rural Areas: Does It Bring New Opportunity for Long-Term Residents?"

Book Review!! Congratulations to first-year graduate student John Tribbia, whose book review of Paul Levinson's "Cell Phone: The  Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything" was published in the July 2006 issue of "Technology and Culture Journal."

And again, a big thanks from all of us to Sharon Anderson for all her help over the past few months!!

Comings and Goings:

Last week Jane Menken attended the annual Meeting of the INDEPTH (a network demographic surveillance system field sites), in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.  Jane chairs their scientific advisory committee.

Lori Hunter was in South Africa doing interviews at the Agincourt Health and Population Unit from Sept 10-22.  She was interviewing AIDS-impacted households with regard to their use of natural resources, especially relating to food security.  The fieldwork was part of a project funded by the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Mike Radelet presented a lecture at the meetings of the Colorado Public Defender last Monday, and on Wednesday spoke at Utah Valley State College in Orem.  Yesterday he (a.k.a "I") spoke at DU.  Next Thursday and Friday he will be giving an invited lecture on "Cultural Diversity and Health Disparities in the U.S. Virgin Islands" in St. Thomas.

Week of Sept 18th:
Congratulations to Fred Pampel, who has won a small grant from the Dean's Fund for Excellence.

Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who today is giving an invited lecture at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Congratulations to several people who received "A" ratings on both the instructor and course evaluations for Summer 2006 classes: Patti Adler, Rachel Bandy, Ali Hatch, Allison Hicks, Eleanor Hubbard, Eric Primm, Bob Regoli, Katy Sirles, and Amy Wilkins.  Paul Harvey and Angel Hoekstra received one "A".  BRAVO!

Week of Sept 11th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Jarron Saint Onge, Rick Rogers, and former graduate student Bill Witnauer on a forthcoming paper: Witnauer, William D., Jarron Saint Onge, and Richard G. Rogers. "Baseball Career Length in the Twentieth-Century: The Effects of Age, Performance, and Era." Forthcoming in Population Research and Policy Review. This research was supported by an ICR grant from the Department of Sociology. And congratulations to Fred Pampel on the publication of the second edition of his theory book, "Sociological Lives and Ideas," published by Worth. The FedX delivery truck brought the first copy to Boulder on Wednesday afternoon.

Week of Sept 4th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Stefanie Mollborn, who has had a paper accepted at Journal of Marriage and the Family entitled "Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Resources and Teenage Parenthood." And congratulations to all of us for making it through the first two weeks of class, all still standing, most still in good humor, and all ready for week three, at least almost.

Week of Aug 28th:
Big Kudos and thanks this week go to Angel Hoekstra and Erica Kuligowski for their hard work in organizing last week's terrific department picnic.

And to Brian Hawkins, for doing away with oodles of Spam and the entire contaminated <socgrads> e-mail list.

And congratulations to Lori Hunter, who has accepted a nomination for the Executive Advisory Board for the Earth & Sky radio series broadcast on PBS shows across the nation.  Earth & Sky is celebrating its 15th year on the air and its 5000th radio show with unparalleled success in reaching the general public with important science information.  Earth & Sky engages in conversations that
connect scientists and other experts with the public, and act as a bridge between worlds, connecting people to ideas and strategies that are useful, current, amazing  and  hopeful.  Their mission is to create and distribute digital, print and broadcast media content for the widest possible audience.  For more information, visit their website at www.earthsky.org.
 
Week of Aug 7th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Joanne Belknap, whose third edition of “The Invisible Woman” is hot off the press: Joanne Belknap (2007). The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice, 3rd Ed. Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Publishing.

The book is dedicated to Lisa Simpson, Katie Hnida, Dana Ruehlman, and others who reported rapes (by football team members or recruits, or ex-Professor Igor Gamow) or supported those who did at CU.
 
A special Friday Kudos this week to Rob Preuhs, who is leaving the Sociology Department after two years of excellent service in teaching and running the data lab (and several other assorted responsibilities).  Thankfully, Rob will not be going far -- his new office is 131B Ketchum and he will be teaching in Political Science.  However, our Department owes him our warm thanks for all his help over the past 24 months.

Week of July 24th:
New Publication!! Kudos to Amy Wilkins on her offer of a book contract from the University of Chicago Press. The book is tentatively entitled "Goths, Wannabes, and Christians: Gender Race Class and Youth Culture" but that title will undoubtedly be tweaked a bit (please see Amy if you have suggestions).

Book Contract!! And Kudos to Hillary Potter, who also found a book contract in this morning's mail.  Her book,"Battle Cries: Understanding and Confronting Intimate Partner Abuse Against African American Women" will be published by New York University Press.

Congratulations to the Sociology Department for securing authorization (subject to final approval
by the Provost) to search for an Assistant Professor of Criminology and an Assistant OR Associate Professor in Social Theory.  Our ad for the latter position was placed today; in two weeks we will place the ad for the Criminology slot, which has a later deadline.

And Special Kudos to four of our graduate students, Kris Hoyt, Eric Bonds, Kristina Kahl and Megan Murphy, who spent Saturday participating in the Boulder Energy Brigade, distributing compact florescent lightbulbs to a low-income neighborhood in Boulder.  The program is a partnership between the City, County and CU Environmental Center to help the city meet the goals of the Kyoto Protocol while also embracing the principles of environmental justice.  Residents were given information,
compact florescent bulbs, a water displacement bag for toilets and a chance to sign up for a free energy audit.

Week of June 26th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Liam Downey, whose paper entitled “Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit” was accepted yesterday for publication in Social Forces.

Congratulations to Lisa Engweiler, who will be the lead graduate teacher for the department in the upcoming year, and to Dawn Stanley, who will be a lead coordinator through the Graduate Teacher Program working with several departments to enhance graduate teaching.
 
Week of June 19th:
The IBS Hazards Center, under the direction of Kathleen Tierney, has organized a "Congressional Hazards Seminar," which is taking place today at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.  The seminar is
co-sponsored by the ASA and the Congressional Hazards Caucus.  Kathleen is among the speakers (on Hurricane Katrina and its implications), as is sociologist Bill Anderson from the National Academy of Sciences (on the new NAS/NRC report on hazard and disaster research) and economist Howard Kunreuther from Wharton (on the question of comprehensive disaster insurance.)
 
Week of May 8th:
Congratulations to Bob Regoli, who has been invited to serve on the Peer Review Committee for Sociology and Social Work proposals for 2006-07 the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.

Congratulations to Susie Strife, an ENVS doctoral student, and her advisor, Lori Hunter. Susie has been awarded an EPA STAR (Science-to-Achieve-Results) dissertation fellowship. The award entails over 2 years of full dissertation funding for her project on the development of environmental values as related to childhood environmental experiences.

Book Deal!!! Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who has just signed a deal to edit a book entitled Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina with Lexington Books (a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). Hillary plans to include a chapter from Duke Austin and Michelle Miles (CU School of Journalism), "The Color(s) of Crisis: How Race, Rumor, and Collective Memory Shape the Legacy of Katrina." And she will also include a paper of her own, "'Looters and Shooters': Perceptions, Reality, and Criminalization of Survival Tactics among African Americans in the Aftermath of Katrina."

New Publication!! Congratulations to Bob Regoli on a forthcoming paper (with John Hewitt), "Adolescent Risk-Taking as a Justification for Paternalistic Social and Legal Policy," which has been accepted for publication in the Justice Policy Journal.

New Publication!! Congratulations to Joanne Belknap on a new publication: Fleury-Steiner, Ruth, Deborah I. Bybee, Cris M. Sullivan, Joanne Belknap, and Heather C. Melton. "Contextual Factors Impacting Battered Women's Intentions to Re-Use the Criminal Legal System." Journal of Community Psychology, 34(3):327-342. Heather Melton completed her Ph.D. in this department and is now at the University of Utah. And to Hillary Potter and Mike Radelet, with CU Law student Effie Hindson as coauthor, who just published a 150-page paper: "Race, Gender, Region and Death Sentencing in Colorado, 1980-1999, Colorado Law Review, Vol. 77, pp. 449-600.

Week of May 1st:
Congratulations to Emmanuel David, who was awarded the Emily Schoenbaum Research and Community Development Grant from the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) for research on gender and emergent citizen groups in post-Katrina New Orleans. Congratulations to Elaine Seymour, whose pictures (both front and back) grace the front page of the April 2006 issue of Footnotes, published by the ASA. The pictures were taken when Elaine testified in front of the Research Subcommittee, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, which is investigating teacher education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

And in case you missed the terrific party at the Steens' house on Friday, congratulations to the below award recipients:

Dakin Award: Duke Austin
Graduate Student Paper Award: Marshall Smith
Dissertation Expense Award: Jarron Saint Onge
Betsy Moen Award: Ali Hatch
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award: Tom Mayer
Jim Downton Award: Lisa Maureen Friedlen
Helen and Val Fisher Award: Danielle Maren Gauldin

And congratulations to Mike Radelet, who is speaking at Harvard Law School tomorrow, and therefore will be excused from doing this week's "Friday Kudos."

Week of April 10th:
Congratulations to Robert Duran, who successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations to Jade Aguilar, who has been selected to receive the 2005-06 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate School.

Congratulations to Jeffrey M. London, who successfully defended his dissertation. Jeff presently is employed at the University of Wyoming.

Week of April 3rd:
Kathleen Tierney and Michael Radelet are both speaking at different conferences at UCLA Law School tomorrow (the school that got beat by the Florida Gators) ...

New Publication!! Congratulations to Hillary Potter on a new publication, "An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African American Women's Experiences with Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach," Feminist Criminology 1(2):106-24.

And congratulations to Eric Primm, who has accepted a faculty position at Pikeville College in Kentucky, effective Fall 2006.  Although we will miss Eric very much, this is a wonderful opportunity, and I know I speak for everyone in wishing him all our best.  And our thanks, too, not only for his terrific teaching, but for making our lives just a bit better by his presence in Ketchum.

Week of March 30th:
Congratulations to Eleanor Hubbard, who won the "Champion of Diversity Award" from the YMCA of Boulder.

Congratulations to Steve Graham, who has been won the "Employee of the Year Award" from the University of Colorado (the absolutely highest staff award on campus).

And congratulations to Rick Rogers, who has won a Boulder Faculty Assembly "Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work Award" for 2005-2006. This is a big deal indeed!

Week of March 13th:
Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who received the 2005 "Humanitarian of the Year Award" from the Boulder Valley Humane Society at a reception on March 11.

New Publication!! Joanne Belknap & Hillary Potter "Intimate Partner Abuse," pp. 164-84 in Claire M. Renzetti, Lynne Goodstein, and Susan L. Miller (eds.), Rethinking Gender, Crime, and
Justice (Los Angeles, Roxbury, 2006).

Congratulations to Matt Brown, who has been awarded funds from the Dean's Fund for Excellent to support professional travel.

Congratulations to Randall Kuhn, who has accepted a position as Director of Global Health Affairs and Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies,
starting Fall 2006.

Congratulations to Elaine Seymour, who, with CU Nobel Laureate Carl Weimen, testified yesterday before the U.S. House Science Committee in Washington, D.C.

Week of March 6th:
Congratulations to Rachel Bandy, who has won a coveted Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant from the Graduate School.

And congratulations to our front office assistant, Jon Swihart, who has landed another front-page article in the "Campus Press," this one entitled "'Dangerous' Professors Not Buying New Horowitz Book "

And congratulations to Anjie Rosga, who has won a prestigious three-month East European Studies research scholarship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  This opportunity
will enable Anjie to be a resident scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., Fall 2006.  While we all regret that this will delay her return to Boulder until Spring 2007, it is a terrific opportunity and a terrific achievement to have won the award.  Three cheers for Anjie!!

Week of February 27th:
At today's meeting, the University of Colorado Board of Regents approved the award of an honorary Ph.D. degree to Professor Mary Rippon.  This award not only honors Professor Rippon, but is a timely reminder to all of the role of so many women in building the terrific
University that we have inherited.

And congratulations to the Department of Sociology for taking the leadership and building the coalitions needed to make this happen.

Congratulations to Tara Opsal, who has been selected as the recipient of the Dorothy Martin Doctoral Student award for Spring 2006.  This $1,000 award was granted because of Tara's involvement with Next Wave and the Colorado Women's Resource Center.

New Publication!! Congratulations to Dawn Stanley on the publication of her first paper, "Learning from Homicide Co-Victims: A University Based Project," which was published in James Acker and David Karp (eds.), Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty (Carolina Academic Press, 2006) (with MLR).

New Publication!! Congratulations to Kathleen Tierney, Christine Bevc, and Erica Kuligowski, whose article "Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and Their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina," has just been published in the March issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. This entire special issue is composed of articles on societal aspects of Hurricane Katrina.

Week of February 13th:
 Congratulations to Jason Boardman, whose reappointment for a three-year term has been approved by the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs.

Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who was interviewed for the “Underreported” feature of “The Leonard Lopate Show” on WNYC, New York Public Radio, about the current horse slaughter legislation and controversy surrounding horse meat. Leslie discussed cultural perspectives about animals, particularly how humans see some animals as food and others as companions. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/02162006

Leslie was also quoted in the Longmont Daily Times-Call after speaking at Wednesday evening’s public hearing in opposition to banning allegedly “dangerous” breeds of dogs. http://www.longmontfyi.com/Local-Story.asp?id=6231

Congratulations to Patrick Krueger (Ph.D. 2004), who has accepted a position at the University of Texas at Houston’s School of Public Health.

Congratulations to Mike Radelet, who has been named by Andrew Romanoff, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Colorado legislature, to a four-year term on the “Commission on Judicial Performance,” the body that evaluates trial and appellate judges in Colorado who are seeking retention in the general elections.  Please see Radelet if a Colorado judge has ticked you off.

Congratulations to Mike Radelet, this year’s recipient of the Paul Tappan Award by the Western Society of Criminology, that organization’s highest award for lifetime achievement “for outstanding contributions to the field of criminology.”  The award will be presented at their meetings in Seattle on Thursday.  Previous recipients of the Award include Del Elliott.

Week of Jan 3oth:
Congratulations to Lori Hunter, who was offered the Population Reference Bureau's Bixby Fellowship to support part of her sabbatical.  The aim of the Bixby Fellowship program is to support a mid-career individual with innovative ideas and the capacity to help shape policy and public debate on the population and health dimensions of environmental issues. The way in which human populations interact with the environment has a direct and critical impact on both human and environmental well-being. PRB helps decisionmakers understand and address population, health and environment interactions through policy analysis, field research, program implementation, training, and communication initiatives.

Lori also presented a lecture on January 20 at Utah State University (Logan, UT) as part of the series by the "Utah Demography Research Network."  The talk reviewed ongoing work in rural South
Africa.  Lori has also secured funding from the Population Reference Bureau to attend a workshop in the Philippines in March on Population, Health & Environment.  The Population Reference Bureau
will be supporting my attendance as an early start to learning of their work for the forthcoming Fellowship.

Week of Jan24th:
Congratulations to Lori Hunter, who has won a full-year sabbatical leave for calendar year 2007.

And a special congratulations to Eric Primm, whose paper entitled "Does Membership Have Its Rewards? The Effects of Race and Hall of Fame Membership on Football Card Values" has been accepted for publication in Sociological Spectrum.  Eric gets "special" congratulations not only because this is his first paper in a highly-visible refereed sociology journal, but also because this is
the first in a series of papers he is writing on the general theme of Race, Inequality, and Sports.  And congratulations too to Bob Regoli, his coauthor, but since Bob has probably published 100 papers before, he gets only a regular congratulations and not a special congratulations (see me for additional coding details).  Both these scholars deserve a slap on the back and a round of applause!!!

Week of Jan 16th:
A special congratulations to Rajshree Shrestha, whose promotion from Administrative Assistant II to Administrative Assistant III took effect today.  This is well deserved, and provides an excellent
opportunity for us all to pause and thank her for her terrific work.

Week of Jan 9th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Jules Wanderer on the publication of his new book, "Interpretative Origins of Classical Sociology: Weber, Husserl, Schutz, Durkheim, Simmel"  (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005).  Jules has kindly donated a copy to the department.  Those who wish to borrow it should see Marilyn; otherwise it will be housed in our Display Case.

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2005:

Week of Dec 12th:
The new University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC), directed by Rick Rogers, recently funded four developmental grants, which total approximately $35,000.  These awards represent an invaluable way to support junior and senior faculty, fund graduate students, bridge programs, and encourage interdisciplinary research.
 
The CUPC Developmental Grant Review Committee – which consisted of Rick Rogers, Jason Boardman, and Andrei Rogers (Geography) – made the following awards to Sociology faculty:
 
Liam Downey, for his project entitled “Examining the Determinants of Urban Environmental Inequality in Multiple Metropolitan Areas”
 
Fred Pampel, for his project entitled “Socioeconomic Differentiation and Cigarette Use: Changes from Youth to Adulthood.”
 
The Center expects to make similar annual awards over the next several years.
 
Hearty congratulations to both Liam and Fred!

Week of Dec 5th:
This is a special week for all of us in the Sociology Department, as we join together to celebrate the many contributions of our very own Senior Instructor, Eleanor Hubbard.  On Thursday morning Eleanor will teach her last class for us and enter into a working retirement (although I guarantee that we will plead with her to teach an occasional class for us in the future).  Eleanor taught her first class in this department as a graduate student in 1988, earned her Ph.D. from here in 1992, became in Instructor in 1999, and a Senior Instructor in 2001.  Her expertise in race, gender, and sexuality make her in high demand for colloquia on campus and in the community, and her generosity and commitment to high-quality scholarship lead her to say "yes" to these invitations more frequently than most.
            
Most importantly, we will miss Eleanor's warm smile, her wisdom, and her steadfast support for our efforts to build a better sociology department.  She has been especially supportive of our junior faculty and her  fellow instructors, and especially of our undergraduate majors.
            
Eleanor, you are admired by all, and we come together to wish you a long and happy retirement.  Thank you for all you have done and are doing to make this a better university.

New Publication!! Lori M. Hunter, Jason D. Boardman, Jarron M. Saint Onge.  2005. "The
Association Between Natural Amenities, Rural Population Growth,and Long-Term Residents'
Economic Well-Being."  Rural Sociology. 70(4):452-469.

Week of Dec 5th:
This is a special week for all of us in the Sociology Department, as we join together to celebrate the many contributions of our very own Senior Instructor, Eleanor Hubbard.  On Thursday morning Eleanor will teach her last class for us and enter into a working retirement (although I guarantee that we will plead with her to teach an occasional class for us in the future).  Eleanor taught her first class in this department as a graduate student in 1988, earned her Ph.D. from here in 1992, became in Instructor in 1999, and a Senior Instructor in 2001.  Her expertise in race, gender, and sexuality make her in high demand for colloquia on campus and in the community, and her generosity and commitment to high-quality scholarship lead her to say "yes" to these invitations more frequently than most.
             Most importantly, we will miss Eleanor's warm smile, her wisdom, and her steadfast support for our efforts to build a better sociology department.  She has been especially supportive of our junior faculty and her  fellow instructors, and especially of our undergraduate majors.
             Eleanor, you are admired by all, and we come together to wish you a long and happy retirement.  Thank you for all you have done and are doing to make this a better university.

New Publication!! Lori M. Hunter, Jason D. Boardman, Jarron M. Saint Onge.  2005. "The
Association Between Natural Amenities, Rural Population Growth,and Long-Term Residents'
Economic Well-Being."  Rural Sociology. 70(4):452-469.


Week of Nov 28th:
Congratulations to Liam Downey and Sara Steen, who each received CARTSS grants.

Week of Nov 14th:
Congratulations to Joyce Nielsen, who (with former Sociology graduate student Robyn Marschke and two others) has just gotten a paper accepted in Journal of Higher Education. Joyce also has a coauthored paper on networking (focusing on the needs of professional women in academia) forthcoming in a book entitled "Strategies for Success," to be published by Elsevier.

And congratulations to Mike Radelet, whose book proposal (with Northwestern University Law Professor Rob Warden) entitled "The Encyclopedia of Wrongful Convictions" has been accepted by Northwestern University Press. The two of us will be directing a slew of law students in compiling descriptions of about 1,000 American cases (since 1492) where innocent defendants have been convicted of felonies. All royalties will go to the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern.

Week of Oct 24th:
Congratulations to Lori Hunter, who has received two new research grants (in collaboration with her colleague Wayne Twine) for work in South Africa:

"HIV/AIDS, Elderly.Headed Households and Food Security in Rural South Africa: The Role of the Local Environment" funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

"HIV/AIDS Mortality and the Role of Woodland Resources in the Maintenance of Household Food Security in Rural Limpopo Province, South Africa" funded by the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Week of Oct 17th:
Congratulations to Erin Emmer, one of our undergraduate honors students, who just won the Benjamin Brown Award, which will allow her to travel to Samoa during spring semester to study the fa’afafines, a transgender population there. This will be a continuation of her honors thesis (directed by Anjie Rosga), which she will defend in early November. The award committee said that they had never had a proposal quite like this one.

Some may already know this, but Serena Wadlington, who graduated in the spring (with highest honors), was accepted to a number of sociology graduate programs across the country, and selected Duke University. Expect great things.

And congratulations to Rick Rogers and Jarron St. Onge on a new publication:
Rogers, Richard G., and Jarron M. Saint Onge. 2005. “Race/Ethnic and Sex Differentials in Pulse Pressure among U.S. Adults.” Ethnicity & Disease. 15(4):601-606.

Abstract: The prevalence of high blood pressure in the U.S. is a pressing public health concern. The purpose of this study is to use the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994) and linear regression to document variations in pulse pressure by race/ethnicity and sex in the United States. We find higher pulse pressures among racial and ethnic minorities than among non-Hispanic whites and among males than females. The results indicate that the effect of race on pulse pressure decreases with the inclusion of various controls; nevertheless, African Americans maintain higher pulse pressures than non-Hispanic white Americans, even net of controls. Compared to females, males exhibit higher pulse pressures. Moreover, this sex gap progressively increases with controls for socioeconomic status and physical activity. Given the known health consequences associated with high pulse pressure, these results highlight the importance of better understanding and addressing the risk of high pulse pressure among demographic subpopulations in the United States.

Week of Oct 7th:
Congratulations to Liam Downey, whose paper entitled "Assessing Environmental Inequality: How the Conclusions We Draw Vary According to the Definitions We Employ," won the 2005 Sociological Spectrum "Best Paper Award."

And congratulation to first year graduate student Pavla Harris, who was named the "CCCOnline Faculty of the Year" by the Colorado Community College System. Pavla has also been included in the 25th edition of "Who's Who of American Women."

Week of Sept 29th:
Congratulations to Joanne Belknap & Hillary Potter on a new publication:
Belknap, Joanne and Hillary Potter. 2005. "The Trials of Measuring the 'Success' of Domestic Violence Policies." Criminology & Public Policy, 4(3):559-566.

And congratulations to Duke Austin, who, with Michelle Miles (Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism), won a quick response grant from IBS and the Natural Hazards Center.  He leaves for the Gulf Coast tomorrow.  The title of their project is: "Race, Class and Gender Differences in Government Response to a Natural Disaster."

Week of Aug 21:
The current issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, which arrived today, has special importance for this department: It is edited (as usual) by Peggy Thoits, who received her M.A. degree from this department in 1973.

And the current issue has two papers of special interest:
Liam Downey and Marieke Van Willigen, "Environmental Stressors: The Mental Healthy Impacts of Living Near Industrial Activity," and Jason Boardman, Jarron Saint Onge, Richard Rogers, and Justin Denney, "Race Differentials in Obesity: The Impact of Race." Bravo!

Sociology Department to Nominate Mary Rippon for an Honorary PhD.

CU's Silver and Gold Record:

2005 Hazel Barnes Prize at UCB goes to Dr. Janet Jacobs

2004 Denver Post article about Dr. Joanne Belknap:

Woman who flagged CU's top "playmakers" a winner

Dr. Leslie Irvine's "If You Tame Me: Animal Identity and the Intrinsic Value of Their Lives" published by Temple University Press!

Professor Leslie Irvine recipient of the Marinus G. Smith Recognition Award

Fifteen faculty and staff members at the University of Colorado were awarded the Marinus G. Smith Recognition Award. The recipients include Randolf Didomenico, Lisa Hutton, Joseph Michl, Raymond MacFee, Alphonse Keasley, Brian Argrow, Timothy Morton, Eric Tippeconnic, Jonathan David Harris, Alan Lester, Tom Davinroy, Kathleen Campbell, Leslie Irvine, Beth Krensky and Norman Aaronson. The purpose of the award, named after a Colorado pioneer who made significant financial and land donations to the university, is to identify and recognize CU faculty, instructors and staff who have made a significant impact on the lives on one or more CU undergraduates. The awards will be presented at 11 a.m. April 5 at the University Club.

December 2002: Distinguished Sociology Professor Jane Menken Delivers Commencement Address

Distinguished Professor Jane Menken of UCB sociology and director of the Institute of Behavioral Science gestures during her commencement address at the Dec. 20 graduation ceremony at CU-Boulder, held in the Coors Events/Conference Center. UCB awarded degrees to 1,981 graduates at the ceremony.