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Updated 01-30-08
Week of April 28th:
CONGRATULATIONS TO ERIC BONDS, whose paper, Strategic Role Taking, Role Feeling, and Political Struggle: Bearing Witness to the Iraq War,” won the Society for Symbolic Interaction's Herbert Blumer Award. It is based on his interviews with North Americans who went to live in Iraq as a form of peace activism.
CONGRATULATIONS TO AMY WILKINS, whose book *Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status* (University of Chicago Press: 2008) is out and available: Here is blurb: On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that’s exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outré subcultures like the Black- and Puerto Rican–dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins’s intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. Subcultures help young people, especially women, navigate these connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies: wannabes cross racial lines, goths break taboos by becoming involved with multiple partners, and Christians forego romance to develop their bond with God. Avoiding sanctimonious hysteria over youth gone astray, Wilkins meets these kids on their own terms, and the result is a perceptive and provocative portrait of the structure of young lives.
CONGRATULATIONS TO LIAM DOWNEY, whose article, “Single Mother Families and Air Pollution: A National Study,” co-authored with Brian Hawkins, just came out in Social Science Quarterly.
CONGRATULATIONS TO LIAM DOWNEY, who just a paper accepted at Organization & Environment, with Summer DuBois, Brian Hawkins, and Shelli Walker as co-authors. The title of the paper is "Environmental Inequality in Metropolitan America." We and The Boulder Faculty Assembly congratulate Lori Hunter, who was just elected as an at large member of the BFA. We’re all delighted to learn that Rajshree has won the 2008 Outstanding Staff Graduate Advising Award from the Graduate School! We all know how great she is, and it's wonderful that the campus recognizes this, too. Rajshree will be honored at a reception on Tuesday May 6, at 4:00 p.m. in the UMC Aspen Rooms. If anyone who did not yet receive an invitation to this event would like to attend, please let me know. It requires RSVP by 4/29. Allison Hicks will also receive the GPTI award at this time, so it promises to be a nice occasion for Sociology. Devon Thacker has won a Teaching Effectiveness Award from the United Government of Graduate Students. CONGRATULATIONS TO DEVON! Congratulations to Elizabeth Schweigert for successfully completing her M.A. this week, with a Master's paper entitled "Examining the Impact of Religious Social Networks and Race on Unwed Mothers' Depression."
Week of April 21st:
I’m delighted to tell you that Rajshree has won the 2008 Outstanding Staff Graduate Advising Award from the Graduate School! We all know how great she is, and it’s wonderful that the campus recognizes this, too. She will be honored at a reception on Tuesday May 6, at 4:00 p.m. in the UMC Aspen Rooms. Allison Hicks will also receive the GPTI award at this time, so it promises to be a nice occasion for Sociology.
CONGRATULATIONS to Amy Wilkins who just received notice that she won a CRCW Junior Faculty Development Award (JFDA) for the summer. Good work, Amy, this is a very prestigious award!
Congratulations to Liz Schweigert, who successfully defended her Master’s paper on “Examining the Impact of Religious Social Networks and Race on Unwed Mothers’ Depression.”
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALLISON HICKS: On Tuesday of this week Allison Hicks was recognized by the Graduate School of the University of Colorado with the 2007-2008 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award.
On Thursday, Allison was notified by the National Sociological Honors Society, AKD, that her paper - "The Role of Prison Chaplains: A Fusion of Rehabilitation and Social Control" - has been selected as the first place winner of the AKD Graduate Student Paper Competition.
Good going, Allison, winning both a university-wide teaching and a national research award, all in one week!
Congratulations to Colter Ellis, who won a Fellowship in the Human-Animal Studies program of the Animals and Society Institute. Colter is among a small number of scholars who were chosen from a nationwide pool. This interdisciplinary program will enable him to pursue research in residence at Michigan State University this summer.
Congratulations to Dr. Jadi Morrow, who successfully defended her dissertation today. Her work is entitled “Creating the Blue Code: Gender and Class in a Police Training Environment.”
Week of April 7th:
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own beloved chair, Mike Radelet, who is the recipient of this year’s 2007-2008 Chase Faculty Community Service Award. The purpose of the endowment is to provide a single award of $10,000 annually to a full-time faculty member at one of the campuses of the University of Colorado who has rendered exceptional educational, humanitarian, civic, or other service in his or her community, external to the faculty member's primary University responsibilities and for no additional remuneration. And….Mike is also recipient of A 2008 BFA Faculty Service Award, as well! Good work, Mike, and thanks to Jo Belknap for making sure the nominations got in.
Jennifer Snook (Skadi, to most of us) successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “On Being Heathen: Negotiating Identity in a New Religious Movement.”
Hannah Brenkert-Smith successfully defended her dissertation, “Placing Wildfire in Context:
Environmental and Social Dimensions of Mitigation Decision-Making.” Here is brief abstract: This study examines environmental and social dimensions of wildfire mitigation decision-making and behavioral outcomes among property owners in 6 fire-prone Front Range Colorado communities. Through in-depth interviews with 73 property owners I consider how social interactions and attachments to environmental characteristics affect the likelihood of taking action to reduce risk before a wildfire event. Using a symbolic interactionist lens, this agenda seeks to contextualize residents in their environmental and social settings in an effort to understand the place of fire in the lives of those whose mitigation decisions may be most vital to reducing the likelihood of a wildfire and limiting wildfire-related damages or loses should an event occur.
Allison Foley accepting a tenure-track, assistant professor job at Augusta State in Georgia.
Congratulations to Christie Sennott, who won a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant. Christie's project is titled: "The Impact of Childbearing on Partner Selection as a Regulation Strategy for HIV/AIDS Exposure in South Africa." This project examines the hypothesis that marriage partner selection is a viable and commonly utilized individual-level strategy to regulate exposure to the HIV virus and that this strategy has become normative over time with the increase in HIV infection and AIDS mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the project is to extend this research to investigate how early childbearing and/or the presence of children affectthe scope of women's choice in marriage partners and the associated risk of HIV infection.
Duke Austin is one of two recipients of the 2008 President's Diversity Award in the student category. A monetary award of $1,000 is given to each President’s Diversity Award recipient.
Duke also reports the following publication: Austin, Duke. 2008. “Robert E. Park,” in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society, edited by Richard Schaefer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Week of January 28th:
1. A nice piece on IBS, with a picture of Lori Hunter in Africa:
2. Belknap, Joanne, and Bonnie Cady. (2008) "Pre-Adjudicated and Adjudicated Girls' Reports on Their Lives Before and During Detention and Incarceration," in Ruth T. Zaplin (Ed.) Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions, 2nd Edition. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., pp. 251-282.
3. Belknap, Joanne and Kristi Holsinger. (2008). "An Overview of Delinquent Girls: How Theory and Practice Have Failed and the Need for Innovative Changes," in Ruth T. Zaplin (Ed.) Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions, 2nd Edition. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., pp. 3-42.
4. Lori Hunter has taken on the role of Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal _Population and Environment_ published by Springer. The journal's mission statement: Population and Environment publishes articles, commentary and reviews related to the bi-directional links between population, natural resources, and the natural environment, with the purpose of deepening scientific and policy dialogue in this often complex area. The coverage is multidisciplinary, spanning a range of social, policy, life, and natural sciences. Work at all scales, local to global, is presented as are both theoretical and empirical contributions. Population and Environment reaches a wide readership of researchers working in academic and policy institutions in the fields of demography, economics, sociology, geography, environmental studies, public health, ecology and associated sub-disciplines.
5. Tim Wadsworth just got word that he was awarded funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for a project that Charis Kubrin and he are working on entitled, "What's Behind the Increase? Explaining Recent Trends in Suicide Among African American Males."
6. Isaac Reed’s dissertation (filed in 2007) was awarded the 2008 Marvin B. Sussman dissertation prize, awarded annually to the most outstanding dissertation completed in the sociology department at Yale.
7. Isaac Reed’s paper, "Maximal Interpretation in Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Towards a New Epistemology," has been accepted for publication in the journal Cultural Sociology. It will come out in July, 2008, in vol. 2, n. 2
Week of December 3rd:
Special Kudos today to Joanne Belknap, who was right about the Lisa Simpson case from the start , and (now) is teaching us that we can still learn more from it. Her quote in this morning's Denver Post: "While I am more than happy that this is finished, we really have to remember there has to be frequent ongoing training and accountability. Sexual abuse is very complex, and people have lots of different assumptions and misunderstandings about it." CU sociology professor Joanne Belknap, an outspoken critic of the university in the aftermath of the incident
Week of November 26th:
Congratulations to Bryce Merrill on the publication of an essay about his dissertation research on home recording of music; Click HERE for more info.
Jason Boardman just returned from an invited talk at Princeton University. The talk, entitled “Incorporating Molecular Information within Social Demographic Analysis” was part of the Frank W. Notestein Seminar Series sponsored by the Office of Population Research (OPR).
Rick Rogers presented “Health Disparities in the United States: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Race/Ethnicity on Health and Mortality,” to Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, November 29, 2007.
Mike Radelet presented two lectures at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, November 19-20, on the topic of why killing people is wrong. Eight students almost filled almost three couches to hear the first presentation.
Jane Menken and Dick Jessor traveled Nov. 6-24 to work with IBS collaborators at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi. Jane has been a member of the APHRC Board of Directors for the past 6 years. She attended the annual meeting and, at its conclusion, became Chair for a three-year term. At Wits, she met with CU Postdoctoral Fellows Georges Reniers and Olumide Taiwo who working with the Wits population studies program, Wits students who attended the 2006 and 2007 SOCY5111 summer short course (Liz, Eustasius, Julia, Charles, Amos, Benn, Eddie all send their regards - and a picture of the first five is attached!), and faculty members in the School of Social Sciences who are participating in an effort to develop population studies at Wits. She also met with the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research, the Dean of Health Sciences, and the Head of the School of Public Health. All agreed the collaboration with CU is their model for collaborations with northern universities. SOCY5111 will be offered AT WITS this summer - so CU faculty/staff/students have the opportunity to participate in the course and in the 6th Wits/Brown/Colorado/APHRC Colloquium on Emerging Population Issues.
Week of November 12th:
Congratulations on a new publication: Belknap, Joanne, and Hillary Potter. (2007) "From Passion to Practice," in Criminal Justice Research and Practice: Diverse Voices from the Field, Susan L. Miller, Ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, pp. 3-20. Congratulations to Amy Wilkins and Fred Pampel, both of whom won awards from the Dean’s Fund for Excellence.
Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who yesterday won the “New Scholar Award” from the Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology. This is a major Award, very competitive, quite cool, and richly deserved! The Award was presented yesterday at the meetings of the American Society of Criminology in Atlanta. In other news from the American Society of Criminology, our department is well-represented by Terry Thornberry, who has been nominated to run for the position of ASC President, and Joanne Belknap, who is running for a seat on the Executive Council.
Week of November 5th:
Congratulations to Zach Owens on the publication of his paper, “Evangelical Christians and Racial Inequality: An Analysis and Explanation of Inequality,” in NEXT (The Emerging Voice of Religious Studies Scholarship), which is edited by the Student Organization for the Study of Religion (SOSR). You can view the paper HERE.
Week of October 29th:
New publication!! Glenn L. Pierce and Michael L. Radelet, "Monitoring Death Sentencing Decisions: The Challenges and Barriers to Equity," HUMAN RIGHTS (Journal of the Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities of the American Bar Association), Spring 2007.
Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who has been invited to serve on the Graduate Fellowship Committee, one of the Graduate School’s most important committees. This year the Committee will distribute some $2 million in fellowship funds.
Congratulations to Rick Rogers, who presented a paper entitled “Social Disparities and Health: Sex Differentials in Mortality” to Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, October 29, 2007. The presentation was also videocast live to the Northwestern Medical School and the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute. This presentation was based on research conducted with Bethany Everett, Jarron Saint Onge, Patrick Krueger, and Bob Hummer.
New publication!! Eric Primm, Robert M. Regoli, and John D. Hewitt, have had their paper, "Where Are We and How Did We Get Here? Assessing Race, Performance, and Position in Topps Football Card Placement", in the Journal of African American Studies.
Week of October 22st:
On Monday, September 24th, Christine Bevc presented a paper entitled “Working Together: A Social Network Comparison of Interactions Within Urban Area Security Initiative Regions” at Rutgers University as part of a workshop on Computational Methods for Dynamic Interaction Networks sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). This paper identifies similarities across multiple social networks to better understand local preparedness in urban areas around the country.
New publication!!! Belknap, Joanne. (2007). "First, I'm Casey's Mom." In Getting Beyond the Fear: Heart Strings and Pink Ribbons, Mary Catherine Carwile (Ed.) Denver, CO: Verbana Pond Publishing Co.
Week of October 15th:
Sociology graduate students actively participated in this year's Southern Demographic Association's annual meeting held from October 11-13 in Birmingham, Alabama. Justin Denney presented "Forecasting Adult Survival," Jeff Dennis presented "Race, Ethnicity, and Marital Status," and Bethany Everett presented "Trends in Educational Attainment by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Nativity in the United States, 1989-2005." The presentations were as insightful as they were well received. The Graduate School, Population Program, and individual grants generously provided travel support.
Lori Hunter has taken a 2-month consulting position with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of an assessment team examining the agency's investments in population-health-environment development programs. These integrated field programs bring together reproductive health initiatives, micro-credit programs, and environmental conservation with the aim of improving both social and environmental well-being among rural populations in biodiversity "hotspots" in less developed settings. She will visit field sites in the Philippines and Madagascar and make recommendations on the future of PHE funding. For an example of a PHE project, Click HERE.
Lori will also be a keynote speaker at the upcoming conference "Population, Health, and Environment: Integrated Development for East Africa" to be held Nov 14-16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She will provide an overview of population-health-environment programming during the meeting's opening plenary session. Click HERE for more information on the meeting.
Week of October 8th:
Congratulations to Hillary Potter and Sara Steen, both of whom have won research funding from the Dean's Fund for Excellence.
Week of October 1st:
New Publication!!! Congratulations to Martha Gimenez on a new publication -- "Back to Class: Reflections on the Dialectics of Class and Identity," in Michael D. Yates (ed.), MORE UNEQUAL: ASPECTS OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES. Monthly Review Press, 2007.
And congratulations to Jane Menken, who won a grant for some $1.6 million (over five years) from the National Institutes of Health to study AIDS. This work, in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, is a tremendous shot in the arm for several units on campus, including the IBS African Population Studies Research and Training Program. Bravo!
And congratulations to Bob Regoli. The 7th edition his text, Delinquency in Society, was released last week. Words of praise for the book from leading criminologists include the following: "We are convinced that in short order you will find yourself in agreement with us that this books will challenge and expand your thinking on issues related to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, and do the same for your students. As both teachers and students, we could ask for nothing more and Regoli and colleagues give us nothing less." -- Alex R. Piquero and Nicole Leeper Piquero "Thorough, comprehensive, clearly written, definitive. Delinquency in Society presents a compelling introduction to the study of juvenile delinquency, including discussions of the definition and measurement of delinquency, the major causes of delinquency, and the operations of the juvenile justice system. Regoli, Hewitt, and Delisi deliver a masterful introduction to this important topic." -- Terence P. Thornberry
Week of September 24th:
On Monday, September 24th, Christine Bevc presented a paper entitled “Working Together: A Social Network Comparison of Interactions Within Urban Area Security Initiative Regions” at Rutgers University as part of a workshop on Computational Methods for Dynamic Interaction Networks sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). This paper identifies similarities across multiple social networks to better understand local preparedness in urban areas around the country.
New publication!!!: Belknap, Joanne. (2007). "First, I'm Casey's Mom." In Getting Beyond the Fear: Heart Strings and Pink Ribbons, Mary Catherine Carwile (Ed.) Denver, CO: Verbana Pond Publishing Co.
Week of September 17th:
Congratulations to Patti Adler on the publication of a new article: Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler. 2007. “The Demedicalization of Self-Injury: From Psychopathology to Sociological Deviance.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 36(5): 537-70.
Congratulations to Hillary Potter, who has been invited to serve on the 2008 editorial board of the journal Sociological Perspectives. And further congratulations to Hillary, who, with junior undergraduate sociology major Thuy Huynh, has been awarded the “American Society of Criminology Undergraduate Student Minority Scholar/Mentor Research Grant.” The project is titled “Offender Decision-Making in Punishment Options” and Ms. Huynh will receive $10,000 over a two-year period to conduct the research under Hillary’s guidance. Ms. Huynh will receive additional funding to attend and present her findings at the 2008 ASC meetings. The purpose of the Grant is to provide a strong foundation for undergraduate criminology students of color that will hopefully guide them into graduate studies in criminology.
New Publication !!! Congratulations to Patricia Rankin, Joyce Nielsen, and Dawn M. Stanley on the publication of their article, "Weak Links, Hot Networks and Tacit Knowledge: Why Advancing Women Requires Networking" in the collection, Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women, edited by Abigail Stewart, Janet Malley, and Danielle Lavaque-Manty. Published by Univ. Michigan Press, October 2007.
Congratulations to Kristina Kahl, Eric Bonds, Duke Austin, and Tom Mayer for their hard work in organizing a protest by “Students for Peace and Justice,” the CU student group speaking out against America’s war against Iraq. Their work was featured in an article in yesterday’s Colorado Daily:
Week of September 10th:
Lori Hunter has taken a 2-month consulting position with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of an assessment team examining the agency's investments in population-health-environment development programs. These integrated field programs bring together reproductive health initiatives, micro-credit programs, and environmental conservation with the aim of improving both social and environmental well-being among rural populations in biodiversity "hotspots" in less developed settings. She will visit field sites in the Philippines and Madagascar and make recommendations on the future of PHE funding. CLICK HERE for an example of a PHE project.
Lori will also be a keynote speaker at the upcoming conference "Population, Health, and Environment: Integrated Development for East Africa" to be held Nov 14-16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She will provide an overview of population-health-environment programming during the meeting's opening plenary session. For more information on the meeting.
Week of September 3rd:
Congratulations to "Team Sociology" participants in Sunday's Buffalo Bicycle Classic: Jason Boardman, Jeff Dennis, Joyce & Larry Nielsen, Brian Hawkins and his sister, Natalie DeBaker, Kris Hoyt, Stef & Fredrik Mollborn, and Eric Bonds. With contributions from most of our Full Professors ranging from $25 to $350, Team Sociology is again the top fundraiser on campus, with some $1,500 (so far) headed for the pockets of deserving undergrads.
Week of August 23rd:
The Sociology Department has had a terrific start for the new academic year …
Congratulations to Jason Boardman, who has won one of this year’s “Provost Faculty Achievement Awards.” This award is given for overall scholarly and teaching excellence, and carries a cash grant and a neat plaque. It will be formally awarded during the Fall Convocation ceremony on October 19.
Matt Brown has started orientating with Radio 1190 (CU's campus station) for his sexuality chat and/or call-in show. His (yet unnamed) show will air Thursdays at 11 pm till midnight or 1 am. He expects the show to start by mid-late September. He is looking for guest co-hosts, if you're interested.
Leslie Irvine presented a workshop entitled “The Power of Creativity in Teaching” as part of the Fall 2007 Graduate Teacher Training Program, earning nothing but superlatives from Program Director Laura Border.
Mike Radelet spent the weekend in Beijing, leading (with three British colleagues) several workshops on the death penalty for legislators and policy makers from the National People’s Congress, sponsored by the European Union, the Great Britain China Center, and Beijing Normal University.
New publication!!: Kathleen Tierney. 2007. "From the Margin to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads." In Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 33.
New Publication!!: Kathleen Tierney and Christine Bevc. 2007. Disaster as War: Militarism and the Social Construction of Disaster in New Orleans. In D. Brunsma and S. Picou (eds.) The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
New Publication!! And this week saw the publication of an exciting new book, “Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina,” edited by Hillary Potter. Among the contributors are three with local ties:
Cotton, Allison M. 2007. "Stipulations: A Typology of Citizenship in the United States after Katrina." Pp. 157-170 in Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, edited by Hillary Potter. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Allison got her Ph.D. from this department in 2002).
Miles, Michelle and Duke W. Austin. 2007. "The Color(s) of Crisis: How Race, Rumor and Collective Memory Shape the Legacy of Katrina." Pp. 33-49 in Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, edited by Hillary Potter. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Potter, Hillary. 2007. "Reframing Crime in Disaster: Perception, Reality, and Criminalization of Survival Tactics among African Americans in the Aftermath of Katrina." Pp. 51-65 in Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, edited by Hillary Potter. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Week of August 6th:
New Publications!! Congratulations to Leslie Irvine on two new publications: a review of Just a Dog: Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves, by Arnold Arluke, in the latest issue of Contemporary Sociology (36(4):364-5, and Animals in Disasters: Responsibility and Action, a policy paper published by the Animals and Society Institute, Ann Arbor MI (ISBN: 0-9788572-2-4).
New Publication!! Congratulations to Kelly Knight on a new publication: Wolf, Angela M., Fabiana Silva, Kelly E. Knight, and Shabnam Javdani. (2007). "Responding to the Health and Medical Needs of Female Offenders,” in What Works with Women Offenders, edited by Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor, and Chris Trotter. Devon, UK: Willan Puplishers.
New Publication!! Congratulations to Allison Foley, whose manuscript entitled “The Current State of Gender-Specific Delinquency Programming” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Criminal Justice. Congratulations to Allison Cotton (Ph.D. 2002) whose book entitled “Effigy: Images of Capital defendants” has been accepted for publication by Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books. The work is based on her dissertation.
Congratulations to Martha Gimenez, who entered four pieces of fabric art to the senior quilters section of the Boulder County Fair with these results: "Retirement Goddess" First Prize (medium size wall hangings) and Judge's First Choice Ribbon. "Hyperreal Matisse" First Prize (small wallhangings). "Hyperreal Mondrian" Second Prize (small wallhangings). "Welcome to Paradise" Second Prize (smaller walhangings)
Week of July 30th:
Congratulations to Kathleen Tierney, who on Tuesday testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on the topic "FEMA Preparedness in 2007 and Beyond."
The University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC) recently funded six outstanding developmental grants, which total over $40,000. These awards represent an invaluable way to support junior and senior faculty, fund graduate students, bridge programs, and encourage interdisciplinary research. These proposals were remarkably competitive, grapple with central demographic issues, and are likely to result in cutting-edge and significant research contributions. The CUPC Developmental Grant Review Committee (Jason Boardman, Andrei Rogers, and Richard Rogers) made the following awards to Sociology faculty: Paula Fomby, Sociology, CU-Denver, and Stefanie Mollborn, Sociology, "Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Effect of Family Instability on Adolescents' Behavior" Ying Lu, Political Science and Sociology, "De-convolution Methods with an Application in Verbal Autopsy." The Center expects to make similar annual awards over the next several years. Congratulations to Stef and Ying and thanks to all who participated!
Week of July 23rd:
New Publication!!! Congratulations to Joanne Belknap on a new publication: Belknap, Joanne and Edna Erez. (2007). "Violence Against Women on College Campuses: Rape, Intimate Partner Abuse, and Sexual Harassment" in Campus Crime: Legal, Social, and Policy Issues, 2nd Ed. Bonnie Fisher and John Sloan, Eds. Springfield, IL: Charles A. Thomas Publishers, pp. 188-209.
Congratulations to Leith Lombas, Angel Hoekstra, Marshall Smith, and Kristina Kahl. This week I received an e-mail from Mindy Sclaro, the coordinator for tutors hired by the Athletic Department. She went on and on about what a terrific job these four have been doing!
Week of July 16th:
Congratulations to Liam Downey, whose scholarship has been discussed in a number of different media outlets in recent weeks including the Daily Camera, Colorado Daily, and Web postings on Science Daily at and Hispanic Business.com .
Congratulations to Stef Mollborn, who has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the Journal of Marriage and the Family.
Week of July 9th:
Congratulations to Isaac Reed, who has been named to the editorial board of the journal "Sociological Theory."
New Publication!! Congratulations to Brian Hawkins and Liam Downey, whose paper entitled "Single Mother Families and Air Pollution: A National Study" has been accepted at Social Science Quarterly. On Tuesday, the Colorado Daily wrote up a short piece about Liam's recent Urban Studies article. And just published . Isaac Reed and Jeffrey Alexander, eds. Culture, Society, and Democracy: The Interpretive Approach (Paradigm Publishers 2007). The book includes an essay by Isaac entitled "Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative". Mike Radelet organized a group of two dozen top death penalty scholars that met on Thursday and Friday at the Soros Foundation in New York. They met at the request of several foundations who are interested in identifying priority research projects in need of support that might help abolish the death penalty by 2025.
Week of June 18th:
Congratulations to Jarron Saint Onge, who successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month. The work, written under the direction of Rick Rogers, is entitled "Health Behaviors and Collective Lifestyles: An Examination of Race/Ethnic and Occupational Status Health Disparities."
Congratulations to Eric Primm, Summer Woo, and Bob Regoli, who have been notified that their paper, "An Exercise in Subtleties and the Transmission of Racism: An Analysis of Sports Illustrated Covers," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of African American Studies. The paper examines racial messages in sport and how racial ideologies may be communicated through media sources dedicated to sports coverage. Our research specifically explores the changing participation levels of black and white athletes in professional basketball and football, and the extent to which these athletes were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine between 1954 and 2004. As an institution, sport has played a major role in both revolutionizing and reinforcing racial attitudes. Since the 1960s, corresponding with the Civil Rights Movement, the number of professional minority athletes has increased greatly. Their representation on the cover of Sports Illustrated has also increased, but not necessarily in relation to their participation rates.
Congratulations to Stef Mollborn and Janet Jacobs, who have had a grant proposal funded: "Understanding How Social Norms and Material Resources Affect Teen Parents' Lives." Principal Investigator: Stefanie Mollborn. Co-Principal Investigator: Janet Jacobs. University of Colorado/IGP Seed Grant Program Innovative
Week of June 11th:
Congratulations to Jason Boardman, who organized a very successful “Short Course of Biodemography,” here in Boulder, June 11-13. More information can be found by visiting the course website:
Rick Rogers presented “Sex Differentials in Mortality,” to the Department of Demography and Organizational Studies and the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio, June 5, 2007.
New Publication!! Congratulations to Isaac Reed, whose paper, entitled "Justifying Sociological Knowledge: From Realism to Interpretation," has been accepted for publication in Sociological Theory. A version of the paper received honorable mention for the best student paper award from the ASA Theory Section.
Congratulations to Colter Ellis, whose paper entitled "Negotiating Contradictions: Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Cattle Ranching" has been chosen as the winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award from the Animals and Society Section of the ASA.
And congratulations, too, to Leslie Irvine, who won the Section’s Distinguished Scholar Award for If You Tame Me: Understanding our Connection with Animals (2004: Temple University Press).
Week of June 4th:
Congratulations to Allison Hicks, who has been named the Lead Graduate Teacher for the Department for the 2007-08 academic year.
New Publication!!! Eric Primm, Summer [Woo] DuBois, and Robert Regoli, "Every Picture Tells a Story: Racial Representation on Sports Illustrated Covers," Journal of American Culture 30:222-231 (2007).
Week of May 28th:
New Publication!! Congratulations to Eric Bonds on the publication of "Environmental Review as Battleground: Corporate Power, Government Collusion, and Citizen Opposition to a Tire-Burning Power Plant in Rural Minnesota, USA." The article appears in Organization & Environment. See the abstract online
New Publications!! And congratulations on two additional new articles this week ... Joanne Belknap, "Culturally-Focused Batterer Counseling" (Editorial Introduction), Criminology & Public Policy 6 (2007): 337-340. Hillary Potter, "The Need for a Multi-Faceted Response to Intimate Partner Abuse Perpetrated by African-Americans," Criminology & Public Policy 6 (2007): 367-376.
Week of May 21st:
Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who this week received a contract from Temple University Press for her third book, entitled "Filling the Ark: The Welfare of Animals in Disasters."
Congratulations to Kathleen Tierney, who has won $45,000 in a Seed Grant competition sponsored by CU and NREL. Her proposal is entitled "Social, Economic and Policy Factors Affecting the Siting of a 100 MW Concentrating Solar Facility in Colorado's San Luis Valley."
Week of May 14th:
New Publication!! Another forthcoming publication for Lori Hunter!! Alexander de Sherbinin, Leah VanWey, Kendra McSweeney, Rimjhim Aggarwal, Alisson Barbiere, Sabina Henry, Lori M. Hunter, Wayne Twine, and Robert Walker, “Rural Household Demographics, Livelihoods and the Environment,” forthcoming, Global Environmental Change.
Week of May 7th:
New Publications!! David, Emmanuel. 2007. "Signs of Resistance: Marking Public Space Through a Renewed Cultural Activism." Pp. 225-254 in Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation. Edited by Gregory C. Stanczak. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Lori Hunter, "Understanding How HIV/AIDS, Agricultural Systems, and Food Security Are Linked" (her second web publication for the Population Reference Bureau):
Week of April 30th:
See the letters in yesterday's "Sliver and Gold" by Joanne Belknap and Jane Menken (and their coauthors), written in support on the continuation of evaluative efforts of the "CU 101" course.
Joanne Belknap is giving the keynote address, "Delinquent Girls and the Tenuous Borders between Victimization and Offending," at The Girls, Community, and Justice Conference at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, May 4, 2007.
Week of April 23rd:
Congratulations (and thanks) to Janie McKenzie, who (with lots of help from Rajshree) successfully pulled off Part II of the new furniture order for the front office. We will be receiving a new mail sorter in a couple of weeks to polish off the job (and polish off our checking account).
Congratulations to Rachel Bandy, who won the GPTI Teaching excellence Award for 2007.
Congratulations to the following senior sociology honors students for their well received presentations from their original thesis research at Midwest Sociological Society Meetings in early April in Chicago:
Bryanna Goeke presented on" The Humanitarian Role of the
Public Defender: The Conflict between Idealism and Bureaucracy."
Sarah Keane presented on "Pulling on the Purse Strings
and the Heart Strings: Dialectical Tensions within Non-Profits"
Jacoba Rock presented on "Restorative
Justice: Encouraging Community Relationships for a Straddled Generation."
John Stefanic presented on "New Directions in on-line
Data Collection for Network Analysis"
And congratulations to our Honors graduates and to our Honors Coordinator, Glenda Walden:
Morgan Bennet, Cum Laude
Bryanna Goeke, Cum Laude
Sara Keane, Magna cum Laude
David Lassiter, Magna cum Laude
Karly O' Krent, Summa cum Laude
Jacoba Rock, Summa cum Laude
Week of April 16th:
New Publication!!! Congratulations to Hillary Potter on a new publication: Hillary Potter, "Battered Black Women's Use of Religious Services and Spirituality for Assistance in Leaving Abusive Relationships," VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 13 (2007): 262-284.
New Publication!!! Congratulations to Ali Hatch on a new publication: Alison Hatch, “The View from All Fours: A Look at an Animal-Assisted Activity Program from the Animals’ Perspective,” Anthrozoos 20 (2007): 37-50.
Congratulations to Liam Downey, who recently learned that some of his work has been used as required reading in seminars offered at Penn State, University of Wisconsin, Florida State, and Mississippi State. Liam also gave a well-received presentation in March at Colorado State University of the relationship between inequality, democracy, and the environment.
Week of April 9th:
Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, who has won a small grant from the Dean's Fund for Excellence.
Congratulations to Patti Adler, who was the speaker for the AKD initiation ceremony at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins.
Last week we reported that a recent study published in Journal of Criminal Justice Education found that three CU criminologists were among the twenty most cited criminologists in the world. I have now gotten the full copy of the report, and see that congratulations are also due to Bob Regoli, who was among the 20 most-cited scholars in the Journal of Criminal Justice.
Congratulations to Allison Foley, who has been awarded the Dorothy Martin Doctoral Student Award. The award honors those whose research, teaching, and activism focuses on women's issues and exemplifies the ideals of Professor Emeritus Dorothy Martin, who was a faculty member in the psychology department at CU-Boulder for 46 years and was instrumental in establishing the first CU Women's Center in 1964. Allison was awarded this for her dissertation work on a horseback riding program for delinquent girls. The Award will be presented at a ceremony in the Aspen Room in the UMC, April 30, 4:00-6:00 pm.
Congratulations to Brian Klocke, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor, SUNY-Plattsburgh, with an emphasis on globalization.
Congratulations to Jarron Saint Onge, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor, University of Houston.
Congratulations to Joanne Belknap, who is speaking this week at the Women at the Margins: Law & Policy Lecture Series, Institute on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The title of her talk is "Self-Reports of Incarcerated Girls' and Women's Childhood Traumas."
Week of March 19th:
Congratulations to Janie McKenzie, who will be taking a well-deserved vacation all next week (I just wanted to let everyone know that she will not be here without sending an extra e-mail).
New Publication!! Congratulations to Eric Bonds, who has a paper entitled"Environmental Review as Battleground: Corporate Power, Government Collusion, and Citizen Opposition to a Tire-Burning Power Plant in Rural Minnesota, U.S.A." forthcoming in the June issue of Organization & Environment.
Congratulations to Stef Mollborn, who won a grant entitled "The Effect of Material Resources on the Early Development of Teen Parents' Children." Adolescent Family Life Research Grant, Office of Population Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services. $223,165. May 2007-May 2010.
Congratulations to Megan Murphy, who won a Spring Break trip to
the Bahamas!
Congratulations to Jeff Dennis, who presented a paper entitled"Interpreting the Validity of Diagnostic Criteria for Asperger's Disorder" at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, March 16.
Kudos (and thanks) to Steff Mollborn, Hillary Potter, and the Diversity Committee for arranging this week's visit to Boulder (including a very interesting talk) by Simon Weffer-Elizondo.
Congratulations to Joanne Belknap, who was a keynote speaker this week at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) 11th Annual Women's Multidisciplinary Conference, presenting "Understanding and Responding to a Woman-Abuse Culture: A Gender, Race and Class Analysis." Additionally, she conducted a three-hour training for faculty called "Integrating information on Violence Against Women into the Curriculum."
Congratulations to Sara Steen, whose Promotion and Tenure has been approved by the Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. And thanks again to the departmental committee that put this together (Professors Thornberry, Tierney, and Belknap).
Sympathies to Mike Radelet, who has been working hard with colleagues in Nebraska to get a bill abolishing the death penalty passed in their legislature. The Bill failed on a 25-24 vote (ouch) on Wednesday.
Week of March 12th:
Congratulations to Lori Hunter and Laura Patterson, who just had a paper accepted:
Lori M. Hunter, Wayne Twine, and Laura Patterson. (forthcoming). “’Locusts Are Now Our Beef’: Adult Mortality and Household Dietary Use of Local Environmental Resources.” Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, special issue dedicated to research at the Agincourt Health and Population Unit in rural South Africa.
Congratulations to Stef Mollborn, who (together with former fellow grad students Justine Tinkler and Yan Li) has had a paper entitled "Can Legal Interventions Change Beliefs? The Effect of Exposure to Sexual Harassment Policy on Men’s Gender Beliefs" accepted in Social Psychology Quarterly.
Tierney named to Earthquake Hazards Reduction Advisory Committee:
Kathleen J. Tierney, professor of sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center, has been chosen to serve on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction. William Jeffrey, director of the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, named Tierney one of 15 distinguished academic, industry and government experts to participate. Established by the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, NEHRP is the federal government's program to reduce the risks to life and property from earthquakes.
Week of March 5th:
New Publication!!! Congratulations to John Tribba on a new publication. Moser, S.C. and Tribbia, J. (2006/2007). "Vulnerability to inundation and climate change impacts in California: Coastal managers' attitudes and perceptions." Marine Technology Society Journal, 40(4): 35-44.
Congratulations to Christine Bevc and Colter Ellis, who have received fellowships from the Graduate Committee to attend summer research methods workshops offered by the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research. Christine will attend the Social Network Analysis workshop from June 11-14 at Indiana University. Colter will attend the Qualitative Methods workshop from July 9-13 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Congratulations to Duke Austin, whose picture graces the front page of today's Colorado Daily.
Week of Feb 19th:
Congratulations to Leslie Irvine, whose book "If You Tame Me: Understanding the Connection with
Animals" (Temple University Press) will be translated into German. Mui Bien!
Congratulations to Bryce Merrill, who will be featured tonight on the radio show "Testosterone Detox," on 1190 AM. The show runs from 7-9, and Bryce is scheduled during the first half hour. He'll discuss his research on home recording by amateur musicians.
Congratulations to Joanne Belknap, who was invited to speak at a conference called"Understanding Girls' Problem Behaviors," atÖrebro University, Örebro, Sweden, last week. The name of her paper was: "Gateways to Girls' Illegal Behaviors." She and her favorite side-kick, Casey, spent an amazing week in Sweden (with great tips from Stef Mollborn).
Congratulations to the Sociology front office staff, whose many many hours of planning produced some first-class furniture (to match their first-class work) this week. We have received about 2/3 of the final order; the rest should be here by the end of the semester. And thanks to all, especially Eric Bonds and Dan Haught, who helped move everything out and in.
Congratulations to all of us for a terrific achievement. Three years ago, the Department of Sociology had a debt of $499,573. Tonight, the College Office will upload the transaction to pay off the final $43,342, releasing us from our burdens and leaving us, as of tomorrow morning, officially debt free.
Week of Feb 12th:
This week's Friday Kudos go primarily to our graduate students, who are doing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious work hosting our guests today. It is great to see so many people working together to help build a better department for all of us.
And special thanks to Leslie Irvine for masterminding this event. And Rajshree too. In fact, I am very pleased to announce that today we received official word today that Rajshree's position will
be upgraded, effective February 22, to "Program Assistant." This is the second time that Rajshree's position has been upgraded since she joined our staff in May 2005. This promotion carries with it a significant salary increase. Congratulations (and thanks) to Rajshree!!!
Week of Jan 22nd:
New Publication!! Congratulations to John Tribbia on a new publication:
John Tribbia, "Stuck in the Slow Lane of Behavior Change? A Nos-So Superhuman Perspective on Getting Out of Our Cars," pp. 237-50 in Susanne C. Moser & Lisa Dilling (eds.), Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
And congratulations to Lori Peek (Ph.D. 2005) who was selected to receive the 2007 Best Teacher Award from the Colorado State University Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Connection. She also won the 2007 Waterpik Excellence in Education Award from Colorado State University Athletics. Both of these awards are based on student nominations.
Week of Jan 12th:
Congratulations to Liam Downey, Mike, whose third article in Social Forces in the last 4 years just came out in the December 2006 issue. The title of the article is "Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit." In it, Liam develops a new GIS method for measuring residential proximity to environmental hazards. He also demonstrates that Detroit's black neighborhoods were isproportionately burdened by industrial activity in 2000 and that neighborhood racial composition had a strong independent effect on neighborhood proximity to industrial activity.
Congratulations to all involved in a Conference on AIDS and Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa that was sponsored by The National Institute on Aging and held at CU on January 11-12. It was organized and chaired by Jane Menken and brought together a panel of 13 sociologists, economists, and anthropologists who work in Africa. The sociologist participants, in addition to Menken, were Sam Clark, U Washington; Lori Hunter, CU; John Knodel, Michigan; Sangeetha Madhavan, Maryland; Giovanna Merli, Wisconsin; Enid Schatz, Missouri; and Susan Watkins, Penn and UCLA. In addition, Rick Rogers, Jason Boardman, Randall Kuhn, and Jill Williams participated in parts of the meeting.
Week of Jan 5th:
Congratulations to Patti Adler, who was named by Provost Phil DiStefano to a seat on the new University of Colorado at Boulder Athletic Board (UCBAB). Among other responsibilities, this committee will review implementation of university/NCAA/and Big 12 policies, and basically serve as an academic affairs policy board for athletics.
Congratulations to Stef Mollborn, who has won a grant from the Council on Research and Creative Work (CRCW) to support her work investigating the relationship between material resources (such as income, housing, and child care) and the early development of the children of teenage mothers and fathers.
And to the Florida Gators, although ex-Gators no doubt miss Gainesville this week more for their weather (high of 74 today) than for their athletics.
