NEW SECTION: Graduate Scholarship
Review a sampling of recent publications derived from department dissertations.
Faculty and Student Awards and News
Terry Clark's research on amenities and urban economic development was recently referenced in the Chicago Tribune.
Stefan Bargheer recently co-won the Fifth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists of the International Sociological Association for his paper, "Toward a Leisure Theory of Value: The Game of Bird-Watching and the Concern for Conservation in Great Britain."
Juhi Verma won the SSSP's Labor Studies Best Graduate Paper for "Manipulating the Weaker Sex Schema: Subversive Gendered Action in Bangalore’s Labor Protests," currently under review at Gender and Society.
Sanja Jagesic was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Cristina Mora, a Princeton PhD and current post-doc in our department, has just won the ASA's Dissertation Award for her work, "De Muchos, Uno: The Institutionalization of Panethnicity in the United States, 1960-1990."
Kristen Schilt's paper, "Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity" (2009, Gender and Society) was awarded the 2010 Best Article Award from ASA Sex and Gender Section.
Graduate student Laura Goodrich recently won a Fulbright to study microfinance in Panama.
Omar McRoberts has been awarded the 2010 Faculty Service Award from the University Community Service Center, which will be presented to him at the Annual Volunteer Recognition Reception on May 17th. This award recognizes the extraordinary commitment of faculty in either direct service or in the support of students engaged in civic minded scholarship.
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.
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.
