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The Department welcomes newly-elected UVA President,
and fellow Sociologist, Teresa A. Sullivan!
Click here for more info on Dr. Teresa A. Sullivan.

Faculty Making News

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.
Prof. Roksa has also been selected as one of ten "Mead Honored Faculty" for 2010/11. This program identifies and celebrates outstanding teachers. The award will allow her to develop a special program in conjunction with students. You can can find out more about the Mead Endowment and the program it supports at MeadEndowment.org.
 To read more about Prof. Roksa, click here.

Brad Wilcoxbrad wilcox comments in an article in the New York Times on the National Marriage Project’s annual “State of Our Unions” report concerning the effect of the economy on marriage and divorce. View article here.
Wilcox's 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.

PughALLISON PUGH has been awarded a United States Study Center Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, to spend the 2010-2011 year at the University of Sydney in Australia. The postdoctoral program brings to the Centre emerging academic leaders for a year of research and writing about the US.  They choose 6 people from the social sciences and humanities, from an international applicant pool. For more information, click here.
Prof. Pugh's latest 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. It won the 2010 Distinguished Contribution from the Children and Youth section of the ASA, and earned an honorable mention for the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, administered by the ASA's culture section.
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.

Elizabeth Gorman with her co-investigator Professor Fiona Kay of Queen's University, Canada, has been awarded a grant for their project, "Law Firm Employment Practices and the Representation of Minority Lawyers." The LSAC Research Grant Program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. For more information, click here.

Simone Polillo and English Professor Brad Pasanek will be guest editors on a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy which will publish select papers from the Fall 2009 "Beyond Liquidity" conference on metaphors, the social dynamics, and the social history of money - a conference that drew fifteen panelists from Economics to History, from Anthropology and Sociology to English, and both from UVa and from across the United States and the Atlantic. The issue will be in print in January 2011. Stay tuned!

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Graduate Students in the News

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

Tristan S. Bridges

has been awarded a UVA Faculty Senate Dissertation Fellowship for 2010-11. The program includes not only excellence in scholarly achievement and research as criterion for the award, but also outstanding performance in teaching. Congratulations, Tristan!

  • "'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).

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.

Ben Snyder

Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

has been elected to the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board for a two year term. She will serve as Chair of the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board for 2010-11.

  • 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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