Department News
Below are links to department news.
- Department News: Sociology Awards Ceremony - April 29, 2008
- Updated: May 9, 2008
- On April 21, 2008. the Sociology Department held its annual awards Ceremony. Read more...
- Graduate News: Gianluca De Fazio - May 5, 2008
Gianluca De Fazio was awarded the Andrew Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship.
Read more...- Graduate News: Dr. Franziska Bieri & Dr. Nikki Khanna - May 1, 2008
- Congratulations to Dr. Franziska Bieri and Dr. Nikki Khanna for completing the Emory Sociology Phd program! Read more...
- Graduate News: Beth Tarasawa - May 1, 2008
- Beth Tarasawa is a recipient of a 2008-2009 Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. Read more...
- Faculty News: Dr. Robert Agnew - April 29, 2008
- The February 2010 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice will be devoted to general strain theory, the theory of crime developed by Robert Agnew. And Agnew was identified as one of the most highly cited criminologists in an article in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice ("Scholarly Influence in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals in 1990-2000). Read more...
- Undergraduate News: Alix Braverman - April 28, 2008
- Alix Braverman, senior Sociology major, was one of three awarded the Shepard Scholarship. Read more...
- Undergraduate News: Carmella Sease - March 28, 2008
- Updated: April 28, 2008
- Carmella Sease, a senior sociology major, received the 2008 Overall Delores P. Aldridge Excellence Award Read more...
- Faculty News: Corey Keyes - March 31, 2008
- Dr. Keyes is featured in the Emory Report, March 31, 2008 for his involvement in Emory's Happiness Summit. Read more...
- Graduate News: Franziska Bieri, Leslie Brody, & Kristy Gordon - March 31, 2008
- Franziska Bieri, Leslie Brody, and Kristy Gordon are featured in the Emory Report, March 31, 2008 for being past, current, or future Mellon Graduate Teaching fellows. Read more...
- Undergraduate News: Carolyn Cole - March 28, 2008
- Carolyn Cole, a junior sociology major, received the 2008 Leadership and Service Delores P. Aldridge Excellence Award.
Read more... - Alumni News: Maria Amado - March 27, 2008
- Updated: March 28, 2008
- Maria Amado (Emory Sociology Ph.D. 2003) received tenure at Guilford College, where she is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Read more...
- Faculty News: Matthew Archibald - March 21, 2008
- Professor Matthew Archibald featured in Emory Report for his new book.
Read more... - Undergraduate News: Emily Allen - March 3, 2008
- Emily Allen, a sociology major and Emory's SGA president, is featured in the Emory Report as she is one of the four Bobby Jones scholars for 2008. more
- Undergraduate News: Kevin Kelly - February 18, 2008
- Kevin Kelly, a sociology major and Emory Scholar, authored the feature article in the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal.
Read more... - Alumni News: Ashby Walker - February 18, 2008
- Ashby Walker (Emory Sociology 2007) has been appointed chair of Mars Hill College in North Carolina.
- Alumni News: Caitlin Killian - February 18, 2008
- Caitlin Killian (Emory Sociology 2001) was recently appointed chair of Drew University's sociology department, and was also promoted to associate professor. Read more...
- Faculty News: Karen Hegtvedt - February 18, 2008
- Professor Karen Hegtvedt to serve as ASA Section Chair. Read more...
- Faculty News : Tim Dowd
- Updated: February 18, 2008
- "The department of sociology at Emory University is pleased to announce that associate professor Timothy J. Dowd has been selected to be the "Erasmus Chair for Humanities" for the Fall 2007 semester at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He was selected for his path breaking work on the complex and manifold relationships between culture and society and his work in the field of organizational sociology.
Read more... - In Memory of Cathy David
- Updated: February 17, 2008
- On Thursday, March 22, 2007 the Department of Sociology lost a good friend and faithful colleague, Cathy David. Cathy worked in the department for 20 years and will be greatly missed. The department has issued a statement and has provided a photo gallery and a place for people to leave their messages for Cathy's family and friends. These as well as information on the funeral can be found by clicking the "Read More" link below. Read more...
- Alumni News: Kathryn Sweeney - January 9, 2008
- Kathryn Sweeney was recently profiled in the Emory Wheel about her course on inequality and Hurricane Katrina. Read more...
- Faculty News: Regina Werum - January 9, 2008
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renews grant for dissertation fellowship program: Dr. Regina Werum played a key role in securing another five years of funding for the nationally renowned Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program. Read more...
- Faculty News: Kathryn Yount - November 19, 2007
- Updated: November 26, 2007
- Kathryn Yount is co-Investigator on a newly funded 700k GHI (global health institute) project (PI Lynn Sibley) using a mixed-methods ill-history interview (Yount, forthcoming, Journal of Mixed Methods Research) to study two determinants of maternal and neonatal mortality in Bangladesh (prolonged/obstructed labor and birth asphyxia).
- Faculty News: Alex Hicks - November 19, 2007
- Updated: November 26, 2007
- Alex Hicks was appointed Winship Distinguished Research Professor in honor of his exceptional research record.
- Faculty News: Corey Keyes - November 19, 2007
- Corey Keyes was invited to be the keynote speaker for the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Summit Meeting on Physician Well-Being planned for Spring 2008. Read more...
- Faculty News: Tim Dowd - November 19, 2007
- Erasmus University, on behalf of the G. Ph. Verhagen Foundation, has named Tim Dowd the Erasmus Chair of the Humanities (Erasmus Wisselleerstoel) for 2007-2008.
Read more... - Research News: Boli & Brewington - November 19, 2007
- John Boli and Dave Brewington presented their chapter, "Religious Organizations," in a special new books session at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference in Tampa, FL on November 2. Their chapter is part of a new edited volume by Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman titled, "Religion, Culture, and Globalization", published by Brill in November 2007.
- Faculty News: Beth Griffiths - November 19, 2007
- Beth Griffiths had a meeting with President Carter to discuss recent work in criminology.
- Faculty News: Johnson & Lechner - November 19, 2007
- Cathy Johnson and Frank Lechner were promoted to full professor.
- Faculty News: Kathryn Yount - November 19, 2007
- Kathryn Yount has an edited volume under contract with Routledge - Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia (co-editor Hoda Rashad, expected publication date 2008).
- Faculty News: Kathryn Yount - November 19, 2007
- Kathryn Yount and Co-PI S. Schuler received a NIH grant (which received an NIH score of 119 - in the 1.8th percentile - to conduct qualitative research and a survey experiment of attitudes about domestic violence in rural Bangladesh.
- Faculty News: John Boli - November 19, 2007
- John Boli was appointed Director of the new Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Center at Emory.
- Faculty News: Alex Hicks - November 19, 2007
- Alex Hicks has an edited volume, "Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis: the case of Employment Growth" (co-edited with Lane Kenworthy) out from Palgrave Press, London and New York, in 2008.
- Faculty News: Alex Hicks - November 19, 2007
- Alex Hicks received a travel grant from National Chung- Chen University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, to present "Organized Interests,Development Strategies and Social Policy in Taiwan: Lessons from Europe?" in Chai-Chi in May.
- Faculty News: Keyes - August 7, 2007
- The department of Sociology is pleased to report that the National Academy of Science has invited our colleague Corey Keyes to the 5th Annual Academies Keck Futures Initiatives (NAKFI) conference, at Irvine, California, in November, 2007. The theme of the meeting is: "The Future of the Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering." Attendance is competitive, and Corey's application was based on his work on flourishing as a measure of mental health, mental health as a complete state, and its role in aging (see the Future's Initiative web site for more information).
- Faculty News: Keyes - August 7, 2007
- Sociology's Corey Keyes has been invited as a core member of the interdisciplinary project entitled the "Pursuit of Happiness" that is coordinated by Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR). This project will run through the year 2010 and includes regular meetings of the interdisciplinary scholars from across the U.S. who hail from law, religion, theology, philosophy, economics, psychology, and sociology. Keyes's contribution to the project will include popular press and radio articles and presentations, as well as a book presenting his case for "the pursuit of flourishing." Click here to read the full story (PDF)
- Faculty News: Keyes - April 14, 2007
- The Emory Sociology department is proud to announce that Corey
Keyes, associate professor of sociology, will be keynoting a
conference in Sydney, Australia this June titled "Happiness and its
Causes." The two day conference will feature up to 50 leading minds
from psychology, science, philosophy, and religion, including his
Holiness the Dalai Lama. A faculty of expert speakers from
Australia and overseas will explore the techniques for achieving
peace and happiness at this ground breaking event -- the 2nd
International Conference on Happiness & Its Causes.
Read more... - Faculty News: Boli - April 14, 2007
- John Boli gave a research lecture, "Transnational Religious Organizations Since the 4th Century," at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, in October 2006. The lecture was based on a project with Dave Brewington on religious INGOs. John and Dave will be presenting versions of this paper at a session titled "Transnational Processes" at the 2007 American Sociological Association's annual conference in New York City, and at a special session of the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion in November 2007, organized for authors of the forthcoming volume, Globalization, Religion and Culture, edited by Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman. - Faculty News: Aldridge - April 14, 2007
- Dr. Delores P. Aldridge, Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, was recently profiled by the Emory Report for her pioneering work in education and for social justice. Read more...
- In Memory of Terry Boswell - June 9, 2006
- Updated: January 16, 2007
Terry Boswell passed away of complications due to ALS this past June 1, 2006, leaving behind an influential body of work in the areas of stratification and labor markets, revolutions and the political economy of the world system.
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