NEW SECTION: Graduate Scholarship
Review a sampling of recent publications derived from department dissertations.
Faculty Awards and News
Karin D. Knorr Cetina (Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences Fellow 2008-09) was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contributions to the Field by the Society for Social Studies of Science and Thomson Scientific in October 2009.
The Sociology Department is thrilled to welcome John Levi Martin as full professor. An exceptionally creative scholar with interests in mathematical modeling, networks, sociological theory, politics, and a host of other topics, Martin has written important papers on subjects as diverse as field theory, belief systems, power and authority, meaning systems, and war. His forthcoming book, Social Structures (Princeton), argues that complex institutional arrangements in society can be derived from the nature of social interaction among small sets of actors. Martin was formerly professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His appointment follows the Department's recent appointments of Cheol-Sung Lee, Kristen Schilt, Mario L. Small, and Stephen Raudenbush.
Andrew Abbott has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is among the nine new fellows from the University of Chicago this year. Founded in 1780, the AAAS has elected as its members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation. The academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems, with projects that focus on science, technology and global security, as well as social policy and the humanities, culture and education.Terry Clark, along with Stephen Sawyer (Sorbonne), won a competition from the City of Paris for a two year project to study French neighborhoods. The study will apply the scenes concepts and methods developed in the US in the past five years. Participants from Spain, Portugal, Korea, and Japan are also participating in the international scenes project, an extension of the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project.
Andreas Glaeser received a Faculty Fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities in 2008.
Ed Laumann has received the Kinsey Award from the Midwest Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality, which was conferred on him in June 2009.
Omar McRoberts was appointed to the Board of Senior Fellows of the Society of Fellows.
Steve Raudenbush recently gave the Brown Lecture of the American Educational Research Association -- an annual lecture in commemoration of the Supreme Court Decision, Brown versus the Board of Education, 1954. In March of 2009 he received an honorary degree from the University of Leuven in Belgium.
Ross Stolzenberg received a Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
Linda Waite received the MERIT Award from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 2008-2015, for the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project.
