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Jeffrey Olick has received a Swinburne Visiting Professor Award. He will work with colleagues at Swinburne’s Institute for Social Research in Melbourne, Australia to research issues of historical justice. View Swinburne's press release.

Brad Wilcox is one of many sociologists and psychologists commenting on teenage marriage in an article from the September 4, 2008 New York Times after recent discussion in the news on the issue.

Josipa Roksa has been awarded the University Teaching Fellowship. The UTF Program aims to help UVA's most intellectually sound and successful junior faculty members develop into exceptionally fine teachers. Thus the selection committee—comprised of award-winning faculty—seeks to choose each year junior faculty members who show promise of becoming both eminent researchers and inspiring teachers. Go to the UTF website for more info on the program. View the UVA Today article.
Professor Roksa's work on higher education policy was mentioned in an article from August 13, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education News.

ALLISON PUGH has been elected as a Council Member for the ASA Children and Youth Section for the 2008-2009 term. She discusses how advertising and peer relationships influence children's wants and parental reaction to consumer culture in an article from UVA Magazine.
Professor Pugh's forthcoming 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. Other articles in which Prof. Pugh discusses families and consumer culture can be found in the Associated Press and Baltimore Sun.
View more information on Professor Pugh's research about families as consumers.

MILTON VICKERMAN, an immigration specialist, is also a member of Guterbock's interdisciplinary team. The group will assess how the resolution affects crime, citizens' views, and government policy.
View the Washington Post article.

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Adjuncts in the News

Lecturer Justin Holcomb has been selected as the recipient for the 2008 Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society Award. The organization receives nominations from students for the instructor who is "dedicated, close to his/her students, service oriented, and encouraging of high achievement."

Tristan S. Bridges

• Book Review - Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, by C.J. Pascoe. Gender & Society 21 (5): 776-778. (2007)
• Book Review - Transforming Masculinities: Men, Cultures, Bodies, Power, Sex and Love, by Victor J. Seidler. The Sociological Review 55 (3): 637-641. (2007)
• Book Review - Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion, by Gary T. Barker. Journal of Men's Studies 16 (1): 118-120. (2007)

Jeffrey Dill

• "Preparing for Public Life: School Sector and the Educational Context of Lasting Citizen-Formation" Social Forces (forthcoming September 2009).
• “Durkheim and Dewey and the Challenges of Contemporary Moral Education.” Journal of Moral Education 2007 (June) 36:2 pp. 221-237.

Matthew Hughey

Holly Lord

Tanya Omeltchenko

Carey Sargent

Jennifer Silva

• " ‘A New Generation of Women’? How American Female ROTC Cadets Negotiate the Tension between Masculine Military Culture and Traditional Femininity." Forthcoming, Social Forces, March 2009.

Justin Snyder

• Book Review - Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place, Edited by Oren Baruch Stier and J. Shawn Landres. September 2007 issue of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Tara Tober

"You Are What You Eat: Course Examines Sociology of Food"
View the UVA Today article on her Summer 2008 course on the Sociology of Food and Eating.