Department News
- Change in Departmental Administration - September 11, 2009
- Starting Fall 2009, the Department of Sociology will have a new Chair, Dr. Karen Hegtvedt and a new Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Tracy Scott.
- Associated Faculty News: Dr. Paul R. Wolpe - August 12, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
Dr. Paul R. Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Emory Center for Ethics and Emory Sociology Department adjunct faculty, was featured in a New York Times article on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 concerning the ethical questions of space travel.
- Adjunct Faculty News: Dr. Frank Howell - June 23, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
Dr. Frank Howell, Emory Sociology Department adjunct faculty, was featured in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday, June 20, 2009 in an article on a Mississippi town and the the effects of the economic climate.
Click here for The Wall Street Journal article.
- Graduate News - April 24, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
We are very pleased that the Social Psychology program in the Department of Sociology at Emory is now ranked among the top ten programs in the country by US News and World Report, moving from #14 in 2003 to #9 today. The program provides a strong foundation in the core areas of social psychology, while also allowing students to apply social psychology to topics such as crime, race, and health, and to bridge to other sociological areas, such as culture and stratification. We also believe that we have top programs in several areas that are not ranked by US News, including political economy and global/ comparative sociology, race and ethnicity, and sociology of education. Further, we continue to enhance the strength of our programs in culture and health, and have recently hired several senior faculty in several major areas. The department's overall ranking rose two steps to 36th and we expect that with these recent efforts we will see significantly more improvement in the next set of ratings.
Dr. Robert Agnew, Chair of Sociology and Dr. Cathryn Johnson, Director of Graduate Studies of Sociology
- Faculty News: Dr. Sam Cherribi & Dr. Roberto Franzosi - April 21, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
Dr. Sam Cherribi, director of the Emory Development Initiative (EDI) and sociology professor, and Dr. Roberto Franzosi, professor of sociology and linguistics, were featured in the Emory Wheel for their participation in the "From Gefilte fish to Couscous: Towards a Greater Mediterranean Civilization" event.
Click here for the Emory Wheel article.
- Faculty News: Dr. Roberto Franzosi - April 13, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
Dr. Roberto Franzosi, professor of sociology and linguistics, was featured in the Emory Report for his presentation concerning creativity at the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence workshop. Click here for the Emory Report article about Dr. Franzosi's presentation.
Click here for the Emory Report article about the Faculty Development and Excellence workshop.
- Undergraduate News - April 1, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
Congratulations to our sociology student 2009 Delores P. Aldridge Excellence Awards nominees and winners!
Nominees for Excellence in Leadership & Service in a Diverse Group:
- Stephen Deaderick (sociology major, sociology peer mentor)
- Candice Merritt (sociology minor)
- Pradeep Pramanik (sociology minor)
- Yingxue (Rosie) Tang (sociology major) **Winner
Nominees for Excellence in Community Building, Diversity, & Intergroup Relations:
- Candice Merritt (sociology minor)
- Yingxue (Rosie) Tang (sociology major)
Nominee & Winner for Excellence in Diversity Research:
- Candice Merrit (sociology minor)
- Faculty News: Dr. Mike McQuaide - March 2, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Mike McQuaide, Emory Oxford College professor of Sociology, received the first Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) award. Click here to read the Emory Report article.
- Undergraduate News: Stephen Deaderick - February 23, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Stephen Deaderick, a sociology peer mentor and major, received the University’s 2009 Humanitarian Award. Click here for the Emory Report article.
- Undergraduate News: Kevin Kelly - February 17, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Kevin Kelly, a sociology honors student major and Emory Scholar, is one of five seniors selected to receive the prestigious Bobby Jones Award. Click here for the Emory Wheel article. Click here for the Emory Report article.
- Faculty News: Dr. Delores P. Aldridge - February 6, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Delores P. Aldridge is profiled in the February issue of Upscale magazine in an article entitled “History in the Making.” In this 20th Anniversary of the magazine’ existence, there are 20 individuals profiled. Beginning with President Barack Obama
- Faculty News: Dr. Sam Cherribi - February 6, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Dr. Cherribi, director of the Emory Development Initiative (EDI) and sociology professor, was featured several times in Global Vision: The International Magazine for Business Executives. (Dr. Cherribi is labeled with red arrows throughout the magazine.)
- Undergraduate News: Dr. Matthew E. Brashears - January 13, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Dr. Matthew E. Brashears, Emory Sociology undergraduate alumnus and University of Arizona doctoral alumnus, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Cornell University starting in fall 2008. Congratulations Dr. Brashears! Read more...
- Associated Faculty News: Dr. Paul R. Wolpe - January 5, 2009
- Updated: August 13, 2009
- Dr. Paul Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Emory Center for Ethics and Emory Sociology Department adjunct faculty, was featured on 60 Minutes on Sunday, January 4, 2009 in a segment on brain imaging, mind reading, and ethics. (Dr. Wolpe speaks in the middle of the segment.)
- Emeritis Faculty News: Dr. John T. Dolby - December 9, 2008
- John T. Doby, emeritus professor of sociology, came to Emory in 1958 where, over 27 years, he nurtured a highly successful graduate program in sociology. Read more...
- Adjunct Faculty News: Dr. James Mercy - November 7, 2008
- Dr. James Mercy, an Emory Sociology Department adjust faculty, has been named a public health hero by Research America: An Alliance for Discoveries in Health. Complete Research America article. Read more...
- Department News: Re-Examining Race, Ethnic, & Class Divides Conference - November 3, 2008
- Reporters from "The Emory Wheel" covered the two day conference hosted on Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday, October 30. Read more...
- Faculty News: Dr. Sam Cherribi - September 5, 2008
- Updated: October 31, 2008
- Dr. Cherribi, director of the Emory Development Initiative (EDI) and sociology professor, was featured in the Emory Wheel for his recent trip to Tanzania. Read more...
- Faculty News: Dr. Sam Cherribi - October 27, 2008
- Dr. Sam Cherribi is featured in Emory's international politics news release. Click here for more. Read more...
- Faculty News: Dr. Delores P. Aldridge - October 21, 2008
- Dr. Aldridge was re-elected as Chair of the International Black Women's Congress (September, 2008). She also was re-elected as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Clark Atlanta University (October 17, 2008).
Read more... - Faculty News: Dr. Timothy Dowd - September 9, 2008
- Dr. Timothy Dowd is featured in the Emory Report, September 2nd edition for his undergraduate SOC 443S: Sociology of Music course. Read more...
- Graduate News: Barret Michalec - June 26, 2008
- Barret Michalec was awarded a grant from the Office of Medical Education and Student Affairs (Emory University School of Medicine) to continue his research on the potential changes in medical students'
attitudes and perceptions during their four years of medical school.
Read more... - Graduate News: Rachel Askew - June 11, 2008
- Rachel Askew has been awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her study of clinical decision making and professional training among mental health clinicians-in-training. Read more...
- Graduate News: Anna Rubtsova - June 9, 2008
- Anna Rubtsova has been awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her study of breastfeeding as a global issue. Her research examines the global pro-breastfeeding movement, links between global discourse and individual infant feeding decisions, and factors affecting breastfeeding rates around the world. Read more...
- Faculty News: Dr. Regina Werum - May 19, 2008
- Dr. Werum received the 2008 Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Read more... - 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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