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Jeffrey Olick's work on collective memory will be the subject of  a 'supersession' at the annual meeting of The Rhetoric Society of America in May.
OLICK's book on memory studies and social structures, The Politics of Regret, is featured in a review essay by Patrick Hutton in the latest issue of History and Theory. View review here.
View more information on Professor Olick's research.

Josipa Roksa received the Bankard Fund for Political Economy Award for her project titled Does Employment during College Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Degree Completion and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes? Bankard Fund supports projects that will have the greatest possible influence upon the development and continuation of the public policy necessary for a healthy private business system and a healthy national economy. For more information, click here.
Josipa Roksa has been named the National Forum Fellow.
As a Fellow, she will participate in the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education funded by the Teagle Foundation. The three-year program is designed to identify and prepare a core national group of emerging academic leaders to guide the future of the liberal arts. For more information on the Forum, click here. To read about another recognition of Roksa, click here.

Brad Wilcoxbrad wilcox has a new essay, "The Evolution of Divorce," in the inaugural issue of the new journal, National Affairs. Wilcox's essay reports that divorce rates are dropping for the wealthy and the highly educated, but rising steadily among the poor and the working class. How did we end up with a class-based divorce divide? And what can be done to strengthen marriage in America? View the essay here.
View more information on Prof. Wilcox's research.

Professor Krishan Kumar has an article in Theory and Society Vol 39, no 2 (2010), pp. 119-143 where he discusses how nation-states and empires can be more similar than previously viewed. View the PDF article.
For more info on Prof. Kumar's research, click here.


PughALLISON PUGH's new book from the University of California Press, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture, seeks to make sense of explosive spending on children in recent decades.
Professor Pugh has been elected as a Council Member for the ASA Children and Youth Section for the 2008-2009 term.
View more information on Professor Pugh's research about families as consumers.

Thomas Guterbock has been named president-elect of the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations. He is currently Director of the Center for Survey Research. See the announcement in UVA Today.

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Graduate Students in the News

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Interdisciplinary Academic Journal at UVA
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Sociology Graduate Students contributing:
Tatiana Omeltchenko, Carey Sargent, Ben Snyder;
as well as recent Ph.D. graduates Matthew Hughey and Justin Snyder.

Tristan S. Bridges

  • "'Men Just Weren't Made to Do This': Performances of Drag at 'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes' Marches." Gender and Society, forthcoming.
  • "Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders." Body & Society, Sage Publications, 2009, Vol. 15: 83-107.

Jeffrey Dill

  • "Preparing for Public Life: School Sector and the Educational Context of Lasting Citizen-Formation" Social Forces (March 2009).

Tony Lin

has been quoted in The Atlantic. In an article from the December 2009 issue, Lin's research is mentioned as part of an article discussing the role of religion in the economic atmosphere.

Deborah Rexrode

has been appointed as Associate Conference Operations Chair for AAPOR (the American Association for Public Opinion Research). She will serve in this capacity for a couple of years and then is expected to Chair the Conference Operations Committee.

Carey Sargent

  • "Playing, Shopping, and Working as Rock Musicians: Masculinities in "De-Skilled" and "Re-Skilled" Organizations." Gender and Society, October 2009; vol. 23: pp. 665 - 687.

Jennifer Silva

Jen Silva received the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This award recognizes excellence in original scholarship by Ph.D. students at the University. In addition, it rewards those students bringing recognition to graduate programs at U.Va. through their intellect, dedication, creativity, and passion.

Congratulations to Jen - she received the UVa GSAS Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2009-2010!

Ben Snyder

Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

has been elected to the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board for a two year term.

  • Society for the Study of Social Problems Newsletter Fall 2009- reflections on the Oprah phenomena. View Newsletter here.

Tara Tober

Haiming Yan

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